Detach The Islands + ZBR Fest 2024 video

July 19, 2024 by David Norman

ZBR Fest 2024’s video is out and it’s fucking awesome. I heard VHS copies are going on sale soon…like 10 or something silly. Keep an eye out on our Instagram for more info on that.

Detach The Islands have finally released their new album ‘A Highly Magnified History’ on 105 tapes via Tomb Tree. This thing is fucking unhinged to the max, bizarre, and fucking genius. Pics of the tapes above, jam below. Remember that Bandcamp upped their cut so our copies there are 20% more expensive than our stores aka GO BUY THEM FROM OUR STORES AND NOT BANDCAMP!!! If you click on this text you can check out the full premiere that happened on the 17th from Brooklyn Vegan which includes lotsa extra info.

A quick reminder that the Excrucis album ‘There are Collectivities that Devour Souls’ releases on Monday and we gotz two singles below. Album of the year contender without a fucking doubt. Shit slaps so hard.

Smush’s ‘If you were here I’d be home now’ got a ridiculously awesome review from Everything Is Noise. Looks like 12”s will be ready late Aug/early September. Jam below, links to buy via the embed. CanaDave will be at their next show on July 26th in Vancouver with distro items if you wanna come see a sick show and say hi to some screamo dude at a rock show. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the review.

Click here for the full review and more videos!

Mourn Recif has an upcoming Victoria show on August 24th. The lineup hasn’t been released yet but I can say it’ll be the best screamo show on Vancouver Island in the past while. In the meantime you can check out the show’s predecessor where Mourn Recif got to meet and play with a buncha sick bands including Coup D’Etat, All That Decays, Bathtub Autopsy, and Chopping Block. Click on this text for the review and jam a Coup D’Etat video below.

The Aussie homies Gil Cerrone were on the most recent Not Just A Phase podcast and we’re running seriously low on our 12” copies which are set to arrive in the next two weeks (fingers crossed). You can jam/buy their new album by clicking on this text.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: LETTERBOMBS = Our European friends have finally dropped a full length and it’s awesome!

2024 - 07 - 12 /// Onewaymirror promo pics + Excrucis song premiere

July 12, 2024 by David Norman

Ooooo baby we gotz those sexy Onewaymirror 7”s in last night! These go up for sale on Sunday July 14th at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST! 200 merge, 200 pink, 100 black, 5 tests and another 5 botched tests that we’ll put up at cost.

Gil Cerrone’s ‘Consumer’ released in full today so you need to check that fire out and keep it contained before it burns everything down. 12”s should arrive and ship by the end of July.

Excrucis had a song premiere on OMSB today and by golly it’s some serious fire. You can jam “Ceasefire” from the Zampler below or click on this text/the picture above to hear the brand new song “Parasite”. Both come off of the band’s July 22nd release ‘There are Collectivities that Devour Souls’ releasing on 100 tapes through ZBR.

The Beats Per Minute blog posted a massive missed list of stuff they hadn’t reviewed from the first half of 2024 and there are some ZBR and Tomb Tree things floating around in there like Terry Green and Basque. Check out the entire article by clicking on this text or the picture above. Terry is down to the literal last few copies.

Detach The Islands has a lot more coming out before they officially drop this new album on July 19th…expect another song premiere on Operation X-Ray tonight!!!

CanaDave’s homies Hillsboro are releasing their new EP in late August with 25 tapes on Softseed and another version on their own label Play Dead. New music video below, and you can tell they’re getting a lot heavier! :)

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: DIAL = The dudes in Animal Faces told me about this last week and I’m in love. Oldie but goodie.

2024 - 07 - 06 /// Spoiled almost sold out + Onewaymirror next

July 06, 2024 by David Norman

Spoiled’s ‘AV_Syndrome_0.1’ released yesterday and we’re already 75% sold out. Snag those last copies before they’re gone, as they likely won’t be repressed and if they are it won’t be for many years.

Onewaymirror is next, finished at the plant this past week and should be in hand a week or two after the digital release on July 8th. You can jam one of the five tracks on Zampler #23 embedded below, it’s titled “Fourth Song”. We did 500 copies over 3 variants plus 5 test presses with an additional 5 test presses with the wrong song order, so we’ll have some of those up for sale later July, as the records ship to us on Monday and we should be good to have them up either later this week or early the week after. Don’t worry we’ll be posting about it everywhere so just stay awake.

Gil Cerrone’s ‘Consumer’ should be in hand this month, with the full release going down July 12th on Tomb Tree. We’ve just added an extra song to the bandcamp page which you should check out immediately. Fucking slaps.

CanaDave’s Mourn Recif has a fucking banger of a show coming up in less than two weeks across on the mainland of Vancouver on July 18th with a buncha sick screamo bands that we’ve been following for years. So stoked. New videos from the Hillsboro and Bok Suna shows will be appearing on the (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) blog later today and will be shared next news post.

Summer Skramz from MaxxIsntBored from youtube includes Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow, Mouthing, Massa Nera, and Annakarina. This video actually introduced me to Grimlitter which is sick af so thank you.

Smush got more love on CHRW’s Chin Music. 12” pre-order still open on Softseed Music linked right heeya!

Direct link to the radio show here.

