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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! 

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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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Rise of the Fitpunx…Comrade Black

  • September 28, 2014
  • by stinkbot
  • · Features · Radness

black4In this latest of the posts spotlighting those in our community who are into actively pursuing healthy lifestyles I am happy to bring you a conversation with Comrade Black. Many know that Black is a prolific poster on PE, is actively devoted to animal rights and politically aware. I am happy to bring you Black’s story about fitness and health.

I’ve read that you were into martial arts as a young person, has fitness always been important to you? Or has dedication to physical activity been a more recent occurrence?

Physical fitness has been a big part of my life at some points and not at others. Kinda had an on again off again relationship with fitness for many years to be honest.

I started Judo at 11, in large because I was picked on growing up because I was so small in a town known for sports and jocks (the sign on the way into town actually reads “Western Canada’s Biggest Little Sports Center”). I wanted to be able to defend myself. Turned out Judo wasn’t that useful for that, but once I started I loved it. I competed in tournaments across Saskatewan, and won a few silver and bronze metals. I even went to Judo camp at 15 yrs old where I was lucky enough to train with people like Sensie Hiroshi Nakamura and Ralf Ibanez.

Also when I was really young I was a geeky kid and was super into professional wrestling, and super hero comic books; so I always wanted to be huge and built and strong. I convinced my mom to buy me weights from an auction sale when I was around 11 years old and for a few years I lifted as much as I could. I didn’t really know what I was doing as I had no training but I would read bodybuilding magazines and try to make sense of it. I did get pretty strong, I could almost do an iron cross on the rings when I was in gymnastics in about grade 8, and for a lot of years the only reason I passed gym class each year was gymnastics, weightlifting, and the ne or 2 years we did Olympic style wrestling. Years of Judo helped me with all of those.

I did judo and weight lifting until I was about 16 and started getting to much into traveling and drinking, and left town to live on the streets. When I was around 20 II spent about two taking Muay Thai kickboxing, and submission grappling and later took Jujitsu. After that I ended up back on the streets again. I have also taken a small amount of Ninjitsu here and there.

It has been an on again off again thing throughout those years; but what’s different now is that I really fucked my body up from all of it, so now paying attention to health isn’t an option – it’s fucking necessary just for me to be able to function day to day. If I don’t eat well, sleep well, and keep fit I deal with more pain.

 

What is your main form of physical exercise?

These days I primarily do weight lifting, and my current goal is to pack on muscle. I am a lot more serious with it now, training about 5 to 6 days a week for about an hour a day. I plan my meals around calorie and protein intake, and I don’t skip workouts. Basically I do a standard body building routine. I loved martial arts, but with all my injuries and my degenerative spinal condition, my joints just can’t take the impact any more. Where as weight lifting is super low impact on the joints but the work out is hella intense. A perfect match my my needs.

 

What is the motivation behind it?

BLACK CALFIn large, I want to get large… I always have. Not to become more conventionally attractive or anything; the type of body I actually want is the kind where you hear a lot people say shit like “eww, I find that much muscle unattractive.” Seriously, I wanna be that guy, big as I can without roids. I think of it kind of like a form of body modification, similar to tattooing.

 

But there are other aspects too. I have a degenerative spinal condition called Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), as well as fibramialgia, and struggle with depression and anxiety. I also have tons of injuries. The more fit I get the less pain I deal with, the less fatigue, and the less the depression affects me. The AS is degenerative so it will never get better, but I can slow the progression of it by keeping healthy and active. Fitness and diet are one part of my overall strategy. Heavy lifting has also been proven to increase bone density which can help a lot later in life.

 

 

 

 

black back Do you feel that being physically active and fit helps your self esteem?

Definitely. The other night I did legs day and I did 2 sets of squats at 315 lbs! Last week I was at 290. I started at about 140. I feel amazing every time I add another 10 or 20 pounds on and am able to do it. Never thought I could be that strong! And when I look in a mirror and see that my body is literally transforming, there is something hella empowering about that.

I am also getting older, when I was young it was easy. I had a 6 pack at 13, and maintained under 5% body fat. Our school would test you with calipers every year in gym class, I was told I was supposed to be between 10-16% but I was always closer to 3 or 4%. But I am not a teen anymore, I am in my 30s. When I turned 28 I started putting on fat for the first time in my life. Now some folks act like men don’t deal with body image issues, but I know I sure as fuck did. First I was too small, and now I had my mom tell me I was getting fat! Like fuck. A couple years later and after getting back into lifting I have dropped 5 inches around the waist while putting on nearly 20 pounds of muscle.

 

Does diet play a role in your fitness regimen?

