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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
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    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.

    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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Tag: Sick/tired

1 SICK/TIRED (Interview)

  • September 26, 2013
  • by xbencrewx
  • · PE Records

Profane Existence just released SICK/TIRED’s new 7″ – Manufractured – as part of our 2013 Limited Edition Singles Series. We figured they should have an interview on the PE blog. Unfortunately we were all too busy to do it ourselves so the fine folks at Grind and Punishment zine did it for us. Enjoy! and Destroy! – Sick/Tired interview with Adam Jennings & Kirk Syrek / Interview by Derek Navardauskas / Intro paragraph by Grind and Punishment / Photos by Adam Degross

158645996PICK UP A COPY OF THE 7″ BY CLICKING HERE!

Putting on Sick/Tired’s new LP “King of Dirt” is like boldly striding face first into a tornado of glass shards. It’s a maelstrom of whirling slivers intent on rending your flesh, a vortex of unremitting insanity. Sick/Tired will leave you panting and breathless after all 19 minutes of vertiginous noise lurch to a halt with the groaning lumber of the title track, a five minute mutant that’s not quite grind, not quite sludge and one of the rarest examples of successfully pulling off a slow song at the end in all of grind’s history. But that’s probably to be expected considering it was penned by Adam Jennings who also wrangles sublime noise with electronic neuromancers Winters in Osaka. I can’t say enough about how Sick/Tired have turned in one of the noisiest, most hostile grind albums I’ve heard since Blood I Bleed’s “Gods Out of Monsters”. This Chicago mob hits somewhere between Threatener’s serrated fastcore and Anodyne gone full grind. “King of Dirt” snarls away from that precariously balanced perch between unlistenable chaos and production sharp enough to open your veins with the copious amounts of guitar feedback that get unlimbered like audio nooses on a gibbet of blasting death. Every song manages to surprise as the band bashes and hammers away at fragments of grind, beating each splinter of song into a twisted wreck distinct from the others. You won’t be humming along to Sick/Tired’s onslaught, but every song prickles the skin in a different way, giving “King of Dirt” a constantly evolving personality that staves off boredom even after compulsive re-listens. This is simply one of the best records I’ve heard in years. It’s absolutely everything you can ask for in a grind album. Even after days spent listening on endless repeat, Sick/Tired’s twisted hulks of songs have ways of refracting into new and more interesting shapes. Come get your tickets to the car crash.

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PE: Who does what in Sick/Tired?

Adam: I do vocals.

Kirk: I really hate this question, but I realize it is a necessity. I play bass. Ben Gonzales is guitar, Adam Tomlinson on drums, and Adam Jennings is vocals.

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PE: S/T has been a band for five years now with only one lineup change. Since the ‘core’ of the band has remained unchanged for a relatively long time, there must be some chemistry between you three. How has playing in S/T changed over the years? Has the writing process gotten easier over time?

Kirk: I really love playing with these guys and over the years we have really meshed well. So much so that I think if one of us decided to quit, we would probably have to end the band. A couple years ago we almost asked our friend Omar to fill in on drums for a tour, but we decided it just wouldn’t be the same. We also recently played the Obscene Extreme festival in Mexico City and we were going to have to bring a different guitar player, but luckily Gonzo was able to make it. We couldn’t be a band without him and it would’ve been a total disaster. Since Jennings joined we have really changed for the better. We all now actively participate in the song writing and if you have the King of Dirt LP you can hear how much better we are now.

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PE: There has been an evident evolution to the band’s sound from one record to the next; where is S/T headed after King of Dirt LP and what, if any, releases are planned?

Kirk: King of Dirt is the rebirth. I sometimes wish we changed the band’s name at that point because it’s so much more devastating than anything we have ever done and I think a lot of people have written us off from the old days. We are a whole new band. The production and song writing are way more oppressive, dirty, and punishing. Moving forward, we have recently recorded for a new 7” that will be released on Profane Existence and it should be released September 2013. We are also kicking around the idea of a split with Water Torture on Diseased Audio and possible a new LP on A389.

