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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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  • 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
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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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    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

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    “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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Tag: ISKRA

0 ISKRA INVADES THE UNITED STATES

  • September 10, 2015
  • by nolordsnoleaders
  • · Events · On Tour · PE Events · PE Records · Radness · Uncategorized

Later this week ISKRA will be starting a short tour in the midwest / east coast of the united states in support of their newest LP “Ruins”

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For those that haven’t had a chance to see ISKRA live yet prepare to witness a ferocious power-house of anarchist metal. Combining over the top and in your face head-banging metal with passion and politics ISKRA put on an incredible live show for those lucky enough to see it.

ISKRA will be playing 7 shows this September in the United States with SUNLIGHTS BANE from Michigan. ISKRA are supporting their newestLP “Ruins” (available here) 

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SEPTEMBER 13TH
THE TREEHOUSE
BUFFALO, NY
$6, 7PM
w/ SUNLIGHT’S BANE
ENTHAUPTUNG
AMISH NOISE

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SEPTEMBER 14TH
KUNG FU NECKTIE
PHILADELPHIA, PA
21+, $6, 8PM
w/ SUNLIGHT’S BANE
INFERNAL STRONGHOLD
JENKEM

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SEPTEMBER 15TH
THE ACHERON
BROOKLYN, NY
21+, $10, 8PM
w/ SUNLIGHT’S BANE
TRENCHGRINDER
MAULER

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SEPTEMBER 16TH
GOOSKI’S
PITTSBURGH, PA
$8, 9PM
w/ SUNLIGHT’S BANE
AXE RIPPER
THE MUD CITY MANGLERS

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SEPTEMBER 18TH
QUARTERS
MILWAUKEE, WI
$5 – 7, 9PM
w/ SUNLIGHT’S BANE
ANTHROPIC
POPULATION CONTROL

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SEPTEMBER 19TH
MT. HAPPY
CHICAGO, IL
$7, 9PM
w/ SUNLIGHT’S BANE
SICK/TIRED
PIG CHAMPION
KELUT

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0 ISKRA – “Ruins” LP Available Now!

  • July 30, 2015
  • by nolordsnoleaders
  • · Uncategorized

We now have copies of this masterpiece in hand and ready for distribution! 

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FullSizeRenderFormed in 2002, ISKRA set out with one goal – To revolutionize the metal underground. When I asked founding member Wolf as to why punks / activist’s would spend so much time and energy working in a  metal scene that seems worlds away from anarchist principles, his response was simple, “Because it needs it.” Since the early 2000’s ISKRA have toured the United States, Canada, and Europe. Brilliantly combining crushing metal with well thought out and highly political lyrics, it is no surprise that they have become somewhat legendary in both the punk and metal underground.

“Ruins” is ISKRA’s third studio album and by far their best one yet. Recorded February 2014, Ruins was engineered and produced in true DIY fashion by ISKRA’s own drummer Cody Baresich. The album was then mastered for vinyl at Sweden’s CUTTING ROOM by Martin Ankelius.

FullSizeRender-4“Ruins” contains 10 punishing songs with lyrics ranging from anarchist theory, military drone strikes on civilian populations, historic native american battles against european colonialism, and a yearning to be free from draconian laws. Combined with over the top riffs, devastating blast beats, pulverizing toms, and the occasional dive bomb this LP will leave your speakers smoldering. Not only is this one of the most intense records PROFANE EXISTENCE has ever done, it is also one of the most beautiful presentations we have seen in recent years. The stark mountainous cover resembles Middle Earth artwork but the real gem is the 11in x 11in 12 page booklet inside. FullSizeRender-2Printed on glossy paper, this booklet contains not just lyrics but very thorough explanations of each song. This vinyl release is financed by a number of DIY labels from around the united states and Canada. Including, PROFANE EXISTENCE RECORDS (USA), BLACK RAVEN RECORDS (CAN), DOOMED SOCIETY RECORDS (CAN), WAR ON MUSIC (CAN), WHAT IS MAKING US SICK (CAN), NOCTURNAL RIEGN (USA), and ECHOES FROM BENEATH (CAN).

