Smush is in + Crowning to Japan!

October 09, 2024 by David Norman

Smush has arrived! Holy moly was that outside of the plant’s guaranteed time. Inserts are printed and the records look/sound great. Softseed Music made 150 of’em and they’re already more than half gone. U.S. store gets their copies when U.S. Dave returns from his Japanese tour with Crowning/Oaktails, and should all be shipped by the end of October. I’d probably keep an eye on their bandcamp btw!

Crowning cds are in stock in both stores + bandcamp. They are literally flying to Japan right now to join Oaktails for the tour. As stated, keep an eye on those bandcamps!

Members of Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow, Mourn Recif, and Hillsboro have a new group called Wollruss. Their first show is October 19th, 2024 at Oaklands with A Recorded Dawn, Shoplifter, and I.O.

Moshpit Nation unveiled their best of 2024 thus far and it’s littered with ZBR and Tomb Tree releases. Othiel, Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow, Edhochuli, and Demersal among other incredible albums (and EP). Click on the picture above or this text to go to the full list complete with review.

Machine Music three-quarters of the way through 2024 top 100+ includes Eyelet at #76. “One of the best and most memorable screamo-esque releases thus far this decade”. Amen! 3rd press is embedded below via bandcamp or either store. Click on this text or the pic above to go to the massive list!

Click here for a more in-depth post with band links, etc.

Rohan from Respire, Votive, Foxmoulder, Dela Trudo, and New Friends popped over for a quick podcast chat! Click on this text or the pic above to go to the full post, or just listen to us ramble below.

This Noise Is Ours covered Drei Affen’s most recent 12”LP ‘Seguimos Cigxs’. This sucker is long sold out but I’ve got an unclaimed rare painted version below. Once this is gone we’re like “out” out. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the review. Buy that lone copy and/or jam below.

Of Death was on the podcast Not Just A Phase podcast that you can check out by clicking on this text. We released their 2x12” discography…two years ago? Yeah, about that. The shriekiest of birds.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: VENUS TWINS = Softseed and ZBR still has some RAXIS 12”s in stock, and those beautiful twins were recently signed to ThreeOneG, appeared on Mr. Beast and placed 4th/100 twins, aaaaaand released a new music video from an upcoming EP!!!

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 - 10 /// Onewaymirror 7"s this Sunday

July 10, 2024 by David Norman

ONEWAYMIRROR was released digitally on Monday and will be in hand on Thursday. We’ll drop these suckas on Sunday July 14th at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST, with promo pics coming this Friday!

A week after Gil Cerrone’s ‘Consumer’ 12” album releases, Tomb Tree will then drop the brand new Detach The Islands album ‘A Highly Magnified History’. Here’s the brand new song premiering at Everything Is Noise. Click this text to go there and get ruined.

(((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) did a double live review for both Mourn Recif, Bok Suna, and Hillsboro shows that happened back in May on Vancouver Island. Lotsa new songs including the full live set from Bok Suna that features a ton of new material. Click on this text to go to the full post.

Cape Light should never be forgotten, for they were fucking amazing. Remember said awesome sauce along with This Noise Is Ours in their ZBR Roster Review series for their discography tape we released years ago. Very sold out. Click on the logo above or this text for the review.

Operation X-Ray keeps it going, playing Onewaymirror and Spoiled on this stacked episode. Should I even bother saying stacked? They’re always stacked.

Gotta cycle back to Bok Suna cuz I just got masters for their new album and they are AMAZING. Holy jesus if you liked the older material this shit is gonna blow you away. You can hear some of the songs in their full live set in Victoria embedded above. Jam the currently released stuff below!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: BLIND GIRLS = Just the new record. Woooooowza.

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 - 07 - 01 /// Zampler #23 + Eyelet 3rd press!

July 01, 2024 by David Norman

Join the ‘Leadership Caste’ and check out the 23rd Zampler now, cuz it was just released! 27 sexy tracks including 5 previously unreleased jams from the likes of Senza, Onewaymirror, Excrucis, Hallam Foe, and Tress Allude!

On the polar opposite we’ve got new of Gxllium! ending, and it breaks our hearts. Love you Gally.

Eyelet’s 2nd repress (that’s 3rd press) is now available on yellow 12” with green art. We did this one of 500 so we won’t sell out immediately, but also don’t sleep for too long!

Josh and Dave released their 3rd episode last night, this one is Remingtin (West Fucking Triad) vs. Senza! Without a doubt the episode that had us both most stoked on the music.