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  • The long awaited debut LP from NYC’s FLOWER “Hardly A Dream” is finally set to arrive.

    FLOWER’s tedious approach to writing/creating/drawing their debut LP was carefully thought out and the result is a monumental anarcho punk /crust record. 

    “Hardly A Dream” Takes us on a bleak journey through the dark side of society. As soon as you drop the needle a dark atmosphere is immediately created with a slow intro featuring arpeggio guitar work that builds into pummeling d-beat crust. The albums vocals then leave you with a feeling of being crushed by the ever-present weight of living through our modern world of late stage capitalism that was built on the falsehoods of the so called American dream, religious hypocrisy’s, nationalism, and the greed of humankind. 

    FLOWER take many cues from predecessors and are most often (and rightfully so) compared to NAUSEA but they also take a heavy influence from ANTISECT, SACRILEGE & other greats. The artwork has a very RUDIMENTARY PENI feel and the record comes with an amazing 24.5 X 34.75 CRASS style poster jacket. All art work was meticulously hand drawn and overseen by the guitarist Willow in true DIY style and spirit. Willow was also cool enough to draw up a special shirt for the record release featuring an alternative PROFANE EXISTENCE backprint!

    CLICK HERE TO PRE ORDER LP

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    CLICK HERE TO PREVIEW THE ALBUM IN ITS ENTIRETY AT THE PROFANE EXISTENCE BANDCAMP

    FLOWER will be on tour from January 2nd to the 13th

    2nd New Brunswick

    3rd Asheville

    4th Greenville

    5th Birmingham

    6th New Orleans

    7th Hattiesburg

    9th Gainesville

    10th Atlanta

    11th Durham

    12th Richmond

    13th Philadelphia 

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  • Finally, the third LP from AGNOSY has arrived! 

    AGNOSY-cover

    Dark, heavy, galloping crust from the streets of London. AGNOSY is back to present us with a ferocious beast of an album that can only be forged by the anger and frustration of living in today’s world. “When Daylight Reveals The Torture” aggressively attacks evils such the current rise of fascism and animal abuse. It intelligently and passionately touches on the Afrin invasion and the revolution in Rojava and shows nothing but utter disgust toward the arrogance of humankind’s lust for greed and power that will inevitably lead us down paths of war and environmental devastation.

    AGNOSY – Live at SCUMFEST in London. 2011

    While lyrically AGNOSY are much more politicly straight forward this time around than on previous releases, musically they have expanded on their sound to create a dark and moody atmosphere while at the same time staying crust as fuck. To say they know what they are doing would be an understatement from this band of vets whose members have played in HIATUS, HEALTH HAZARD, and BEGINNING OF THE END.

    Long galloping intros are followed up by traditional d-beat, fierce solo’s are then meet with vicious vocals and pulverizing bass in a brilliant recording captured by Lewis Johns at The Ranch Production House and was mastered by Brad Boatright at Portland’s legendary Audiosiege. We then pressed on deluxe heavyweight 150-gram vinyl,  printed on reverse board jackets, and included an 11in x 22in gatefold insert to bring you a high quality and truly epic record.  

    Click this link to buy AGNOSY “When Daylight Reveals the Torture” Vinyl

    Click this link Stream or Download from our BANDCAMP page

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  • The legendary crust classic is now available once again!

    Authorized and released in cooperation with MISERY, S.D.S., & MCR Japan & Remastered by Jack Butcher at Enormous Door Studio we are beyond proud to make one one the most rare and sought after crust records available  once again.

    Fuck the scavengers charging punks exuberant amounts of cash on ebay and discogs. We worked meticulously with both bands and with Jack at Enormous door to bring you an updated version that kicks major audio ass while maintaining the original authenticity. 

    Released on deluxe 150 gram vinyl. With an 11×11 inner sleeve. Black Paper Jacket. Reverse Board Jacket.

    Feel free to Stream or Download at our Bandcamp page – HERE

    Buy a physical copy of the Vinyl from our webstore – HERE

    Check out Terminal Sound Nuisance for an outstanding review of the original LP. The review gives insight on not only the music but the records long lasting impact on crust music and why it remains so important to this day. – http://terminalsoundnuisance.blogspot.com/2013/06/misery-sds-pain-in-suffering-future.html
    S.D.S.
    MISERY

    Earlier this year we re-issued this legendary LP and sold over 950 copies in just 4 short months. For this second pressing we pressed 490 copies on Krystal Clear & 485 on Grey Vinyl with Black Mist.

    Crystal Clear (Bullet belt no included)
    Grey With Black Mist (Bullet belt no included)
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  • Stench crust the way it was meant to be played!

