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0 PE SPECIAL #10: DYING SEA – Lachrymose 7″ SOLD OUT FAST!!

August 21, 2012
by xbencrewx
· PE Records

Thanks to every one who picked up a copy of the limited edition square shaped lathe cut DYING SEA – Lachrymose 7″ & t-shirt! We posted it this morning and it was gone by this afternoon. I know Melissa was stoked to know it went so fast. She also sends her regards. For those who ordered a copy we are printing your shirts now (remember the shirts are limited too!) and we will get them in the mail to you tomorrow. For those of you who didn’t get a chance to order one you can still stream the song here. – Up Tha “Limited Edition Record Collecting” Punx

DYING SEA – Lachrymose

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1 NEW Special Hand Crafted Limited Edition PE Release!!! (EXIST 132)

August 21, 2012
by xbencrewx
· PE Records

Melissa “The Intern” leaves her mark at Profane Existence: DYING SEA – Lachrymose 7″ & T-Shirt

Profane Existence was fortunate to have Melissa “The Intern” Meils come up and do her college internship with us this summer. For her “Final Project” Melissa had to start a band (from scratch), write and record a song (this was her first band), design the 7″ cover, logo & t-shirt art as well as figure out how to screen print and make a 7″ record. The end result is an extremely limited & collectable lathe cut 7″ with a screen printed cover and matching t-shirt by DYING SEA: a raging female fronted, blackened crust band that does not compromise when it comes to their views on animal rights.

Over the course of two days Melissa teamed up with her boyfriend Josh (who played in various bands on Prosthetic and Metal Blade Records) to write and record the song “Lachrymose”: a politically charged anthem of well crafted crust brutality calling for the end of vivisetion and animal torture. After listening to the recording, seeing the layout Melissa designed and reasilizing how how amazing and on-point everything was we decided it needed to be an official Profane Existence release: DYING SEA – Lachrymose 7″ EXIST 132. What started out as a class project quickly took on a life of it’s own and is now a part of Profane history!

LISTEN HERE! DYING SEA – Lachrymose

We printed a total of 20 square shaped, one sided 7″ singles on clear monophonnic poly-carbonite “wax”. THIS IS A HOME MADE RECORD. You can’t get any more DIY than this! Each record was individually made, in real time, using an embossing method. There are center labels on both sides of the record, although music only appreas on side 1. The covers were screen printed right here at PE on heavy weight canvas (like a patch) and the lyrics inserts are all hand numbered.

GET YOUR COPY HERE!

Although we will have the song available digitally this is going to be a one time, limited edition pressing of twenty one sided lather cut records with screen printed covers. Once these records are gone we won’t be doing a repress. The first ten copies are already gone. They went to the band and friends of the label before it even hit the streets. The remaining 10 copies are available from the PE webstore and come with a DYING SEA t-shirt. The DYING SEA t-shirts are all double-sided on high quality fabric. The Dying Sea 7″ image is on the front and the classic PE “Making Punk A Threat Again” logo is on back. This is only available as a package deal. Neither the t-shirt nor the record will be sold seperately. Available now… but only for a limited time. GET THEM BOTH HERE!!

Note: There are center labels on both sides of the record but music is only on side 1. DO NOT PLAY THE SIDE WITH THE PE LOGO CENTER LABEL. The poly-carbonate is clear and it might appear that there are grooves on both sides. Do not be fooled. It could damage your needle. Also if you are playing the record on the correct side and it doesn’t sound like the needle is catching the groove properly you might want to help it out. Each record was made special with 1940’s technology and might require a little special attention from you when playing it. GRAB A PIECE OF PE HISTORY!

3 Inteview with my Mom about the DIY Back to the Land Movement of the 1970s DRAFT

August 18, 2012
by benaxiom
· Columns

In this interview my mother and I discuss the joys and pains in the struggle to build sustainable autonomous communities. They were pretty hardcore back in the day, melting down cars to make apple cider presses! It’s interesting to see the cyclical pattern of civilization on the edge of collapse making people want to get close to the land, but then when the system has a “false recovery” and comes out with some new shiny object, people end up running back into the hamster wheel/rat race.

