Crossed 12"s tomorrow + Satsuma premiere

March 20, 2025 by David Norman

The new Crossed 12”s and digitals for ‘Realismo Autismo’ releases tonight at 9pm PST / 11pm CST / 12am EST. I gotta say, I’ve loved this band since its inception, but good lord this third LP is flawless. Super heavy, super screamy, super amazing. You can jam two songs below on the band’s bandcamp.

The Shibuya 12” pre-orders went live last week, and as we’re only getting 20-ish copies we’re already half sold out and it doesn’t even release in full till May 2nd, so if you dig those two released tracks on their bandcamp you should pick one up immediately. Incredible Spanish skramz. Buy links below:

U.S.A. store = https://www.zbrusa.com/products/tt130

Canada/International store = https://www.zegemabeachrecords.com/tomb-tree-tapes/tt130

Satsuma got their final premiere via Brooklyn Vegan yesterday. The full release is March 28th on 100 tapes which CanaDave is currently dipping. Promo pics coming next week. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the premiere. You can jam the other single below.

Dead Hour Noise got some very nice words from Not Just A Phase, and the 12”s should arrive next month! Hop on the dead train, baby. Click on the pic above or this text for the full review. Jam/buy below.

Process // Sleep released digitally the other day but we’ve got tapes coming on Tomb Tree, we’re just waiting on the j-card and then it should be 4-6 from that time…so mid-May I reckon. Jam it below now.

CanaDave will be playing the Emma Goldman show with Mourn Recif featuring a new lineup and much heavier sound. Jam the most recent single below, but we have another one coming next week!

Tetola93 got some love from Lambgoat in their “5 Albums to Introduce You to Japanese Screamo”. We got restocked last year and most are already gone, so pick one up below after checking out the full list by clicking on the pic above or this text.

Someone wrote this interesting article “What even is skramz?” which is an interesting take from someone who is just entering the screamo room. They’ve definitely hit some wicked bands already. Click on the pic above or this text to go there, and jam the album that opened the door for them below.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: LOW BEFORE THE BREEZE = First single from their upcoming album! This slaps.

2025 - 02 - 17 /// Sulfur + Martin Randal Travel split on Monday

February 17, 2025 by David Norman

First…a friendly reminder. This. This page right here. You want ZBR news? You don’t wanna miss another Febuary cd drop? Then fer fuck’s sake follow this news page. Tell your friends to follow this news page. All information is ALWAYS posted here and drops are revealed usually a week+ in advance. When someone says they didn’t know something was dropping, that’s not on us. We can’t private message everybody, so we do these news posts. Follow. Follow. And follow again. Now I’m a few pounds lighter.

By the way In Loving Memory tapes for ‘A Gentler Sun’ will release on Thursday. Thursday February 20th. 9am PST. 11am CST. 12pm EST. I’ll remind you again late Wednesday as well as on Instagram.

Click here for the full premiere write-up!

Martin Randal Travel just got the premiere treatment from none other than Not Just A Phase. Their split with Sulfur (their premiere was last week via This Noise Is Ours, linked here and embedded below) releases on Tomb Tree this Monday February 24th on 52 tapes. Promo pics comin’ next post and by golly do they look sick as fuck. Click on this text or the pic above for the full Not Just A Phase writeup and song premiere!

Vancouver’s Smush just released their 3rd music video from ‘if you were here i’d be home now’ and we’re down to the absolute last copies of the first pressing. This was CanaDave’s album of the year in 2024! 2 left on the Softseed bandcamp, 2 in the Canada store, and 22 in the U.S. store. Zero chance these are still around by summer so snag now or forever hold your peace.

Belted Sweater got the good’ole OMSB premiere treatment with the final single “More Rack Toms (than people in the audience)” and it’s amazing. It’s different. By golly it’s a bit strange at first, but like CanaDave you will likely become enamored with this incredible glam skramz solo project from LA. Full tape release is this Friday the 21st of February on Softseed Music (but we’ll have a few copies too) and Self Versed Records. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the post, and jam the previous single “Cherry Grove” below.

