Split Silk releases tomorrow!

September 09, 2024 by David Norman

Distro update with a buncha buttons (Widowdusk, Nuvolascura, In Loving Memory, etc.), stickers (New Friends Fest, Bird Death, Coven, etc.) as well as 12”s from Man is The Most Dangerous Animal, a random found copy of Life ‘Demo 3’ and Larry Records’ Catalyst ‘Discography’ tape + pin set! Everything is in the new New Items/Specials section which I’ve linked to this text. Below are some of the fine items directly. The US store will have some distro stuff going up soon too.

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CATALYST - Discography (cassette)

CA$17.50

For fans of: Versera and Herlovebeheadsdaisies.

Discography tape with half black and half white tape with pin AND exclusive unreleased track! Released on Larry Records.

Listen to digitals here:
https://catalystsucks420.bandcamp.com/

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MAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL - vol.2: bind/torture/kill (12")

CA$30.00

For fans of: Converge, Cult Leader, and Crossed.

Devastating metallic hardcore with some seriously killer vocals. One of CanaDave's fave of 2024!

12” on either half red/half yellow or purple/pink splatter vinyl with lyric insert and sticker. 11 songs.

Listen here:
https://manisthemostdangerousanimal.bandcamp.com/album/vol-2-bind-torture-kill

Variant:

half'n'half purple/pink splatter

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WIDOWDUSK - blue (pin/button)

CA$3.00

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USURP SYNAPSE - machine (guitar pick)

CA$2.50

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Yesterday the variants were released on Instagram, today you can check out a brand spankin’ new song via Not Just A Phase, and tomorrow will see the new Split Silk EP ‘Bitter’ releasing in full on Tomb Tree!!! Click this text or the pic above to go to the premiere and check out those variants below!

Click here for the full review/interview!

Leavs is out! Please take a gander and pre-order a copy for cheaper than Bandcamp by snagging a copy from our distro! Also, Idioteq.com did a great piece on the album that you should most definitely check out. Click on this text or the pic above to go to the review/interview.

Hallam Foe is the next ZBR release on September 17th at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST on just 50 12” lathes! 6 incredibly moshy, shrieky, and panic-chord ridden amazingness. Check out the title track below!!!

Detach The Islands did a podcast with CanaDave and it was both informative and hilarious. Check out the band’s new album ‘A Highly Magnified History’ on Tomb Tree, which is embedded below. Podcast embedded above and full post with tons o’ links and shit can be accessed by clicking on this text.

Out Past the Rings #187 deals with Antarctica! The last 10 minutes of this episode is CanaDave just reading the 25 stories from the band, one of each was included with each of the green tapes. All sold out!

ZBR videos are going up on our youtube channel faster than I’m posting them here, but holy timing Batman, cuz the next one in line is Othiel and they just released a wicked new split with Palefade. that Tomb Tree is literally dubbing tapes of right now. Full release on September 20th!!!

This Noise Is Ours gave the new Reia Cibele EP cassette that was released on Tomb Tree a glowing review. Check it out by clicking on the pic above or this text. Jam/buy below!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: OTHIEL = Hit those new Othiel jams now cuz they are amazing.

2024 - 09 - 05 /// Bloom Dream is out

September 05, 2024 by David Norman

Bloom Dream just released! ‘It Didn’t Have To Be This Way’ is a seven-song rollercoaster of feedback, crushing instrumentals, screamo, and metallic/dark hardcore. CDs available now! Tapes available later this month!

Leavs’ debut 12”LP 'Natura Universal' releases tomorrow! We’ll only have 25 of these in North America, 15 on the Softseed Music bandcamp, 5 here, and 5 on the ZBR U.S.A. site. The vinyl is on two gorgeous variants and should be in hand and shipping mid-late October. This Spanish shoegaze/alternative band boasts ex-screamo alumni from Tropical Ice Land, and this album is one of CanaDave’s favourite rock records of 2024. It's gorgeous, heavy, melodic, and catchy. Music video embedded below! For fans of: Slow Crush, Julie, and Smush.

Hallam Foe title track premiere from the upcoming ‘Funkapokalips’ 12” lathe was just released on Everything Is Noise! Head on over to check out this sassy, heavy, amazing track by clicking on the pic above or this text!

Olth got a spot-on review from This Noise Is Ours. This Canadian/International store is sold out of tri-merge currently but we have a stack of the highly sought after rainbow variant (aka the rarer one!). Snag those before they’re gone. Click on this text or the picture above to go to the review.

Click here for the full review, translate to English if needed!

Onewaymirror got some love from Eklektik Rock which you can check out by clicking on this text or the picture above. The Canada store (this one) and Bandcamp have the last remaining black copies /100!!!

ZBR videos continue to go up on our youtube channel, the newest being the beautiful and cathartic performance by none other than The Caution Children. Amazing.

Subba-Cultcha reviewed the new Hillsboro EP ‘White Trash’. I can’t recommend this enough, it’s stellar. The closer in particular is my personal fave from the band. Kinda shoegaze meets Deftones. It’s killer. Click on text to go there. U.S. tour dates above! Jam/buy a tape below!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: ASPARTAME = Hell yes new EP! Fans of Burial Etiquette and VS Self will love this stuff.

