BIOGRAPHY
PROFANITY from Germany was founded in 1993. After two demos the first album 'Shadows To Fall' was recorded and released in 1997 by Profanity. 1999 the band got signed by the German indie label Cudgel Agency and they released 'Drowned In Dusk' a 7" split with Lividity (US), and their second album 'Slaughtering Thoughts' in 2000. 2002 PROFANITY recorded the next 7" called 'Humade Me Flesh', released by the band itself. In the same year the band supported Cryptopsy on their European tour.
In 2004 PROFANITY played in New York with Misery Index, Exhumed, Uphill Battle and on the other day at Maryland Deathfest, this was the last concert for a long time. PROFANITY decided to make a break playing live shows and concentrate 100% on writing new stuff. From 2003 until 2006 the band wrote eight new songs with a total playing time of sixty minutes…. and then everything changed. There were weddings, children were born, further developments have been made in schools, new jobs have been started…….just the living.
From 2006 until 2011 it was quite silent. 2012 PROFANITY played their first live show since eight years and now the time was there to record these eight songs. PROFANITY started recording but in 2013, Martin (bass) moved overseas with his family and so difficult decisions had to be made. PROFANITY definitely wanted to bring out something new as fast as possible, they decided to release instead a full-length an EP. This EP is “Hatred Hell Within”.
The latest trigger for these musings is the German progressive/technical death metal band Profanity — who returned in the middle of December with a three-song EP entitled Hatred Hell Within after near twelve years since their last release.
Hatred Hell Within marks the reactivation of a band who have been around since the early ’90s, one with two full releases and a handful of demos and splits between them. Twelve years later they’ve managed to preserve a large chunk of their lineup — listing themselves as a three-piece group these days.
They have braved many trends and style-drifts and have remained more or less true to their art but have also updated their sound to remain relevant – that’s the way it should be. Evolve or die. Originally sounding comparable to say Barnes-era CANNIBAL CORPSE or the powerful style of death metal propagated by the German overlords OBSCENITY in the ’90s, PROFANITY have since wonderfully evolved, turning more technical, flashy and coining their own style.
Prior to Hatred Hell Within, Profanity put out a single in 2002 entitled Humade Me Flesh (which will be a theme reappearing later in this article), and before that was only the group’s second LP Slaughtering Thoughts (2000). In Profanity’s case, the band have been keeping their noses to the grinder as a live act — before returning to the recorded format. Given that we’ve made it a mission on NCS to discover stuff months after release, as well as sharing underground music with gore-soaked cover art, we felt the reanimation of Profanity would be a good tour to take into the boiling cesspits of death metal.
Hatred Hell Within is a three-song force to be reckoned with. Three songs sounds like nothing, but Profanity like their music long — Hatred Hell Within clocks in at a little under twenty minutes. In that twenty, Profanity get exploratory — covering the ugly genres with the deftness and grace of an elephant doing ballet; to mix metaphors, they throw their weight around with the force of a bull in a china shop.
The band’s current label, Rising Nemesis, has a taste for packing a lot of slam music into their gullet, and even though they’ve signed a smattering of different-genre death metal acts, the label specializes in brutality above all else, and Profanity earn their keep on Hatred Hell Within.
Twelve years is a long time to not put out material, but Profanity are showing on Hatred Hell Within that there is a method to their madness, and they have delivered a nugget of gold that teases a bigger vein to look forward to in the future. As it stands, Hatred Hell Within is a headspinner of a twenty-minute EP that feels like it could suffocate you under its weight during multiple listens. If you survive one, be sure to clear out of there fast before the hammer drops again, lest you be ground to dust.
Daniel (bass) re-joined PROFANITY in 2013 to replace Martin again. Now they are working on their next full-length release. “The Art Of Sickness”.
PROFANITY is an underground band that enjoys sharing the spirit of the underground with other bands and friends around the world. Over the years, the band has played a lot of shows with great bands like Cannibal Corpse, Vader, Cryptopsy, Misery Index, Necrophagist, Harmony Dies, Defeated Sanity and many more and festivals like FTC, PartySan, MOD, Obscene Extreme, Maryland Deathfest etc.
Status: Active
Formed in 1993
Years active: 1993 - Present
Thomas Sartor - Vocals and Guitars
Daniel Unzner- Bass
Armin Hassmann - Drums
Gene: Death Metal / Progressive / Extreme Metal
Hometown: Augsburg, Germany
Current Label: Rising Nemesis Records
Booking/Press Contact: PROFANITY@t-online.de
Official Website: www.profanity.de/
Myspace: http://myspace.com/profanityband
DISCOGRAPHY
Hatred Hell Within (EP - 2014)
Zombie Ritual (Death Cover - 2014)
Humade Me Flesh (Demo - 2002)
Slaughtering Thoughts (Full-Length Album - 2000)
The Exorcist (Possessed cover - 1999)
