ZBR Fest 2024 Early Birds tomorrow!

December 14, 2023 by David Norman

Woah nelly lots of news again. First off, the Gifts From Enola discography set is coming out in exactly one week. One box. Four cassettes. Over five hours of incredible music.

ZBR Fest 2024 early bird tickets + Wave 1 releases tomorrow! Be sure to snag cheap tickets and wear a chin-guard, cuz that jaw is gonna drop. You can access the site now, but no bands are listed and the tickets go live at 10am PST / 12pm CST / 1pm EST. Click on this text to go to said site.

Blind Girls fuckin’ flew yesterday, my god. No mages left. No nebs left. We’re down to just random color and we had way less of those to begin with than the nebs! I think we had 18 over two stores!!! Links to purchase on our bandcamp <3

Out Past the Rings #179 and Tomb Tree Family Tree TT005 is (I think) the last joint release between ZBR and Tomb Tree, the truly incredible ‘Believer’s Hit’ by Nerver! Watch CanaDave go skinface in this ridiculously wretched episode. Now my face is cold all the time. Goddammit. Listen/download/buy here!

Tyler (bass) from Llewelyn did a podcast with Edie of Middle Man Records! That EP is truly remarkable stuff for fans of Transistor Transistor, Unwound, The Catalyst, and Hot Snakes. We’ve got it digitally and for sale on tape by clicking on this text.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: SINEMA = Some incredible new throwback emo/post-hardcore in the vein of Saosin and Thursday. Yummy.

2023 - 11 - 11 /// Llewelyn

November 11, 2023 by David Norman

Llewelyn’s ‘Disposable Culture’ released yesterday on Tomb Tree and we have a limited amount of tapes, including the bulk of the 20 swirled copies and all of the test dips. The band’s noise-rock is on the heavy side (there’s a lotta screamin’) and certainly dabbles in post-hardcore, packing all five songs with serious punch. Jam/buy below!

Othiel will follow Obroa-skai’s ‘Science Progresses One Funeral at a Time’ 12”LP, with the latter releasing November 17th and the former December 1st. Jam the two singles above and below this text, fans of Crowning will be fucking stoked.

The Quietus lay down some nice words about Closet Witch’s ‘Chiaroscuro’. I think at this point if you listen to heavy music you’ve already been floored by this, but in the off chance you missed it here’s another opportunity to snag arguably the best release of 2024. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the review.

The second Out Past the Rings for the Meditations In Affinity split 7” series is here! 100 copies lost! Alternate art! Ninjas! Etc. Watch above and/or listen below. Sold out!!!

Operation X-Ray had another banger of an episode playing Storm{o}, Llewelyn, and Obroa-skai!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: HORSEWHIP = We released the stellar Horsewhip/Yashira split earlier this year and now the band has unleashed their brand new 12”LP and it blows the previous one out of the water. Some lineup changes have resulted in a seriously incredible record.

2023 - 06 - 21 /// Release on Friday!

June 21, 2023 by David Norman

In Loving Memory is currently on fire. After getting back together for some reunion shows, the members hit it off, remixed/remastered ‘As Years Pass and Feel Like Seconds’, aaaaaaand they wrote a new EP which comes out next month on ZBR tapes (music video on June 30th!). The cassettes for their first full length release this Friday June 23rd from Zegema Beach, and sometime later from Illuminate My Heart Records (they are in the process of moving). Feel free to take a gander at the variants above, we made 150 total. Friday at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST

On June 27th the U.S. store will have a massive distro update, with this Canadian/International store having a minor distro update. Tons of stuff from Graf Orlock, The Ghost Is Clear Records, Dingleberry Records, No Funeral, etc. Some of the US stuff will be of already posted products in this store so take a quick gander below to see a small selection of what’s gonna pop up soon…

sold out

NIDARE - Von Wegen (12")

CA$32.50

For fans of: Hope Drone, Rha., Nic (the band with no name) and Niboowin.

Imported from Germany because this album fucking rules, we managed to snag a bunch of the rare/gorgeous merge! Amazing blackened screamo! Released on Through Love Records.

12” on white/black bone merge vinyl with screen-printed outer sleeve /100. 6 songs.

Listen here:
https://throughloverec.bandcamp.com/album/von-wegen-2

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ABRE LOS OJOS - Les morts sont invisibles mais ils ne sont pas absents (12")

CA$20.00

For fans of: Aussitot Mort, Envy and Amanda Woodward.

Epic, crusty, French screamo. Released on Dingleberry Records.

12” on red vinyl. 2 long-ass songs.