Click here to listen to the teaser track Predator Drone MQ​-​1

Other records still hot from the press… 

 

atu we dont need themAPPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT – “We Don’t Need Them” LP

“We Don’t Need Them” is the second full-length record from West Virginia punks Appalachian Terror Unit. ATU have become known throughout the years as being one of the most politically charged bands in the current punk scene. This new record is an all out attack on today’s society that takes ATU to a new level of intensity both lyrically and musically. The combination of the beautiful and thought provoking gatefold cover (with art designed by Stiv of War) along with the brilliant recording and mastering job by Jay Matheson at the Jam Room take this record even further.

Song subjects include the horrors of war, police brutality, destruction of the environment, rape culture, consumerism and much more. Expect a very heavy and much angrier approach from a band that has been around the block and matured their sound. Seven raging new tunes including the epic fourteen and a half minute track“We Don’t Need Them”, a song that will one day be ranked among similar greats as the SUBHUMANS “From the Cradle to the Grave” and AUS ROTTEN “And Now Back to Our Programming”.

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Package includes.
-LP Pressed on 150 gram vinyl
-Gatefold Jacket designed by Stiv art. Printed on Matte UV coated 20 point recycled board with soy based inks.
-Fold out lyric sheet with artwork by Daniel Lerner and Timothy Tanker.
-Large 24 x 17 inch poster

 

promo_for_webstoreWAR//PLAGUE / VASTATION – “United In Darkness” Split EP

Back with some serious raging crust and hardcore punk. Both WAR//PLAGUE and VASTATION have teamed up to delivery a fierce and socio/politically charged record that will fulfill your craving. Bringing both the Minneapolis and Portland DIY communities together!

This is WAR//PLAGUEs 7th release that has 2 songs with a cover track that pays homage to TOTALITARs “Sin Egen MotstÂndare”. Signed, sealed and approved by TOTALITAR themselves! This current release for the band is a prelude to their upcoming LP and 8th release.

fistVASTATION once again are out for blood! This band has proven time and time again that they are at the forefront of
the stench/crust movement with influences stemming from Sacrilege and Bolt Thrower! These guys have put Portland back on the map again with music that brings brutal rage and a thought provoking element to the DIY scene.

Package includes.
-EP Pressed on 150 gram vinyl
-Full color jacket with artwork by Andy Lefton
-Fold out 14in x 7in  lyric sheet and poster.

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2 APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT – West Coast Tour – UNITED STATES / MEXICO /CANADA

  • June 6, 2015
  • by nolordsnoleaders
  • · Events · On Tour · PE Events · PE Records · Radness · Uncategorized

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This July APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT will embark on a 25 day tour destroying eardrums and defying state power with raging anarcho crust punk! ATU will hitting up the west coast of the United States, Canada, and Mexico to promote their new LP – “We Don’t Need Them”. Released on PROFANE EXISTENCE, SKULD, and RUIN NATION. APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT‘s  second full length “We Don’t Need Them” is an all attack on today’s society that takes anarcho/crust punk to a new level of intensity both lyrically and musically.  ISKRA will be joining ATU for the Canadian dates supporting their brilliant new LP – “Ruins”. PROFANE EXISTENCE is very proud to support two of the hardest working and political bands in the current punk scene. With incredible live shows, together they will stage for some of the most brutal anarchist crust and metal that punk has to offer. To make the deal even sweeter APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT will 01.1-logo-have the entire PROFANE EXISTENCE distro with them. It will be the first time that the PROFANE EXISTENCE distro has been on a proper tour since 2007! Listen to a track from the new ATU LP – Casualties of a rape culture. 

