Usurp Synapse music + Venus Twins 12"s!!!

April 18, 2024 by David Norman

Venus Twins 12”s release on Monday via Softseed Music. The band has a bunch of copies, Softseed will have about 20 of each variant, the US ZBR store 10 of each variant, and this store 5 of each variant.

FRIDAY: 11am CST Crossed 12”EP releases / Distro update

SATURDAY: 4:20pm CST Entwife cd releases on Tomb Tree

There’s new Usurp Synapse material! A new video was just premiered over at the (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain)))) blogspot. Remember the band is playing our May 3rd ZBR Fest pre-show!!! Tickets available here.

Double feature! First, Vibora’s ‘Zaldi Beltza’ has their 2nd pressing that we’ll upchuck in our stores this Friday alongside the distro update and Crossed release. Second, Hiding In The Outpost is back! We’ve been so busy with other stuff that I just didn’t have time for it…well now I’m makin’ time! Right in time for the aforementioned second pressing of their acclaimed and highly awesome ‘Zaldi Beltza’ I happened across a single copy of the first press! Snag it from our bandcamp below.

ZBR Fest 2024 is right around the corder (May 3rd-5th, to be exact) so it’s high time for me to start reminiscing about the other fests that we’ve put on over the last decade. It started in 2014 with this Hamilton-based and poorly attended mini-fest. It featured the likes of Respire, Edhochuli, Old Soul, Black Love, Terry Green, and more! You can click on this text for the full recap with tons of extra videos and links. Below is a Love Lost But Not Forgotten cover played by Old Soul.

CanaDave’s new band Mourn Recif is having their first show on April 27th on Vancouver Island in Duncan at The Space Time Continuum (send us a msg for exact location). Poster below. They’ve also got Facebook and Instagram pages now so click on the respective name to go to said Mourn Recif page. First recordings happen in a month or two. 7 songs down.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: OPPOSITION DOLLS = Very cool stuff from Florida that sounds like I Hate Sex, Roman Candle, and a chilled-out Blind Girls.

2023 - 06 - 07 /// Joliette music video

June 07, 2023 by David Norman

Joliette has a new music video for their song “Lemus” off of their upcoming ‘Luz de Bengala’ 12”EP. We put this sucker to press recently so expect a full release later this summer.

The Faffle is just over a week out! All of CanaDave’s extra mage, handmade, stupid fancy, and test press 12”s will be raffled off for the last time on June 15th at 6pm PST / 8pm CST / 9pm EST live on Instagram! Every other day or so we’ll update with pics of stuff that will be in the Faffle…like the pictured 4-Way stupid fancy /50 and a Terry Green test press /5! There’s more comin’, but snag some tickets below if you’re already starting to salivate. Each ticket gets you one step closer to winning an item on the Faffle wheel, and if you win your remaining tickets are taken out. We’ll start with the crowdpleasing mages, followed by hand-mades, stupid fancies, and then the last couple test presses (one of which hasn’t been released yet!). Winners have to pay shipping.

CanaDave is workin’ his ass off getting The Vault ready for it’s June 10th opening (it closes June 15th at 6pm PST, same as the Faffle deadline). Like last time, it will house a bunch of personal copies of tapes, vinyl, t-shirts, cds, stickers, and posters that have either been sold out for a long time or were never posted for sale. These products will appear in a “The Vault" tab which will become visible one June 10th at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST at the top navigation column of this website (up there with ZBR News, Canada/International Store, U.S.A. Store, etc.

Aux.Aura’s debut EP drops on Tuesday June 13th! Take a look at the variants above: 18 on blue swirl, 10 black and white swirl, 10 halfsies swirl, and 5 test dips. Jam a face-melter below.

New Forms. Fucking New Forms yo. They absolutely slayed the pre-show. I was in awe. Here’s a quick video giving you some idea of the power and emotion this band brought to a small-ass basement show. As we will start posting the single videos for each band that played ZBR Fest 2023 in the order that they played, there’s more coming!

Scenario and Massa Nera were featured on Noisy Tapes, we’re almost out of Scenario and our Massa Nera stock continues to dwindle in each variant. Click on the text or the pic below to go!

Here’s a new Hiding In The Outpost for the Drei Affen and Coma Regalia split 7” that just showed up from a German trade from Dingleberry. Last copy!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: SICKLE EATER = This incredible new project just posted their second song and it’s a banger just like the first!

2023 - 05 - 02 /// See you after ZBR Fest

May 02, 2023 by David Norman

Okay what’s up? I’m about to head to the airport, that’s what. So no updates here, follow our instagram Zegema_Beach and our facebook page for any news regarding anything. Lates.

P.S. Perfumed Saturnine Angels (a project that I do vocals in and we will be releasing on May 22nd) song premiere at (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))). Click on the pic below or this text to go there.

