ZBR Chillums + Athousandangelsandseven premiere

January 16, 2025 by David Norman

Glass Wars Phase #1. Chillums are out and limited to 40 over both stores. $3USD / $5CAD. US store link here!!!

Sold out

*last one! ZBR CHILLUM - mini pipe (one-hitter)

CA$5.00

ABSOLUTE LAST ONE!!! Superior screamo. Superior merch. Larry would never.

Click here for the Not Just A Phase premiere for “Clipped Wings”!

Athousandangelsandseven got an second/final premiere for “Clipped Wings” over at Not Just A Phase. Full release of this behemoth is Jan 27th at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST on a mere 50 tapes. 7”s to follow. Click on the picture above or this text to go to the premiere. Jam another song below on the Zampler!

Out Past the Rings is back with a double-episode featuring a ZBR and a Tomb Tree release! Featured are Emma Goldman, Almanac Man, Abandoncy, and Bighand//BigKnife on the ‘Solicitude’ 7” split as well as DSGNS and their ‘Ceremony’ cassette EP.

Coup D’etat got a helluva review from Everything Is Noise. Tapes are sold out from the band, this store, and bandcamp but the US store has a handful left! Click here or the pic above for the review. Jam/buy the last copies below.

Click here for the full list and ticket sales!

ZBR Fest on Brooklyn Vegan, tickets still available. 10 more bands announcing soon! Click here for the tour news roundup which also serves as a link to buy tickets.

Opheliac just released their first music video! This song precedes the album that Softseed released which we still have copies of. Ex-Burial Etiquette!

Click here for the full list of reviews!

Edhochuli got some love from Toilet OV Hell in their Itty Bitty Ditties. Click on the pic above or the this text to go there. Jam/buy some final 12” copies below!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: I’M SORRY EMIL = This new EP is awesome and has been on repeat in my house.

2024 - 01 - 01 /// Welcome to 2024

January 01, 2024 by David Norman

This is the last post during our “break”, and we’ll be coming back full force on January 6th with the VS Self tape (pictured below). Until then you can snag some ZBR Fest tickets here, check out CanaDave’s podcast with Ryan of Dreamwell here, or just live your life cuz 2024 is gonna be a rollercoaster. Much love from the Daves.

Zampler #22 ‘86 Percent Combat Effective’ is out and kicking serious ass. 29 jams including 6 previously unreleased by Edhochuli, Terry Green, Gossip, Burial Etiquette, and Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow. Art by Yuri of Bok Suna!

Opheliac + For You, Always For You split cassette just released on CanaDave’s Softseed Music label. Opheliac features Taylor of Burial Etiquette doing some of the most beautiful stuff I’ve ever heard (think Grouper’s more accessible material, but condensed) and Lillyn who you will find hanging out at nearly every screamo fest around doing her best experimental noise/shoegaze/screamo hybrid. If you wanna buy a copy from this store to ship with your ZBR stuff you can find a few copies in the Softseed Section, linked here.

CanaDave has been posting how-to-dip videos on TikTok so if you aren’t following us there you probably should! Starting on Jan 6th you’ll be getting hit with videos about 4-5x per week!

You can also click on this pic to go to our TikTok page!

Edie (Coma Regalia/Middle Man Records) and Seth (Funeral Diner/Repeater Records) had a Best of 2023 chat and holy smokes did our name come up a lot. Lotsa love to you two, and the episode was awesome!!!

And don’t forget that we released the No Heirloom self-titled 7” lathe a few days back! The clears went very quickly and now we’re down to just black, and we’ve got less than 20 left.

Operation X-Ray was at it again, this time giving our Inosuke some love. I’ve been told the Best of 2023 is next so I’m hella stoked for that episode!

Click here to jam/buy that much discussed Closet Witch record!!!

We had some releases show up on a few Best of 2023 lists including Closet Witch on Riff Cult, Closet Witch again on Archyde, and Zmar on Anarchist Federation.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: THE SCREAMO AWARDS = Instead of listening to something new, take a few minutes to fill out this Best of 2023 survey!!! Click on the pic below or this text to put in your two cents!

2023 - 09 - 28 /// 50% off in this store for 24 hours!!!