Listen here:
https://abrelosojos.bandcamp.com/track/les-morts-sont-invisibles-mais-ils-ne-sont-pas-absents-face-a

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GROS ENFANT MORT - La banalité du mal (12")

CA$20.00

For fans of: Daitro and Young Mountain.

Awesome sophomore LP from this French solo project. Released on Dingleberry Records.

12” on black vinyl w/yellow splatter with lyric insert. 9 songs.

Listen here:
https://grosenfantmort.bandcamp.com/album/la-banalit-du-mal-2

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VÆGTLØS - Kakofoni (7")

CA$10.00

For fans of: Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket and Suffocate For Fuck Sake

Dark yet beautiful and engaging, these two tracks cross the line between blackened hardcore and post-rock.

7” on black vinyl. 2 songs.

Listen here:
https://vaegtlos.bandcamp.com/album/kakofoni

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CanaDave did another Out Past the Rings, the 162nd, for the short-lived west coast project Valtiel. One tape left. May or may not come with laryngitis.

Who was one of the most talked about bands post-fest? Mouthing. Without a doubt. This shroud of mystery ruined everyone for about 15 minutes. Here’s some jams. Somehow we have a few tapes left. We will continue posting the single videos for each band that played ZBR Fest 2023 in the order that they played, so there’s more coming!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: VENUS TWINS = These friends detonated the last night of ZBR Fest and just finished a sick 11-day run with Heavenly Blue. They are the fucking bomb.

2023 - 06 - 19 /// In Loving Memory is this Friday!

June 19, 2023 by David Norman

2022 - 10 - 04 /// A look into the future...Of Death

October 04, 2022 by David Norman

It’s almost time for the 2x12” ‘…discography’ by ….Of Death with D-side etching. It’s /300 copies and 150 of them are yellow/red merge disc 1 and ghostly red w/etching for disc 2, with this second variant having the same disc 1, but a black blob on red as disc 2. We’ll have a full digital release complete with 2x12” orders opening at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST. This is a co-release with Cliff Parade and Law Of Cycles, with each label taking 100 copies. Levi of Cliff Parade Records had this to say about it:

“ I found …Of Death on a Alone Records sampler in 2003. Immediately I was struck by the “girl scout being murdered” screams similar to the bird like scream of early Jeromes Dream. These vocals accompany the blasts and riffs that make this Texas band one of the screamo goats. The idea that all of their work is now on two sexy vinyl makes my screamo heart so warm. “

To Be Gentle recently released ‘Unbroken’ and is gearing up to release ‘it always hurts and one day it will win‘ this Friday October 7th. Tomb Tree is taking care of tapes for both releases, with the former already being complete and the latter still at the plant. You can click on this text to hear a new jam from the upcoming album as well as peruse the variant options for ‘Unbroken’. Both physical copies release October 7th at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST along with a bunch of other Tomb Tree stuff. What stuff? Let’s take a looksie!

Colacon also releases via Tomb Tree and also releases this Friday! 11 tracks of face-melting metallic hardcore/mathcore/metal from two rad dudes in Georgia. Check out that new music video below! We’ll release the final variant pic tomorrow!

Virgin Mother’s debut 12”LP goes up for pre-order this Friday! The vinyl is /100 and will shipped before the release date of October 14th! There’s a pretty high probability that between us and the band touring a few days after the release that we’ll sell out so don’t sleep on this incredible vision manifested as a full length.

That’s a lot of Tomb Tree stuff. What’s 2022 looking like for ZBR? Before the year is out we’ll have Thank You Driver releasing on cassette in early November, the new Lower Automation 12”LP on November 22nd, and the Massa Nera cd/tape/12”LP on December 2nd. Those three releases cover a ton of genres and all absolutely slay. There is but one song out for all three releases combined, so check out Lower Automation’s “The 99” from the most recent Zampler.

Fiesta Bizarra has a new EP releasing on October 31st via Softseed Music but you can nab a tape now that will ship immediately! Yes, exactly one-second after ordering. Seems possible. Anyhoos, this 4-track romp through mathy, poppy, multi-vocal emo/rock from Peru kicks major ass and even has some hints of the six-piece’s screamo roots! Peruvian pre-orders are open until Friday October 7th at 11:59pm but are available to the public now also.

Out Past the Rings #124 is COARSE history for Botch-lovers. 7”s for ‘I’ now on sale for much less than cost! Please check that sick EP out!!!

Operation X-Ray premiered recently despite our main man Andre being without power or water for a full week. A beautiful, wonderful, positive, stinky boy he truly is <3 Bands played on this podcast: Works, Venus Twins, Colacon, and …Of Death.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: +CAREGIVER+ = This new release is very cool and worth checking out. 5 tracks of mesmerizing metal/hardcore in nearly 20 minutes. Excellent EP!