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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! 

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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.  

    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.

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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

    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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Neo-Paganism is Not the Answer – Climb A Fucking Tree

  • July 6, 2014
  • by Comrade Black
  • · Columns · PE Web Zine

More and more people have begun to reject Christianity, Islam, and other monotheistic religions, and are instead turning towards what are seen as older, earth based forms of spirituality.

Meanwhile we live in a society where 90% of the old growth forests have been cut, as the world around us becomes increasingly synthetic, polluted, and urbanized. In response there has been a growing interest in European polytheistic religions as alternative to the hierarchies of the church with it’s gnostic abstracted concepts.

However these polytheistic religions are often just as problematic as what is being rejected. There has been a lot of revisionism, presenting many of these patriarchal religions where male war gods dominate as though they are anything but – where godesses are now talked about as though the original practitioners were matriarchal and the males gods were just minor characters. Ignored also is the inherent heterosexism of these religions where often female goddesses are all based around fertility.

Yet the bigger problem lies deeper. In a blog posthttps://i0.wp.com/lh3.ggpht.com/_rJQN4wr1Av0/TJu_uSHObAI/AAAAAAAABXw/fRXLJZaRX6Y/The%20Eight%20Great%20Festivals%20Of%20Asatru.png I just read about Asatru (Odin worship) the blogger pointed out that these “old” religions developed through “the Iron Age up through the Viking era – that is, a few centuries BCE up through about 800-1200 CE. ” (I acknowledge the problems in using these anthropological stages as markers of ‘progression’). This is preciously my point. The old polytheistic religions of Europe were still religions that developed during a period of violent conquest, early colonization, war, and long after the rise of agriculture where people had moved into dominating the land and living a sedentary lifestyle rather than nomadic or semi-nomadic ways based on relationship and ecology. To then call these polytheist religions ‘nature based’ is like calling Christianity in it’s current context ‘community value based.’

The reality is that before there was polytheistic religions that worshiped symbolic gods of the harvest, war, fertility, or death, there was an older non-theistic religion based in place. If you want to worship nature, you don’t need a sunwheel, pentacle, or a godess to do so – go out and climb a fucking tree, sit in it’s branches, learn ecology, listen to the wind rustling the leaves through the branches, watch the squirrels, strip naked and swim in the river as the sun sets. Then do whatever it takes to stop those fuckers who wanna cut that tree cause all they see is dollar signs. You don’t need a european god or goddes to tell you life is sacred.

 

by Comrade Blacknew comrade

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  1. frontlinegranny60 July 6, 2014 · Reply

    I am no expert on neo paganism. All i know is that i follow my instincts and pray in my own way that has no dogma attached. To me, the connections to nature, the earth and people who defend it all are the most inspiring and compelling reasons to keep on my current path. Traditional peoples are at the forefront of fighting climate change from Mexico to the Philippines, from Guatemala to Black Mesa, from Nigeria to Japan, earth based peoples have their own ways of resisting. More privileged people see climate change without the very real genocidal human cost. Personally, i will do whatever traditional Dine elder asks of me over any follower of Bill McKibben. My mother’s great grandparents came from Ireland during the British imposed great hunger. I feel more connected to pre Xtian Celtic culture but know little to nothing. O well. I am a deeply committed frontliner nonetheless. Who knows? I don’t, but certainly follow my heart and conscience.

    • Comrade Black July 6, 2014 · Reply

      Great comment, thank you for posting your thoughts. Just to clarify, I am definitely not against having an earth based spirituality, far from it. There is a difference between polytheistic religion and what sometimes gets labelled animism. You can definitely connect with the earth and practice spiritually driven resistance without buying into the worship of gods.

  2. ~xtian July 6, 2014 · Reply

    Reblogged this on Typing Loud, Knowing Nothing. and commented:
    I couldn’t agree more. I used popular 19th cent revisionist neo paganism as training wheels while I was freeing myself of the church. Comforting imagery and nice warm fireside fuzzies aside (I am all in favour of those) I like to think that in a world that includes the Large Hadron Collider we don’t have as much of a need for cultural fetishes and security blankets. It could be a fond isolated hope and I acknowledge that I may be wrong.

  3. stinkbot July 8, 2014 · Reply

    Dear Black,
    I appreciate this post immensely. I feel that the reason that many pick up religions other than the ones forced upon them at birth has a lot to do with the symbols and the imagery involved. Punks are drawn to symbols, how many hardcore bands DON’T have a neat symbol, so I always felt like punks were taken by images that were opposite christianity, or were an affront to christianity. Using an upside cross, or pentacle for instance without any real devotion to the religious aspects of the symbol itself.
    This may change as people get older. Some people start to feel some yearning for spirituality, and they may then seek practices that are more interesting than the ones they were taught as children, but again not concerning themselves too much with the uncomfortable parts of the religion and focusing solely on the cool parts; the symbols and ancient representations of antlered, bearded people dancing naked in the field…
    If someone wishes to take on the burden of a religion it is important to get the whole picture and have the kind of uncomfortable relationship with their idols that any true worshiper must.
    Frankly, I’m agin it. Consorting with nature does not require the knowledge of what ancient people did, how they danced or whom they sacrificed. Climbing a tree and stopping the destruction of the forest through direct action or raising awareness seems more important and in the long term more helpful to me. I dabbled as a lot of young people do and I wore all manner of symbolic hoo doo in the quest for enlightenment, but realized that it is all religion and I don’t want religion in my life. That was the key. I don’t like religions and you can dress it up in all sorts of ways but it’s all essentially the same. You can be as spiritual as you wish, you can choose to believe whatever you like, but those gods are just that. gods. I’ll do without thank you.

  4. a cat August 7, 2014 · Reply

    So, just a thought. My understanding of a lot of how written history and archaeology functions on a very basic level is that we are rarely given an accurate picture of the lifestyles and people which those practices attempt to build an understanding of. Usually for a variety of reasons, mostly popular opinion when these things are being achieved.

    eg. tombs/graves/etc. of pre-Victorian people whose bodies were thought to be anthropologically female would at one point be very quickly resexed as male if further excavation showed there were weapons (to name one example) in the grave site, as fighting could only feasibly be left to men in the mind of someone in a post-Victorian society. This has led to an ongoing confusion and debate on the actual lives and genders of the many different people who were studied. An even more precise example being Celts in the Iron Age who weren’t sexed at all by their bones (which, frankly, is a difficult process), instead were sexed based on the contents of their grave sites. Really, the question of “could this person who was laid with a spear and sword possibly be female or otherwise?” is not something archaeologists have concerned themselves with up until relatively recently. As well, feminine idolatry and other artefacts that might suggest stronger links to feminine power were often undermined or sometimes disregarded entirely.

    All that to say, when talking about social context of any religion- or similar topics- it is dangerous to make statements about how these religions really operated, who they focused on, etc. as the history we’ve been fed about the surrounding cultures, societies and nations do not necessarily reflect the lived relationships those people had with their goddesses, gods, iconography, etc. The system recording them has imposed it’s own values and perspectives, the system of academia in particular that these systems stem from is inherently about dominion.

    Plus, if you want to talk about religion in a social context, even if we are starting with a shitty religion, due to social change, it can and will change. Look at Catholicism. For a contemporary example, look at ISIS and Hezbollah.

  5. riadelmontana June 7, 2016 · Reply

    Reblogged this on vegan anarchist primitivist.

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