 

July 1st Springfield IL @ Black Sheep Cafe w/ OCCULTONOMY / SAP / SGT KARATE https://www.facebook.com/events/454395744734328/

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July 2nd  Columbia MO w/  INDONESIAN JUNK / WEIRD VIBERS

July 3rd Kansas City MO @ East wing w/ IGNIS GRATIS / M.A.D. https://www.facebook.com/events/365350600328048/

July 4th Denver CO@ Mutiny Information Cafe  w/ ROAC https://www.facebook.com/events/1589131411330800/

July 6th Las Vegas NV@ The Womb room w/ SLOUCH / Moon Blood /Caliban and the Witch https://www.facebook.com/events/867182643344202/

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JULY 7th Los Angeles CA @ E. 7 Warehouse w/ TEMPLE OF DAGON / FILTH TRIBE / FERAL AWAKENING https://www.facebook.com/events/1557225304560894/

July 7th Los angeles

July 8th Tijuana Mexico En Mods Bar & Venue Plaza Fiesta Antes Bar La Prision Plaza Feista w/ OUTLAW BASTARDS / HABAK / ESCASEZ

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July 9th Anaheim CA @ DipPizzas w/ ATZLAN UNDERGROUND / REALITY LOST / UNDERGROUND ALLIANCE / NIGHTMARE VISIONS https://www.facebook.com/events/674962375946924/

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July 10th Berkeley CA @ 924 Gilman w/ DISSIDENCE

July 11th Portland OR @ Blackwater w/ WRETCHED OF THE EARTH / PROLIX DESTRUCT / PISS PISS PISS

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July 12th Portland OR @ HighWaterMark w/ VASTATION / LOW COTTON / DODLAGE https://www.facebook.com/events/1466630423627791/

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 July 13th Olympia WA @ Le Voyeur W/ VIVEKA / AIN’T GOT TIME TO BLEED

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July 14th Seattle WA@ Highline W/ MURDER IN THE WOOD / GENERATION DECLINE 

July 15th Bremerton WA @ The Charleston w/ GENERATION DECLINE / AIN’T GOT TIME TO BLEED / OH THE HUMANITY / TEN POLE DRUNK https://www.facebook.com/events/391205797739262/

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ALL CANADIAN DATES ARE WITH WITH ISKRA!!!

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July 16th Victoria BC – 2 shows!

First show @ House of Ty 3pm-5pm W/ Storm of Sedition / Infantile Descension

Second show @ The Victoria Events Centre 1415 Broad St. 8pm-11pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale w/ Altered Dead / Not A Cost

July 17th Vancouver BC @ The Black Lab  w/ AHNA / KONFORM https://www.facebook.com/events/801665893251219/

July 18th Kamloops BC @ Zachs Coffee w/ALTERCATION https://www.facebook.com/events/1617343258498267/

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July 19th Calgary AB @ Tubby Dog w/ LUNG CANCER https://www.facebook.com/events/443626805790570/

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July 20th Edmonton AB @ Clints Haus w/ MR GUELPH / MASS DISTRACTION  https://www.facebook.com/events/854569541267767/

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July 21st Saskatoon SK @ Vangelis Tavern w/  BALLOT BURNER / NARCISSISTIC / GRIMACE https://www.facebook.com/events/1560163510923862/

July 22nd Winnipeg MB @ The Handsome Daughter w/ PLAGUE / ROSA REAPER / CEREMONIAL SHROUDS https://www.facebook.com/events/351933911677365/

23 Minnapolis MN @ The Rathole w/ WAR//PLAGUE / RIFLE DIET / GEIGER COUNTER https://www.facebook.com/events/675814042546109/

24 Madison WI@ the Vault w/ KRANG / VASSEL https://www.facebook.com/events/744172709015322/

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25 Chicago IL @ Old Mt. Happy w/ KRANG / LA ARMADA / DISASTER STRIKES / OPPOSITION RISING https://www.facebook.com/events/1608254699454260/1611627435783653/
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0 VASTATION- UNITED STATES WEST COAST TOUR

  • June 2, 2015
  • by nolordsnoleaders
  • · Events · On Tour · PE Events · PE Records · Uncategorized

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This June / July the newest member of the PROFANE EXISTENCE family, Portland’s VASTATION will be touring the west coast of the United States. They will be teamed up with WILT from Seattle for the entirety of the tour. If that’s not enough crust to rip your face off, a few selected shows will also feature BÄDR VOGU and British Columbia’s legendary ISKRA!

