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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

    PROFANE EXISTENCE – PO BOX 647 – HUNTINGTON WV – 25711 – UNITED STATES
  • 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)
    PROFANE EXISTENCE – PO BOX 647 – HUNTINGTON WV – 25711
    UNITED STATES
  • 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.

    Anarchist anarchist metal blackened crust Crust D-Beat death Grind Metal Punk Rock thrash wilt
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“Damien Bashes Liberal Feel-Goodery” happy piece of extra special rainbows!…column by Damien Inbred

  • April 12, 2012
  • by stinkbot
  • · Columns · PE Web Zine
Damien Inbred

Damien Inbred

“Civilization is not and can never be sustainable. This is especially true for industrial civilization.” – Endgame Premise 1, Derrick Jensen

I’m writing this just a week after the World Wildlife Fund’s annual Earth Hour event. As usual, I’m stunned and left in awe by the event. Don’t get me wrong here – I’m in awe not because we were able to defeat the energy companies and cause the collapse of an economy and civilization which survives at the expense of ecosystems and distant cultures. On the contrary. I’m in awe at the fact that people – well-to-do liberals, mainly – actually believe that turning their power off for an hour every year makes a dent in the levels of man-made carbon in the air. The fact that these people have deluded themselves to believe that a simple act like not using their television for an hour actually amounts to a lick of change. Yeah, I’m in awe. In awe of the culture of symbolic “action” in the face of huge adversity.

As has been written in these pages and screamed about on countless punk records, our world is fucked. From environmental devastation to genocide of indigenous cultures; from greed-driven wars to the mass slaughter of non-humans to the mass slaughter of third-world humans. All sorts of sick pleasures that benefit the privileged few at the expense of the world majority. And yet for some reason, the masses of us in the privileged part of the world who claim to want to change this can only come up with mindless symbolic “actions” to raise awareness or “change”. This just smacks of pure self-indulgence and ignorance of this culture’s role in mass destruction. Not to mention ignorance of our culture’s inherent privilege.
I don’t think there’s any conscious person out there who would deny that the so-called “first world” benefits greatly from the exploitation and wholesale destruction of the natural world. However, there is a big difference between awareness and action. Being aware of something is the easy step. Doing something about it is where a lot of us fall behind.

The left-of-center often talk about creating a “sustainable” world, where capitalism and “green” politics can work together hand-in-hand. A world where simply buying the most politically correct toilet paper is enough to sustain the planet and every living being on it for centuries to come. A world where reducing your shower time or not flushing your toilet will save every drop of water for eons. A world where the solutions are all so simple that you won’t have to risk your safety, freedom or your lives to attain them. Or maybe in the case of such huge problems like nuclear power or oil wars, you might write a strongly-worded letter to the newspaper and sign a petition or two. Or vote for the left half of the corporate party, and they will do everything possible to make sure their financial backers only destroy half of what they were previously destroying.

Oh, but maybe I’m just bitter. Maybe I’m just an eternal pessimist, or I’m not sending out enough good vibes to the universe. Maybe I’m not praying to my monotheistic deity of choice hard enough. Maybe I haven’t given pacifism and letter-writing a proper chance. Maybe I just need to reflect that energy company CEOs are people too, and I need to remember that all people are inherently good deep down. OR maybe I’m sick to death of leftist impotence. I’m sick and tired of watching this planet that we all inherited from our elders and nature herself get destroyed and pushed to the brink of extinction. Maybe I’m tired of the constant dialogue that never goes anywhere. I’m sick of those who claim to be allies condemn and rat out those who choose to do drastic actions against the system. I’m sick of those who claim to be allies who turn out to be cheerleaders for the system; who distract us with meaningless feel-good activities like fucking Earth Hour.

While we reduce our personal power use – for an hour! – the benefactors of industrial civilization march forward at the same pace they always have. Rivers are still dammed; power plants continue operating unabated. Resources are still gobbled up by multinationals. Forests are still levelled. The system continues operating, with maybe a slight dip for an hour. Oh, but at least the symbolism will live on! At least while the earth burns, we “progressives” can smugly sit back and enjoy our symbolic actions! Instead of lifting a finger (or other tool) to stop the machines of mass destruction, we will know that we truly made a difference by not sacrificing any part of our privileged way of life – but at least we sent a message!
Give me a fucking break.

This culture is a predator. We survive at the expense of other living beings (land, non-humans, indigenous cultures, “third world” people, water, air, etc.). Western civilization is at the top of a very sick pyramid scheme. Our culture’s survival depends on slaughter, exploitation, and other horrific crimes. As such, it is the responsibility for everyone in our culture who considers themselves “progressive” to do everything in their power to halt the machines in their tracks. Let’s stop selling out the planet. Let’s stop pretending that symbolism is stopping anything, while the board of directors for the World Wildlife Fund gets richer on our dollar.

“Get active, don’t stagnate. Work together to achieve change!”
-Another Destructive System
End Notes:
By the way, there’s nothing wrong with reducing your personal water and power use. In fact, please do. But for christ’s sake, don’t buy into the bullshit belief that it’s the only way you can fight climate change and planetary destruction.
Hey America! Soon I will be in you! My birthday’s coming up, and I want to spend it in Minneapolis… so that’s my first stop. I turn 27 on the 7th of May, so let’s go bowling or drinking or something sweet. On the 18th, I’ll be joining DRESDEN for a week on their tour. We part ways on the 25th in NYC. Come say hello! I’ll be the skinny Canadian with the hipster glasses. Travel plans are always changing, so I’ll keep you posted in my next column.
Doomed Society Radio has a website (http://doomedsocietyradio.wordpress.com) and a new home at http://brutalexistenceradio.com.
Hey, so it’s 2012. Why are punks still whining about the prices of punk records? Get over it – there’s more important shit to get upset about. Records cost money to record, press, distribute, etc. In the real world, the people behind labels/distros/bands have to shell out money from their own pockets to fund their projects.

This is 2012, not 1996. The prices of everything else in the world have increased multiple times in the last 16 years. It’s to be expected for it to happen in our scene eventually. PE is not the fucking enemy. Got it?!

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