2024 - 05 - 17 /// Lower Automation stream + early-bird variant

Quickies:

1 - Some of our U.S. shipping is currently a bit slower than usual as US Dave attempts to keep afloat whilst shipping off a ton of stuff and closing up the rest of our ZBR Fest obligations. Oh, plus his real job and being a dad/husband. Cut that hero some slack <3

2 - ZBR Fest video should be up late June.

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Lower Automation’s new EP ‘Welcome To My Deathbed’ was just premiered by Idioteq.com and you can order the tapes now! The premiere also includes a track-by-track breakdown! Here are the variants, links to order the early-bird variant (2nd one, neon blue/black + yellow/orange) are embedded in the premiere which you can access by clicking on this text or the pic above.

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CanaDave teamed up with Josh Jakubowski from Neil Perry, Hot Cross, The Now, Joshua Fit For Battle fame to do this second episode of Not Just Fading Away Like The Rest Of Them featuring Endeavor and La Quiete.

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Brooklyn Vegan did a great piece on the new self-titled Demersal 12”LP and tacked on a track-by-track breakdown from the band. Click on the text or pic above to read it in full. Jam/buy it below!

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Terry Green’s ‘Provisional Living’ is in hand and ready for the June 3rd drop. 300 copies over two variants. This one was definitely worth waiting 10 years for!!! Check out the closer below.

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As Mourn Recif gears up to their two shows with Hillsboro and Bok Suna, the promoters are at work so tickets for Victoria show on May 24th is now active, while it seems like the May 25th show in Duncan will be door-only. Click on this text for the Victoria show info.

Click here for the event page!

Click here for the Duncan show info. Watch a live video from their first show below.

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Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: FOXGLOVE = This new EP was shown to me by my bandmate and I got through 10 seconds before immediately downloading it. Fire.

2024 - 04 - 22 /// Usurp Synapse EP + Venus Twins LP

We stoked to officially announce that we’re helping Usurp Synapse release their brand spankin’ new EP on limited edition cassette May 3rd, 2024!!! This coincides with their pre-show ZBR Fest performance alongside Meth., We Weren’t Invited, Godseyes, and Colacon. Jam a jam below!

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Venus Twins 12” vinyl for their almighty ‘RAXIS’ full length are officially out and in both ZBR stores! This band is hot so don’t expect them to stick around for long. Plus they’ve got a tour with Whores coming up and a split with Heavenly Blue so you’ll be seeing lots more of them! Click on this text to go to the Softseed Music Bandcamp page to jam/buy, or just go to either ZBR store!

VENUS TWINS - RAXIS (cassette/12")

from CA$15.00

For fans of: Death From Above, Big Dick, Raw Grip, and Lightning Bolt.

The new 10-track behemoth of an album that is ‘RAXIS’ is a prodigious leap forward for the New York two-piece. The brothers play drums and bass/vocals with serious noise rock nods to other killer bands such as Death From Above and Big Dick (hmmm…both Canadian) but add a serious dose of experimentation. Be it the undeniable grooves on “Return to Dust“, “Angel 32:35“, or “Light Catches the Rats“, the eerie and awkward “Agony Sludge Infinite“ and “seeS recnepS“, or the long and epic “God’s Machines“ and “In a Smashed Mirror“, this album covers a serious amount of ground and is one of the best noise rock albums of 2022. Oh, and the tapes look stellar. What’s that? Vinyl too? Fuck yes.

12” vinyl /250: 125 tri-merge, 125 clear w/blue trip button, and 5 test presses, all with lyric insert. Cassettes /80, 40 on purple swirl, 28 on clear blue swirl, 5 on pearl swirl, 5 on varnished swirl, and 2 test dips w/matching swirl case, all in a plastic case with j-card and download code. 10 songs.

