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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!

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    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! 

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    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

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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.

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  •  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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PUTREFACTION INTERVIEW by Sean Fitzgerald

  • June 13, 2012
  • by stinkbot
  • · Interviews · PE Web Zine

Putrefaction are definitely one of the more interesting bands in Ireland today. It’s been 5 years since their great demo ‘Destroyers’ (http://www.mediafire.com/?1zdwfutzoh2) which really gave them time to master their craft. May 2012 saw the release of their debut album ‘Blood Cult’ on vinyl. It’s been called ‘Mad Max’ crust, a great term. But to give and idea of the sound I hear SEPULTURA mixed with HELLSHOCK, but in saying that it’s obviously very much their own sound. So while the album is being pressed I spoke to Eric and Eoin from the band about the new album, life in Ireland, and the world we live in.

PE: I read recently that vinyl records are better environmentally than CD’s and DVD’s. That albums are usually never discarded into landfills due to their increasing value. And that unlike other plastics vinyl brakes down naturally in comparison. So the first album is vinyl only, is it because of environmental principles or are you all vinyl nerds? Do you think there is a future with download only releases?

ERIC: WOW. i didn’t actually know that! well its vinyl only mainly cuz vinyl is our favourite medium and I guess it’s the most common/loved format in the diy punk scene. Personally I have always hated cd’s and I’m just getting to grips with downloading stuff. We’re gonna make the lp available for download too. Tapes are great too. We released our demo on cassette. A lot of this argument comes down to privilege I guess. I mean if you can afford vinyl that’s great but that’s not the reality for a lot of punks all over the world. On the other hand, vinyl is the best way to get across art work, lyrics etc because of the size and to me it sounds best. I reckon a good compromise is to do vinyl and download. In previous bands I’ve been in we had our stuff re-released in Eastern Europe and Asia on cassette cuz at the time that format was more affordable for people. That’s also an option. Still for me you cant beat that big slab of wax with a shit load of inserts, posters etc. A lot of my politics were informed by bands putting that kind of effort in when I bought records as a teenager like CONFLICT, SUBHUMANS,OI POLLOI etc. The environmental side you’re talking about is definitely a plus. I always feel like a hypocrite slightly in relation to any project that involves mass production. Its so hard not to support some bunch of bastards or fund some form of ecological exploitation, whether it be tapes, vinyl, stickers, paper etc. We debated this quite a lot when it came to making t-shirts and decided on spending the extra money on non-sweat shop, organic, reliably sourced cotton t shirts, which Tom (KILLER SCREENPRINT) was thankfully able to sort out. You do what you can to escape the mega machine, but its fuckn difficult in this day and age..

EOIN: Well the first thing for me is that I just really dislike CDs, horrible things they are .I’ve never been a fan of any format apart from tapes but they aren’t really viable these days. Vinyl is still going strong. I think I only really like it because you can cram a load of extras stuff in there!!! To be honest, although I still buy vinyl releases from time to time I barely listen to records. I mostly listen to music on mp3 player while doing other things rather than actually sit down and give it my full attention. I’m easily distracted! Some pioneers are releasing music in new ways like a download code on t-shirt/poster/mug/whatever, it seems really tacky to me but in some ways it probably makes sense. At least you’ll end up using whatever the physical object happens to be!

PE: It’s being released by a few different labels, is this to better
distribution/release costs with vinyl being a bit more costly to produce? And who
did the recording and where?

ERIC:The recording was done by the mighty James Eager in THE HIVE in Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow. We have always recorded with him as well as with our other bands. It’s a brilliant diy studio and James is a fuckn great person for the job. The reason we have 4 labels involved is partly due to spreading the costs and partly due to distribution. Distroy and Underground Movement have been on board since we recorded almost a year ago and recently Phobia from Czech and Rat Bone from France have stepped in too. We feel very lucky to have these 4 individuals involved and we definitely couldn’t have done it without all of them.

EOIN: I’d add that the record was mastered by Enormous Door Mastering who did a great and importantly a cheap job! This was the first time I’ve been involved in releasing something where we had it mastered and the difference is massive, especially for such dense, distorted music.
PE: I see lyrically Dublin/Ireland where you live is brought up. Do you think it will be rid of it’s catholic run, industrial ways? Are things just getting worse? Do you think a geographical region can influence good music? What has been your influence from music to film?

ERIC: Well as far as musical influences go, we all come from different slants. We started being extremely influenced by the darker side of Swedish d-beat like BOMBANFALL and DISCARD as well as Japanese masters such as BASTARD. Of course the old raw SEPULTURA records as well, and over the years we’ve definitely been listening to more old Swedish Death Metal like NIHILIST and CARNAGE. At the end of the day though, we’re fuckin punks, and that won’t change.
As far as film is concerned: MAD MAX 2,BURST CITY,LE DERNIER COMBAT and STALKER By Andrei Tarkovsky is all you need to know!
On this record the lyrics are kind of a mix of topics such as war and the corporate interest behind it, the desperation, violence and drug reliance visible here in Dublin, as well as the parallels between organised religion and organised economics with the same results of subjugation and slavery. I try to write lyrics from a somewhat personal/regional perspective, so yea there’s one or two about Ireland specifically and the industrial scale abuse and murder carried out by the Catholic church here. Some people comment that the upside down crosses in our artwork are very ‘black metal’ but for me, coming from Ireland, they are a fucking political statement against a culture of systemised rape and incarceration against the young and poor by church and state. I don’t think things are getting worse in this respect as people are finally being brought to task over all that shit but they’re not getting better. Economically, Ireland is worse off than in the last 50 years. Mass unemployment, mass emigration and a government hell bent on bleeding the population dry for the sake of European banks.
In terms of a geographical region influencing music, yea I definitely think so, and I’m generally far more interested in hearing about local struggle and perspective than a recycled diatribe about a war you know nothing about(although we’re probably guilty of that too!).
But yea, for example bands like INSERVIBLES from Mexico who sing about the struggle of the indigenous in mexico or the violent treatment of women in their society. Every region has a new perspective to add. I just wish more bands would..

