Congratulations In Loving Memory

July 21, 2023 by David Norman

In Loving Memory first release in 20 years is out in full! Digitals and cassettes are available/shipping next week! The band also has 12”s for sale/pre-order and that closes in just a few short days. The fact that we were asked to make tapes for this is a serious compliment that we did not take lightly, we are truly honored. Snag’em now, they won’t last long! I also found two full length stragglers so they’re up in the store too, right next to the new EP :)

The big mage news over here is that one of our favourite releases, all the way back at #30, is the Congratulations cassette. We spoke with No Funeral Records well over a year ago about doing vinyl and this Wednesday July 26th our plans come to fruition. If you have no idea who Congratulations is then feel free to peep this release show in Hamilton that CanaDave put on back in 2014, linked here, with Terry Green and Nous Etions.

Idioteq.com did another massive interview with most of the artists contained on the 21st Zampler. Check out a bunch of unreleased jams or come across a few new/sick bands! You can’t lose!!! Click the picture above or this text to go to the interview.

Machine Music posted Nine Songs I Liked This Week and included a bunch of awesome stuff including our very own Apostles Of Eris! Check it out via this text link or the picture above! We are almost sold out of this split and will have non left by September!

Rotting In Dirt kicked off the upstairs show during the last night and unveiled two new songs from an upcoming split…and wowza! So good!!! We will continue posting the single videos for each band that played the last day of ZBR Fest 2023 in the order that they played, so there’s more coming!

Softseed Music released ‘Alaska’ by Uno Lady earlier this year and her tranquil music videos are making the rounds. The label has another release lined up for next week!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: CADY = Yooooooo UK heroes coming out full-force with their first full length! Rejoice!!!

2023 - 04 - 19 /// Taubenhund

April 19, 2023 by David Norman

Taubenhund is a German project led by Jochen Stephan which features vocalists from all over the world. The new ‘A Collection of Highly Unlikely Collaborations‘ cassette EP just released in full via Tomb Tree. Featuring vocals from Lypurá, Nistikko, Mustasuo, Warren of Ohms, Burial Etiquette, meißel, In Wolves' Clothing, Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow, and Letterbombs! Tapes are /65 but ZBR only has about 25 copies

CanaDave smashed out the 154th episode of Out Past the Rings for Rayleigh’s 2019 EP ‘Last Word’. Absolutely sensational stuff. No tapes remain! Listen to/download the tracks here.

Oh damn a new Operation X-Ray was posted early! Get on the screamo train featuring tracks by Hetta, Apostles Of Eris, and Dear Diary, This is From My Teenage Angst to My Adult Self.

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. Today’s poster is for the Rotting In Dirt tour, we released their 12” last year and sold out very quickly. Very excited to see them destroy us all live!

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

Malevich just got a fresh press of tapes from another label and we just happen to be down to our final one, and it’s a swirly galaxy son of a gun. We’ve got a few 12”s in this listing too, but it’s the last tape!!!

now sold out:
Foxmoulder discography cassette (a few No Funeral copies remain!)
Vi Som Alskade + They Sleep We Live split 7”
Euth 12”LP
Terry Green + Huge Cosmic split

MALEVICH - Our Hollow (cassette/12"LP)

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MALEVICH - Our Hollow (cassetteLP) (ZBR169)

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Crushing, devastating and haunting, the new LP by Georgia’s MALEVICH will fucking floor you. Dual guitars of death, tri-vocals, vicious drumming and mammoth bass. ‘Our Hollow’ is a twisting ride through bleak, discordant catharsis and broken stagnation. Malevich distort the boundaries between the aggressive and esoteric; angular guitars with pulsing blast beats pull the listener into moments of tortured reflection..

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Derek Allen from Lower Automation is officially getting into the mixing and mastering game. He’s been doing it with his own bands for years and if you’ve heard Lower Automation you know everything they’ve released sounds fucking awesome. Hit him up below!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MORNING DEW = Sick new EP from this Pittsburgh two-piece!!!

2023 - 01 - 18 /// Operation X-Ray Best of 2022 + Lower Automation tour

January 18, 2023 by David Norman

Advertising On The Channel Of Dreams came out two days ago to quite a few surprised ears who hadn’t hear this absolute gem yet. Are your ears lonely? Need some incredible/previously obscure music? Well hell yeah there ya go. 67 tapes, 43 on pearl swirl, 13 random swirl, 10 purple swirl and one halfsies. Technical, speedy, and gorgeous screamo in the vein of Via Fondo, Beau Navire, and Rainmaking.

