Nuvolascura cds on Monday!

October 13, 2024 by David Norman

We’ve made cds of the two Nuvolascura full lengths (100 of each) alongside the band, but we’ve only got 25 of each! These release on Monday in both stores and our bandcamp, then it’s prep time before we absolutely pummel you with amazingness in November with new Senza, new Concealer, and new Gxllium!

This store got another distro update, this time with a lot of rando stuff and updates on long sold out releases. Definitely check our bandcamp for final copies shed by CanaDave including Iwroteyourhaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook, Rainmaking, Blind Girls, In Loving Memory, and Komuso/Setsuko. There’s also a bunch of ZBR pencils & single items from Wax Vessel that we got some extra copies of, including the ZBR->WV logo switch shirt! All of those items are in the new items/special are…linked to this sentence.

Gxllium! has a new EP dropping on Oct 15th! OMSB is premiering “Axel Peart” right now! Tapes from yours truly at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST on said date. Click this text or the pic above for the full post!

Crowning + Oaktails have their final show in Japan tonight. New release is out.. Split tapes a comin’…probably late November, maybe early December.

Bloom Dream got some hefty and well-deserved love from Heavy Blog Is Heavy in their October roundup. Click on the pic above or this text to go there. Jam/buy that shit below!

The 188th Out Past the Rings is for Infant Island’s ‘Sepulcher’ tape/12”. It’s very dense and goated. Somehow we have one copy of a few variants in stock, get’em before they gone…all linked below!!!

Lower Automation got some love from Score AV, check out the review linked to this text and jam/buy below! The blue swirls are now hella low.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: ENVY = I put this here in case you somehow missed that that longest running screamo band just released a banger of a new album.

2024 - 08 - 16 /// rest of August

August 16, 2024 by David Norman

A quick weekender to tide you over till next week, but first a quickie schedule:

Monday August 19th: Edhochuli ‘Higherlander’ 12” second press

Friday August 23rd: Hillsboro cassette EP on Softseed Music

Monday August 26th: ZBR Fest VHS take 2

This fest talk is coinciding perfectly with our single-band fest videos that have started popping up on Youtube and now include some bonus jams! First up, Naedr and Gxllium!!! Keep an eye on our channel to get all the latest videos as they premeire.

Riversleem visited CanaDave as the final part of their first West Coast tour. Idioteq.com also bumped that sick bowling music video. Click on this text for the full article and music video. Below are some pics of the band <3

Closet Witch music video is out on Youtube give that thing a jam, get destroyed, then buy the 12”.

Edie from Middle Man Records and Coma Regalia is in a tough spot. Let’s be honest, funding other people’s art is fucking hard. We definitely know. If Edie has ever released any of your music please consider giving money to her gofundme (or even if she hasn’t) and we can help her reach their goal to cut ties with their creditors. Click on this text or the pic above to give.

Equalizing Distort has been playing lots of cool shit lately and their July 21st episode is no different. Check out Lower Automation and Animal Faces by clicking on this text.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: NORFAIR = Sick new Michigan screamo!

2024 - 05 - 21 /// welcome to Lower Automation & Constrain releases!

May 21, 2024 by David Norman

Nuvolascura cds are next, if you caught them on their most recent tour around ZBR Fest you’ll know these new compilation cds exist. The band took 70, we have 30. They sold all of their copies already so pick one up once they drop on May 28th at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST

Lower Automation’s new EP ‘Welcome To My Deathbed’ was released yesterday! We still have some tapes in stock on some gorgeous variants. The Core And Co blog reviewed the album, translate to English if need be. Click on this text to go there!

Constrain’s new EP ‘Welcome To Club Vampire’ has just released on Tomb Tree over 53 tapes. This thing is chockfull of metalcore and sassy metallic hardcore goodness. Amazing screams, massive breakdowns, and panic chords aplenty. P.S. the tapes look sick af.

Gossip’s 10”EP ‘Coals of Juniper’ continues to get the highest of praise, this time from This Noise Is Ours. We’re still in the midst of shipping out all our shit but will have promo pics of these up later this week or next week at the latest. They look amazing.

Big Water (featuring members of Horseboy, Missouri Executive Order 44, Leg Yield, etc.) got a ZBR Roster Review series plug. The stores might have like 1 copy left. Click on the pic above or this text to go there. Jam that shit below.

Demersal’s video premiere went up around the time of ZBR Fest so we didn’t get to share it properly. Here it is, complete with commentary by the band! Click on this text to go there.

Operation X-Ray premiered a Lower Automation track last week as well as a buncha other awesome shit. If you aren’t listening to this program every Friday then you are missing out on so many amazing bands.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: OMSORG = New four-song EP from these Danish post-hardcore/screamo vets.

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

May 17, 2024 by David Norman

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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 Duncan show info. Watch a live video from their first show below.

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 - 05 - 10 /// Demersal and Niboowin kickin' butts!

May 10, 2024 by David Norman

Niboowin is out! Discounted bundles with the band’s debut 12”LP ‘Breathing’ are moving hella fast. Screamo and black metal meet atmospheric amazingness from these veterans.

Demersal’s 2024 self-titled full length ‘Demersal’ is out and shipping next week! 10 tracks of unique, versatile, and cathartic screamo/metallic hardcore from Denmark. Easily their best work yet! We’ve only got 25 copies so don’t expect them to stick around for long!

The Chicago Reader did an interview with CanaDave a few weeks before the fest and it came out after he arrived in Chicago so we’re just posting this now. It blatantly answers the question as to why no more ZBR Fests in BC, among other things. Click on the pic above or this text to take a gander!

Tomb Tree’s Constrain was on the (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) podcast with CanaDave and it was a blast. Their new EP ‘Welcome to Club Vampire’ sees the light of day May 21st, 2024 on cassettes that I’m test dippin’ today! Click on the text to go to the full article or just listen below.

Usurp Synapse got some additional love from Brooklyn Vegan in their review round-up. We have a few tapes left but more like 15% of our total stock. Hurry if you want a specific variant cuz some are already gone! Click on the text to go the full review list and/or jam/buy that shit below!

Edie from Middleman Records and Coma Regalia and The Human Machine does the Spark X Magazine that you can buy for $10 and includes a cd! CanaDave did the Scene Report for Canada in this issue. Hard recommend!!! Idioteq.com did a feature on it which is linked to this text.

MOURN RECIF vic show Hillsboro Bok Suna.jpg

Both videos from Mourn Recif’s first show in Duncan are now up for viewing, and the band has two upcoming shows in May with Hillsboro and Bok Suna, including this newly added Duncan show on May 25th (event page here)

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: REIA CIBELE = Friends of Hetta are friends of mine <3