EOIN: Ireland is getting less and less Catholic but obviously not in favour of a more open minded and less repressive society! We’re currently in a major recession with a number of large banks
collapsing in 2008/9, the Government came in to guarantee them, leading to revelations of large-scale corruption and irregularities in the affairs of the banks and Govt. ministers. Fast-forward
to now, the poorest people in society are taking the brunt of “welfare reforms” and loss of services while the richest are even better off now than when the recession began.

PE: Is there a good sense of community in DIY underground scene in Dublin. Has it opened up a bit musically with death metal, crust and hardcore crossing paths music wise and gig wise? I thought ‘Filthfest’ had a great mixed crowd. The one thing that
has happened though is you see crusty punk types now wearing Burzum t-shirts, do you think people leave politics at the door when it comes to music?

ERIC: Yea I’d say there is a good community here. What we really need is a large social space so we can break away from the shitty pubs. There is a collective organising to start a diy space at the moment, so fingers crossed! There’s also a renewed squatter movement so things are looking up in that respect. I’m generally happy with the cross-over of scenes. It has had ups and downs though and has thrown up a lot of interesting questions and conflicts regarding the sexism and racism that definitely exists in the metal scene. Not to say that the punk scene is exempt from this either, but it’s made us examine that shit and has led to some confrontations. On a positive note, a lot of really great people from various other scenes have become involved and it’s resulted in some deadly projects and bands being started.
I do feel that there is a reluctance to commit to a political stance these days. It’s almost trendy to be apolitical, which is a luxury in my mind. If you’re a straight white, middle class man of course it’s easier to leave politics at the door. This go’s way beyond ‘who is wearing what t-shirt’ in my mind, something which I think can trivialise very real issues. That said, there are some great projects and collectives that are connected to the punk scene here such as GIRL GERMS, ANTI-FASCIST ACTION, WEREWORMS, The WARZONE CENTRE in Belfast, our collective space THE KARATE KLUB, and loads more..

EOIN: Most of the punks I know who wear Burzum t-shirts, do it because they think they’re being mad and blowing people’s minds, I don’t think someone wearing a ‘dodgy’ band t-shirt is leaving their politics at the door necessarily, just that they like attention. The
recent cross-contamination of punk and metal scenes has been really healthy for music, loads of great manky sounding bands are springing up now. I would say there are very few people in the DIY metal scene with extreme right ideologies, some would have had flirtations in the past, as in “Fuck you mom, fuck you dad, I’m a Nazi!” (the sentiment can be equally be attributed to punk) some simply don’t care what ideology the music they listen to might be espousing, whether it be right or left. There may well be some who have to keep their fascist views secret for the very real threat of serious fuck getting kicked out of them.

PE: Any tour plans to coincide with the LP? Have you done many other gigs outside of
Ireland, your playing on a small island in Scotland in July aren’t you?

ERIC: Please invite us to your country people! Yea we’re gonna tour Ireland as soon as its out. (A gig on a mountain in Donegal would be nice Sean!).We’ve only ever played outside Ireland at Shit Town Fest in Copenhagen and at GGI in the Netherlands but we’ll hopefully be able to organise a European tour soon.
Yes we’ll be playing at WEE Fest on the Isle of Cumbrae in Scotland this summer. Hopefully we’ll get to burn a cop or two in a wicker man.

EOIN: We really want to get touring but wanted to wait till we have a recent release, it’d be a bit weird only having one demo from years ago on the merch table… Touring from Ireland can be pretty expensive as you have to get off the island to start with, but
hopefully when the record is out we can start planning stuff.

PE:  Only a pleasure to interview Putrefaction, do you want to finish the interview
with your own words? Or mention any of the other bands members are in aside
from Putrefaction.

Thanks again Sean. We really appreciate you taking the time to interview us. So other bands I’m in are CONTORT(Noize Punk in the vein of CONFUSE/GAI/GLOOM with a hateful Dublin slant) and RATS BLOOD(HC Punk with a love of DISARM/TOTALITAR). I was also in EASPA MEASA who just broke up but we’ll have a last recording coming out soon. Donal is also in COMPLAN(7 Seconds/80’s pop sensations) and SODB(Black Metal for the punx, sung in Irish and Sicilian.

EOIN: Cheers for the interview boss. Other bands I’m in are FAG ENABLERZ GERMSEY 80’s style HC)and NACHO’S MODERN LIFE (Dillinger 4-ish pop punk).
Thanks again
Sean

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