    The UK crust scene of the 1980’s inspired band after band but no other band has ever reincarnated the sound of that time as well as SWORDWIELDER. Quite simply if you like crust, then this the album you have waited decades for.

    Package includes- 
    LP pressed on deluxe 150-gram vinyl. 
    Reverse board jacket 
    Printed inner sleeve 
    11×17 poster

    Stream album for free or download for a small fee here – https://profaneexistence.bandcamp.com/album/swordwielder-system-overlord-lp

    Buy Vinyl here – https://profaneexistence.bandcamp.com/album/swordwielder-system-overlord-lp

    Review by Craig Hayes from “Your Last Rites”… 
    Swordwielder – System Overlord 
    Heavyweight punk fanatics take note: System Overlord is a fucking triumph. The long-awaited sophomore album from Gothenburg stenchcore band Swordwielder is a brooding behemoth, constructed from the filthiest and heftiest strains of punk and metal. System Overlord shimmers with apocalyptic visions, and it’s overflowing with all the grim atmospherics and intimidating intensity that defines consummate crushing crust.

    Too much hype? No way… And no apologies, either. Swordwielder deal in definitive stenchcore on System Overlord, and much like their full-length debut, 2013’s Grim Visions of Battle, the band’s latest release is a knockout. Swordwielder’s harsh, gruff and dark sound owes a significant debt to old school icons like Amebix, Axegrinder, Deviated Instinct, and Antisect, and they mix and mangle their influences and leave ’em to rot on the battlefield.

    Plenty of hammering rage drives System Overlord tracks like “Violent Revolution,” “Savage Execution” and “Cyborgs,” and thundering epics like “Corrupt Future” and “Northern Lights” exhibit subtler strengths, mixing guttural growls and clean vocals with crashing percussion and dirge-laden riffs. Connoisseurs of corpse-dragging crust will love the brute-force belligerence of “Absolute Fear,” “Nuclear Winter,” and “Second Attack,” which rain down like merciless mortar barrages. As a rule, all of System Overlord‘s mammoth tracks chug and churn with grinding muscle, while reeking of squalor and decay.

    Swordwielder exudes tightly coiled aggression from start to finish here—songs rise from the ashes of desolation, and resounding calls for action and resistance ring loud. If you’re a fan of heavy-hitters like Fatum, War//Plague, Carnage, Zygome, Cancer Spreading or (insert your favorite hefty crust crew here), System Overlord‘s trampling tempo and strapping sound are bound to appeal.

    Crust profane existence swordwielder
  •  We are happy to announce our next new release

    WILT – “Self Titled” 

    WILT combine old school metal and crust in a perfect hybrid that very few others have ever achieved. Prepare for a LP thats equal parts galloping d-beat crust reminiscent of bands like HELLSHOCK, and INSTINCT OF SURVIVAL, meets old school death metal in the vein of BOLT THROWER, MEMORIAM (old) SEPULTURA.

     

    Here is a track from the upcoming LP

    https://profanexistence.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/02-sermon-for-the-bootlickers.wav

     

    “Sermon for the Bootlickers”

    Despite the inculcation of helplessness within each there remains great power. Ill at ease with such makes us ill. Learn to see the hand that feeds for what it is. You’ve been fooled if you think you’ve got no power. Refuse to be reduced to a consumer you’re a human being. Define yourself by more than wealth. Define yourself as a human. You don’t need what you’re being sold. Bend your knee to no authority but your own mind. You have the power to avoid the gilded trap. Avarice is what you’re conditioned for. Break the mold discover what’s really valuable to you. 

    WILT will be on in Europe this July / August will ELECTROZOMBIES From Chile

    Wed, July 12 Hanover / Germany / Confirmed
    Thu, July 13 Bremen  
    Fri, July 14 Mulhem / Germany / Confirmed  
    Sat, July 15 Gent, Belgium / CrustPicnic / Confirmed
    Sun, July 16 Paris / France or Amsterdam / Nederland  
    July 18 North-East France or West Germany 
    July 19 Freiburg / Germany TBC 
    July 20 Winterthur / Switzerland 
    Fri, July 21 Zurich / Switzerland
    Sat, July 22 Biel / Switzerland 
    July 23 Lausanne or Geneva / Switzerland 
    July 24 Geneva / Switzerland or Grenoble france
    July 25 Treviso (or Milano or Bologna or Verona) / Italy
    July 26 Ljubljana Slovenia Confirmed
    July 27 No Sanctuary chilling day
    Fri, July 28 NoSanctuary Confirmed
    Sat, July 29 NoSanctuary Confirmed
    July 30 Ilirska Bistrica/Slovenia or Vienna/Austria or Budapest/Hungary.
    July 31 Wiena / Austrai or Budapest or / Slovakia
    August 1 Brno / Czech Republic.
    August 2 Prague / Czech Republic
    August 3 Finsterwalde / Germany TBC
    Fri, August 4 Leipzig / Germany TBC
    Sat, August 5 Berlin / Germany / confirmed
    August 6 Dresden
    August 7 Wroclaw / Poland
    August 8 Warsaw / Poland
    August 9 Poznan / Poland
    August 10 Szczecin/Poland TBC
    Fri, August 11 Rostock / confirmed
    Sat, August 12 Hamburg TBC
     