Definitely. Diet is key, both for athletic ability and in my case it is extremely important to managing my fibramialgia and depression. It wasn’t always that easy though, in part cause most of us never learn fuck all about nutrition growing up other than this 4 food groups bullshit; and when a lot of people go vegan they don’t know what foods have what nutrients, or what nutrients they actually need. So they often just cut out the meat and dairy and don’t replace it with anything, except maybe fake meat and Oreos. Then you end up with people getting health problems cause they don’t eat right for years, and so they quit being vegan and blame their health problems on veganism.

 

corn fritters.I have been Vegan and straightedge for over a decade now, but that didn’t always mean I ate or lived healthy. A lot of those years I was on the streets, so I lived off shit food like shelter meals when I could actually get something vegan, and Mr Noodles. It’s hard to live healthy when sleeping outside, and honestly I think half the reason I now have fibramialgia is from years of getting woken up by cops at 4am, and eating shit food.

After I got off the streets and when I started getting serious about lifting, my mentality about food changed. People would offer me chips or something and in my mind I would be like “no thanks, that won’t help me gain muscle.” The more I got into it the more I only wanted to eat foods that would help me reach my goals. These days I eat a ton, and I track my foods using a diet diary website so I know exactly what I am putting in my body. 160g of protein and 4000 calories a day. I wouldn’t recommend that for most people, it really depends what your goals are.

I also love to cook good vegan meals and be creative. I been part of Food not Bombs for years so I get to experiment a lot with cooking and making up recipes. I also highly recommend the blog Militant Vegan Cooking, great recipes and simple.

 

 

Do you prefer exercising in a gym? Or do you exercise at home?

When I first started, I was kinda scared of the gym. As a kid I always worked out at home. When I restated year later I had this conception the gym was gonna be all bros and jocks and there would be some weird rules that I didn’t know. So I bought weights off craigslist and lifted at home for about a year. But I wasn’t getting enough results. When I had the chance to get a nearly free session with a personal trainer, I went for it, and it was the best thing I could have done. I actually paid for a second session with him, and have worked out at the weight room in the local community pool ever since. In part I just love being able to hit the sauna after and soak in the heat. A lot of good political debates happen at my local sauna, and the crowd is a lot more diverse than most overly white and middle class activist bubbles where everyone’s the same age and thinks the same. But the other reason I go there now instead of working out at home is because they simply have nicer equipment. When I was working out at home I could only squat what I could lift over my head; but the gym has a squat cage, so the amount of weight I was able to press has increased dramatically. And it is a fuck of a lot safer.

I can’t stress enough how much I benefited from seeing a personal trainer. They are definitely worth the money. Not only have I doubled my results since, but also now whenever I hit the gym I see lots of people working out who clearly have no clue what they are doing. Not only are they not getting the results they want, but it can actually be quite dangerous, especially when you see guys trying to curl 60 pounds dumbells by swinging their backs and shoulders since their arms simple are able to lift it. That’s how you get injuries. I mean, I do this every week and have for a couple years now and I only curl 30 pounds per arm! You can’t just fuck around with heavy weights and expect to look like Hulk Hogan or some shit. You need to know what you are doing. There is a recipe to how many sets, reps, and how much break between sets, etc based on what your goals are.

 

Do you feel like punks look at overall health and physical fitness as a sort of waste of time?

I think a lot of punks and people in activist circles tend to often have a really fucked up view on health, fitness and body image. In my experience, a lot seem to see sports and fitness as privileged, vein, and narcissistic; and so they view anyone who is interested in fitness as buying into mainstream beauty norms. There is this rhetoric that says we are all suppose to just accept our bodies and should all just be happy with who we are; and so doing anything to change it looked down on. I mean it is a nice ideal in theory, but in practice if you look at who a lot of the people are that are popular in these circles, they are often people who have conventionally attractive bodies without doing anything to stay healthy. It’s pretty easy to be accepting of your body when everyone thinks you’re hot and people are lining up to date you. Not so easy for everyone else. And of course none of those folks have disabilities, and most are also white.

So you end up with a bunch of people who treat their bodies like shit, eat shitty food and justify it because it’s “freegan” and “shouldn’t go to waste, and get drunk 5 days a week – and because they can do this and still look conventionally attractive they are popular. Meanwhile if someone decides they aren’t happy with their body and they want to change it; they are practically treated like they are fat shaming just by going to the gym. Your actual intentions don’t really matter, you might not give a shit about body fat, maybe you just want to be able to run or bike faster or lift more.

There is also a lot of weird double standards – like there is some types of fitness that are ok, systema for example is considered really cool around where I live, or rock climbing, where as other athletics are seen as though only jocks should be interested. There is also the one about how we should all except our bodies and not need to change them, but hey – cool septum ring! Or, check out my new stick and poke!

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