The Coma Of Eris debut album immediately caught the eye of the almighty Stereogum who were kind enough to do a little write-up of it. Tapes have been ordered and will arrive in mid-March, after which CanaDave will decorate and they should be released late March/early April. Jam it below and click on this text or the pic above to go to the Stereogum article.

You know you’ve made it if Sophie’s Floorboard covers you, so hella congrats to Onewaymirror for breaking that floorboard right off and inserting themselves as one of the most prolific and popular screamo bands around. Click on the pic above or this text to read the article and grab a 7” below while you’re at it.

Athousandangelsandseven were featured on the HMHD video podcast (along with a buncha posters that these dudes bought from the Canada store) and it’s both amazing and hilarious. These guys are great and I gotta start watching their show. Start at 1:30:47 (linked here) for our friends or just watch all the way through above! Only a few tapes remain!!!

Here’s a quick video that acts as the show recap for Yellfire, Teething, Mourn Recif, and A Recorded Dawn. Wicked show, I must say.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: YELLFIRE = I knew nothing about this band when I played with them, but they played as a three-piece and blew us all away. After the set we were informed that they were missing a guitar player at that show and everyone’s jaws broke the fuck off. They’re like Botch x Kollapse. Amazing.

2025 - 02 - 15 /// Coma Of Eris + stock update in an hour

February 15, 2025 by David Norman

Coma Of Eris is out now. More than half-a-decade in the making! Tapes follow in late March/early April. Check it out!!!

ZBR bandcamp updated now with a buncha stuff we were out of stock of. Check the merch tab for listings, which is linked to this text.

Distro + stock update goes down in one hour and includes the last 6 Febuary cds (U.S.A. store-only aka linked here) as well as Fallingwithscissors cds, Valeska Suratt 12”s, Osceola 12”s, Votive 12”s (U.S. store-only), Spirit Of Versailles 12”s/2x12”s, AOW 12”s, Life’s ‘Demo Four’ 12”, Kid Feral 12”s (U.S. store-only), Dim 12”s (U.S. store-only), Vibora stickers, etc. If you miss the Febuary cds fret not cuz we ordered 300 more which should arrive in early March. Click this text to go to the Canada store’s new products (aka the ones listed above).

Sulfur’s first track was premiered from their upcoming split with Martin Randal Travel. Read all about it in this post by This Noise Is Ours. Not Just A Phase will have another premiere on Monday for the other band! Click on this text or this pic above for the premiere. Jam it below!

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 have ZBR distro with new/unreleased stuff.

Operation X-Ray premiered a Belted Sweater track (releases next week!) and Coma Of Eris as well as a secret song that will never be released anywhere else. Hard recommend!!!

Aleska + Yarostan split on This Noise Is Ours’ Zegema Beach Roster Review series. We have just one copy left in the bandcamp store (linked below). Click on this text for the full writeup, get more info about it in the Out Past the Rings embedded above.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: ORCHID = New-old Orchid, holy shit. Full release February 21st!

2025 - 01 - 02 /// Zampler #24 released, Keratin tomorrow!

January 06, 2025 by David Norman

Zampler #24 came out on the last day of 2024 and includes a whopping 8 previously unreleased tracks! I know we initially said 9 but one didn’t get finished in time so that might pop up next Zampler. Check out brand new jams from Mourn Recif, Meißel, Blue Youth, Keratin, Återstod, Mahria, Athousandangelsandseven, and Emma Goldman!!! Art by Lucca Cassandra Carver of Split Silk.

Keratin 7”s ‘Death and Rebirth’ releases at a slightly different time than usual as it’s coming from Australia, make sure you’re ready at 2pm PST / 4pm CST / 5pm EST on January 3rd for the drop. We have a mere 50 to cover all of our USA, Canada, and International orders so don’t be sleepin’ in the afternoon! Jam the closing track below.

This Noise Is Ours’ last review of the year was the Othiel/Palefade split that straight up was one of the best splits of the year. Tapes are long sold out but we hope to have vinyl of it this year! Click on the pic above or this text for the review and get rocked below.

Adrian’s new Wasse Posse skateboarding video dropped so you know I gotz to share that.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: FATALIST = Got turned on to this band via Edie’s year-end Everything Remade podcast. This EP goes so hard!

2024 - 12 - 30 /// 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.