Listen here:
https://softseedmusic.bandcamp.com/album/raxis

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12" tri-merge (/125) clear w/blue triple button (/125) test press + variant spread (/3) purple swirl (/40) blue swirl (/28) pearl swirl (/5) varnished swirl (/5) test dip w/matching swirl case (/2)

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Party Hats podcast has a Terry Green premiere! Holy shit!!! Click on this text to go to the full post or just listen away below. Party Hats are playing ZBR Fest and just had a split 4-way come out on Larry Records. The Terry Green album ‘Provisional Living’ releases on ZBR June 3rd.

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Godseyes have been added to the pre-show (goodbye Iwan) and that should 100% solidify our lineup. Schedule below, tickets available on the clickthrough.

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CanaDave is leaving in 10 days so the ZBR Fest bug is coursing through his veins, so let’s look back on a very awesome but poorly attended Fest in Vancouver in the summer of 2019. After the fest was when Joliette got banned from the U.S.A. for 5 years :( Check out a short recap video below and if you want more info/links/videos just click on the full 3-day review linked by clicking on this text.

Day 1: Diva Plavalaguna, Elle, Nuvolascura, Joliette, and Senza.

Day 2: Malevich, Lytic, Valtiel, Terrifying Girl’s High School, None But Equals, Double Standards, and La Sonora Clandestina.

Day 3: Massa Nera, Reveries, Obroa-skai, Emma Goldman, Friolento, and Miriam.

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Basque got some seriously positive/honest things said by Borderline Fuckup! Check it out and snag a tape before they gone, which you can find linked through our Bandcamp page or just snag one below. Click on the pic above to go to the review and click on this text to go to said Bandcamp page.

BASQUE - Pain Without Hope of Healing (cassette)

from CA$13.50

BASQUE ‘Pain Without Hope of Healing’ cassette (TT114)

For fans of: Lord Snow, Excrucis, and Karloff.

After essentially beginning their show career touring with Blind Girls, you know this has to be good. An uncategorizable debut, these first seven songs show a band ridiculously mature for a debut release, as rampant freakouts amidst sections of intense, tight, discordant instrumentals weave in and out of every anxiety-inducing track. Catch them at New Friends Fest 2024! Tomb Tree variants include some striking swirl and a much labored-over/stamp-happy limited flower edition.

Cassettes /32, 17x ‘The Colors of Pain’ swirl, 10x ‘Flower Garden’, and 5x test dip w/matching swirl case, all w/two-sided j-cards. 7 songs.

Listen here:
https://tombtreetapes.bandcamp.com/album/pain-without-hope-of-healing

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Select Variant 'The Colors of Pain' swirl (/17)'Flower Garden' (/10)test dip w/matching swirl case (/5)

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Operation X-Ray continues their stellar coverage of many-a-genre, including our Vow, Colacon, and Crossed releases.

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Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: GODSEYES = Hopefully our last change to the fest was Iwan (out) and Godseyes (in), so check out their newest endeavor - it slaps!!!

2024 - 04 - 08 /// Gxllium! released!!!

Gxllium! tapes released! Get’em before they’re gone, cuz they’ll be gone soon, I reckon.

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Not Fading Away Like The Rest Of Them is the new podcast with Josh Jakubowski and CanaDave! Josh played in Neil Perry, Hot Cross, The Now, Joshua Fit For Battle, etc. and in these podcasts he will bring an older album while I bring a new record, and we listen to two songs from each release and discuss. This first episode features two incredible bands, Instil and Nuvolascura <3 Episode two has already been filmed and just needs editing which we’ll premiere in late April.

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LETTINGTHEINTRUSIVETHOUGHTSWIN features Riley of Gxllium! and their debut EP +1 extra song go live on Tomb Tree this Wednesday April 10th! You can jam a song in the most recent Operation X-Ray episode, during which they also played a new Terry Green jam!