Interview with my mom part 1
http://gaian-mind.org/community/node/722

Interview with my mom part 2
http://gaian-mind.org/community/node/723

In a recent podcast the managing director of the Permaculture Research Institute in Australia, Geoff Lawton, spoke about how a lot of intentional communities didn’t know how to site select the optimal location for a sustainable eco-village. I thought this was a very interesting point. I mean, I’ve heard the stat that over 90% of intentional communities have failed. And the anecdotal ethnographic reports that what typically happens is the last asshole standing wins the farm and drives away all the people who can’t stand him. Now after Geoff’s comments, I wonder how much of the social stress, drama, power struggles, etc. had to do with poor design, sub-optimal solar orientation, soil issues, water rights, etc.

0 V/A We’re all in This Together LP – review

August 17, 2012
by harleytexas
· PE Web Zine · Reviews

Twenty one track album on yellow vinyl with five bands each getting between three to six songs each. Two Indonesian acts have some great tunes, making this a fun listen, with TRIPLE X and HANKER HOAX HAPHAZARD having a great sound and lots of power on their tracks. MDC of course always deliver great stuff and hear they continue doing just that, with them giving a song to Tim Yohannon of MRR for those who remember him. ASSPISS and CRACKBOX both from the U.S.A. have some great tracks too and all of the bands have great sound quality on this record as well as good production. The MDC tracks are not new songs, but some from previous releases which still makes it worthwhile to hear this band and get people into them since they have been around since 1979 in Austin, TX as THE STAINS, and in 1982 they moved to San Francisco, California, and renamed themselves MDC. Great lyrics on this release and a totally cool album that will be stuck to the turntable for quite a while, the sad part is that it’s supposed to come with a patch, and I never got one in my album. If you see this comp, pick it up, it’s totally worth it! (Rick E)

Suburban White Trash Records/P.O. Box 270594/Fort Collins, CO/80527-0594//

www.suburbanwhitetrashrecords.com

0 Pharaoh-This House Is Doomed 7″ – review

August 17, 2012
by stinkbot
· PE Web Zine · Reviews

Finally a new release from these hardcore hooligans from New Jersey. It’s been a couple of years since there last recording and PHAROAH has not lost there place as one of the up and coming hardcore/doom acts. For this new release you get 2 brand new songs. “This House is Doomed” and “Waste”. This is there heaviest stuff to date “This House is Doomed” clocks in at almost 7 minutes long and is epic, it will keep you listening the whole entire time so heavy you wont want to get up. “Waste” is the shorter of the two songs I wouldn’t say it’s as heavy as the last track but still is heavy enough you’ll still enjoy it. For fans of INTEGRITY, NORTHLESS and PULLING TEETH. (Bezerker)

A389 Recordings- PO Box 12058 – Baltimore, MD – 21281

www.a389records.com

0 BRING DOWN THE HAMMER – S/T CD review

August 17, 2012
by harleytexas
· PE Web Zine · Reviews

BRING DOWN THE HAMMER gives us twenty tracks of blazingly fast, in your face and pissed off hardcore thrash with the last song being a fantastic slower, but still great punk, cover of LEON ROSSELSON’s “The World Turned Upside Down”. The production for this cd is surprisingly clear and the band is super tight and comes with the lyrics that are lots of fun to shout along with and pretty damn good as well. Super short songs with the cover song being the longest at just over two minutes, so you won’t get bored with guitar wanking, just to the point songs with great political and personal lyrics dealing with worker’s rights like on the title track, “Bring Down The Hammer”, anti religion on “What The Fuck” and others and against the far right wing thinker “Ann Coulter”, also it’s nice to see that the over thirty punks get some love on “Never Give In, Never Give Up”. Great first album for this three piece band from Tulsa, Oklahoma, worth tracking it down and plying it loud to piss off the right wingers in your town. (Rick E)

Know Records/P.O. Box 90579/LONG BEACH, CA 90809 //

www.knowrecords.com

www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Down-The-Hammer/133957326641832

www.myspace.com/thehammerhitshard

0 RATS ON RAFTS Emma Sofia 7″ – review

August 17, 2012
by backwoodsvegan
· PE Web Zine · Reviews

It’s always a pleasure to be asked to review something that is a little out of the ordinary for P.E. Not that I’m not interested in the brutal crust, but since Dawn and I live out in the woods with no cable and slow internet, we’re not always privy to what’s going on in indie music so, as I said before, this is always nice. This four piece from Holland has been quite active in the past few years with television appearances, film scores, national festivals and recording a few albums. It’s no surprise that they’ve received so much attention since their sound is very palatable with just enough grit to set them apart from other indie pop acts. RATS ON RAFTS borrow heavily from New Wave and 70s punk with a folky college rock feel that make for a very memorable listen even if you aren’t really a big post punk fan. The song Emma Sofia is so catchy and well written that it could stand alone asa solo acoustic piece. Having the rest of the instrumentation on the track just sweetened it up a little. The B side song, Kevin in Cabbage Town, is nice mid-paced bass driven number with tasteful use of guitar effects and has a splash of the CLASH in it, but also very much reminds me of the intro music to Kids in the Hall. Maybe it’s just me. Anyway, this is the sort of indie rock I can get into. (Jake)

