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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

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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.  

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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
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    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

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    Sat, July 15 Gent, Belgium / CrustPicnic / Confirmed
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    July 19 Freiburg / Germany TBC 
    July 20 Winterthur / Switzerland 
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    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
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    August 6 Dresden
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    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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Punk isn’t Spectacle. Spectacle is Capitalist Shit.

  • October 2, 2013
  • by Wingnut Anarchist Collective
  • · Columns

by Mo Karnage

I’ve been avoiding 2 things recently- beginning to write for Profane Existence and addressing the Miley Cyrus debacle in any serious manner. This morning a houseguest who writes for Afropunk.com pointed out the Vice Magazine article about Miley Cyrus being punk, and I decided that was the last straw. So this is my wading into the intersectional cluster fuck. Apologies. Not sorry.

I live at the Wingnut Anarchist Collective in Richmond, VA and I listen to a lot of pop country, but my background and politics are punk. In August my Aunt bought me tickets to see Ke$ha in DC, cause I like Ke$ha, cause I have bad taste. I’d never been to any mainstream show in my life, and had no idea what to expect. What blew me away was the sheer spectacle of mainstream pop music. There were stripper poles, drag queens, blow up animals, soft porn videos, mini cars, angle grinders shooting sparks, and more. I was convinced by seeing the spectacle in person along with a couple thousand 14 year olds that nothing is shocking anymore. It is with this experience that I address the Vice article on Miley Cyrus.

The concept of punk as spectacle or just fashion rebellion is something that was probably never accurate, and if it was, it is hella outdated. Being raunchy or pushing boundaries has been for some time now completely accepted by consumer capitalism and the pop industry. Spectacle sells. Capitalist scum have at this point completely stopped caring about morals or promoting WASP values, and only care about making money and distracting people from reality. See the Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord for more on this concept.

Shock isn’t punk. Punk has always been about more than shock. The politics of punk are shocking because they undermine mainstream values, not because our clothes are covered in safety pins. Punk is shocking because we want to overthrow the patriarchy and smash the government and free all the prisoners and stop racism. Drugs and excess aren’t punk either. Those have always been privileges of the rich.

If Miley Cyrus’ racist performances are punk, the the KKK is punk. And the KKK isn’t punk. Mainstream society is all about the white supremacy. Ain’t nothing punk about that. If Miley Cyrus not giving a fuck about what people think is punk, then Monsanto and the U.S. Military Industrial Complex are punk. I think its pretty obvious why not giving a fuck doesn’t make you punk.

Miley Cyrus can’t conceivably be working towards her own liberation while contributing to the oppression of others. Shit doesn’t work like that. No issue is one dimensional. Of course slut shaming is unacceptable. But we have to go beyond the white/liberal feminist stance to address the racism and classism and other shit coming from Miley’s corner. And we also have to address the systemic nature of these things. It’s not just Miley and it never has been.

Dan Ozzi (author of the Vice article) writes like a person with a lot of privilege. He thinks not giving a fuck is punk. How original. Sounds like every other white male with unexamined privilege. He can get in line with the manarchists. Punk isn’t for him. And we don’t need people like him to try to define a genre for us. Not giving a fuck about racism or sexism or transphobia or classism is about as fucking normal as you can get.

Capitalism is about what sells. And capitalism is rapidly appropriating aspects of punk that it can turn into consumer products. Those products have never been punk. True punk rebellion includes fighting capitalism, fighting oppression, and promoting a DIY ethic and solidarity and community. Punk isn’t about rebellion for rebellions sake. That’s what capitalists would like for us to think. There are specific values to punk. Punk is queers and people of color and womyn and everyone who refuses to assimilate or perpetuate oppression. Listen to some Crass, Bikini Kill, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, etc. Check out Punks Unite Across Turtle Island – www.nativepunxunite.tumblr.com . Check out radical punk zines like Shotgun Seamstress www.shotgunseamstress.wordpress.com .  Punk isn’t dead and shitheads like Dan Ozzi and Miley Cyrus will never kill it. Punk isn’t dead and the capitalists won’t ever be able to market the parts that really matter.

