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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

    CLICK HERE TO PRE ORDER LP WITH SHIRT

    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 

    PO BOX 7903 PITTSBURGH PA 15216

    Crust Hardcore profane existence Punk
  • 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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Stop Calling Me Hippy! Josh Clusterfux Column

  • March 28, 2012
  • by stinkbot
  • · Columns · PE Web Zine

Although I did like quite a few of the UK82 bands I was never much of a ’77 punk, punk ‘n roll, or Oi! fan. Sure, there were a few bands in there that I kind of liked but for the most part those were sub-genres that just didn’t pack much of a punch in my opinion. In most cases it was the lyrics that didn’t really get my attention. Even early on I had an expectation that punk was supposed to be the soundtrack to a revolution, the punks were to pick up where the hippies left off and rally for social and political change. I just didn’t get that with the ’77 and Oi! bands. With many of the UK82 bands, even if the lyrics were empty at least they had cool riffs and weren’t just sped up pop-groups! Part of the problem was I spent the early 80’s listening to Metal. Lots and lots of Metal!

I had this roommate who listened to a lot of Oi and it used to drive me nuts. He didn’t like crust and was especially opposed to Metal, so that is what I used to retaliate with. He had like stacks of these Oi comp CDs and they all sounded so sing songy and the same, it just drove me nuts. I think every song was about hanging out at the pub and playing soccer or something! Fuck! I couldn’t take it! He ate at Arby’s and McDonalds and I just didn’t get it. After time our friendship faded as he went further to play this role as a want-to-be skinhead and started wearing Fred Perry shirts, braces and stuff like that. And it didn’t stop there; he started listening to country! I shit you not! It was part of his good ol’ boy act and it was fucking mind boggling. I finally packed my shit and moved out. I’d seen kids from cowboy families get turned on to the music and ideals of punk and make some changes to their hair and clothes that freaked the fuck out of their conservative parents but this is about the only time I had seen a double mohawk wearing punk rock motherfucker trade in his studded vest for some shit kickers. Wow…

At the end of the day fast, metallic riffs and meaningful lyrics don’t always get the job either.

Much of behavior as a younger punk was hedonistic and shallow and I lived to throw back beers and be a general nuisance to society and my liver. Although I pondered the lyrics and started to form political opinions of my own, I didn’t really put them into action. Most of that I blame on my surroundings and running with the crowd, too reluctant or afraid to really act, but some of it was that I didn’t know how. I lived in a small mountain town, culturally we lacked many of the conveniences of the city (things have really changed in that town now and the counter culture is the mainstream) that would have made it easier to really embrace and move on. That’s more of an excuse and, again, the main reason I never acted on anything was probably not wanting to completely ostracize myself. I would have been pretty damn lonely. I mean there was a group of us that was pushed out from the greater punk circle because we listened to UK82, Peace Punk and were starting to get into crust (gasp!). The valley were we lived was certainly rooted in US Hardcore and more specifically SoCal punk and the lines were drawn. This split often led to fights and always manifested in bad attitudes and general dick headedness on both sides.

As I got older I found the strength to pursue my personal anarchy and make the changes in my life and lifestyle that I thought were important. Getting called “hippy” by old friends lost it’s sting a long time ago. Living in the city there were/are more like minded people to identify with certainly made things easier. I suppose that’s why a lot people move to the city, the culture. But not all were able to embrace the message of the music we grew up on and move towards more positive directions. Some just continued to spin their wheels in self-absorption while others took a turn for the worse.

