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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

    CLICK HERE TO PRE ORDER LP WITH SHIRT

    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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    Crust Hardcore profane existence Punk
  • 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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    UNITED STATES
  • 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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Rise of the fit punks

  • April 2, 2014
  • by stinkbot
  • · Columns · PE Web Zine

This year I’ll be forty years old, and I’m in better shape now that when I was sixteen.

I was 27 when I started taking fitness and health seriously.  My son was just born and I was going back to school. I was re-discovering my love of punk and hardcore after leaving the community for a while, so changes coming on anyway. I wanted to be healthy and fit again, but my love of sweets, fried foods and booze had got in the way. Also I’d started eating meat after I met my partner at the time and started eating fast food and with all that I had really let myself go. All those horrible processed foods and empty calories over a period of time had taken its toll.

Weird thing was I hadn’t really ballooned up; I had just sort of gotten soft. I started to notice that I wasn’t able to run as fast, or for as long as I used to be able too. After showers I noticed that my muscles were mushy and my arms began to wobble a bit from lack of tone.

I was unhappy about this and so I started talking to friends about it, and one of my friends gave me an exercise tape that she’d used to help her get back into shape after her pregnancy. I also started going to a gym but I soon discovered that I preferred to exercise at home. It was cheaper to exercise at home and I’d had a few experiences that left me unhappy with the gymnasium lifestyle.

I started exercising with the video a couple of times a week and started being more mindful of what I was eating. This is when I gave up meat again, going vegetarian was something brewing within me for a while anyway, but the idea of becoming fit meant encompassing a more holistic approach to my life. I did not want to contribute to the suffering of anything else so meat consumption had to stop.

These changes were alarming to the people around me, it came on quick and I took to it with great passion. There were the usual conversations about protein and a limited diet, the kind of bullshit I’ve heard my whole life, but I was more prepared now to deal with it. Soon I was exercising nearly every day, riding my bicycle to work and running a little. I even started doing yoga. Now along with these good habits, I had formed a few bad ones. I started smoking soon after my son was born and even though I had been sober for a while, after some personal setbacks I began drinking. My drinking and depression grew and even tough there was a lot of emotional trauma in my life I maintained a very strict schedule of exercise. I sometimes think that this rigid dedication to physical fitness helped me through some of the hardest of these times.

When my family and I moved to California I upped my physical activity, running more regularly, biking up to thirty miles some days and doing a TV workout that I’d discovered. It was also around this time that I started working at Whole Foods. I met this amazing guy who introduced me to weight training. He had been a competitive body builder and showed me some great routines and we sort of coached one another, kept each other going and inspiring one another. It was a great feeling to have a friend who was also interested in physical fitness and exercise. My partner at the time was not supportive of my devotion to physical fitness, my vegetarianism. This came to a head several times, and needless to say I left that relationship. I kept active though, and maintaining an exercise regimen can be difficult when you’re in transition. I relaxed a bit on the intensity of my work outs until I moved to Oakland with a new partner. My present partner is a woman who also has some experience with punk rock, exercise, boxing and biking. She’s a long time vegetarian and her support and encouragement went a long way. I have maintained my level of fitness and am working to change my body almost entirely.

most of my adult life I worked hard to be lean, but now I want mass. I want muscle. Two years ago I was about 130lbs, now I’m 160. I had a 28” waist and now I’m wearing 30’s

My exercise routine looks like this:

Warm up. 100 jumping jacks, 25+jump squats, 25+squats, 20 push ups, 50 crunches, 50 bicycles

Stretch, paying special attention to the muscle group I’ll be working on.

Monday: Chest and triceps

20 deep push ups (push ups using dumbbells) x3

Dumbbell press 3×12-15

Dumbbell flys 3×12-15

Dumbbell Skullcrusher 3×12-15

Dumbbell triceps kick back 3×12-15

French Press with dumbbell 3×15

Tuesday: rest, but I do my typical warm up and stretch

Wednesday: Back and Biceps

One arm dumbbell row 4×10 each arm

Bent over dumbbell row 4×12

Upright Row 4×10

Dumbbell curl 3×8

Standing curl 3×8-10

Hammer curl 3×8

Thursday: Rest with warm up or cardio

Friday: Legs

Weighted lunges 4×12

Step up 4×12

Squats 4×12

Deadlifts 4×15

Calves: Standing lift 2×15

Calves: sitting lift 2×15

Saturday: Shoulders and forearms

Standing Dumbbell Press 3×8-10

Standing Lateral Raise 3×10

Bent over reverse fly 3×12

Dumbbell Shrug 4×12

Reverse curl 3×10

Side reverse curl 3×10

Forward wrist curl 3×10

Reverse wrist curl 3×10

Sunday…I rest

bench and tools

I do the above for four weeks and switch the routine up. A quick search of the internet will give you some good routines to do both at home and at a gym.

I do crunches and push-ups every day. I’ll do a quick warm up after work and do some  crunches/side crunches and push-ups and dips.

Another component is food. I consume a strict vegan diet. I stay away from refined sugars and oil. I consume a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables at least one large salad every day, whole grains, legumes and minimally processed foods like tofu and tempeh. I consume a lot of food so that I can keep my energy up and if something is off, if I’m tired or cranky it’s usually because of something that I ate, or did not eat, so I also eat something every two hours or so, and I drink a lot of water.

My arms are larger and more shapely (wink), my shoulders are bigger, my chest is less wobbly, and my legs are getting more defined and I’m still pretty lean. This had me giving away all of my small t-shirts. As I write this I’m between a small and a medium, which is weird.

So here I am on the precipice of forty, thirteen years after I first got a hold of that Tae Bo tape, and I’m in the best shape of my life.

I’ve gone through a few ups and downs both emotionally and physically in this time but I always maintained a rigorous exercise routine. Through battles with alcoholism, divorce and quitting smoking I worked out. And I think that working out helped me maintain some mindfulness and focus through serious emotional and mental minefields.

I sometimes feel that members of the punk community look upon physical health and well being as a waste of time, or worse a selfish pass time, but I’m seeing more and more punks getting fit and taking better care of themselves. This is the right move for us as a community. I’m tired of hearing about people getting wasted, but I never tire of hearing about cool bike rides, some gnarly martial art that someone is into and I love talking about food and cooking and learning about what other people eat to feel good.

We’re all getting old. Seriously, I know some old fuckers and since I have no intention of spending my final years sick and infirm, I’m going to do everything in my power to maintain my health. Yes we all die, but we don’t have to go into the grave early, or all worn out from disease and poor health.

The physical act of lifting something heavy, or running really fast, or riding really far feels good and has the potential to give us the energy we need to do more for each another. To set up more shows, to write more about things that we are passionate about. This has been my experience.

Over the next few weeks I will be sharing other people’s experiences with fitness, people who ride bicycles, lift weights, surf, do yoga, meditate, run and do aerobics. I hope that these stories will motivate you to move and become more active.

 

 

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