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  1. D@VE October 2, 2013 · Reply

    Great article! First, I’d like to commend you on a well written response to the definition of “punk” as put forth by the likes of Ozzi. Second, to clarify matters there are some issues here I think you might be overlooking. While I agree that punk is not dead, you have to recognize the fact that punk is an ever-changing “genre” and “style” and what is “authentically” punk right now, to you (and myself), is not so to all people engaged with “punk.” Also, a big part of the reason punk has morphed into the definition of it that you align yourself with is because of the cultural appropriation of “punk” style(s) by the mainstream. (I’m assuming you’ve read Hebdige because of your safety pin reference.) You have to remember “punk” started with the Sex PIstols, and the Sex PIstols were initially a marketing scheme for a fetish shop. You don’t get more capitalist than that and they’re considered the godfathers of “punk” to many.

    I also feel that, while you make a good case for punk not being spectacle, you’ve missed the heart of Debord’s argument about what spectacle is and what it does. Punk very much can be considered spectacular, and spectacle is not solely the domain of capitalist pigs. The spectacular does not have to be the shock and awe and spectacle of an overly produced pop concert. Safety pins are spectacular. Vegan, antifa, feminist punx are spectular… just in a different way and with their own agenda. This does not mean I’m condemning any of that. The problem with punk being so radically politicized now-a-days is that we’re as fractioned as the anarchists of old. I can appreciate all the arguments “punk” puts forth without necessarily participating or aligning myself with those perspectives. That’s what makes punk great. It isn’t “not giving a fuck” it’s actually giving two fucks and possibly opening peoples eyes to these issues in an anti-hegemonic way that makes punk special. When viewed in this light Miley Cyrus could be a little bit “punk” or at the very least her performance forced people to think about the issues raised as being “punk.” Not that I’m sticking up for her or her performance. But, the fact that her performance forced a large scale public discussion of issues such as race, gender, and sexuality led people to consider it in the realm of the only other phenomenon they associate that level of discomfort with… and that’s “punk. “

  2. Slorb October 2, 2013 · Reply

    You indicate punk is “queers and people of color and womyn and everyone who refuses to assimilate or perpetuate oppression” and then suggest people listen to Bad Brains. Did they not perpetuate oppression with their attitudes towards and song(s) regarding homosexuality?

  3. Michael October 2, 2013 · Reply

    “If Miley Cyrus’ racist performances are punk, the the KKK is punk. And the KKK isn’t punk. Mainstream society is all about the white supremacy. Ain’t nothing punk about that. If Miley Cyrus not giving a fuck about what people think is punk, then Monsanto and the U.S. Military Industrial Complex are punk. I think its pretty obvious why not giving a fuck doesn’t make you punk.”

    I think you’re assuming there’s some kind of universal coherence or centrality to a punk ideology when there really isn’t any. There are plenty of right-wing punks and to them the KKK could absolutely be punk. I don’t think ‘revolution’ or politics necessarily define all punk scenes either. Since most people develop an interest in punk during their adolescent years, punk is much more a vehicle for coping with feelings of alienation or difference from ones peers. Punk is much more about the incoherent and confused frustrations of youth, not some high-minded social revolution (and I think it’s better that way). Miley Cyrus could absolutely be punk. She doesn’t have to stand for anything but not really giving a shit. That’s pretty much what punk was founded on.

  4. Andrew October 2, 2013 · Reply

    “You indicate punk is “queers and people of color and womyn and everyone who refuses to assimilate or perpetuate oppression” and then suggest people listen to” Bikini Kill, Kathleen Hanna has openly oppressed transgender people.

    i think throwing accusations of racism around as well as broadcasting an Us V. Them philosophy is damaging. especially if you in some way are trying to define a group through writing and therefore; trying to, in small way, represent that group. i, as a punk, have bridged some of my issues with capitalism, police, government, idiots, other punks and so on, enough to have something to offer more than alienation for the people involved with those ideas, policies, organizations or ways of life. granted, no matter what my personal journeys lead me to conclude, i certainly don’t expect those same conclusions from anyone else, but that’s my punk ethic; that i don’t define what punk is or isn’t. punk is not the standard for which i judge my pop culture, and i understand that that is mostly what this article is trying to say, however punk’s been in pop culture since it’s inception and there is no way to avoid that. complaining about it and stretching definitions to meet a level of righteous outrage is not going to change it. people will see miley sirus however they chose to see her until she defines her intentions (hopefully as a woman taking full control of her identity in a pop culture that deeply discourages that behavior in women. but i don’t listen to her stuff that much and i’m not paying that much attention). it seems like argument is that miley sirus is trying to culturally appropriate punk by being described that way. my retort would be that punk is no one’s culture to have or to be appropriated from.