    For this in the Seattle or surrounding area you can catch WILT this Saturday April first at Highline Bar with NOOTHGRUSH from Oakland.

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Occupy Oakland, RNC 04, and the Preemptive Arrests We Face in Advance of May 1st

  • March 28, 2012
  • by stinkbot
  • · Features · News · PE Web Zine

Originally posted in the Occupied Oakland Tribune: by EJ Fox – @mrejfox

The Occupy Movement is the largest mass movement for social change since the 60s, and if it maintains momentum it may eclipse its predecessor in both brilliance and effect. But that’s only if we keep pushing. In retrospect, it’s as if the movement practically exploded out of New York in the fall, propelled by pictures of a vicious NYPD cop pepperspraying female protesters, foreshadowing scenes we would see reenacted all across America. I’d just moved to the Bay Area from New York to join a startup, and I remember telling my best friend about the news I’d read that some protesters had moved into a park to “Occupy Wall Street” – I was ecstatic, but disappointed as I’d just driven across the country.

“The revolution’s starting, but it’s all the way in fucking New York,” I said. I had no idea.  I was aware of and had passively participated in the activist community in New York for as long as I could remember. First as one of those kids you see marching along, on the shoulders or holding the hands of their parents. I have memories of marching through the streets of Manhattan to protest the about-to-begin invasion of Iraq, as New Yorkers waved out their windows and sat on their fire escapes cheering us on.

My first vivid memory of a protest was the Republican National Convention in New York the next year in 2004. The New York Times called it the biggest protest NYC had seen in decades. I was 12, but for the first time I was old enough and conscious enough to be pissed off about George Bush, and I had something of a purpose as a marcher. As I walked with my mom to meet up at Union Square where the march was starting, I convinced her to take me into a CVS and buy me 2 disposable cameras. People interact with each other so differently at a demonstration, and I couldn’t help but want to photograph it. I still can’t. Whether it be protester to protester interactions, offering me or each other food, water, or a sign to hold. Whether it be onlooker to protester, running the gamut of clapping support to attempting to grab protesters’ signs. At RNC 2004 I became aware of a conservative group that specialized in counter-protesting demonstrations called Protest Warrior. They did just that, ripping a sign from the hands of a protester who had infiltrated the convention floor and I remember feeling the anger around that story. For me, most interesting were the interactions with the cops, which I was for the most part kept far away from. But I was hooked.

RNC 2004 was also the first occurrence I can remember of a coordinated online attack in conjunction with a massively organized demonstration, as hacktivists organized an “electronic sit-in” against GOP websites in a foreshadowing of the role Anonymous would later play in the Occupy movement. A release from hacktivists discussed software called “FloodNet”, a predecessor to software Anonymous uses to coordinate DDoS attacks. Called the Low-Orbit Ion Cannon it’s been used to temporarily disable a wide variety of targets, including websites of the Department of Justice, RIAA, MPAA, and MasterCard, among others. The activist language of an “electronic sit-in” and “electronic disobedience” may have been shed, but the culture that built Anonymous was always been tied, however loosely, to the spirit of progressive activism.
I talk about RNC 2004 because there are a lot of lessons Occupy can learn from it, as it appears that both protesters and police are working and modifying pages from the playbook used in New York in 2004. One of the first protests in memory, two years before Twitter, where a massive txt-messaging network among protesters allowed quick effective response to emerging situations with police. Seems familiar.