Adam: The guys have a really unique approach to song writing, and that was evident before I joined the band. KOD was just an example of us refining the songs, making them both more focused and pissed off sounding. I brought a few riffs and ideas to the table too which was really fun. The newest release is “Manufractured” 7”on Profane Existence, which was done during the same recording session as the “Lowlife” tape on To Live a Lie. The “Lowlife” tape is a re-recording of older songs with me on vocals, and sort of closes the chapter on the old era and “King of Dirt” LP began the next. I am really excited for what the next recording session is going to be like.

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PE: Adam, most of your musical output has been in the realm of noise. How does playing in S/T differ from working with Winters in Osaka in both the live and recording sense?

Adam: S/T and Winters are two totally different beasts. Winters in Osaka is a 5 piece noise/drone band. The shows consist of us playing for about 30-40 minutes with very minimal movement on stage. Lots of pedal knob twisting ya know? WIO is meant to be enjoyed in a dark room with a massive PA system. We are not meant to be seen really. S/T on the other hand comes blazing out of the gates. Adam T is blasting while the rest of us are jumping and abusing our equipment. I love both projects equally, but yes very different.

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 PE: So how did you end up joining S/T after Belo left the band? What were your feelings coming into an already established band?

Adam: Winters had played with Sick/Tired a few times over the years when Belo was the front man, so I got to know them pretty well. I would also come out to see them when they played Chicago. One day I saw that Belo had decided to quit the band right before a tour and decided to give it a shot. They asked me to join and less than a month later I was on the road with them. At first it was very intimidating since Belo’s vocal delivery was nowhere near what I was doing in Paucities. Some of the songs I tried my best to mimic the original, but some songs were completely redone. It was kind of scary, since S/T had already made a name for themselves with their first LP on To Live a Lie, but they was my motivation to step up my game and try to make the band better.

PE: Kirk, you’ve been playing in bands for about 20 years now. Is the present landscape of punk much different than back in the day?

Kirk: Yes. I like to blame the internet somewhat. Nothing is rare. Everyone is an expert on every band ever, because they Googled it 2 weeks ago. It has made Punk, Metal, etc very lazy. A lot of Kids don’t flier shows anymore or buy records because they feel like they don’t need too. The vinyl record has become obsolete to the younger generation unless it has some kind of collectible value to it. There is no mystery. Fortunately, there will always be the diehards working behind the scenes. The thing is no matter how old you get, you are either into it or not. You can’t fake it for too long.

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PE: S/T operates with a minimum of internet presence, the band only has an obsolete MySpace page and a Bandcamp. Do you think this has adversely affected the band’s popularity, or do you even care?

Kirk: That fucking MySpace! I tried to delete it 3 years ago and it won’t let me! Now I don’t even know the password so there it sits out there on the web like a fucking thorn in my side. I like the Bandcamp site because it provides a simplistic way for someone to hear or download music. There is no need for a Facebook page as it’s so easy to look something up. I really am no fun at all to be honest.

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 PE: Before Adam J joined S/T, the band refrained from printing lyrics in any of the records, even going so far as to print “No Lyrics Alienate Everyone Fuck Off” on the Cowabunga 7”, yet King of Dirt has a lyric sheet. Why did this policy change?

Kirk: The “alienate everyone” comes from the idea that we are not a sing along fun band. We are not satisfied. We are depressed. We are pissed and we don’t care if you know what we are singing about because we don’t care about what you think. King of Dirt was a milestone for the band. It caused a huge change for us. We are a whole different band now. With that change we decided to include the lyrics because we do what we want.

PE: Every member of S/T is involved in other projects, take a moment to mention some of these, if you would.

Kirk: I am in a band called Pillage with some of my old friends from Los Crudos and Charles Bronson. We just released a 10 song demo. Gonzo & Adam T are in a noise thrash band called MZR.