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VASTATION is a somewhat newer band that formerly went by the name NIGHT NURSE. Musically VASTATION play raw galloping stenchy metal crust reminiscent of old peacevile bands. Their songs feature elements of greats like BOLT THROWER and AXEGRINDER mixed with DISCHARGE and EXTINCTION OF MANKIND. Later this month VASTATION will be dropping two incredible split EPS. The first one is with Minneapolis’s WAR//PLAGUE. It will be released on PROFANE EXISTENCE RECORDS and on ORGANIZE AND ARISE. The second split is with MUTILATED VETERANS and will be released on MORBID REALITY RECORDS.

 

 

If you have not heard VASTATION yet now is the time! Listen to the track “Don’t Uphold Their Law”

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http://vastation.bandcamp.com

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http://www.iskracrust.com

 

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0 Beat the Pipelines Tour – Storm of Sedition/NotaCost/Evan Spastic/BC Blackout

  • July 13, 2014
  • by Comrade Black
  • · Events · On Tour

10446088_10154344269145506_6703866565217999326_oA crew of autonomous musicians, anarchists, organizers and general trouble makers are kicking off a tour this July to connect with you. We’re looking to build solidarity and relationships, so that together we can stand strong in the face of the industrial hydra of fracked gas, pipelines, LFG gasification plants, clear cuts, tankers, and destroy that which destroys us!

For more info visit here

For the facebook event page for this tour

Storm of Sedition (Anarchist Crust)
Not a Cost (Crust)
Evan Spastic (Folk Punk)
BC Blackout (Workshops)

– July 25th Occupied Lekwungen Territories ‘Victoria’ – Iskra, Storm of Sedition, Not a Cost, Evan Spastic, BC Blackout at Oaklands Community Centre
– July 26th Occupied Lekwungen Territories ‘Victoria’
– July 27th Occupied Qu’wut’sun Territories ‘Duncan’ – Storm of Sedition, Not a Cost, BC Blackout + Openers at “The Hub”
– July 28th Occupied K’ómoks Territories ‘Comox’ -NEED HELP
– July 29th Si’yi yen or Slháltikan, ‘Texada Island’
– July 30th Occupied Tla’amin Territories ‘Powell River’
– July 31st Occupied Tla’amin Territories ‘Powell River’
– Aug. 1st Occupied shíshálh and Skwxwu7mesh Territories ‘Roberts Creek’
– Aug. 2nd Occupied Coast Salish Territories of the Tsleil-waututh, Skwxwu7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Peoples ‘Vancouver’
– Aug. 3rd Occupied Coast Salish Territories of the Tsleil-waututh, Skwxwu7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Peoples ‘Vancouver’
– Aug. 4th Occupied Coast Salish Territories of the Tsleil-waututh, Skwxwu7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Peoples ‘Vancouver’ – Storm of Sedition, Not a Cost, Evan Spastic, BC Blackout + Openers at Astorinos
– Aug. 5th Occupied Skwxwu7mesh Territories ‘Squamish’ – Storm of Sedition, Not a Cost, Evan Spastic, BC Blackout, + Openers (House Show)
Aug. 6th Occupied Skwxwu7mesh Territories ‘Squamish’

0 Review: ISKRA, Ahna, SoS, NotⒶCost, benefit for the Sinix Nation

  • April 26, 2014
  • by Comrade Black
  • · PE Web Zine · Reviews

I have never written a show review before. This show was incredible, one of the best I have been to in a while. I know the review is a bit late, but I still wanted to post this cause the show was so good it deserved a review. Victoria has an amazing scene going on these days which has grown in some very positive ways over the years. I am glad to be here and be part of it.