Several years ago I was at small New Years Eve party with some very old friends. At one point in the night we were listening to the SUBHUMANS and my friend Suzie (names changed to protect the lame) exclaimed they were her favorite band. This came to me as a shock because Suzie was an American Consumer in worst definitions of the term. I had brought oranges with me on this trip, as citrus is very good for a hangover (I had also brought some “magic” tea that was very helpful as well…they were calling me a “hippy”) and her kids had asked me what they were. These kids were not familiar with fresh fruit! I kid you not! Another time I brought over fresh cherries from a local orchard and they asked what those were. If it was not processed and pre-packaged these kids really didn’t know what it was; so I was bewildered by the fact that SUBHUMANS could be her favorite band and how their message was so completely lost on her. So I called my host, out on this imbalance in the universe and asked her in some manner of saying “What gives?”. Our conversation did not fare well and from there and I think she got pissed and went to bed, it wasn’t even mid-night yet. I think by mid-night I was the only one hanging out still, my buddy had taken to smashing some furniture before calling it night and I was standing there alone with the ‘The Day the Country Died’.

I still hold on to some euphoric dream of living in symbiotic, punk rockin’ society or commune where we all pitch in while lending each other support and solidarity. When I bought my house I had come across this 4-plex that I thought would be so cool to have a few punk families living in, raising their children together, gardening and whatever else. It was under these huge power lines though and thought of imminent cancer and it didn’t sound as appealing and so I passed on that abode.

We don’t all have to live together to though to practice solidarity and build a sense of community. But, there is a difference between community and a “scene”. To me a “scene” is simply a bunch of bands that have at least a little something in common and frequent a lot of the same venues, while sharing at least the fringe of their respective fan-base… “The Underground Music Scene”, “the Punk Scene”, etc. This isn’t a community, it’s a scene, beyond music there is not much of a glue and it’s really pretty loosy goosey. The bands and people don’t necessarily stand for the same things and don’t push for a greater good. They don’t care if a club is notorious for ripping off bands…as long as they get drink tickets their little world is fine while any sense of community is lost.

A community works together and may share a common goal. Goods, services and ideas may be traded or swapped and the populace spends time together away from the bar or show. They support one another in the common goal of finding an alternative path through this commercialist, temporary, fast-food society. There is a general sense of caring and respect amongst those in the community, the community stands together in union against those whome they oppose or stand in the way of the communities’ pursuit for happiness and a better life.

 I am sure many cities struggle with this but I have to say Denver always has. There are a lot of good people but there hasn’t always been a strong sense of community. With our Pyrate Punx crue we have set out to bring people together and are making an effort to right the ship. With planning and organized activities like bowling, football, picnics and other events it feels like we have started to make a difference. It’s funny though how some people are just too cool for that and even downright offended by people pulling together and enjoying each other’s time, sharing ideas and in general, just having fun! What gives?! People question the idea of Pyrate Punx but for me it was simple. People are more likely to unite under a flag and a commonality. Any collective or group finds a name that they hope represents them and rallies around it. I suppose we could have started something else but I was familiar with the Pyrate Punx and was impressed with some of the things I had seen in LA and Oakland as well as many other cities.

As this summer quickly approaches I am excited at the possibilities that await us and what we do this year to build a “community”. There are a few families and some small children running around and that makes it even more fun. I guess the kids might not be able to hang if we go do paintball or something but for the most part we have tried and will continue to make most of our events kid friendly, they are after all the next generation and need to have the exposure to and inclusion in the community. Especially if we expect them to carry the “black flag” after most of us croak or just get too old.

There will always be criticisms and people will always find something to complain about. With that at least we have something going and aren’t just sitting around getting drunk and complaining about bullshit for the sake of complaining. Will we help me realize my dreams of a utopian punk society? I don’t know if we’ll achieve any sort of utopic status but I know we can make a difference at least to our own lives if no one else’s while having a metric shit ton of fun.

Peace! Josh

End Note 1: My new band APEX just recorded our demo. It’s being mixed. Stoked.

End Note 2: The ENGLISH DOGS kicked my ass! What an amazing performance, that was so much fun!

End Note 3: Saw ROSKOPP the other nite for the first time in a few. They KILLED it! I think they are doing a mini tour in June to land themselves at that Metal/Grind fest happening in Portland. Look for them!

End Note 4: Actually I don’t care if you call me hippy. I don’t have any hair though.

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