Yuki releases on May 12th via 20 tapes (10 of each, pictured above). You can jam a song below and if you’re at ZBR Fest we’ll have a couple for sale!

Melissa Lynn from Heavenly Blue and Mel*N spoke with CanaDave on the (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) podcast. The band is playing ZBR Fest this weekend and the podcast even includes an Olth premiere! Get the shit on that for so many freakin’ reasons!!! Click on this text or the pic above to go to the post or just stream the podcast below.

Out Past the Rings 158 is out and it’s the last one for at least a week or two. Both the pink and black copies are still in stock!

In Loving Memory is back in action and had their full length remixed and remastered. Hooooooly moly does it sound incredible. It should release this month digitally (although we might wait until early June after we get them taaaaapes) with the cassettes being handled by Zegema Beach and Illuminate My Heart Records.

You will be seeing a lot of tour posters from bands playing ZBR Fest popping up here in case you are in the path of destruction. Black Matter Device replaced the fallen Hawak about a month ago, and here’s their tour poster! Buy ZBR Fest tickets here.

Today’s Hiding In the Outpost (aka our last copy of something):

Piri Reis! First press sold out, now the second press is almost sold out…and this was only released about 12 months ago!!!

now sold out:
Terry Green/Huge Cosmic tape
Foxmoulder discography cassette (a few No Funeral copies remain!)

PIRI REIS - Ritma (12")

CA$22.50

PIRI REIS ‘Ritma‘ 12" (ZBR228)

For fans of: Neil Perry, Tristan Tzara, Orchid, Yearning, and Louise Cyphre

Featuring members of Utarid, Quantis, and Orbit Cinta Benjamin, the Malaysian screamowizards known as PIRI REIS finally unleash their debut 12”LP and by golly does it set a new standard for emo-violence. The tones on this record proudly display 2000s screamo of the Level Plane variety mixed with the unstable speed of German emo-violence to create a wildly entertaining listen through the 10 songs. 1st press was 250 copies on beautiful merge, but they sold out in the first day, so we made another 200 on splatter! Co-released with Moment Of Collapse, React With Protest, and Framecode Records. These WILL NOT stick around, sleeping not allowed.

12” /250 on red/bone merge /200 on beer splatter vinyl with 12-page lyric booklet. 10 songs.

Listen here:
https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ritma

Pressing:

2nd/Splatter (/250) 1st/Merge (/250)

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Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: JEROMES DREAM = The new album is only 3 days away. Get fucking psyched!!!

2023 - 04 - 29 /// Last Canada store orders go out on Tuesday

April 29, 2023 by David Norman

So at a truly ungodly hour in the late night/earling morning of May 3rd, CanaDave begins his trek to the airport for Zegema Beach Records Fest 2023 and will not return until May 10th. What does this mean for you? Probably nothing! But if you planned on ordereing from the Canada/International store (aka this one) then you should know that all orders will go out on Tuesday May 2nd and then the store will not be shipping until my return on the 10th. May 10th also happens to be the release of ZMAR’s new 12”LP so if there are any outstanding orders I’ll obviously combine them and automatically refund you some shipping. Click here to get those last few tickets!

A few days back (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) premiered a new song from Yuki (foreverwewillmissyou) from Oregon and good lord it’s some really good lo-fi screamo. Tapes release on May 12th but you bet yer ass we’ll have 5 at Zegema Beach Records Fest 2023! Click on this pic for the premiere or just jam the song below. Fans of People’s Temple Project, Truman, and My Hair Is A Rat’s Nest should eat this up.

Machine Music threw Scenario in their Nine Songs I Liked This Week list. The 12”s are dwindling (this Canada/International store is down to its last copy! Check out the music video again cuz this thing is too good. Aaaaaaaand they’re playing ZBR Fest 2023!!! Click on this text or the pic above for the full list.

The newest/super short Out Past the Rings 157 is for Blue Noise’s second demo titled ‘never born’. Very sold out. Very incredible. Maya plays in Heavenly Blue now so be sure to say hi to her at the fest and then devolve into loop questioning of “when will there be more Blue Noise?” (listen/download here)

The Ninehertz Podcast gave Life’s ‘Demo Three’ some serious love. Our stores continue to sell steadily and I reckon after ZBR Fest we’ll be close to out.

You will be seeing a lot of tour posters from bands playing ZBR Fest popping up here in case you are in the path of destruction. This Gillian Carter tour only matters if you’re in Japan, and if you’re in Japan then this is the only tour that matters. Best live screamo band, hands down. Here they are blowing my mind at ZBR Fest 2022. Buy ZBR Fest tickets here.

