We're back!!!

August 12, 2024 by David Norman

Hey yo! What’s up!?!?!?! The Daves are back and ready to kick some ass. New Friends Fest 2024 was awesome and the we got some serious screamo desserts. What’s next? Well we had so much happen during our break that I’ll be posting today and Tuesday (which doubles as the Reia Cibele tape release on Tomb Tree), so get ready for a full course screamo meal. Screamo is food? You betcha.

Riversleem just released another sick music video from their second EP on 7” /100. “Exit Essential Dread” is a fuckin’ banger and bowling fucking rules so you can’t go wrong. Get Sleemed, my friends!

Onewaymirror got the This Noise Is Ours love and rightfully so. 7”s still in stock but they move continuously so I reckon we’ll probably sell out before the year is out. Click on the logo above or this text to go to the review. Listen/buy below! Bandcamp was restocked just now as well!

Smush got interviewed by Idioteq.com! 12”s arrive in about a month and I’ll keep raving about it till then…and probably afterward, too. CanaDave’s likely Album of the Year!!! Click on this text or the pic above to go to the interview. Jam/buy below!

Olth came out the day the Daves crossed countries/flew across a country and we moved a ton in that time. We’ve got only a handful of Rando Rainbow left (I think just the 3 on bandcamp, 1 in the Canada store and 15 in the US store) and about 3x that amount for the tri-merge.

Tenue flew on their August 1st release, unfortunately CanaDave also flew to Ontario and didn’t have time to ship the U.S. copies till today. They should arrive and be sent out in two weeks so those Mericans need a bit o’ patience <3 We also restocked Bandcamp with a single copy of each variant from the Canada store, otherwise we are almost sold out! Ordering more this week.

Operation X-Ray played more heat last week with our upcoming Reia Cibele amidst more bangers as well as Softseed Music’s next release from Hillsboro on August 23rd!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: LAYER:0 = This slaps so hard. Sounds like Hayworth x Fallingwithscissors x Wreck Of the Minotaur x Sawtooth Grin.

2024 - 07 - 16 /// What's comin' up

July 16, 2024 by David Norman

Thursday July 18th is the ZBR Fest 2024 video documentary premiere. Join at 10am PST / 12pm CST / 1pm EST and watch it live with us.

Onewaymirror is out and doing well. The merges are running low, black is down to four copies left, and there is a test press on Bandcamp and in the U.S. store.

CanaDave interviewed Andrew (vocals) from .gif from god on his OMSB podcast which you can check out above or go to the full post (with additional links, text, etc.) by click on this text. You can snag the last few cassettes for ‘Digital Red’ below!

Here’s a direct embed to that new Excrucis song “Parasite”. What a banger. 11-song full length cassettes July 22nd on ZBR!!!

Operation X-Ray premiered a brand new Detach The Islands song!!! As well as Onewaymirror, Gil Cerrone, and Hillsboro!

This Noise Is Ours tackled the Spoiled release that we just put on 12” alongside Larry Records. Here’s the full review linked to the pic above or this text. Jam/buy below as Canada only has one copy left, Bandcamp and the U.S. store carrying about four copies each, then she done.

You should know we’re down to the last Terry Green copies of ‘Provisional Living’ already. This Canada/International store AND Bandcamp are completely sold out, leaving 4 splatter in the US store as our final copies. Get’em now! Eklektik Rock certainly knows what’s up. Click on this text or the picture above to go to their Terry review. Link to US store in the Bandcamp embed below.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: VOTIVE = Ex-members of Gas Up Yr Hearse!, Foxmoulder, and Portrayal Of Guilt make up this powerhouse that unleashed their awesome debut this past week.

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