'Science Progresses One Funeral at a Time' 12"s on Friday!

November 15, 2023 by David Norman

Obroa-skai 12”s are in hand and release/ship this Friday at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST! We did 100 on eco-mix (in this case it turned out blue-ish green) including a two-sided lyrical insert. We’ve got another distro item that’ll coincide with this release, get your cart ready! Also check out that Durell (drums: Obroa-skai, Mahria) podcast with Edie of Everything Remade, Coma Regalia, Middle Man Records, etc.

Closet Witch continues to dominate the review sections, this time in Eklektik Rock! Snag yourself a 12” because Closet Witch rules, landing on both Dave’s top 10 of 2023. Click on the pic above or this text to go there.

Euclid C Finder! and their debut full length is a thing of beauty, and once again Eklektik Rock took notice! Click on the pic above or this text to go there.

There’s not much other news that is publicly available, so thanks for reading and here’s some info! Firstly, I just ordered the Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow 12”LP so that’ll 100% come out in January, probably in the middle of it. Secondly, the plant is showing that Onewaymirror should be completed late December so I’d expect them to go up for sale super early in January. Thirdly, I have no clue when the 300th ZBR release will finish up, but I can say it’s a European emo-violence from years past and it’s co-released with Dog Knights. Mages? Yup.

Also in December = mages of a sold-out release (pictured below), full Othiel 12” release, full Inosuke digital release, Gifts From Enola tape boxset, Zampler #22

Crowning are playing this absolute knock-out of a show a short time before our fest in Chicago.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: LOVE SPIRAL = I know I’ve seen this before but it seemed to get lost in the shuffle, and luckily I stumbled across it again yesterday and managed to download it. Amazing stuff.

2023 - 10 - 17 /// Closet Witch pre-order + New Forms is next!

October 17, 2023 by David Norman

Closet Witch music video is out! 12” pre-orders are up! Get the variant you want before it’s too late!!!

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

Canada/International = https://www.zegemabeachrecords.com/zegema-beach-releases/chiaroscuro

Closet Witch vocalist Mollie Piatetsky was on the most recent Everything Remade podcast, check it out!!!

This Thursday is New Forms day, so this friendly reminder to drop by around 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST on October 19th is due. ‘Raising Dust’ will be released on black and blue, each out of 100, and has already been reviewed by Borderline Fuckup. Check that review out above or click on this text.

Euclid C Finder! and their new album is coming up digitally and on cassette just a week after the New Forms 12”LP, so be sure to show up on Friday October 27th at our regular time 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST to snag a tape /50. The /10 variant has boxes from Josh Johnson/Vamanos tapes, pics of those beauties comin’ next week!!!

Social Caterpillar tapes were finished over the weekend so those are ready to ship should you buy one! 12”s should be shipping any day now.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: ‘Algunas ideas pueden ser peligrosas II’ = this Latin American screamo comp is fantastic! Check it out.

2023 - 09 - 08 /// Premiere City

September 08, 2023 by David Norman

Oooo baby after a few days of silence all three of our labels had a premiere go down! First is Euclid C Finder via No Clean Singing for Zegema Beach (releases October 27th), then there was Tomb Tree’s My Hair Is A Rat’s Nest which got picked up by Stereogum (releases September 21st), and finally CanaDave’s newest label Softseed Music saw a song/music video release from Social Caterpillar via Idioteq.com (releases October 7th). Click on each picture to go to the corresponding premiere!

CanaDave and (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) did a podcast with Rob, founder of Not Just A Phase podcast. Click on this text for the very entertaining introduction and additional links.

Operation X-Ray did a double-episode this week with tons of ZBR and Tomb Tree stuff including: Crowning, New Forms, Widowdusk, Joliette, Piet Onthel, and Vibora!

Restocks going down in the Canada/International store tomorrow morning at 10am PST so check back for some hard-to-find awesomeness!!!

Hey! If you have ever wanted to be a part of one of the grave, neighbors Halloween cover compilations that I do, this may be your last chance. To be honest each year it’s getting more and more difficult to get people to submit. Last year, some friends came through at the last minute and help me wrangle up some more songs, but this year it’s starting to look like i’ll have to do a bunch myself if I want to make a decent size compilation out of it. Anyway, if you have an unreleased recording of a cover song or would like to do one and can submit it by October 1, Let me know. I would love to continue doing this but if there’s no interest maybe I should just let it go.
~Edie: Coma Regalia/Middle Man Records/etc.

Hit them up here: middlemanrecords@gmail.com

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: LIMBS = The band’s new album is fucking awesome. Hard recommend!!!

2023 - 08 - 14 /// ORBIT CINTA BENJAMIN + WIDOWDUSK + IHUNTMONSTERS

August 14, 2023 by David Norman

Not Just a Phase sold out. There’s a few left over in case some orders get lost, so if we still got’em in a few weeks we’ll add them to the next Big Stuff Thing.

Widowdusk + Ihuntmonsters split tapes just released and likely will sell out today! This is Tomb Tree #100 and quite a milestone for the label <3 If you didn’t notice, the two variants together read as Tomb Tree and to be completely honest this was a total coincidence that I exploited. Or maybe it was destiny. New art by Kyle Calvert Design!!!