Today’s Hiding In the Outpost (aka our last copy of something):

Down to the last Off Minor cassette for ‘Innominate’, and it’s a test dip!!! Jeez how did that even happen, those always sell first!

now sold out:
Terry Green/Huge Cosmic tape
Foxmoulder discography cassette (a few No Funeral copies remain!)
Vi Som Alskade + They Sleep We Live split 7”

OFF MINOR - Innominate (cassette)

from CA$10.00

OFF MINOR ‘Innominate‘ tape (ZB259)

For fans of: Kidcrash, Hawak, Lytic and Saetia

Perhaps the biggest honor ever bestowed on Zegema Beach Records, the remixed version of ‘Innominate’ by the legendary jazzy screamo band OFF MINOR. Remixed by drummer/vocalist Steve Roach at Permanent Hearing Damage earlier this year, the eight songs sound better than ever. Whether it’s the bassy instrumental banger “Devil Ether”, the chaotic cornerstone “In SL” or epic closer “Family Circus”, every track on this album is exemplary and now even further refined. Our initial run is across 212 copies with the following breakdown:
- 67 orange swirl (+8 w/glitter shift and purple case -> randomly inserted)
- 63 black swirl
- 53 platinum gold swirl
- 10 white (only available through Limited To One)
- 2 mystery swirl
- 11 test dips

All cassettes come in a clear case with double-sided j-card, triple-panel insert booklet and download code. 8 songs.

Listen here:
https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/innominate

Variant:

Orange swirl (/67) Black swirl (/63) Platinum Gold swirl (53) Test Dip (/11)

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Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: DŠGB = This Russian band released a ridiculous 4-song EP yesterday. FFO: Johanna Rey, Botch, The Chariot, etc.

2023 - 04 - 26 /// Carrion Spring falls :(

April 26, 2023 by David Norman

To those who know vocalist Adam in Carrion Spring this probably comes as little surprise, but the band has had to pull out of this year’s fest due to the health issues and the fact that the band was unable to practice for over a month. We are super sad but completely understand their circumstances and hope we can bring them to Chicago in the future <3 <3 <3

We’ve had some requests already to replace them, but as the day was actually overbooked this unfortunate circumstance has a silver lining where we now have the “correct” amount of bands. Thanks to anyone who inquired about playing, it’s an incredible reception this year. We are so fucking stoked.

Scenario is selling so fast we had to replenish the Canada/International store and it’s already back down to a single copy! Once they play ZBR Fest I fear all the labels and the band might sell out, they’re that good!!! Stereogum figured it out too, so click on this text or the pic above to go to their article.

Apostles Of Eris is set to play their first show in 7 fucking years, and the first as a full band. We’ll be performing “Pig Donovan” from this split that was just smeared across all platforms. A little late? You betcha!

You will be seeing a lot of tour posters from bands playing ZBR Fest popping up here in case you are in the path of destruction. This mini-Malevich tour will be sure to ruin your fucking life. Just some of the heaviest shit I’ve ever seen. Here they are blowing my mind at ZBR Fest 2019. Buy tickets here.

Today’s Hiding In the Outpost (aka our last copy of something):

Woah I have one Loftus handmade splatter. Get it before it’s gone. This release is one of the best things we will ever do, hands down.

now sold out:
Foxmoulder discography cassette (a few No Funeral copies remain!)
Vi Som Alskade + They Sleep We Live split 7”

LOFTUS - Hugs and Drugs (12"LP)

from CA$20.00

LOFTUS ‘Hugs and Drugs‘ 12"LP (ZB289)

For fans of: SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Since By Man, and Wreck Of The Minotaur

Sometime in the mid-2000s David Norman came across the band LOFTUS and their immortal cd ‘Hugs and Drugs’. Hmmm… that isn’t really strong enough. David Norman became utterly obsessed with the California five-piece. And guess what? It never stopped, subsided, slowed, or even flickered. To this day the obsession continues on 500 stunning 12” records by Zegema Beach Records which release on Friday May 13th, 2022. Myspace madness, metallic hardcore style for fans of panic chords, breakdowns, and unrelenting screams. Released with variant matching inserts across 546 12”s by the absolute legends at Wax Mage / Gotta Groove:
211 Clear w/Orange Pigment Swirl
208 Bright Yellow w/Opaque Blue Splatter (handmade)
102 Black
25 Wax Mage
15 Test Presses

We also had 15 Loftus slipmats made, 10 with the logo and 5 radial.

There will be a super limited amount of zip-ups going up in June. Keep your eyes peeled.

Listen here:
https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hugs-and-drugs

Variant:

Clear w/Orange Pigment Swirl (/211) Black (/102) Slipmat (logo /10) Bright Yellow w/Opaque Blue Splatter (handmade) (/208) Wax Mage (/25) Test Press (/15) FULL VC (4 variants + test + radial slipmat)

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Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MEIAN = This new Japanese EP fucking rules. Check it!