Adobe Homes released!

November 11, 2025 by David Norman

Important updates here first, the Usurp Synapse box bound for Canada arrives on Friday so 100% of the those stragglers will be shipped off next week, missing our official deadline by like a week. Not too shabby, I must say.

Next, the US store sells A LOT of mystery items and we realized it was 100% out of stock…well, problem solved! Restocked and includes test presses!!! You can access that sucker by clicking on this text.

We did it! Adobe Homes is out! After a decade of silence the band returns with a new 12-track album that dips between dark interludes and noodley screamo. The packaging on this is amazing and you’ve got to hold one to really grasp how sick the screen-printed covers are.

Hetta’s new release and first full length ‘Acetate’ drops November 21st on Tomb Tree! The music video for their new “Plainclothes Man” is above, and somehow we have two copies left of their debut EP (which is incredible btw) embedded below on the bandcamp page. The new material is crazy wonky, bringing to mind The Locust, Usurp Synapse, and Missouri Executive Order 44.

Another music video, this is the last Twins single and music video for “Presence”. 12” LP full release on November 21st (records probably won’t be in hand yet) but we only got 30 copies for ZBR and we’ve moved more than 20 already! Buy links in the embedded bandcamp below.

Eklektik Rock reviewed the Lucidity x Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow split and gave it high praise. If you like your emo-violence unrelenting or beautiful, this split has you covered. Arguably the best split we’ll release in 2025. 7” copies /100 remain below. Go to the review by clicking on this text or the pic above.

A live studio video of Avery Friedman’s “Finger Painting” was released and you should def check it out. Easily one of my favourites from ‘New Thing’, this Brooklyn-based artist released her phenomenal debut earlier this year and Softseed is the only place to get those sweet, sweet, stupid fancies.

Today’s Last Fucking Copy goes to Lorne Malvo’s first self-titled EP. We actually sold out of these initially but I realized I kept one back in case of a shipping mishap, so this has been sitting around for a bit and we def aren’t making more. If you want it you can grab it from our Bandcamp page embedded below. Snag now or forever hold your peace!

Operation X-Ray’s 204th episode features the incredible Lucertulas as well as our very own Jota, Inosuke, and Hetta!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MIRA CORPORA = Yeah this slaps.

2025 - 11 - 05 /// Inosuke + Jota released, Adobe Homes next!

November 05, 2025 by David Norman

INOSUKE's new 10"EP 'Allomancer' is out! Orange/black merge and transparent black glitter are the variants, each out of 125. Featuring members of Stormlight, Lord Snow, Locktender, and Men As Trees fusing some the darkest elements of sludge, post-hardcore, screamo, and metal. For fans of: Fall Of Efrafa, Trainwreck, Lentic Waters, and Buried Inside.

Tomb Tree released both EPs by Germany’s Jota on Monday that includes ‘Cold’ on the a-side (their 2023 debut) and ‘Haven’ on the b-side (their 2025 follow-up) and we moved more than half in the 12 hours. This prodigious, crushing, and emotive band mixes the weight of Buried Inside with Svalbard-but heavier vocals. Incredible stuff!!!

Our next release is the Adobe Homes 12” for their new full length ‘Años’, which drops on Monday November 10th via ZBR, Dog Knights, and the band. Each party has their own variant, and ours just showed up two days ago so we’ll have official pics soon, but here’s a mockup of the three. Jam a few songs and pre-order the digitals below!

Operation X-Ray played some bangers on their most recent radio show including our very own Coup D’etat and Twins!

Today’s Last Fucking Copy is the final King Slender cassette copy of the band’s sophomore EP. We only made 50 and this copy was in purgatory until just know when I checked the stock. If you want it you can grab it for only $8 on the Bandcamp page embedded below. Snag now or forever hold your peace!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MASSA NERA = The new album is out! Very dark, disturbing, and amazing.

2025 - 11 - 01 /// Nuvolascura triple packs, Fainting Dreams released, Inosuke on Monday!

November 01, 2025 by David Norman

First and most importantly, shipping updates. Okay so the US store has sent out every Usurp order to my knowledge, while the Canada store has only done cds as the box containing our Usurp 2x12”s arrives in a week or so. The Canada store has sent off all of the other older release shipments like Shesmadefromsuede, Coup D’etat cds, etc., while the US store’s box with those arrives next week at which point they’ll be shipped out. All of the Nuvolscura orders should be shipped by mid-November. Bandcamp orders in the US are the last orders to go out and we haven’t forgotten about you, thank you for your patience.