Adam: Gonzo also plays in Minimum Wage Assassins. Adam T and I play together in a Mincecore band called Paucities. I also make noise in Winters in Osaka and Urine Cop, which also features Eric King from Column of Heaven. Those are just some of the projects we do that I’ll mention, but there’s more. Like Gonzo playing in a bluegrass band, and me playing drums in a black metal band.

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PE: Up until recently, at least to me, S/T has seemed to always fall under the shadow of having ex-members of MK-Ultra and Weekend Nachos. Do you think this has been a help or a hindrance to the band?

Kirk: Ehhh… We are nothing like those bands. However, it is unavoidable that people will always bring that up. It’s the easiest way to reference who people are I guess. The fingerprint. To answer the question, no help and no hindrance. It makes no difference. That being said if I were Danzig, I would write “Danzig” on everything I possibly could.

PE: Compared to many of your contemporaries, S/T doesn’t play shows too often. Is there any reason for being selective? What are some of your favorite bands to play with, be they local or bands you’ve played with on tour?

Adam: We are all busy, school, work, etc. Adam T has an overnight job which prevents us from really playing on weekdays. This is fine with me though, because when we do play in Chicago it seems more special. The energy especially at our last few shows have been fucking awesome.

Kirk: We don’t play a lot because we don’t feel the need to over saturate the audience. We also have a limited schedule because of work, being in multiple bands, and our drummer has a daughter. Sea of Shit are our sister band, I guess. We play with them a lot and they are our friends. We are about to head out on an East coast tour with them.

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PE: Thank you for the interview, the last words are yours.

Adam: Thanks to everyone who is supporting us, it really humbles me and we all appreciate it! Midwest is best.

Kirk: Most of our releases can be downloaded from this site: http://sick-tired.bandcamp.com

Grab a copy of SICK/TIRED’s latest 7″ – Manufractured by CLICKING HERE

0 Sick/Tired US Tour Dates 2013

  • July 17, 2013
  • by rachaelresist
  • · Events · On Tour

ST and SOS tour flier

 

Sick/Tired Tour Dates

8/3 – Lima, OH @ The Leathershop

8/4 – Buffalo, NY @ The Polish Library (366 fillmore) – w/ Water Torture, Gas Chamber, & Swallowing Bile www.facebook.com/events/546323088746708/

8/5 – Easthampton, MA @ Flywheel Arts (43 main Street) – w/ Neoteric, Mount Minus

8/6 – NYC, NY @ Silent Barn (603 Bushwick Ave. Brooklyn, NY) – w/ Callous www.facebook.com/events/520884737957175/

8/7 – Philly, PA @ Pariah House (near 20th & Tasker?) – w/ Backslider, Bad Side, War Emblem www.facebook.com/events/146645928862683/

8/8 – Washington DC @ The Dugout (1498 Douglas St. NE) – w/ Suppression, Triac, The Deads www.facebook.com/events/505151676221119/

8/9 – Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter (early show 6pm) – w/ Suppression, Unsacred www.facebook.com/events/143800355815918/

8/10 – Pittsburgh, PA @ 3030 Haus – w/ Thrak, Purge, Anthophobic www.facebook.com/events/481085251961928/

8/11 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Pisshaus (4442 Primrose) – w/ Sudafeds, Nuclear Hellfrost www.facebook.com/events/405067106266934/

0 OXBAKER / SICK/TIRED: Split: 7″

  • December 12, 2012
  • by harleytexas
  • · Reviews · Uncategorized

The a-side has SICK/TIRED playing one long hardcore song with some sludge and a ton of grind in it that has a sample of a newscaster laughing at a tragedy about an accident at the end. Their song is over five minutes long and if you like grind, then you’ve found your band. This is their third release and they are a pretty good band, definitely one to check out. OXBAKER are more hardcore / thrash and were the winners for me on this one. They do four really fast songs that made me want to hear more of their stuff. Good production all around on this single, and definitely a purchase worth looking for. (Rick E.)

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