  5. Citizen CK October 3, 2013 · Reply

    Bad Brains said some ignorant stuff probably because they were young and angry, so I am sure they have regret about that. Like when girls get mad and call each other “fat”, guys do the same, but call each other “faggot”. Sadly it’s deep rooted, but I would like to think that way of thinking has changed. What about the Adolescents, the Meatmen..some of their music had homophobic lyrics. As a forty something punk I remember see all of these bands in their prime and running into that mindset wasn’t a surprise. At least the shows I went to were made up of all types of young kids, gay included. Everyone was an outsider. A couple things that punk had back in the early 80’s that it doesn’t have today is a sense of humor, and tongue & cheek sarcasm. There was no internet microscope ready to parse every word or report every event. Sure there were those who were more politically involved, but punk allowed us to have fun and think outside the box which followed most of us into adulthood. They can toss around the word “punk” all they want, but no amount of corporate packaging will ever come close to the original intent of – fuck the system, fuck your idols, I will not conform to your rules.

  6. R October 3, 2013 · Reply

    Mo def did a great job on the article but I think saying punk was never about fashion is historically inaccurate (see definitive punk bands pre-Crass: I.e. Ramones w their leather jackets and the Sex Pistols- a band started by a fashion designer to help sell clothes). That is not to understate where we are today: as (even this may be a bit optimistic) post-fashion-centric punkers who have developed decades of critical analysis/theory regarding various facets of oppression. That being said, I don’t think identity politics are too convoluted/short-sighted to serve as our only defining characteristic.
    Not every one develops a class analysis or becomes radicalized through punk music, though it seems an integral catalysts for young, white, middle class folks in the US. Society the Spectacle was penned before the punk rock phenomenon, as was many other radical works… So, to me what’s important is not so much that punk-itself stays alive and vibrant, but the ethos and discourse against oppression have a place to continue onward.

  7. Ozzi's #1 fangirl October 5, 2013 · Reply

    Having read the article in question along with many other of Ozzi’s pieces, it would surprise me greatly if he was being completely sincere. My guess would be that it was intended irritate punk elitists and people who took distinctions between what is and isn’t “punk” way too seriously. There is very little that can link all bands that are “punk” together. A significant aspect of punk initially was that it encouraged individuality and had a different definition for everyone. This notion has of course long since passed and was arguably never really true in practice anyway, but i would say it’s still worth keeping in mind.

    Random Side Note: Johnny Ramone is a fervent Replubican who ended his “Hall of Fame” admittance speech with “God Bless Bush. God Bless America.”

    . . . .Oh dear, I’m rambling again. Point is : Ozzi’s article was almost certainly written with the intention of pissing off people such as yourselves . . . .it seemed to work. . .

  8. PigBastard October 6, 2013 · Reply

    I really like this article, and although punk truly isnt dead, I think a lot of people get it confused. having read thru some of the pending posts that will most likely remain unpublished in response to this article, it seems that the majority of idiotic sheep (oops I mean people) think that for some reason punk has a presence in pop culture. well it doesnt. and as to people who think that punk deserves a spot in pop music, it doesnt. TRUE PUNK HAS ALWAYS AND WILL ALWAYS BE UNDERGROUND. AND IT WILL ALWAYS BE A THREAT TO MAJOR SOCIETY, LIKE A THORN IN THE SIDE IF YOU WILL. punk is collectivist and individualist at the same time. punk is political and having fun at the same time. punk is and will always be: anti – authoritarian, anti – racist, anti – homophobic, pro – womyn bordering on anti – porn, anti – greed, anti – capitalist and anti – money promoting instead a balanced task based society. AND TRUE PUNK WILL NEVER BE RIGHT WING YA FUCKTARDS! that said, punk may not be entirely left wing either, but trying to mix pracitcality with leftist philosophies in order to attempt to make a better world out of this shit hep that we call western civilization. unfortunately the powers that be will never let us achieve this vision voluntarily. we will have to take direct action, and work from the inside out, like a cancer invading the host.
    here’s a link from Extreme Noise that you may like. it s called 23 pieces of evidence that punk is dead:
    http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexnaidus/pieces-of-evidence-that-punk-is-dead

  9. occultassociations October 17, 2013 · Reply

    punk is a vacant ideology, “punk rock” is a synonym for cool. every CEO and ad man wants to be fucking “punk rock”. what does punk stand for? individualism and liberalism. we are at end game for both of those. they have completely permeated society. “punk” isn’t rebelling against shit. punk is cool. “hippy” is still a dirty word, “hippy” is still an insult, no one wants to be called a “hippy”. it’s because hippies had values that were a threat to capitalism, a threat to the social order, punk is weak as fuck.

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