Over the weekend we had a hefty distro update, with most of the US copies selling out immediately. This store still has the following updated stock still in:

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OSTRACA - Disaster (12")

CA$32.50

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OSTRACA - Enemy (12")

CA$32.50

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OSTRACA - Last (12")

CA$32.50

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MEN AS TREES - Weltschmerz & Sea of Ice Songs (2x12")

CA$47.50

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JAMAIS VU - Babak 1 (10")

CA$40.00

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GRAF ORLOCK - Destination Time Yesterday (12")

CA$30.00 CA$40.00

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SWEAT - Gotta Give It Up (12")

CA$25.00 CA$30.00

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Orbit Cinta Benjamin just premiered their single from the Flirt split cassette set to release next week on Tomb Tree!!! Click this text or the picture above to go to the review from Not Just A Phase.

Loose Teeth and Life In Vacuum’s Alexander Clark joined Canada on the OMSB podcast. The last few copies of their Constrain split will go to the band for their tour as of tomorrow, so it’s now or never from Tomb Tree! Click on this text or the picture above to go to the podcast and additional links.

Operation X-Ray gave a shout-out to ZBR again in their 2nd comeback episode, featuring Dear Diary This Is From My Teenage Angst To My Adult Self as well as Hillsboro who is releasing on CanaDave’s softer label Softseed Music in September.

Mathcore Index’s Mathcast gave some love to Seasons Worn who released their sophomore EP a few weeks back on Tomb Tree. Amazing metalcore with prog influences. Tapes still in stock!!!

Both Dave’s have been in love with Closet Witch for years (we even sport identical couple hoodies!) so it was a no brainer to ask the Iowa-based band to tear our ears apart. And they did. New album coming 2023 <3 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! Actually, there are only two more!!!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: HEXIS = Our Denmark friends just released a split with fellow countrymen Telos (whom Tomb Tree works with) which you can snag from Init Records. Remember Hexis + Trauma Model is the next Canadian ZBR show on Vancounver Island in Victoria, tickets here!!!

2023 - 08 - 11 /// Not Just A Phase Vol.2

August 11, 2023 by David Norman

Not Just A Phase volume 2 compilation is out! It’s amazing! 20 unreleased tracks! Tapes are flying, get one. Jams from Warren Of Ohms, Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow, Letterbombs, Snag, Matter Field, Retratos De Heroina, My Hair Is A Rat’s Nest, New Forms, Hetta, Perfumed Saturnine Angels, Burial Etiquette, Salt Money, Lagrimas, Geronomostilton, Novely, Norfair, VS Self, Iburiedyourflowers, and Piet Onthel!

Widowdusk and Ihuntmonsters comes out on Monday via Tomb Tree. There are 102 copies. Almost 1,000 people liked the Instagram post so methinks we drastically under-ordered. Be there 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST on August 14th!!!

We had to restock the Loose Teeth and Constrain split because this store and Bandcamp sold out in 24 hours while the US store copies just sat there, so we took 75% of that stock and shipped it back to Canada. We’ll keep these in the shop until Tuesday then whatever leftovers we have I’m sending to the band for tour.

CONSTRAIN + LOOSE TEETH - Split (cassette)

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CONSTRAIN + LOOSE TEETH ‘Split’ cassette (TT096)

For fans of: The Fall Of Troy, Colacon, Exhalants, and From A Second Story Window.

Last summer Tomb Tree was approached by Loose Teeth to release their first output since the ‘A Commorbid Letter’ that the two had worked on together. Their split partners were introduced later and floored us, just like the new Loose Teeth material. A truly commanding split between two of Ontario’s sickest live bands. Part metallic hardcore, part metal, part emotive. Fer fuck’s sake even Thomas Erak of The Fall Of Troy lends his vocal talents to the opening track! This is a low first run, get’em before they’re gone! Art by Nate from No Funeral/Basque. <3

Tapes /33, 20 on swirl, 10 on grey and 3 test dips, all w/jcard. 3 songs by each band.

Listen here:
https://tombtreetapes.bandcamp.com/album/split-5

Colour:

swirl (/20) grey (/10) test dip w/matching swirl case (/3)

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Our Orchid ‘Gatefold’ 12”s are way more than half gone after just 24 hours, so snatch up the final ones before they’re gone. We won’t be putting in any more orders anytime soon! US store linked to this text.

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ORCHID - Gatefold (2023 repress 12")

CA$30.00

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Invisible Oranges gave Perfumed Saturnine Angels some love. There’s one copy left on bandcamp (linked below) and another brand new track dropped on the Not Just A Phase compilation 2 today! Click on this text or the picture above to go to the review page.

New Breed Scene gave the entire Zampler 21 a review and they seemed to dig it! Some apt and some peculiar references, this was a treat to read! Click on the pic above or this text to go there.

Find out why Blind Girls is the hottest screamo band in the world. Weeeeeooooo! 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!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: PIQUE = Honeysuckle Records released a discography of this now dead but extremely important New York screamo band.