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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…Will

  • June 6, 2014
  • by stinkbot
  • · Columns · Features · Uncategorized

Will muscles II P.E. How long have you been lifting weights?
 Will: Well I’ve been going to the gym regularly since I was about 17 and my routines always involved some kind of weight training but I did not focus primarily on serious lifting until four years ago.
 P.E. How did you get into fitness?
 Will: Honestly?  Poor body image.  Like a lot of punks, I was something of a misfit throughout grade school and middle school.  I ate poorly, never left the house and primarily just wanted to play video games and be left alone.  I was pretty big in middle school and drank and partied a lot through high school.  I knew I was entering the prime of my physical health and I just hated the way I looked with my shirt off; I had to change something.  Switching to vegetarianism helped quite a bit but I was embarrassed to go to the gym.  I thought it would be very “un-punk” of me.  But once I got over myself and started doing something personally rewarding, it slowly became a larger and larger piece of who I am.

P.E.  What made you decide to focus on weights?
Will: I started going to the gym regularly in high school, but looking back on things I just kinda dicked around the gym for a solid five years.  There was always some “lifting” involved but it was mostly cardio/ metabolic-conditioning based. I tried a bunch of different routines and approaches but I simply saw so results.  I figured I was doing something wrong but I just didn’t know what.  After college I worked out at this community center and there was this one super-strong, buff dude that also worked out there.  One day, out of sheer frustration, I approached him about helping me because (and this is embarrassing to admit) he looked how I had wanted to look since I was in middle school.  He accepted and we started training together and it was all heavy lifting; squats, deadlifts, bench presses, overhead presses and cleans.  I was skeptical:  Where was the cardio?  The circuit training?  The ab work?  The dumbbell curls on a bosu ball?  I very nearly backed out of our offer but, after about a month, I liked what I saw in the mirror, friends mentioned that I had lost weight and had “bulked up”, and simply being stronger has it advantages in the real world.  I was hooked.  I don’t train for aesthetics anymore, just functional strength but I always tell anyone who asks that they will probably reach their fitness goals by lifting rather than jogging.
P.E. Are you focused on massive gains for competition? Or do you lift weights for the enjoyment of lifting heavy weight?
Will: Lifting is a very personal thing for me.  I don’t train for competition and have no plans to do so.  I’ve never been a very competitive person and have never placed too much value on institutional validation.  I guess that’s the punk rocker in me.  There’s this “thing” in the weight training world where you “should” compete in “something” and I have gotten a lot of surprised reactions from gym buddies when I say I have no interest in, say, an up-coming powerlifting meet.  Just never understood it.  I mean, if you want to that’s great and more power to you, it’s just not for me.
P.E. How did you get involved with Derek Tresize and what is your role with Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness?
Will: I got involved with Derek because I used to be a client of his.  The lifting world is not very veg-friendly; diet plans are meat-centered and protein-enriched supplements contain whey protein 99% of the time.  I had never met another vegan who “really” lifted all throughout my time in the gym.  For years, literally years, I thought I was the only one.  Then one day it occurred to be to simply Google “vegan bodybuilding” and stumbled across a site with the same name (run by Robert Cheeke, a prominent vegan body builder).  I was floored by how many people were on the site and a banner ad for “veganmuscleandfitness.com online personal training” caught my eye.  I checked it out, they had an opening, the price was right, so I took it.
I worked with Derek for about a year and a half and I considered him a mentor in many ways.  He always pushed me to go out there and learn the craft myself rather than just telling me what to do and put up with a lot of my shit.  One day he approached me about an idea to have me, and other long-time client of his, help him out with his online group training sessions as a way to reach more clients.  I was real nervous about it but he kept pushing me and supporting me the whole way and now I thank him for it, I would not be where I am now without that help.  Unfortunately the online group training sessions didn’t work out the way we planned so I am not involved with VMF anymore but I still had a great time and learned a lot.  Everyone is different, so hearing the problems of five people forces you to expand your knowledge base.
P.E. You also work at a Whole Foods, does this mean that you have made fitness a lifestyle? (for the record I work at WFM too)
Will: Hahahaha!  Yes, absolutely.  Though I don’t consider working at WFM to be a part of that.  I would live a fitness lifestyle no matter where I work!
P.E. Are there positives to being physically fit and punk rock?
Will: Of course!  I’ve seen way too many of my friends just, kinda, rot, after years of heavy drinking/partying, eating like shit, and just sitting around doing nothing.  Regular exercise keeps you physically and mentally sharp.  It gives you a reason to leave the house, eat some god-damn vegetables, and gives you the energy to keep doing the things that you want to do.
P.E. Has this devotion to exercise and fitness made you a target for jibes from the less healthy amongst your people?
Will: Hahaha, yeah, but its all been in good fun (at least as far as I know), and I can take a joke.  No one has ever really insulted me for my hobbies.  Besides, I would rather be known as “that guy who lifts” than “that guy who gets blackout drunk at every show and breaks things”.  Honestly, I’m actually kinda stunned by how many punks I run into who are serious about a fitness lifestyle.  Be it lifting, running, yoga, biking, climbing, whatever, I am discovering so many of my smelly, dreadlocked ilk who are finding ways to stay in shape and loving it.  I actually get a lot of questions about how to incorporate weight training into their current routine!
P.E. I’ve asked people about how diet plays a role in their fitness regimen, can you talk  about how you are able to build muscle, the amount of muscle needed to build serious mass on a vegan diet?
Will: Eat.  And eat a lot.  And then eat again.  And again.  Eat more.  More than what you are thinking, and even then, probably more than that.  Many people think that I have some crazy-complicated diet that requires lot of hard to find exotic foods but it couldn’t be any more different.  Personally, I would describe my diet as really simply and, honestly, really boring.  Lotta protein (mostly beans, legumes, nuts, some soy), carbs from high-quality sources (oats, potatoes, yams, fibrous veggies) and nutrient- dense fats (love me some avocados!).  I’ve made pretty steady gains over the past few years, maybe I would be further on a non-vegan diet, maybe I wouldn’t, I don’t know.  But I do no think that meat and dairy are healthy and I just refuse to believe that eating 200+ grams of animal protein a day for years and years is even remotely good for you.  Building muscle and strength is possible on a vegan diet, you just gotta cut the crap out eat clean, and lift heavy.

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