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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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    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! 

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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.

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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

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    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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Suffering Luna interview

  • July 2, 2012
  • by stinkbot
  • · Interviews · PE Web Zine

Todd Keisling (Dystopia, Mange) sat down with Suffering Luna at SxLx’s rehearsal space for an interview / conversation.  All references to crimes not covered by the statute of limitations have been edited out.

(WARNING: folks talk about drugs in this interview. If you’re gonna be offended, don’t read any further P.E.)

Todd:  So how did Suffering Luna start, anyways?  What’s it about?

Messee: It started way back with CHRISTFALL.  It was originally CHRISTFALL then we started SUFFERING LUNA in like ’95 cuz we were all into drugs and shit and we didn’t want to do no more basic hardcore shit.  We wanted to do some psychedelic, crazy bullshit, you know what I mean? So we turned into Suffering Luna way back in ’95.

Sean: You were around back then, Todd.  That’s when DYSTOPIA and SUFFERING LUNA put out the split 7″.  What was SUFFERING LUNA about in your mind?



Todd: Very interesting and different and I was all about doing it.

Messee: Our shit, back then, it was weird, fool.  Back then everyone was trying to be just brutal, dog.  Everyone was brutal as fuck, then we came out with that weird shit.

Todd:  Plus Mess was my homie, too.  i just remember seeing SUFFERING LUNA a few times and me and Mess would fucking run out and mob all over the whole neighborhood with Meanstreaks and just jump on the backs of RTD buses and hit it up and shit.

Messee: Hell yeah!



Todd: That’s my main memory of SUFFERING LUNA in those days, actually, going out bombing…  So, something I was wondering about is why did Suffering Luna break up and why did you get back together?

Messee: We never broke up!

Sean: What?!?!?!

Messee: We just went our own directions. [laughter]

Todd:  What year was this?

Messee: 1997.  Taz and Joe [original members] were acting retarded.  They wanted to do gangster rap shit, so i said, like, “fuck them fools.”   [laughs]

Sean:  I can totally picture them listening to PSYCHO REALM and being, like, “that’s what i want to do.”  [laughs]  That was before I was in the band but I was hanging out with SUFFERING LUNA back then and I swear I remember somebody telling me they were joining the army.  It wasn’t Messee.

Messee:  i was too busy getting loaded.

Todd: So drugs have influenced SUFFERING LUNA?

Messee: Yes!

Todd: For better and for worse?

Messee: For better!  [laughter]

Todd: So tell us about drugs and SUFFERING LUNA.

Messee: What do you want to know about drugs?

Todd:  Well i probably know it all already but…

Messee: LSD, Jane, kriznak, black, dust, yay…

Todd: Tried it, tried it, tried it…

Sean: The first musical breakthrough with me with music and drugs really was…

Todd:  Smoking a bunch of kriznak? [laughter]

Sean: No, dude, it was nitrous.  The first time I  heard that wahwahwahwahwah, I was like, “holy shit, there’s a drug that changes the way you fucking hear music!”  It’s adds like a tremolo, roto sound, or whatever to everything you hear.  So then I got all into, like, trying to wear headphones plugged into a microphone, doing a balloon and then using guitar effects on the microphone to make it so that the sounds of real life that the microphone was picking up would sound in the headphones like everything sounded when I was on nitrous.  So I’d have headphones and a microphone and like these effects and, you know, I could set that shit up and walk around and everything sounded like I was on nitrous. I could totally zero in on that sound and i was like, this is what psychedelic music is all about, trying to capture that shit.

Todd:  You’ve done a decent job of it.  So nitrous oxide enhances creativity?

Sean: Yeah, man, and it took me years to fucking process that shit. [laughter]

Todd: Did you sniff paint, sniff glue?

Sean: Video head cleaner was my shit.  Same sound.

Todd:  Dust Off.

Messee: Computer cleaner.

Fivel: Spray enamel.  Made it taste like strawberries.

Todd: I’ve gotten high just from going out writing.

Messee: That too.  Spray paint in a bag, huffing.

Sean: That’s a bad headache, though.



Patrick: I used to get high in the ’90s with a lot of old jazz cats and play free form.  You internalize it while you’re playing and you find the center of blackness.

Todd: Did you huff a lot of paint with those guys?

Patrick: [laughs] No, just pot.

Sean:  Those jazz musicians, they got style, they don’t huff.  I mean i know they did when they were kids, but…

Todd: Yeah, they drink whiskey and shoot dope they’re “classy.” [laughter]…  So does SUFFERING LUNA have any politics?

Fivel: Treat others like you would want to be treated.

Todd:  That pretty much covers it.

Fivel: A cool friend of mine named Hesh says, “keep it clean.”



Todd: That works too.  What about politics and music?  Music’s a way to inspire people and educate people, thats for sure.