The new Fainting Dreams album ‘You Can Be Anything’ premiered on Idioteq.com on the 30th of October, with the full release coming yesterday. There are 40 tapes over three variants, a swirl, a blue, and some test dips. The six songs are gorgeous, expansive, layered, all-encompassing pieces not unlike Ethel Cain and Lingua Ignota. You can check out the premiere by clicking on this text, and you can buy/jam the album below.

The Nuvolascura LP digipak cd collection pack (and individual sale cds) are available in all stores! We flew through the first presses of all of these cds so snag these now, as the band has half of the copies that will end up being brought on their Asia tour that goes down in November (and you know they’re gonna sell out). Click on this text to go to the Bandcamp page where these 3 releases are at the top, each with store links and Triple Packs for sale.

Inosuke’s new album ‘Allomancer’ releases on Monday! We’ll have our copies up a little earlier than usual, this time we’ll do 7am PST / 9am CST / 10am EST. There are six tracks on this behemoth that exists somewhere between the overlap of screamo, post-hardcore, sludge, and heavy metal. Features Jason from Locktender/Men As Trees and Erik from Stormlight/Lord Snow! Last reminder for the time being about their phenomenal debut that we released in late 2023 titled ‘rage/ruin’ that you can listen to/snag a 12” for below.

Okay, I’m pretty sure this is the final ZBR Fest video, and it’s for Rosemary Nods Upon The Grave who were excellent and to boot, super fucking enthusiastic about the entire thing. Love’em. We got just a handful of 7” copies left, with the Canada/International store already sold out! ZBRUSA.com and the Bandcamp embedded split below with Heaven Through Violence are the only places left to grab.

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DOLLORES - 2010-2012 (tape)

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DOLLORES ‘2010-2012‘ tape (ZB233)

For fans of: I Hate Sex, Saetia and Eyes of Verotika

After purchasing the last tape from Bus Stop Press and completely falling in love with Ukraine’s DOLLORES, we had to make more and get it on our bandcamp. Good lord of science almighty these 11 groovy, screamy, golden nuggets have a wonderful swing to them and some of the best vocals we’ve ever heard. If you combine I Hate Sex with Suis La Lune it’d sound something like this - fucking incredible. New art by Kyle Calvert design with two differnt inner j-card variants and a bunch of gorgeous tapes.

Cassettes /78, 28 on blue swirl, 20 on yellow swirl, 10 pink swirl, 10 blue, 10 mystery swirls and 4 test dips, all with double-sided j-card and download code. 11 songs.

Listen here:
https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/2010-2012

Today’s Last Fucking Copy is actually gonna be titled Last Two Fucking Copies, as I have one of each variant left for the incredible Dollores from Ukraine. This compiles their entire discography on one cassette with is for fans of: I Hate Sex, Eyes of Verotika and Saetia. Snag or forever hold your peace! It’s in this store, which is embedded above. You can also jam it below, it’s so good!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: IN LOVING MEMORY = Goddamn, a new ILM song that features Rila from Febuary? Yes fuckin’ please!

2025 - 10 - 28 /// Coup D’état out + Nuvo cds tomorrow + Inosuke premiere!

October 28, 2025 by David Norman

Coup D’état released their sophomore album (a four-song EP, to be exact) yesterday via 100 cds in four-panel digipaks. The bandcamp orders and Canada/International store orders have already gone out, with the US store copies going out early November (cuz I have to ship them to the US store today). This shows the band getting simultaneously poppier and heavier (depending on the song), with a more varied musical palette and increased cohesiveness. So good!

Right before Nuvolascura goes on tour in Asia, we made another 100 cds of each of their full lengths! That’s right! 100 ‘Nuvolascura’ cds in a four-panel digipak, 100 ‘As We Suffer From Memory and Imagination’ in a four-panel digipak, and 100 ‘How This All Ends’ in a jewel case (1st run was in a dvd case, so these are different). These all go on sale tomorrow at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST.

The first single from the next Inosuke album was premiered by Not Just A Phase yesterday. ‘Allomancer’ releases November 3rd on 12”LP and features Jason from Locktender and Erik from Stormlight! We still got some sweet vinyl of their debut album ‘rage/ruin’ embedded below. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the premiere for “a thousand years of ash and mist”.

Coup D’état’s release show for their self-titled cd happened this past Friday in Victoria with support from A Recorded Dawn and Mourn Recif. You can watch the 3-minute recap above, listen to the supporters split below, and/or click on this text to go to the full OMSB post with five total videos, including four currently unreleased songs!

Click here for the full premiere including links

Elle from Athousandangelsandseven fronts Fainting Dreams who had their final song premiere go up on the (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) blog, and it’s a gorgeous few minutes with additional help from Midwife and Allison Lorenzen. The tapes release October 31st on Softseed Music with an early full stream going down on October 30th via Idioteq.com! Go to the premiere by clicking on the pic above or this text.

