Zampler #24 tonight!

December 30, 2024 by David Norman

Zampler #24 releases tonight at 9pm PST / 11pm CST / 12am EST! Get the fuck ready!!! Before that time almost all strike-era packages will be brought to the post office and mailed off. Many of you already have tracking, that’ll update once I drop this ridiculous amount of packages off at a couple of post offices (so as not to inundate any one location). There are a few stragglers from Bandcamp orders that should go by the end of the week as US Dave tries to keep up, but does have a ton of other responsibilities (like a real job and a child). Here’s a pic of me with most of the orders that have accumulated over the past 6 weeks. Seriously, thanks for your support and patience <3

Operation X-Ray premiered two brand new jams from athousandangelsandseven and Keratin, as well as a Die Princess Die song. Definitely worth a listen!!!

Coup D’etat had their release show a few weeks ago on the back of their debut album release ‘What Happens After the Epilogue…?’ and CanaDave witnessed, filmed, and played said show. This thing is hot stuff and all Canada/International and Bandcamp copies are gone, but there are 7 copies left in the US store so snag’em asap if interested. Click on this text or the pic above for the full post with videos/links from each band. Listen to the release below.

If you slept on the GreenBlueGrey and Black Nails/Sharp Teeth split cassette on Tomb Tree then you literally are shit out of luck cuz they are very sold out, and did so in less than a few hours. Jam it below and weep.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: LORD WROUGHT = I saw this Vancouver-based band slay in a half-pipe recently. Fucking awesome.

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 - 12 - 23 /// Die Princess Die released + Canada Post strike is over

December 23, 2024 by David Norman

Die Princess Die has released. Storytime! In 2004 CanaDave bought the Microwave Says To The Pacemaker 2×7” comp and discovered Die Emperor Die and promptly searched for and ordered a full length from Interpunk. When the album showed up and he inspected it closer, he realized that it was a different band altogether. Having already spent the money he gave it a spin and was pleasantly surprised. So he gave it a few more spins and realized that the album was pure fucking genius. Fast forward 20 years and CanaDave was still pushing this rather obscure band when he happened across the bassist and finally landed this release. Tis pure joy, my friends. Exuberance. Elation. So ZBR proudly presents the DIE PRINCESS DIE 'Discography' with brand new art from Boris Hager and all the tracks, sweat, yellin', glitches, groove, and noise that you could ever want from a band you've likely never heard of. Only 52 copies were made over three variants plus test dips. Imagine if Indian Summer drank an entire bottle of whiskey and freaked out to Slint. Best.

The Canada Post strike over! It didn’t get the end I was hoping for though, as the government ordered the workers back and nothing was solved. Regardless, the post offices are fucking jammed with holiday shipments and over a month of backlog. Therefore I will prepare all the orders by Tuesday but wait until later next week to bring them to the post office in an attempt at minimizing lost packages and general fuckups as the postal service will be utterly bombarded.

On December 31st Zampler #24 is coming. Around 10 previously unreleased tracks and new art from Lucca Cassandra from Split Silk. Here’s the previous Zampler!

Another little update is the GreenBlueGrey and Black Nails/Sharp Teeth premiere from This Noise Is Ours. Will there be boxes from Vamonos Tapes? You betcha! Here’s the premiere, art, and a peek at one of the variants. Full release on December 27th at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST on just 48 cassettes. Click the pic above or this text to go to the premiere.

Vile from Kid Feral was on the OMSB podcast which you should check out. Link to the full podcast by clicking this text. Listen directly to the podcast below. Jam the ‘Headlights EP’ above.

Lower Automation’s full set was recently recorded at The Runoff so please check that out and pick up a copy of their latest EP ‘This Is My Deathbed’, and we even still have a few final copies of the ‘Strobe Light Shadow Play’ 12”LP.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: FINNSKRAMZ = This Finnish screamo compilation just came out with 16 unreleased tracks and it’s amaaaaaaaaaazing.

2024 - 12 - 10 /// Coup D'etat release + show on Friday

December 10, 2024 by David Norman

Is Canada Post still on strike? You betcha. Most Canadian store orders and some Bandcamp orders simply cannot go out until it ends. We apologize for any inconvenience but it’s out of our hands. The one thing we can do is ship via FedEx but the costs are much higher, so if you need something by a certain date and don’t mind paying extra just hit up CanaDave at zegemabeachrecords@gmail.com and he’ll let you know the new shipping quote.

Febuary cds came again. And then they went. Sold out in about an hour. We’ll make more, as well as tapes, and be sure that they’ll be ready for early May. Cuz…nevermind ;)

On Friday Coup D’etat releases their debut album ‘What Happens After the Epilogue…’ on Tomb Tree, and they’ve also got a release show with CanaDave’s Mourn Recif band, so we’ll have tapes and ZBR distro at the show! You can scope a new song from each band in the 157th Operation X-Ray radio show embedded below!