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PROFANATICA are at the vanguard of the rst wave of American black metal. Founded and led by infamous
master of black perversion Paul Ledney (drums/vocals), they have purveyed primeval blasphemy for nigh on
thirty-three years.
Ledney formed the band from the ashes of the rst INCANTATION lineup when he split and took with him all
of the members sans John McEntee. That early trio of ex-INCANTATION members reeled o three
ground-breaking demos of some of the most extreme and blasphemic metal of its time in rapid succession.
The band yers that permeated the tape-trading circuit were no less shocking and featured the trio bloody
and naked and in the throes of what was most certainly a primeval summoning of some kind. In short order,
they had inked a deal with the edgling Osmose Productions for what became one of that labels rst releas-
es (Osmose release #5); a legendary split with Colombia’s MASACRE.
Something so volatile could only last briey, and after another brief recording session the band collapsed
under the weight of its own extremity. but the recordings made in this two year window went on to see
dozens of reissues in the coming decades, in a testament to how formidable and formative they are to the
black metal scene worldwide.
After almost fteen years spent with his equally polarizing solo project HAVOHEJ, Ledney reignited the
ames of Profanatica in 2006. Reemerging with a new deal from Hells Headbangers, Ledney and his new
band released ‘The Enemy of Virtue’, a collection of that vaunted early material, and a new full-length, ‘Profa-
natitas de Domonatia’. A triumphant return, ‘Profanatitas de Domonatia’ picked up right where these Kings of
US Black Metal left o, delivering a savage stream of chainsaw guitars and relentless battery upon which
they desecrated everything sacred.
This set-in motion another frenetic burst of work for Profanatica. The next decade saw them unleash four
new full-length albums of blasphemous perversions, sacrilegious
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