September 28, 2023 by David Norman

For the next 24 hours this Canada/International store (yes it also ships to the U.S.) is having a 50% off everything sale!!! The half-off is applied with the Promo code of “FIDDYOFF” during checkout and will end at 8:59am PST on September 29th aka when the new Vibora 12” is released. Jam a jam below!

Vibora’s ‘Zaldi Beltza’ 12”LP releases in full tomorrow and we can’t say enough good things about it. If that previous track didn’t turn your head with it’s chugs, panic chords, and screams, then try “Dana” below, a much more expansive track that brings to mind bands like Boneflower, Descubriendo A Mr. Mime, and Altair.

Operation X-Ray played a ton of bangers including our own Riversleem and Niboowin!!! Woot effin’ woot.

Victoria BC’s Hillsboro and their debut 12”LP caught CanaDave so much that he had two of the members on the OMSB Podcast. Twas a really fun time! Def check out that album!!! Click this text or picture above to go to the post/podcast and jam the album below.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: OPHELIAC = Ophelia from Burial Etiquette released this incredible album and has another in the works!!!

2022 - 07 - 13 /// Euclid C Finder 1st variant reveal!

July 13, 2022 by David Norman

Don’t forget that July 19th is Euclid C Finder day! We were lucky enough to release the cassette of their early work AND the comp track from the Ones & Twos swirl tape, but we’ve been sold out of both for well over a year. Thankfully Heathen Hand Records let us jump on board the discography vinyl release! I just saw all the variants today and my socks caught fire. It was nuts. Euclid C Finder, so good it’ll burn ya feet. Here’s one of the variants!

CanaDave’s baby label Softseed Music just released the ridiculous collaboration titled ‘Amplifier’ by To Be Gentle and Opheliac. Truly amazing stuff that looks pretty sweet too! Jam/download/buy from the bandcamp link below.

Hetta’s ‘Headlights’ releases tomorrow July 14th on our little Tomb Tree label on just 35 tapes. We shat our pants when we first heard it. The Blood Brothers, JR Ewing, and The Fall Of Troy all wrapped in one, sexy, Portuguese package.

ZBR Fest Mid-West 2022 videos are finally starting to show up on youtube. The first band we’ve uploaded is Disperser and they kicked major ass.

Demersal did another sick live video for their Not Just A Phase contribution “Afterparty Depression”. Tapes are sold out but you can still nab those digitals.

Last Friday Operation X-Ray played more sick jams. Included in this show was Piri Reis (releases on Friday!) and Hawak from the Cube 12”.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: CUCK = Ex-Swallows Nest, this grindy powerviolence three-piece has a tape coming on Tomb Tree later this month! Here’s a raw demo of one of the 14 jams!

2021 - 12 - 30 /// Tons of fun

December 30, 2021 by David Norman

So what is actually going on here? Well…

The final Meditations 4-way split 7” in the series of 5 ‘Understanding’ released on the 27th with new flames from Malevich, R. Josef, Heel Turn and Wanderer. The physicals are expected early 2022 and are out of 500 instead of 600! Linked here!!!

Today? Well there are two things, actually.
1) A sick Tomb Tree Tapes release for an awesome Australian screamo/math-rock/post-hardcore band called Hanoi Traffic is set for 9am PST on the 30th. Only 57 copies were made of this incredibly overlooked 2021 release.

2) My new label Softseed Music is releasing its first album today via Ontario’s Opheliac aka Ophelia from Burial Etiquette. It’s incredible synth-wave/acoustic stuff for fans of Grouper, Grimes, Nicole Dollanganger, Boards Of Canada, etc. The digitals and tape pre-orders are done exclusively through bandcamp, but once we actually have the cassettes we’ll put the remainder up in the two ZBR stores. As it will be for all Softseed Music releases. Release linked here!

What’s happening the day after? Zampler. Fucking Zampler, yo. 10 brand spankin’ new tracks and 27 previously released bangers!

The following day? Ditch Organ on Tomb Tree.

And after that? Break. No shipping/no posts from January 3rd-16th.

What could possibly be next? The destruction! The humanity! Haaaaaaaaay!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: OPHELIAC = Straight up, Ophelia is a helluva talented individual. These tracks are astounding and exactly what I wanted for Softseed Music. Please give us some support if you enjoy the music at all.