I was feeling pretty anxious before the show, and if I hadn’t told a few friends I was going I might have skipped out. It has been a while since I enjoyed a show this much. These days I often get a lot of anxiety and so I end up skipping a show or just feeling really unsettled the entire time and unable to enjoy the music.

The show took place at the Rat Shack a local DIY venue, and it was packed. I missed the very beginning; I heard they started by talking about the Sinixt people and their struggle, and why it is important to support. I came in about half way through NotⒶCost’s set. They are one of Victoria’s newest bands, and this was their second show. They were well practiced, and definitely don’t sound like any other bands around here. A very unique sound – although not really my thing personally. Still their performance was impressive just in how together they are considering their all pretty young as a band, and for some this is their first real band. I know a few of these folks personally as well and know they are good people who are political, active, and in this for all the right reasons, so I look forward to seeing where they go as a band and as individuals as they develop more.

AHNA played next. I really love this band, if you haven’t seen them yet I highly recommend them as they are a real treat. Their set sounded like a wall of fucking noise hitting you, as it filled the room. Noisy, crusty, heavy as hell, AHNA is also quite unique though and seem to take influence from the noise genre as well as crust, sludge, and grind. Between songs there was still so much noise that it gave them a consistency that felt different from all the rest of the bands, and from most I have seen. AHNA is one of those bands that when I first saw them I could barely stand them, but the next time I saw them was about 2 years later in Calgary and I was completely blown away. I am extremely glad I gave them a second chance as they have become one of the few bands I look forward to seeing.

 

Storm Of Sedition came up next and picked up the tempo a bit with something a little closer to traditional crusty punk. They are a newer local band, formed of long time seasoned musicians who have played in numerous of my favorite bands over the years; and it really shows. With members who have played in Mechanical Separation, Leper, Mutiny, as well as a couple current members of ISKRA. Storm of Sedition is tight, and well practiced, they have great crusty riffs With back and forth vocals, female and male, and with that driving sound I love that usually only d-beat bands can satiate; but they were a little bit more complex than the average generic d-beat band. Aside from the music one thing I really liked about Storm of Sedition is that between songs when they stopped to introduce the next song, they made sure there wasn’t a bunch of feedback or anyone playing while they were talking – so you could actually hear what the songs were about. This is especially important with bands that have dirty sounding screaming vocals over heavy music. SoS had an anarchist-primitivist influence; even having a song about the connections between the culture of mass shootings and it’s connection to our alienation from nature. I fucking loved it. I loved their set, and look forward to their recordings. Every town needs a good straight up punk as fuck band.

ISKRA closed the show with a performance that would be near impossible cody drumsto follow. They seem to be known for doing that. I have seen ISKRA play in vic since the first week I moved here in 2005 and I never get sick of hearing them. Few bands can bring what they do. Fast intense guitars and complex fast drumming with blackened riffs, incredible vocals, heavy as fuck and again great politics –over the years ISKRA has only become heavier, tighter, and more intense. They started off their set by reading a long piece written by a friend who lives and organizes on Sinixt territories, explaining about the history, the resistance, and about the connections between the traditional ways the Sinixt have always lived and many aspects of anarchist philosophy; everyone listened respectfully as Wolf read it out. After which they began their set. Like always ISKRA didn’t disappoint. They played some of their best stuff, a mix of newer and older. People were stoked when they introduced Acceptance Not Tolerance and dedicated it to all the queers and trans people; using it as a jumping off point to talk about how protections under law will never really liberate us because a few yrs later as we have seen in the US now and elsewhere – those laws can be changed again and repressive laws brought back in. They ended their set with UAV, a song of theirs about drones. When the guitars started it felt like the room was so full of sound the walls wouldn’t hold up. It was an incredible way to end, as UVA is an incredible song and they

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played it to perfection. I think people were done after that, it was a lot to take in, as few people tried for an encore but the shouts and chants were a little less than usual. None the less ISKRA accommodated by playing one final song, a cover of Amebix to close the night. The punks in the room found it within themselves to get pumped for one last explosion of energy, and then the night came to an end.

