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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! 

    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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Drawing (A) Militant Resistance: Interview with Indigenous artist and author Gord Hill

  • September 15, 2012
  • by Comrade Black
  • · Interviews

 Interview by Comrade Black

Gord Hill is probably one of the most sought after speakers, writers and artists in regards to anarchism, militancy and Indigenous sovereignty in our area. His style is unique, drawing on his own cultural traditions and combining them with radical militant analysis of capitalism, colonialism, civilization and the state, presented in a format we would understand as a comic book. I have for years admired and been influenced by the work of Gord Hill, and on a few occasions have been lucky enough to organize events that he has taken part in.

Gord is a member of the Kwakwaka’wakw nation on the Northwest Coast.
I am very greatful that he accepted my request for an interview about his work and his latest comic book.

PE: I remember you saying once that your first comic was meant in part to help Indigenous people teach their children about their history. Who did you intend to reach with this new book? 

It’s pretty broad, any one who is anti-capitalist, or who thinks the system is oppressive and unjust, who question the values and ways of life of capitalist society.  It’s meant for militants who may have participated in militant actions as well as those who question the validity of such tactics. 

PE: One major difference I noticed was that you used a lot more humor in the new comic book. Can you talk about the importance of using humor in resistance? 

With this comic I felt there was a lot more room to inject humour.  I had more space to use humour in the story lines, as opposed to the 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book which was limited in space and far more of a documentary history.  Humour is very important as it is good for morale and a way of breaking the tension that is part and parcel of resistance.  Humour is also a good way to undermine or subvert authority and the aura of invulnerability they try to surround themselves with.  Class War from the UK was good at using humour.

PE: You write yourself into many of the stories which gives them a more personal feel, yet you never seem to write yourself as having played a major or important role? 

I had a hard time starting the comic, wondering how to tell these stories, but eventually decided to just tell them as I more or less experienced them.  That’s by far the easiest for me as writer and artist.  At the same time I wanted to avoid portraying prominent personalities or “movement celebrities,” so I had my character involved but not central to the organizing efforts I document in the comic.

 PE: You begin your book at the rise of the earliest civilizations in Europe. Why there? What is the connection between the rise of civilization and oppression, colonization, and capitalism? 

It is primarily Western European colonization that has dominated much of the world over the last 500 years or so, and it is from Western Civilization that capitalism arose, so it was logical to start there. 

PE: How would you define capitalism? And how does it differ from other economic systems or exchange systems? 

I would define capitalism as a socio-economic system in which a wealthy elite control the means of production (land, resources, industry), and who use the state to organize and maintain this system.  It arose from colonialism and imperialism.  It differs from other economic systems in that it is modern, high-tech, and nearly all-encompassing of the mass society it has constructed.  It is also the dominant economic system in the world today.

PE: You posit that the ‘discovery of the new world’ is what saved a dying European empire from imminent collapse. Can you talk more about this and why it was such an important moment in the story of colonization and capitalism? 

In 1492, Europe was suffering from widespread poverty, ongoing military conflicts, disease epidemics, and resource depletion.  The invasion of the Americas brought in new resources such as gold and silver, lumber, vast plantations for agriculture including crops and cattle, etc.  The plundering of the Americas revitalized Europe and enabled it to colonize other parts of the world as well.

PE: Before publishing comic books you put out many zines, and even made a short documentary against the Olympics, as well as maintaining websites and blogs. Can you talk about why you use such varied mediums?

In such a diverse society as we now live in there is no one form of communication that will reach everyone, so we need to use as many diverse forms as possible.  Not everyone listens to punk or hip hop, not everyone’s into reading a large book, or watching a documentary, etc.

PE: You really do an excellent job at including many of the smaller actions that are often left out, or many actions like the firebombing of the RBC that others might have not chosen to include, as well as placing the newer movements in a historical context that ties them to the Panthers, Spanish Civil War and Arab Spring. Can you talk about the importance of including these stories? 

I consider some of these actions and movements as critical to the story being presented.  The RBC arson, for example, was a link between the anti-Olympics campaign in Vancouver and the G20 in Toronto.  Other writers may not see this as important in telling their interpretation of history, but for me it was important in showing the overall context of both the anti-Olympic and G20 mobilizations and the increasing level of resistance.  It’s easier to grasp a particular movement or action, or its importance, by providing some historical context.

PE: How did you get involved in radical politics, and art? 

 I’ve done art since I was a child.  I became involved in radical resistance movements after I became involved in Vancouver’s punk scene and was exposed to anarchist literature.

PE: Can you talk more about the role punk or other subcultures and music scenes play in radical politics? Do you think they still hold potential in contributing positively to radical movements? 