Operation X-Ray followed up their CanaDave episode with another great smattering of tracks, including our very own Shesmadefromsuede and Adobe Homes. We’re already low on the former so pick one up before they’re gone forever.

Respire played one of the best sets I’ve ever seen them play at the most recent ZBR Fest. Here’s the official fest video above with the final copy of the third press of ‘Gravity and Grace’ embedded below.

RESPIRE - Gravity and Grace (12")

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RESPIRE - Gravity and Grace (12”LP)

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For fans of: Old Soul, Alaskan, Godspeed You! Black Emperoror, Neil On Impression and Fall Of Efrafa

Respire is a six-piece band from Toronto, Canada, who combine epic post-hardcore, screamo, and black metal into a very cohesive formula that drips of maturity and patience. Gravity and Grace is their debut LP - a sprawling memoir of genre-defying soundscapes, reverb-washed tremolo harmonies, cascading arpeggios, dreamlike textures and walls of distorted guitars roaring over frantic rhythms, punctuated by tormented vocals and a near-orchestral array of instruments and contributors. Themes of loss, addiction, heartbreak, and existential anguish paint a bleak picture, but somewhere over the horizon rests a glimmering sense of hope, resolve and forgiveness.

This is a co-release between Zegema Beach Records (Canada), Ozona Records (USA), Dingleberry Records (Germany) and Narshardaa Records (Germany).

1st press:
12" vinyl on black (/100) and white (/200)

2nd press:
12” vinyl on clear (/200)

3rd press:
12” vinyl on half white/half black with a poster insert. 9 songs.

Listen here:
https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gravity-and-grace

Today’s Last Fucking Copy goes to Bloom Dream’s ‘It Didn’t Have To Be This Way’ which we have had serious trouble keeping in stock (did two tapes run and a cd run), leaving only a test dip left. This is extra surprising as those usually go first. Snag or forever hold your peace! It’s on our bandcamp page embedded below.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MIRA CORPORA = The first song from this band who’s been brewing for nearly 5 years just dropped their first single and it is fucking fire. Ex-Crowning, ex-Excrucis, with members of Valatie.

2025 - 10 - 16 /// Mau 10"s round #2 + Usurp Synapse out!

October 16, 2025 by David Norman

We got a restock of another 50 Mau 10”s for their debut EP complete with sick etched b-side. Don’t wait too long on these as we moved our first 50 in 36 hours. U.S. store copies and Canada/International store copies are linked at the bottom of each release on Bandcamp. You can also snag one on our bandcamp but we gotta charge more cuz they take a buncha fees from us that these two stores don’t.

Usurp Synape was released back on Monday, which is when US Dave released this killer trailer for the record and jacket to give you a better idea of just how fucking epic this shit is. If we sell out and repress we won’t be doing the laser-cut thing again, so that’s incentive for you to pick up this insane piece of history. All stores linked at the bottom of the embedded bandcamp page below.

Shesmadefromsuede had their first single premiered on This Noise Is Ours. The tapes just arrived and Tomb Tree made 78 for your listening pleasure. This is the screamo/emo-violence/metallic hardcore band’s first and only release, making it hit that much harder. Full release is Monday October 20th!

Inosuke has a new album coming November 3rd titled ‘Allomancer’ (cover above), so to remind you how sick this band is check out their debut 12” below that we put out cuz it rules. Featuring Jason from Locktender and Erik from Lord Snow.

Softseed Music’s next release is the Fainting Dreams album ‘You Can Be Anything’ which releases October 31st, but you can jam the first epic single from Everything Is Noise now. The project is the brainchild of Elle from Athousandangelsandseven and lands on the other end of the spectrum, with this album being a thing of beauty instead of ugly catharsis. Click on the pic above or this text to go there. Jam the song below.

Operation X-Ray had their 200th episode this past Friday and played Usurp Synapse and Lucidity, among other fucking bangers. Yours truly will be co-hosting the next episode!

I used to post something about our final copies of stuff, and after seeing a ton of “last copy” items at my place, I thought I’d revive this segment. I forget what I called this weekly thing, but now it’s just called Last Fucking Copy. This is our Last Fucking Copy of мятеж’s ‘Riot/Mutiny’ aka the final release from this project from CanaDave and Chris from Makara, Jenny Piccolo, Yaphet Kotto, etc. This release will NEVER be made again. Please take this off my hands (it’s in the bandcamp store embedded below).

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: WHANE = This Italian band dropped a wicked new album and you should def check that shit out. We would have released it if we weren’t broke af.