 

 

I don’t know how much was raised in the end for the Sinixt, but I know they did decent. This is a great example of what real meaningful solidarity can look like. I was glad I could be there for it.

Review by Comrade Black
Photos by Imogen Bailey

0 No Compromise: A Compilation in Defense of the Wild

  • August 7, 2013
  • by damieninbred
  • · News · PE Web Zine · Radness

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Originally Posted on Earth First News:

Earth First! Has Released a Punk Compilation Benefit Album

Celebrating 34 years in print and direct action, the Earth First! Journal is the voice of the radical direct action environmental movement. Punk is an artistic movement founded in the same era on the principles of resistance and, as a culture, continues to boldly challenge a destructive system. … Continue Reading

19 Calling bullshit – John Roderick doesn’t know shit about Punk

  • March 7, 2013
  • by Comrade Black
  • · Columns · PE Web Zine

by Comrade Black

In his March 6 article entitled, “Punk Rock Is Bullshit: How a toxic social movement poisoned our culture”  blogger John Roderick attempts to analyze the political beliefs and practices of the punk scene, a group he characterizes as a disease of the soul.

Put simply, the guy has no clue what the actual punk scene is. This is apparent by a number of factors; such as he actually mentions Cortney Love, Sex Pistols and Ramones as ‘punk bands’ where as no one active in the underground scene gives a shit about any of those bands and most would laugh at the very idea of Courtney Love being thought of as punk. The only actually punk band mentioned in the article I could see was Fugazi, and even they are pretty mainstream compared to the bands who most diy kids wear patches of (Aus-Rotten, Amebix, Zounds, Discharge, Nausea, MDC, etc). One must wonder if he would even know the difference between Crust and OI!, or would have even heard of genres like D-Beat and Powerviolence. Yet he thinks presents himself as an expert in position to publish extreme condemnations.

through most of the diatribe he seems to be saying everyone should give up on punk and become a good capitalist and share in the materialistic dream (american dream) and that if you don’t, your just being immature. It is like he watched that terrible MTV Movie SLC Punk and decided to write an article parroting the subtext.

Throughout the article he makes strange constant references to Marxist imagery and ideas. I have met about 4 punks ever that were in support of the Sandanistas or thought Che, Stalin, and Mao were cool. They are all in the same band. all 4 of them… His constant attempts to connect punk wth Marxist Communism is really odd and seems totally out of left field (pun intended)

The section on Seattle is particularly out of touch.
How someone could write an article on Punk and have an entire section on Seattle and the pacific north west, without mentioning the massive anarchist crust bands (Seattle use to be the hot bed for big crust bands like Consume and Skarp) is kinda confusing. But farm more confusing is how you could write about punk and Seattle/PNW without mentioning the legendary ‘Battle of Seattle‘ (WTO riots that shook the USA and made news internationally, including the rise of the Black Bloc in North America), nor mentioning the notorious “Eugene Anarchists” is beyond me. It would be like writing an article about the economy of Alberta and Texas over the last 4 decades, without mentioning OIL!
The North West was not only huge for bands and DIY scenes, but also for actual physical action. The rise of Earth First! (eco-defense), the anti-globalization movement, and more extreme the Earth Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front, all of which punks played part in. There was also of course the Riot Grrl movement, much of which centered on Seattle bands, only mentioned in passing as a slag by this writer.
John Roderick clearly has no clue what the actual underground punk scene is, nor probably that it still is very active today. Big distros, zines, and well known underground labels, like Maximum Rock’n Roll, or Profane Existence, or event Havoc Records, are not even mentioned. In fact nothing of importance to the DIY punk scene is mentioned in this article at all. It would be like me writing an article saying why the rave scene was bullshit… Or like  a Liberal writing an article on the black bloc without even doing any research.

