ZBR Fest in full + stock update on Saturday!

February 12, 2025 by David Norman

ZBR Fest 2025 is fully outta tha bag and staggering to the eyes. Good fuckin’ lord it’s gonna be a time. Screamo time. Click on the pic above or this text to go get dem tix, baby.

Distro + stock update this Saturday includes the last 5 Febuary cds as well as Fallingwithscissors cds, Valeska Suratt 12”s, and Osceola 12”s, etc. If you miss the Febuary cds fret not cuz 1) we made 300 more and 2) the band is playing ZBR Fest and will have a buncha copies at their shows as of early March.

Friday is Coma Of Eris release day but you can jam “Archers Take Aim” below and “A Dip in Lake Drowning” in the above premiere. Tapes should follow late March.

The next Mourn Recif show (a screamo band CanaDave plays in) is this Saturday in Victoria and we’ll be playing a new song and ZBR distro with new/unreleased stuff will be attendance also. They’ve got 8 songs recorded that should come out late spring, but you can jam a demo song below.

I can’t remember if I posted this but whatever let’s post it again, as Emmett from Detach The Islands and Fluoride (to name just a few) was on the Everything Remade podcast. Listen above, buy a tape of ‘A Highly Magnified History’ below.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: SLEEPING PEOPLE = This 2005 math-rock release is spectacular.

2025 - 02 - 10 /// ZBR Fest final wave this Wednesday!

February 10, 2025 by David Norman

We had to bump the ZBR Fest final wave to Wednesday to allow for one more thing to run through the filter. So it’ll be final lineup, pre-show lineup, and ticket sales. Feel free to wear a diaper on your head cuz it might explode.

Coma Of Eris premiered two final songs from the upcoming self-titled cassette LP releasing this Friday February 14th, the first titled “Archers Take Aim” was put on the Operation X-Ray show, while the latter is titled “A Dip in Lake Drowning” and was just premiered this morning on Not Just A Phase. Hit that pic above or this text for the Not Just A Phase premiere, and jam the Operation X-Ray episode below (Coma Of Eris shows up at 1:23:47.

In Loving Memory sold out everywhere but…the US? What is happening? US store directly linked to this text.

Satsuma features Dan from The Reptilian on drums and they’ve got their debut EP releasing on Tomb Tree via cassette in late March, but you can scope this teaser trailer now!

Following the release of the Die Princess Die discography tape, CanaDave did this podcast with bassist Ely Morgan. Check it out, jam Scuba Cop, and definitely hit that discography release if you haven’t heard the absolute amazingness contained there. Click on this text or the pic above to go to the podcast, jam/buy the tape below.

Boonitunes gave some love to Athousandangelsandseven which definitely came out on ZBR. Only a handful of tapes remain and we won’t be making more!!! Click on the pic above or this text to go to the month’s roundup.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: HYNOKI = This Virginia-based band released a single song and it’s fucking awesome. Check that shit out immediately.

2024 - 12 - 27 /// GBG x BNST splt.2 + Zampler #24 info

December 27, 2024 by David Norman

The GreenBlueGrey and Black Nails/Sharp Teeth split #2 aka the ‘gbg.bn/st.2’ cassette has officially released. If your brain needs scrambling this is definitely the release for you, with 9 new tracks by each project, all falling somewhere between the destructiveness of thecheeseburgerpicnic and the weirdness of The Locust. Just 48 tapes were made and the “pearlple” swirl comes in custom wooden boxes from Josh at Vamonos Tapes, we just don’t have any proper promo pics yet. These ship out mid-late January as we need to get the pieces together.

Zampler preview! Zampler #24 is coming on December 31st and includes a toooooon of previously unreleased songs by Mahria, Emma Goldman, Keratin, Blue Youth, Återstod, Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow, Athousandangelsandseven, Meißel, and Mourn Recif!!!

No Funeral has a second Spotify playlist for us, so keep updated below. Not Just A Phase also has a bigger one, but we haven’t posted this one yet!