http://louderthanwar.com/

0 BARREN WOMB / FORRÆDERI split 7″ – review

August 17, 2012
by backwoodsvegan
· PE Web Zine · Reviews

Knowing very little about BARREN WOMB, I was very surprised to find that they are a two piece. Their sound is very full of atmosphere and chaos, leaving no empty space or void where the listener might be left missing bass, second guitar, violin or any other instrumentation. They bring two energetic tracks of loose knit hardcore that lean toward the darker side of melodic and have a certain mid ’90s midwest post hardcore feel with some stressed out screaming balanced with singing. Sort of. It’s hard to explain, but at certain points it reminds me of THIS DAY FOWARD or I,ROBOT with a slight metallic undertone and deep poetic lyrics. On side FORRÆDERI, this split takes a darker tone. Now, I’m not sure what the message is since the lyrics aren’t printed in English, but the music is seriously brutal and angry. If you aren’t paying close attention, you might not realize that there are three songs on this side. They flow together like a live RAMONES set with only a quick soundbite linking tracks two and three, which creates one hell of a mood. Their sound is blackened d-beat with a heavy grind influence with a gritty production that lends perfectly to their writing. Quite a few bands are attempting this style, but few can pull it off really well and I’m into the way FORRÆDERI use creepy melodies to make it their own. Overall this spit is great and only 300 were pressed, so don’t sleep on this one. Oh, and thanks for including stickers! (Jake)

theperfecthoax.com

0 CHILLED MONKEY BRAINS – We’re All in this Together digital EP- Review

August 17, 2012
by backwoodsvegan
· PE Web Zine · Reviews

While I really wasn’t prepared for how completely all over the place this band is, it grew on me before the end of the first song. Most bands subtly incorporate their influences(or just totally copy a band) in a way that you might be able to pick out similarities in chord structure, vocal patterns or even just try to improve upon a genre, but in this case it’s taken to a whacky level. The EP opens up with Definitions, that starts with a slow metallic rock and roll feel, complete with noodling guitar solos, that blends seamlessly into early ’90s hardcore that slows into dirty, poppy, melodic punk(at this point the vocals remind me of Paul from JOLT[which also had Karl and Jim from the SLAMBODIANS]). Just when it starts to make total sense, these guys throw in well executed ska. I’m going to say third generation-ish. It goes from the slower bluesy SUBLIME type to hyper speed VOODOO GLOW SKULLS ska with sweet dual trombone action. The styles are flawlessly mixed without getting choppy or awkward, which is amazing in itself and makes for a an very interesting overall sound. This EP is four songs of that formula making a great listen for those of us with short attention spans. On top of all that, the production and level mix is pro studio perfect. The download is $4. (Jake)

http://www.reverbnation.com/chilledmonkybrains

0 NEUROSIS: Title Of Eleventh Full-Length From Musical Pioneers Revealed

August 15, 2012
by stinkbot
· News · PE Web Zine

It is said that great art has the power to take us outside of ourselves and bring us closer to ourselves simultaneously. Few bands have accomplished this rare feat on a more profound and consistent basis than NEUROSIS. For nearly three decades, their music has touched the hearts and minds of men and women seeking contact with something beyond the physical world, something intangible, something that expresses the inner tumult of the human condition in a way that transcends time and space. Something that not only provokes questions but maybe even hints at answers.

Since 1985 this matchless force has surpassed the boundaries of any genre, never ceasing to mutate and progress their songwriting and sonic delivery, and never failing to mesmerize audiences both in the studio and onstage. And as the anticipation from their diehard fanbase reaches a boiling point, this week NEUROSIS unveil the title of their eleventh full-length studio creation, which will manifest itself as Honor Found In Decay.

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The legendary crust classic is now available once again!

We are happy to announce our next new release

WILT – “Self Titled”

Here is a track from the upcoming LP

“Sermon for the Bootlickers”