There is a ton of other issues here, his repeated use of the term ‘primitive’ as a derogatory, which i find utterly racist. Or how he misreprestens DIY, as if hand making your demo tapes with hand drawn art, and black and white photocopied liner notes so they can be sold cheap enough that street kids and other poor folks can afford them, is the equivalent of selling tupperware.  In the punk underground, DIY is about empowering people to realize we artists, we are all musicians, we all can do it. Or as Crass put it, There Is No Authority But Yourself! You don’t need to wait some big promoter; rent the hall yourself and borrow or rent a PA, make a poster and grab the tape. Kids creating art and recording their own bands or setting up $5 All Ages shows for free clearly not at all the same as vacuum salesmen or Mary Kay. I speak from experience here as someone who set up these types of shows for years working with bands from all over the world like Sweedish hardcore band Regulations, or Imperial Leather,legendary bands like Resist and Exist, Conlict, and a whole host of amazing Canadian bands like Leper, Mechanichal Separation and Mass Grave,  Iskra, Self Rule, Eleutheros. All of which  highly doubt John Roderick has ever even heard of.

It seems like he’s just another a mainstream individualistic guy who thinks he is alternative, whining about people he doesn’t understand who have ethics he doesn’t understand, who look down on him for being materialistic.Not all of us want big screen TV’s and 13 yr old groupies following us. Not all of us want to be rock stars. Many of us have our own visions, our own desires outside of the scripted grey future we are told we are suppose to want. If you don’t think punk has accomplished anything, you need to get your head out of your ass. Look to the Gaian Mind Institute in LA, or Dial House, to the tons of projects and ecovillages, communiy houses, and venues run by punks. Look to stuff like the SHAC Campaign, who nearly took down a horrible multinational animal testing laboratory; getting them dropped from the NY Stock Exchange, causing over 500 businesses to cut ties with them putting them nearly $90 million in debt. Most of the key organizers in SHAC – both in Turtle Island and the UK – have been punks. In fact, one of the UK Shactivists was a member of the UK punk band Active Slaughter. AK Press, the largest anarchist publisher in the world, and PM Press, were also both started by Ramsey Kanaan, who sang in the Scottish band Political Asylum, as well many other publishers like Combustion Books and  Crimethinc were also started by punks.
For all your criticisms, what the hell have you done?

Ian McKaye was once asked about selling out as a way to get his message out so more people could hear their music. He replied by stating he didn’t care about making it so everyone could hear their music. It was about making it so the kids who wanted to hear their music could. Well John Rodernick, maybe you should listen – by which I mean don’t… That’s the point really, if you don’t want to hear it, fuck off. We don’t want or need your opinion. We’re too busy building the world we want to see in the ashes of this one. And as Mike XvX said, this town isn’t going to burn itself down!

If you want to read informed opinions on punk, I would suggest following the old slogan, buy books buy us, not about us. Penny Rimbaud’s book Shibboleth: My Revolting Life is a great start. Can’t get much better. The Philosophy Of Punk by Craig O’ Hara, The Day The Country Died, and Sober Living For The Revolution are also great. But of course the best way to learn the reality of what punk has to offer is to take part; go to a show, not some Bad Religion or Warp Tour kinda crap, but an actual show, in some kids basement, with bands who actually have something to say. Bands who play for nothing more than gas money so that the kids who have nothing, who could never afford a Death Cab For Cutie, or Long Winters show.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of “culture.”

— John Cage

0 DOOM SIREN / ISKRA Split LP – REVIEW

  • February 17, 2012
  • by xbencrewx
  • · Reviews

Doom Siren / Iskra splitSide DOOM SIREN: This happened to be my first experience with DOOM SIREN(ATX). The intro into “Gun Drone” was particularly satisfying, I’ve always really liked the “acoustic prelude”. At any rate, DOOM SIREN fucking rages. There is something different about the way they do Death Metal/Grindcrust, I’m not sure if it’s how this record is mixed but it has a more natural organic feel, if that makes any sense. I usually don’t like this style all that much but the way DOOM SIREN does it really impressed me. I guess this is kinda like “Scum” era NAPALM DEATH but not, you know? Fuck, I don’t know, but its good.  … Continue Reading

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