2024 - 09 - 01 /// Hefty September

September 02, 2024 by David Norman

As our slow month concludes we enter the very front-heavy September schedule which is thus:

ZBR:

September 5th = BLOOM DREAM 'It Didn't Have To Be This Way' cd/cassette EP: Holy freakin' smokes is this one bad-ass release. Brooding, massive, sexy, and melodic stuff from Miami with beefy four-minute jams. Pressing on 100 cds and 50 cassettes. For fans of: Othiel, Hawak, and Crowning

September 17th = HALLAM FOE 'Funkapokalips' 12" lathe EP: This Indonesian four-piece have been making waves for years, so we are stoked to bring you their brand new 6-song EP 'Funkapokalips' on one-sided 12" lathe. Still screamy, sassy, and heavy, the band embraces some moshier and experimental moments on this one. Pressing on 25 clear and 25 black lathes. For fans of: SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Piri Reis, and Heavy Heavy Low Low

September 30th = FEBUARY 'February' cdLP: It doesn't get more screamo than this - become a sick screamo band, build hype with live shows, record a single batch of incredible songs, break up. Goddammit. Pressing on 100 cds with gatefold digipak. For fans of: The Lazurus Plot, Clay Birds, and Montcalm.

TOMB TREE:

September 10th = SPLIT SILK 'Bitter' cassette EP: Following two very promising EPs is this new, full-band (solo project no longer!) release shows heaps of progress. Featuring two new songs and an additional two live recording jams, the band's angular, noisy, rock is as refreshing as it is piercing. Ex-Under A Sky So Blue. Pressing on 80 cassettes: 35 red glitter swirl, 30 red, 15 white/red swirl, and 5 test dips w/matching swirl case. 4 songs. For fans of: Burial Etiquette, Against Me, and Unwound.

SOFTSEED MUSIC:

September 6th = LEAVS 'Natura Universal' 12"LP: This Spanish shoegaze/alternative band boasts ex-screamo alumni from Tropical Ice Land, and this album hits just as hard - but in a different way. It's gorgeous, heavy, melodic, and catchy. Plus the music video rules and it's embedded below. Pressing on 300 12" records but Softseed will only have 25 copies. 8 songs. For fans of: Slow Crush, Julie, and Smush.

A few VHS tapes of 2024 remain in the US store. Click this text to snag. New uploads to Youtube below and includes bonus footage!!!

Out Past the Rings is back with it’s 186th release and first wax mage ‘Cinq’ the five-way split between Jeanne, Potence, Tropical Ice Land, Les Deux Minutes De La Haine, and Yarostan. There’s a ton of juicy info in this one!!! A final copy remains on bandcamp!

Click here for the entire batch of reviews!

Crossed Letters gave some love to Fallingwithscissors and Llewelyn, the former of which we’ll have some cds from and the latter we still have tapes for. Jam below but access the full article by clicking on this text or the picture above!

The newest Mathcast dumps heaps of praise for Onewaymirror. Obtain a 7” below before we sell out.

Hillsboro got some attention from The Bad Copy with their newest EP release which has tapes on Softseed Music. CanaDave is in a new band with one of these dudes! Click on the text here to go to the full article. Jam/buy below!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: HEAVEN THROUGH VIOLENCE = Incredible debut EP from members of And Its Name Was Epyon and Dysthymia!

2024 - 08 - 26 /// VHS round two

August 26, 2024 by David Norman

We dropped the last 20-ish VHS tapes this morning. Judging from demand we can more but it’ll be a bit - probably post 2025 fest but we’ll make a bunch. US Dave posted a few new fest videos too, check out Onewaymirror and Nuvolascura below!

Here’s the other Bloom Dream single. ‘It Didn’t Have To Be This Way’ releases September 5th on cd via Zegema Beach, followed by tapes a few weeks later!

I made a Vancouver Island Skramz Slam video (above) featuring Emma Goldman, Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, Mourn Recif, and Coup D’Etat. If you click on this text you can go to Mourn’s previous show review with Drive Your Plow, Terrifying Girls’ High School, and Desperate End.

Gossip’s Tyler (guitar/vox) came on the OMSB Podcast to talk screamo and many other things. Click on this text to go to the full post or just listen above. 10”s still available below!!!

Operation X-Ray played the title track from the upcoming Hallam Foe 10” as a worldwide premiere! Also in this episode were Olth and Hillsboro <3 <3 <3

Justin from New Forms joined Edie on her podcast! We’ve got a 12” repress comin’ next month so snag the last couple of first press copies before those beautiful blues are gone forever!!!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MOTEE = David from Victor Shores has been reworking these songs for awhile, it’s awesome to hear the first one that was just released!

2024 - 08 - 23 /// Hillsboro EP out + Bloom Dream next

August 23, 2024 by David Norman

The new Hillsboro EP ‘White Trash’ is out in full alongside a brand new music video for the title track. You can also check out their other music videos from the EP below. Click on this text to watch the new video which youtube would not allow, so it’s somewhere else.

These three songs (plus bonus live track on the tapes) are a really good mixture of post-hardcore, shoegaze, emo, and alternative. FFO: Deftones, Title Fight, Alkaline Trio, Basement, Hot Mulligan, etc.

Bloom Dream releases September 5th on cd via Zegema Beach, followed by tapes a few weeks later! Jam a brand new jam below!

Vancouver Island Skramz Slam is tomorrow! Mourn Recif will be playing a new song!!! Vancouver show review coming tonight on (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) of last month’s Mourn Recif gig with Terrifying Girls’ High School, Desperate End, and Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead.

Tenue copies are dwindling and This Noise Is Ours.just sang its praises so get on out and jam/buy! Click on the pic above or this text for the full article. Yummies embedded below.

Another reminder about August 26th with 20 more fest videos going live at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST. Need more incentive? Here’s some songs by Flesh Born and .gif from god!!!

Ryan and Zach from Animal Faces came on CanaDave’s podcast which was posted earlier this week. We still have a few final copies of their 2xEP on 12”, embedded below! Click on the pic above or this text to go to the podcast.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MISSOURI EXECUTIVE ORDER 44 = This band played ZBR Fest and released a killer record recently. Check it out and find solace…or destruction. Or both.