Sean: Not always.  Fucking pornogrind is not inspiring the people, you know what i mean?

Todd:  I don’t listen to that shit.  Yeah, not all music, but it could be.

Fivel: If its triggered with passion, hell yeah!  You know what was really nice? I used to deliver mail in South Central and I always felt this energy when I would deliver mail to this one elementary school, you know, and then one day I started nerding out, catching up with my records and dude, DYSTOPIA wrote a song about a young man who committed suicide at a school and I was thinking of that school I deliver mail to and I was really hit by the love you guys did for him and made that beautiful song.  Man. fuck dude, now that kid is always there, man.

Todd: Music can immortalize things, too in a way.

Sean: There is something about speaking to the human side of shit.  Like, that’s what artists are supposed to do, right? We’re supposed to speak to the human side of shit.


Todd: My music always speaks to squirrels. [laughs]

Sean: Well okay, for real though. What’s a better word than human? Organic? The biosphere?  You got to speak to the biosphere?  You know what that makes me think of?  I remember hearing that AMPS FOR CHRIST that shit was about speakin to fucking birds.  I mean yeah it was all tubes and electronics and shit, but the attempt was for humans to create sounds that birds recognized as their own and responded.

Todd: Right on, freak the birds all out.

Sean: No, just speak to them, make them think you’re their homie.  Tell them, “I believe in you.  You and me, birds, we’re together.  We’re a biosphere.”  And you know what else you got to do if you’re gonna speak to the biosphere?  You got to connect to real people’s suffering.  That’s what your music’s got to connect to or else you’re not really doing your job as an artist.

Todd:  I like to think I’ve done that.  I know I have.

Sean: Definitely.  Well the lyrics for our newest shit are all about near death experiences. Like, shit where you almost die.

Todd: Thats dope.

Messee: Like hitting the pookie and fucking doing a big old ball of heroin. [laughter].

Sean: Exactly, like the time i saw this motherfucker almost split his head open on a garage floor from passing out from a hit of moonballs.  [laughs]  Nah, but Fivel’s got stories about being chased by some motherfuckers, like we all got stories about near death experiences, right?

Messee: I got hit by a fucking car, lying in the road in a puddle of blood.

Fivel: I almost died in a plane crash once, landing in zero visibility in Colorado airport.   It’s about being so alive at that moment, but something wants to take that away and you barely make it. It could be anything that fucks with our flow of life.  It could be yourself, hardcore gangsters, loved ones, you know, anything.

Todd: Shit that can destroy you if you let it.

Fivel: And us being lucky enough to fucking make it and talk about it, I guess, or share it.

Sean: When we started writing the song, for me it was about a car accident, too. And i remember there was a moment in the car accident, it was like those old fashioned TVs, when you’d pull the plug and whole picture would go down to that little fuckng dot in the middle right ? I saw that.  And my life flashed before my eyes just like they fucking say in the movies or whatever and i remember I was like, “I’m about to die” and I was cool with that. I was like, “I’m alright with my life, I feel no regret” and I was dying and I was thinking that.  I was like, “I’ve had a good life and I’m about to die proud of myself.”  And ever since then, I’ve wanted every choice I’ve made for it to be so that when I die I don’t have any regrets.  Did you think that when you were dying?

Messee: Bleeding to death, all yayed out, hell yeah, i mean, no. [laughter] Shit, dude, just fuck, dude, you can’t do shit.  Dude, that shit’s scarier than shit.

Todd: I’ve had a pretty decent life.  It’s been hard sometimes but… everything else becomes very unimportant at that moment.  I’ve had moments where I thought I was gonna die and I was pretty comfortable with it at that moment, too, actually.  I was just like, “is this how it’s gonna end? Thats a trip but, you know what, it’s all good.  This is interesting, kinda, you know?”  It was weird.  I hope when it really happens I can be that cool with it.



Sean: I talk to people who also, though, they feel regrets.  I talk to people and they’re like, “for real, I got shot seven times and I was lying in a pool of blood and all I could think about was how I fucking mistreated my mom, you know?”

Todd: That’s an awesome realization too.

Sean:  They live their lives differently afterwards.

Todd: They probably do, ’cause that’s a heavy experience, too… Any last thoughts about still playing music after almost 20 years?

Patrick: About music in general, I made a decison a long time ago that if i had nothing else, if i always had music, I’d be a rich man.

Todd:  Suffering Luna will make you super wealthy! [laughter]

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  1. Rebecca July 4, 2012 · Reply

    You boys are so cray-cray.

  2. Stan levi August 29, 2012 · Reply

    I remember suffering luna back in the good old days, that guitarist was sick he created a style no One can emulate. I heard he left because there vox singer was going insane. Good luck suffering luna.

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