Lower Automation is doing a run of easterly-ish dates in the US and one in Canada! The dates are below and you can go to the band’s facebook page by clicking on it.

Operation X-Ray held their Best of 2022 radio show and the final section for “screamo/skramz” was littered with Zegema and Tomb Tree releases. Some of our bands that were played: Rotting In Dirt, Virgin Mother, Hetta, Massa Nera, Apostles Of Eris, Venus Twins, Blind Girls, Anna Sage, Gil Cerrone, Piri Reis, Trophy Hunt, Qatsi, Lower Automation, and Keratin. Holy moly!

The debut release ‘Mount Whateverest’ by Ego Death Children’s Choir was set free to destroy the world and almost all of the copies are gone. 1 copy remains on the Softseed Music bandcamp and 1 copy remains in this store, otherwise that’s all she wrote! The band plays mind-altering noise/jazz/grind with saxophone and features members of Blue Youth, Library Voices, Anemone, etc. and it’s highly unlistenable aka great for this crowd!

CanaDave’s favourite EP of 2022 was Hetta’s ‘Headlights’ by a landslide. Apparently he isn’t the only one who’s lid has been flipped, because Bandcamp Daily just interviewed them! Hot damn! What? Really? New songs coming? Oooooo baby! Click on the pic or text to read the interview.

Greed Worm was on the No Echo spotlight and has their Blackwater Sniper tapes coming through Tomb Tree in February when you’ll find it on our bandcamp. You can jam their debut EP below or click on za pic for the interview/spotlight.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MEIßEL = I hereby apologize for sleeping on this sick 2022 EP. Hot, punchy, two-piece hardcore/emo-violence.

2022 - 09 - 25 /// Get ready for Monday!

September 25, 2022 by David Norman

We’re releasing that stab to the brain known as Qatsi tomorrow alongside the Reverie 12” because both digitals have already been released, so who cares! Maybe we can help you save on shipping by doing this. Here are the three variants for the Qatsi debut EP ‘‘Засыпай. /80 or something, I guess we’ll find out tomorrow.

Reverie releases on 12” tomorrow as well, so bundle up those orders and save on shipping! We’ve only got 30 copies across two stores, I think they might go pretty quickly.

Mathcore Index’s Mathcast gave Rotting In Dirt some serious love and even mentioned that it was their most listened to album from the entire podcast. That’s really sayin’ something!!! Thanks fellas <3

Meditations #5 ‘Understanding’ 7” is finally available in the Canada/International store after something like an 8 month delay. The Meditations set is now complete.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: THOUGHTCRIMES = Good fucking lord where did this come from? Absolutely bonkers mathcore with some seriously top-notch vocals.

2022 - 09 - 11 /// Among Light tomorrow!

September 11, 2022 by David Norman

Rotting In Dirt 12”s are almost sold out, US store has less than 10 and the Canada/International store is down to 2! Order links on embedded in this bandcamp page.

Tomorrow is the release of the obscure Among Light from San Antonio that featured Frank and Matt of Tentacles playing as a guitar/vox + drums two-piece. Were they good? No. They were fucking amazing. And they only released a three-song demo. So I made sure to get some very limited and sick tapes to release the demo EP along with a previously unreleased/unfinished instrumental jam. The 26 tapes release tomorrow Monday September 12th, 2022 at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST. Below is a video I took of them playing at Austin Blood Alliance Fest back in 2015. Def make sure you make it to the second song in the video. The drums are unnnnnnreal!

Here’s an Out Past the Rings for the very in-stock ‘Protiklady’ by Czechia’s Rutka Laskier. If you like Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket, Suffocate For Fuck Sake, and the like, you need to check this out!

Heavenly Blue was born of Youth Novel and shares three members, so as the band is still writing their first material they opted to play both Heavenly Blue material in addition to a few old Youth Novel bangers. For this, I could not have been more ecstatic, and showed Maya by nearly passing out when she first told me at the fest. Without a doubt tied for my favourite set of the fest, this all happened of Day 2 of ZBR Fest Mid-West 2022 on June 12th, 2022.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: SECOND GUESSING = The band popped back into existence to release this stellar two-song, 10+ minute 7”EP. Awesome Euro screamo!