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Burial Etiquette is almost out! Remaining distribution of copies:
US 25 cornetto / quad sold out
Canada 9 cornetto / quad sold out
Bandcamp 5 cornetto / 1 quad

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Crossed’s new EP ‘Vida Quieta’ got an early review from This Noise Is Ours. The full 12” releases April 20th! Check out the review by clicking on the pic above or this text and jam a jam below! See'em at ZBR Fest 2024!

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Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: THE DOG INDIANA = This semi-local band blew me away at the most recent Life In Vacuum show! Noisy, screamy, rockin’ stuff.

2024 - 04 - 05 /// Gxllium! promo pics

First and foremost, it’s Bandcamp Friday. Please consider supporting us so we can keep making records <3

.22LR released their self-titled debut earlier this week and it fucking rocks. Fans of Frail Body, Gil Cerrone, Youth Funeral, and Othiel should give this a whirl…I think you’ll dig it hard. Tapes linked to our stores directly through the Tomb Tree Bandcamp below :)

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Terry Green premiered their new jam “Full Lip” from the upcoming ‘Provisional Living’ 12”LP. First album in a fucking decade and yes, it’s worth the wait. Even better than their debut!

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Gxllium! promo pics have surfaced with the debut album releasing on ZBR this Monday April 8th at 9am EST / 11am CST / 12pm EST!!! Some very sick variants, not many made, as we’ll only have 70. Is that metal on the green tape, David? Why, yes. Yes it is. Bad-fucking-ass. CanaDave spoke with them a few weeks back which you can listen to below.

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Hawak released some of the best screamo ever then called it a day. CanaDave finally got off his ass and did another Out Past the Rings, this time for ‘Nuoc’, arguably one of the best things we’ve ever released. Co-released with Left Hand Label, not Dog Knights. I got one copy in this store and one on Bandcamp!!!

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Lower Automation was featured on Brooklyn Vegan’s “New Song Roundup”. The tapes arrived for this new EP yesterday so I’m already dipping away. Full release May 20th! Click on the pic above or this text to go to the article.

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Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: KOMAROV = New live video from our UK besties!

2023 - 06 - 27 /// Distro Drop pushed back to 6/28

First and foremost, the distro drop has been pushed back 24 hours because, simply put, we have so much stuff to update. What do we have going up? Well a bunch of restocks, but looking next to me here I see vinyl by Telos, Osmorg, Flowers Taped To Pens, Reka, Resurrectionists, Shirokuma, Graf Orlock, Sweat, Dangers, Moxiebeat, Gros Enfants Mort, Barabbas Du Förtappade, Whane, etc. and tapes from Botfly, New Friends Fest, Un Automne De Plus, Life In Vacuum, Joliette, etc. and the full cd split series from Post Marked Stamps/Blue Post Snowmanz…you know, the ones with Burial Etiquette, We Are On Fire, Pyre, etc. 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm PST on Wednesday June 28th!!! Both stores!

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We announced our involvement with Othiel via the music video premiere that went down yesterday. 12”s should be in hand this fall to release with the entire full length. Seriously, this band is incredible and we’re still in disbelief that they weren’t on our radar before submitting the LP to us!

Be on the lookout for a brand spankin’ new Lower Automation video tomorrow!

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ZMAR got a nice review from the French Core and Co blog. Our sales of this incredible LP have picked up recently, and remember they come with screenprinted outer sleeves and gatefold covers! Click on this text or the pic above to go to the review.

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Sear’s debut EP was the subject of Veil Of Sound’s most recent review. The reviewer totally understood pretty much everything about this EP, so read that well-informed review by clicking on this text or the picture above. We’re down to the last few tapes of this release!

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Terry Green couldn’t make the 2022 fest because the Canadian passport office was generally drunk and untrustworthy. Luckily we got their sexy Canadian asses on the 2023 fest and they did not disappoint. Showcasing their signature sound and expanding it with new/unreleased songs, it was a fucking treat for everyone there. 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!

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Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: GRAF ORLOCK = The band’s final 7” was released a few days back and it’s incredible! We’ll have just a few copies in stock tomorrow for the massive distro update!