Hillsboro has a brand new EP coming out on Softseed Music in later August with some swirly tapes. The band just released a new song/music video “Fell” from said EP and it’s awesome. Like…dude, check it out. Duuuuuuude!!! Definitely not powerviolence.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: GRIMLITTER = Brooklyn two-song demo that fucking slaps hella hard. Already salivating over new recordings and I haven’t even heard anything yet lol

2024 - 06 - 14 /// Gil Cerrone pre-orders & Charger Port + Serling split

June 14, 2024 by David Norman

First off, Terry Green 12”s are almost out! You wanna get one later this summer? Unlikely! You want one this fall? Ha! You want one before the end of the year? Not happening. We had over 200 copies and we’re already down to about 5-10 copies per variant per store. We love you Terry.

Animal Faces releases on Monday, promo pics imminent. /100. More info further down!

Gil Cerrone has a brand new song + pre-order for their upcoming 12”LP ‘Consumer’. This Australian band ripped Tomb Tree up with their ‘Coronach’ a few years back so we’ve all been eagerly anticipating this one and it doesn’t disappoint. 8 songs of fiery screamo release July 12th, 2024 on Tomb Tree, Cremation, and No Funeral but you can pre-order that sucka now and jam “Golden Age”.

‘I don’t watch sports anymore’ is the new Charger Port + Serling split 12” lathe comes out next Wednesday June 19th on Tomb Tree, Fisher King, and Soft Grit Recordings. You can jam a Charger Port exclusive jam on (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) for their closing track “hey is for horse is”. Only 50 lathes were made, 25 clear and 25 black with incredible/unique jackets by Josh of Vamonos Tapes. Click on the text or pic above to go to the premiere or listen to it directly below.

Softseed Music is landing some pretty awesome stuff lately, with Spain’s Leavs joining Smush as heavy shoegaze artists. They just premiered their first song/music video from the upcoming album ‘Natura Universal’ that combines shoegaze with post-hardcore, dream pop, and indie rock which releases in full September 6th, 2024. We’ll have a couple a copies in the distro when it drops. This band features members of Tröpical Ice Land, Hurricäde, and Llacuna!!!

This Saturday is the Smush release show at Green Auto Body in Vancouver which Softseed Dave aka CanaDave will be attending (with some goodies) so please come out and show your support for the band! 12" pre-orders open at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST with the show happening at 7pm that night.

As mentioned we got that incredible pair of Animal Faces EPs releasing on one awesome 12” on Monday!!! US Dave is taking promo pics today so we’ll toss them up on Sunday with an additional reminder about the release. We made 100 12”s on eco-mix that release June 17th at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST! Take a gander below at the band ruining everyone at Soybomb back in the fuckin’ day.

Grind On The Road gave Demersal some love, which makes maybe 70% of the blogs I know having posted glowing reviews of this new album. Stock has dwindled so don’t expect to find these floating around later this year! Click on the text to go to the review and jam it below.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: SURUT = My bandmate and I were discussing Finnish bands and he showed me this. Very sick black metal/screamo.

2024 - 06 - 10 /// Smush & Animal Faces are next

June 10, 2024 by David Norman

It is with unbridled enthusiasm and childish glee that we are announcing the SMUSH and SOFTSEED MUSIC partnership. After hearing the two singles, Vancouver Island's Softseed Music clamored to get on board with Vancouver-based shoegaze band Smush, at which point the two realized they were on the same wavelength. This BC alliance is showcasing its strength on Friday June 15th, 2024 when the debut full length 'if you were here i'd be home now' by Smush will release with a 12"LP pre-order!!! This Softseed Music release will be a minimum run of 100 copies on colored vinyl, with the final number being determined by the pre-orders that take place over this weekend. Softseed also runs Zegema Beach Records, which has a U.S.A. store for those south of the Canadian border, and will be fulfilling US orders at a fraction of the shipping cost! Oh happy day.

Speaking of happy days, this Saturday is the release show at Green Auto Body in Vancouver which Softseed Dave will be attending (perhaps with some goodies) so please come out and show your support for the band! 12" pre-orders open at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST with orders shipping early-mid August. If you haven't heard Smush yet, check out the two music video singles that have been released (in our bio) and submerge yourself in the beautiful-yet-heavy shoegaze that swirls around influences Slow Pulp, Low, and Helmet. See you on Friday <3 <3 <3

Oh shit would you look at that? That’s the new Animal Faces 12” art that releases next on ZBR. As you can plainly see, it houses both early EPs by Toronto’s ultimate screamo band. We made 100 12”s on eco-mix that release June 17th at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST! Check out the music video for “Forward Through” below!

A week after Animal Faces sees the release of the new Fallingwithscissors EP ‘the birth and death of an angel’ on cassette. The glitchy, chaotic metalcore is phenomenal and sounds like a clusterfuck of early Meth., Deftones, Sectioned, and .gif from god.

Demersal’s new album is down to less than 5 copies over our 3 stores so don’t sleep for much longer! No Clean Singing gave their self-titled some much deserved props in their latest ‘Thing You May Have Missed’ segment. Click on this text for the review, jam/buy it below.

Gil Cerrone from Australia have something new coming next month and this Friday is their first single so keep an eye out! We are down to our last copies of their previous EP cassette.

Vibora also got some love over the weekend from Crossed Letters. Anyone who was at ZBR Fest 2024 knows how incredible this band comes off live, and not having a copy of this phenomenal record is damn well near screamo blasphemy. Second press out now. Click on this text for the full 9/10 review!

Operation X-Ray played some serious jams on Friday including a brand new Serling song from their upcoming split with Charger Port! That releases next Wednesday June 19th on 50 12” lathes and it’s fuckin’ awesome. There’s also some Smush, fallingwithscissors, and Terry Green on the episode!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MALIŠA BAHAT = Croatia’s best band is finally ready with their debut full length and holy shit it does not disappoint!!!