RNC 2004, like RNC 08, was famously marked by pre-emptive arrests made in this case by NYPD. These arrests, meant to keep potential state-labeled “troublemakers” locked up until after the actions were over were a key part of police repression. These tactics of pre-emptive attacks, and their chilling effects on the exercise of free speech are once again being employed across the country. However we are seeing them most viciously used in Oakland as Occupiers prepare for a spring resurgence, and importantly, May 1st. We are seeing similar arrests in New York and I have no doubt we will begin to see them elsewhere.
Time and time again, I have seen first-hand folks in Oakland be extremely vocal in their convictions, whether that’s by consistently showing up to actions, inspiring others, being the loudest voice in the crowd, or standing up to aggressive cops. Time and time again, I’ve felt worried for these people. Not because they were doing anything illegal, but because I feared their persistence would make them a target of the powers that be. I feared that they would find themselves in the infamous Oakland Photobook used for targeted arrests of key occupiers (a particularly chilling piece of- no doubt- intentional psychological warfare on the part of the Oakland Police Department). Now, too many of these people who I’ve marched shoulder-to-shoulder with and worried about are now in jail, some charged with felonies. (Side note: It’s important to understand this official OPD press release is less than truthful to the facts of the incident, but that didn’t stop it from being regurgitated by countless media outlets as if they had done some independent research.)

Other protesters, like my best friend, arrested but not charged, were told charges could be filed at any time over the next year, and occupiers have even had charges brought against them and warrants issued without ever being notified. Others, arrested but not convicted, are saddled with unconstitutional stay-away orders that bar them from a 300-yard perimeter around City Hall in downtown Oakland. A stay-away order like that would cripple me, as I use the 12th St. BART station to get home and walk by City Hall every day- and these orders are given without regard to whether the crime has anything to do with the location the stay-away is granted for. Many protesters arrested on January 28th, near the Kaiser Convention Center, have had their right to organize slashed with stay-away orders barring them from Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza, a base of Occupy Oakland, despite the fact the plaza has no relation to the crimes they allegedly committed. A clear pattern of police intimidation is becoming increasingly blatant- while internal debates rage as to whether diversity of tactics is responsible for smaller numbers.

It’s in this atmosphere of police repression that I was shocked to hear the news that Anonymous icon and hacktivist Sabu was in fact informing for the FBI – though, now that I knew, in my mind it made sense. The spirit of hacker chat rooms is always thick with near-comic paranoia about the presence of FBI watchers or informants. The truth is that hackers are often times using military-grade encryption and identity-hiding software like TOR. The best are more advanced, or at least technically equal to the power and skill of the FBI or powerful corporation. The real way to take down hackers is through provocateurs or informants, and Sabu was both. The FBI was striking back at Anonymous, just as the police were striking back at occupiers.
As I read the news of the arrests, they were describing that hackers had been arrested in Ireland, and, wow, Chicago. A hacker I’d known, who dare-I-say helped to shape my hacktivist views, who I’d met at protests in DC and even at RNC 04, lived in Chicago. It’d been a while since we talked. I wondered. I told myself it couldn’t be and clicked the link.
He’d been arrested as part of the fallout from Sabu’s betrayal.

Last I’d heard of him he’d been sentenced to 24 months in prison for hacking the website of that conservative group ProtestWarrior (remember them?)  with the intention of using the credit card numbers of members to donate to hacktivist and progressive causes. He was only discovered and arrested because of, once again, an FBI informant in a close circle of hackers aware of the action. Jeremy shaped how I view the role of computers and electronic disobedience in a grander box of tools in the fight for social justice, and I owe to him helping to light and keep lit a spark in me that believes computers will help to level the playing field between the people and the corrupt capitalist machine we live in. His arrest is a reminder that security culture is crucial, that our paranoia about infiltrators and FBI observation and disruption are not always unfounded, we must be more cautious.
If we do not learn the lessons of our mistakes prior, we are doomed to repeat them. If we do not identify the tactics of our oppressors and adapt, they will continue to use their dull, slow, and dimwitted brute force to stomp down on us with all the elegance expected of pigs.

When Occupy Oakland first sprouted in Frank Ogawa Plaza I was overjoyed. Like a dream come true, there were people in the park just like me, who were listening and agreeing with what people in New York were saying. But I wasn’t totally pleased; I didn’t understand enough about Oakland. What were THEY occupying? I regret to say this, but it seemed like a big party to me. I didn’t see how incredible the encampment was, people hanging around and talking hopefully about the future, feeding each other. I loved it, but only like one enjoys a sip of water when it is so easy to come by. But now I have a heavy, unquenched thirst for it— one I believe I share with many others. I am willing to fight to quench it.
The powers that be have made it clear they are going to go above and beyond the call of their office to stomp out this new movement for social and economic equality. That means we have to go above and beyond just to break even— and I believe we can. I don’t think they understand that every attempt they make to silence us just fans the flame in our hearts to make things right. Every arrest, beating, kettling inspires more people across the country to put on their boots and join us in the street.

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