I would say subcultures and music scenes are important to radical movements, and are vital in creating a culture of resistance from which such movements grow.  Punk is one example, but Hip Hop, folk, metal, etc. all have subversive subcultures within them that can radicalize people and raise levels of awareness and understanding.  In my personal experience it was a phase of development I went through which radicalized me, introduced new ideas and ways of living, that I have continued with long after I withdrew from active participation in the scene.  On the other hand, being engaged in the punk scene doesn’t mean a person is a revolutionary or radical, despite their appearance.  If we look at corporate music labels there are also subversive elements within this, such as Rage Against the Machine, Lincoln Park, or System of a Down.  The spread of radical slogans into corporate music products shows a fairly high level of sympathy for such politics among significant aspects of the population and reminds us that capitalists will sell you the rope with which you would hang them…

PE: You also seem to take many opportunities throughout the comic to bash pacifism and liberalism. I appreciated that. Can you say why you took so many shots at them? 

Pacifism is a self-defeating ideology with its roots in Christian morality and beliefs, promoted by the state because it is a means of controlling and containing resistance.  In my opinion it must be discredited as a viable form of resistance. 

PE: Many people would associate the Black Bloc with anarchism, and all through this comic you see various anarchist symbols, in the graffiti, on peoples t-shirts, black flags, etc, yet you barely use the word anarchist? Can you tell us why that is? Was it intentional? 

It wasn’t intentional but I can say that I’m not so interested in promoting the ideology of anarchism as I am in promoting the principals of anti-authoritarian practises, decentralized and autonomous self-organization, etc.

PE: In your last comic book you had an introduction written by Ward Churchill, who is a rather controversial author himself. And in the new one you have an forward by Allan Antliff, as well as an intro by Dave Cunningham. Can you tell us why they were chosen to write the introductions? 

I was greatly influenced by Ward when I was becoming radicalized, particularly Agents of Repression and some of his writings on Indigenous struggles.  I had met him in 2008 I think and thought he was a pretty cool guy.  Publishers also prefer high profile people to write intros as it helps sell their books.  But I thought Ward was a good choice to write the intro to 500 Years of Resistance.  For the Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book, to be honest, I had a hard time finding a “high profile” writer.  Cunningham is a good comrade of mine, a great writer with good analysis, so I asked him to write the intro.  Arsenal wanted a high profile writer to accompany Cunningham’s intro so  they recommended Allan.  I think their two intros complimented one another.

PE: Liberal pundit Chris Hedges published an article that harshly criticized the Black Bloc, including an interview with popular environmental author Derrick Jensen. What do you think of Hedges & Jensen’s criticisms? How do you think these types of public criticisms effect militant movements, or effect how the rest of society views those involved? 

Hedge’s article was poorly written and researched and I think radicals did a good job of countering his article.  Jensen appears to be rather bitter towards anarchists due their strong critiques of his analysis and activities (ie. calling the FBI because he received death threats).  These types of lame ass criticisms undoubtedly have a negative effect on militant resistance, as it provides propaganda for those opposed to militancy and can sour public sentiment or sympathy.

PE: Can you talk about the connections between how lived experience informs practice and production of theory or propaganda? How your personal history and participation in various struggles impacts how you write about them? 

I think its critical that those producing theory and propaganda be involved in grassroots struggles and not just sit in front of a desk thinking shit up.  The best way of checking theory is to apply it to the real world, and in a resistance movement this is accomplished through direct participation in those struggles.

PE: What are you doing now?

Right now I am maintaining the WarriorPublications.wordpress.com site, with much of it focusing on the struggle against multiple pipelines in BC.  I have helped organize rallies and info nights about the pipelines.

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  1. Comrade Black September 18, 2012 · Reply

    Gord Hill’s talk at the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair about 150 yrs of Colonialism and 150 Yrs of Resistance
    http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/audio/150-years-colonialism-150-years-resistance-workshop-gord-hill/12678

  2. greg September 20, 2012 · Reply

    so are the comics free? because that would be in keeping with the author’s stated ideals. if theyre not free, then i have to waonder….

    • Dan September 20, 2012 · Reply

      People charge money for things because they cost money to make. It’s insulting to accuse someone of being a capitalist (or hypocrite or whatever) simply because they ask for something in return for their products or their labor.

      • stinkbot October 17, 2012

        word.

    • Comrade Black September 21, 2012 · Reply

      If we went by hat you are suggesting than everything on Profane Existence would have to be free too since PE is Anti-Capitalist.
      Simply setting a bar to reach that is beyond what you are capable of living to right now is not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is telling other people not to do something that you do.

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