This Noise Is Ours featured their final ZBR Roster Review series for 2024 with the astonishing conclusion to the Rayleigh chapter titled ‘Last Word’. Tapes are long sold out but once I print some more j-cards I can post another 5 copies or so. That’ll get done in 2025 sometime. Click on this text for the review, jam it above and watch the Out Past the Rings below.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: KIOWA = Oh. My. God. New Kiowa!!!

2024 - 10 - 09 /// Smush is in + Crowning to Japan!

October 09, 2024 by David Norman

Smush has arrived! Holy moly was that outside of the plant’s guaranteed time. Inserts are printed and the records look/sound great. Softseed Music made 150 of’em and they’re already more than half gone. U.S. store gets their copies when U.S. Dave returns from his Japanese tour with Crowning/Oaktails, and should all be shipped by the end of October. I’d probably keep an eye on their bandcamp btw!

Crowning cds are in stock in both stores + bandcamp. They are literally flying to Japan right now to join Oaktails for the tour. As stated, keep an eye on those bandcamps!

Members of Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow, Mourn Recif, and Hillsboro have a new group called Wollruss. Their first show is October 19th, 2024 at Oaklands with A Recorded Dawn, Shoplifter, and I.O.

Moshpit Nation unveiled their best of 2024 thus far and it’s littered with ZBR and Tomb Tree releases. Othiel, Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow, Edhochuli, and Demersal among other incredible albums (and EP). Click on the picture above or this text to go to the full list complete with review.

Machine Music three-quarters of the way through 2024 top 100+ includes Eyelet at #76. “One of the best and most memorable screamo-esque releases thus far this decade”. Amen! 3rd press is embedded below via bandcamp or either store. Click on this text or the pic above to go to the massive list!

Click here for a more in-depth post with band links, etc.

Rohan from Respire, Votive, Foxmoulder, Dela Trudo, and New Friends popped over for a quick podcast chat! Click on this text or the pic above to go to the full post, or just listen to us ramble below.

This Noise Is Ours covered Drei Affen’s most recent 12”LP ‘Seguimos Cigxs’. This sucker is long sold out but I’ve got an unclaimed rare painted version below. Once this is gone we’re like “out” out. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the review. Buy that lone copy and/or jam below.

Of Death was on the podcast Not Just A Phase podcast that you can check out by clicking on this text. We released their 2x12” discography…two years ago? Yeah, about that. The shriekiest of birds.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: VENUS TWINS = Softseed and ZBR still has some RAXIS 12”s in stock, and those beautiful twins were recently signed to ThreeOneG, appeared on Mr. Beast and placed 4th/100 twins, aaaaaand released a new music video from an upcoming EP!!!

2024 - 07 - 12 /// Onewaymirror promo pics + Excrucis song premiere

July 12, 2024 by David Norman

Ooooo baby we gotz those sexy Onewaymirror 7”s in last night! These go up for sale on Sunday July 14th at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST! 200 merge, 200 pink, 100 black, 5 tests and another 5 botched tests that we’ll put up at cost.

Gil Cerrone’s ‘Consumer’ released in full today so you need to check that fire out and keep it contained before it burns everything down. 12”s should arrive and ship by the end of July.

Excrucis had a song premiere on OMSB today and by golly it’s some serious fire. You can jam “Ceasefire” from the Zampler below or click on this text/the picture above to hear the brand new song “Parasite”. Both come off of the band’s July 22nd release ‘There are Collectivities that Devour Souls’ releasing on 100 tapes through ZBR.

The Beats Per Minute blog posted a massive missed list of stuff they hadn’t reviewed from the first half of 2024 and there are some ZBR and Tomb Tree things floating around in there like Terry Green and Basque. Check out the entire article by clicking on this text or the picture above. Terry is down to the literal last few copies.

Detach The Islands has a lot more coming out before they officially drop this new album on July 19th…expect another song premiere on Operation X-Ray tonight!!!

CanaDave’s homies Hillsboro are releasing their new EP in late August with 25 tapes on Softseed and another version on their own label Play Dead. New music video below, and you can tell they’re getting a lot heavier! :)

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: DIAL = The dudes in Animal Faces told me about this last week and I’m in love. Oldie but goodie.