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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

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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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Pissed Off! A true story of how even the best law can be obscene

  • September 23, 2012
  • by Comrade Black
  • · Columns · News
Every animal on earth has to pee sometime. Urination is perhaps the most natural thing we still do, thus why it is often referred to as nature calling. For most of human history, we like all other animals have been peeing outside, and in many parts of the world the majority of people still do. And even in industrialized countries where indoor plumbing has been the norm for about a hundred years, I think one would be hard pressed to find anyone who has never urinated outdoors. In contrast, the imposition of laws to govern human behavior is anything but natural. No other species of animal have written and codified laws, nor prisons to punish offenders. But laws are now a major part of our current way of living, so much so that many human animals can not even imagine a society without them. The imposition of laws upon us is rationalized as being for our own protection. In some cases Laws clearly have nothing to do with our safety and far more to do with protecting those who exploit people or other animals for profit, yet still there does exist those few laws that are hard to disagree with without looking like a psychopath. Hate crimes legislation for example, or laws that seek to punish sex offenders. Yet as Joel Schwabe found out recently even these laws can be used to criminalize and repress people who have really done piss all wrong.

-Interview with Joel Schwabe, interviewed by Comrade Black

 CB:  Can you elaborate on what happened that lead up to you being charged?

 JS:  I was stuck near the Snowqaulmie pass on I-90 heading east. It was Memorial Day long weekend, and traffic was packed. There was a line of cars that must have been 3-5 miles long. The combination of the long weekend, the festival goers, and a bout of highway construction resulted in traffic slowing to a crawl, and stopping completely for long periods of time. About half an hour after I had crawled past the last exit, I realized I needed to urinate soon. I was looking left and right for appropriate places to go, and noticed that some people were pulled over on the left hand shoulder, and peeing on the barrier. I’m a shy pisser, so I was looking for something a bit more discrete.  An hour later, and not much further down the road, I found a double wide shoulder on the right, near an on ramp, and pulled over to take a leak on the barrier, my body “hidden” between my car and facing away from traffic, onto a barrier. Granted, I could see a few cars on the desolate road leading to the on ramp, but the barrier was waist height, and I was as quick as possible. The moment I get back into the car, I see a police officer right behind me in the mirror. He comes up and says “Does this look like a restroom to you?” to which I manage, “Um….no…sorry, but-” and he cuts in with “Do you think these people here enjoy looking at your wiener? I’m writing you up for indecent exposure.” This is almost word for word what he said. And then he headed back to his car to write me up.

CB:  And what exactly are the charges you are facing?

JS: The charge was indecent exposure, which is essentially: exposure of the genitals in public with the purpose of causing affront or alarm. Like an old man with a trench coat flashing kids at the playground. That kind. It has a possible $2000+ fine, as well as up to 90 days in county jail. My lawyer told me that it would not count as a sexual offense for your first time. If convicted however, I would have that possibility lurking in the background. Laws can be retroactively changed in America, and it could, in the future, be a zero strike situation, and I would be labeled a sex offender(level 1 of 3).

CB:  Do you feel you had any other options? Was there a public washroom near by?

 JS: My other options would have been: take the earlier exit, tried to make it to a small town, or: pee in a bottle. If you google “Snoqualmie Pass, Kittitas, Washington” you’ll see that it’s pretty much in the middle of nowhere, and a bad place to be stuck. I probably would have just ended up peeing in the woods somewhere. I didn’t want to pee in a bottle because I was driving, and there were three ladies in the car. And it would have been super awkward to try to do, because my car is standard, and half of the crawl was very slowly uphill. It wasn’t quite slow enough at some points that I could have just stopped and pissed in a bottle. I’d thought of it though.

CB:  Did the cop who charged you have any suggestions as to where you could have peed instead or what else you could do to have relieved the situation?

JS: The cop told me that there was a rest stop 7 miles back and 3 miles ahead as well. I didn’t see clear signage for either of them, and it wouldn’t have helped my situation either way, because of where the traffic started to back up.

CB:  What would happen if you simply ignored this and continued on with your life as if it never happened?

If I ignored this, I wouldn’t notice anything at first, it’s not important enough for them to try and extradite me. However, I would not be able to travel to, or through, the US, as a warrant would be out for my immediate arrest. At that point, I would have multiple other charges laid against me(I assume, for failing to show, etc.). I would probably spend a good while in prison.

CB:  You were recently offered a pee bargain… er sorry, plea bargain. Can you tell us more about that?

JS: I chose not to take the offer. My lawyer said it was one of the best offers she’s ever seen offered, and that it was also offered very quickly. It was a good enough offer in my eyes, but I feel that even though the charges are dropped if you take the offer, that you are still in some small way admitting guilt. I was willing to take the chance to push all the way to prove my innocence.

Note that I would not argue at all if I had gotten a ticket for public urination. I would have paid my fine and been done with it, knowing that justice had properly been served. I’m strictly arguing that I did not indecently expose myself.

CB:  If you were to be found guilty for whatever reason what would be the possible repercussions you would be facing?

JS: If my case went to full trial, it would be a trial by jury, and for me to be guilty 12 people would have to agree that in a 3+ hour traffic jam, a young man pulls over to the side of the road and: A) pees, or B) decides that it’s a good time to flash people for kicks. Hopefully I’ll have an intelligent bunch and they can, even without any evidence to support my case, see that it’s obviously A because ‘Occam’s Razor'(pick the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions).
If not, then I’ll probably face a modest $1000+ fine with a week or two in jail. But that’s purely speculation.

CB:  In what ways has this already affected your life?

JS: It’s made me lose a lot of sleep, put me in a prolonged state of stress, not knowing if I’ll be going to jail, not knowing how to plan for the worst.

CB:  It seems like it would be pretty expensive to have to travel to another country for court and hire a lawyer. How are you affording all this?

JS: It’s very expensive, especially for multiple trips. My lawyer gave me a good price for her representation ($1000 flat fee, as opposed to $2000-3000 normally), and each round trip will cost approximately $450.
I’m lucky enough to have lots of really awesome friends. Near the end of June, I had a fundraising kegger party/raffle/bake sale. With the help of my family and friends we managed to raise over $1700 in a single night. It was amazing to see so much support. And people said that the party was awesome too, which is great to hear.
CB: So when we started this interview your case was still going, now it is finally over. Can you tell us how it concluded?

JS: I went down Washington on the 25th of July to appear at my pre-trial. It’s a meeting between judge, prosecution and lawyer to see if things can be worked out without the use of a jury. My lawyer had presented her case to the prosecution beforehand, and they had agreed to change the charges to “public urination” in lieu of ” indecent exposure “. The only way that this was possible is because my lawyer had brought up the fact that I was in a state park at the time I was charged. This resulted in the federal laws that govern state parks overriding the Washington State laws that I was charged under. Lucky for me, federal law in the USA (for state parks at least) has a public urination section.
I ended up “getting away with it” for the measly sum of $250. After paying my lawyer, after travelling to Washington and back. So, it really cost me $1500-ish. The one cool thing I got out of it all was a great apology. It came from my lawyer. She said “I apologize to you on behalf of the whole United States. Things like this shouldn’t happen to good people, but everything has gone to shit since 9/11.”

CB:  Any last thoughts you would like to share?

JS: This seems to be the part where I would say something like “Fuck the Police!” , but I’d rather say “Be incredibly careful around the police for they may find some way to make you out to be a criminal regardless of what you’re doing”  .

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  1. curtis November 14, 2012 · Reply

    think about all the homeless people that have no restrooms an just pleas guity because they have on money

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