Vibora pre-order + Final SkramzCave + Zampler #26

December 24, 2025 by David Norman

Hey y’all! Okay quick end of the year schedule:

Monday Dec. 29th = Magana ‘Bad News + Golden Tongue’ cassette release via Softseed Music

Tuesday Dec. 30th = CanaDave’s SkramzCave final opening (24 hour-sale)

Wednesday Dec 31st = Zampler #26 releases (maybe some cds again???)

In case you missed it, the Vibora pre-order for ‘egin ez dugun guztia’ 12”LP. “Fotos” is available to stream on our bandcamp and another single will show up on the Zampler #26 compilation releasing December 31st!

Want to play a ZBR Fest game? Okay, here are 5 bands that are comin’:

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The latest OMSB Podcast with CanaDave went up last week with Rosa of For Your Health! Check it out below and be sure to scope ‘This Bitter Garden’ as it’s one of 2025’s best! Click on the pic above or this text to go to the primary post with all the links, or just listen on Bandcamp below!

Vibora and Sans Visage were on the most recent Operation X-Ray episode amidst a flurry of other incredible music. Thanks Andre!

There’s literally a single Emma Goldman 12” vinyl left for ‘all you are is we’ so it’s today’s Last Fucking Copy. Pick up arguably the best screamo album of 2025 or forever hold your peace. Once this is gone we have a handful of tapes left but no ways those even make it to spring 2026.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: SALLOW MOTH = New EP from the almighty Garry Brents (Cara Neir, Gonemage, etc.) with our very own CanaDave helping out on vocals!

2025 - 12 - 18 /// Sans Visage released + Vibora single

December 18, 2025 by David Norman

Yesterday the Sans Visage tapes for ‘drown/resistance’ were released alongside the Bandcamp digitals. This is important for two reasons, the first is that the EP is a fucking banger and it’s their first lone release since 2020’s incredible ‘moments, and the second is this will be our last release for cassettes that will have more swirl painted tapes than non-swirls. All future releases (until I run out of paint) will have a rare swirl version and the other variants will not be painted. Hopefully this helps move some of these older Tomb Tree swirl tapes in the process. The end of an era, my god, I’ve dipped probably over 5,000 tapes in the last 8 years.

The brand new single from Spain’s Vibora is out! “Fotos” is a fucking banger (zero surprise) that will follow on our Bandcamp tomorrow alongside the 12” pre-order for ‘Egin Ez Dugun Guztia’. Snag their previous LP ‘Zaldi Beltza’ by clicking on this text!

Twins did a track-by-track explanation and interview with the almighty Idioteq.com regarding their latest ‘it’s_complicated’ 12”LP. Access that by clicking on the pic above or this text, and remember we’re down to our last 2 copies (linked below)!

Serrate got the This Noise Is Ours treatment via a very excellent review. Check it out and please pick up a record, it’s definitely one of our faves from 2025! Click on the pic above or this text to go the the review and jam/buy below.

Sine Nomine’s Derek Yeager was a guest on Vinyl Bang! Listen/watch him reveal some personal vinyl favourites amidst warranted praise from the two hosts. The band released ‘The Sunder Veil’ last month on tapes via Tomb Tree and their own label Ephemera Flux did 100 vinyl of it. Watch above, jam/buy below.

Well shit, here’s another example of Dave Droppin’ The Ball on today’s Last Fucking Copy, as this test dip of Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket cassette for ‘Det onda. Det goda. Det vackra. Det fula.’ was just not stocked anywhere. Oopsie daisy! Snag now or forever hold your peace.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: AMBRETTA = I came for the cover art. I stayed for the awesomeness. FFO: Mondrary, Amygdala, and I Have No Mouth.

2025 - 12 - 15 /// ZBR applies some break action

December 15, 2025 by David Norman

Hey y’all, some sad news first. With the North American economy neck-chop and subsequent monetary turmoil, our sales slowdown will result in less releases over the next few months. We used to do a release every two weeks and alternate between ZBR and Tomb Tree, thus ensuring new music every week. For the next bit I think it’ll be more like one ZBR and one Tomb Tree release a month, so we’ll likely only have one to three releases each month unless sales pick back up again. For the first five years of ZBR I had to pump personal pay into the label to fund it, but since Cullen joined in 2018 it’s become self-sufficient, allowing us to keep releases coming out almost weekly. With everyone hurting and sales plummeting, I can’t pump personal money back into this as my family is also struggling to make ends meet in this hellhole of timeline. So it is what it is.

If sales stay the course, I’ll probably have to open CanaDave’s SkramzCave once more with new items to fund the stuff we’ve already committed to, but that will be the last one. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that but I’ll keep y’all informed. Speaking of, please join our email list so you can keep up to date in 2026 when we start getting off social media (facebook is first, fuck that place).

Our duplication company we use is usually pretty decent, but their handling of our Sans Visage tapes was a bit lacking in proper communication, so we had to push back the release of ‘drowned/resistance’ until Wednesday December 17th at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST. You can check out “resent” which premiered on Operation X-Ray this past Friday.

Oh damn we got the new Vibora album last week and it is fucking amazing. That’s the cover above for the upcoming ‘Egin Ez Dugun Guztia’ 12”LP, which releases February 20th, 2026 and houses 10 brand new jams. We still got a few of their previous ‘Zaldi Beltza’ 12”LP left (first run all sold out save one!, a couple of second runs also in stock) so pick that up and prep for a new jam very soon!

Magana released her ‘Bad News’ Ep earlier this year, so to wrap up 2025 Softseed will be releasing it alongside her debut EP ‘Golden Tongue’, so be on the lookout for that soon! Until then please enjoy ‘Teeth’ which Softseed recently released on 12” lathe. Gorgeous stuff.

Nuvolascura made the Brooklyn Vegan Top 50 Punk Albums of 2025! Check that shit out above or by clicking on this text. Buy the album before they sell out just like Nuvolascura releases always do!

Ma boyee Bret is the Scumlxrd and he takes some of the best ZBR Fest pics. He’s got a website now. He’s a goddamn sweetheart and hella talented dude. Check it out, hit him up. Click on the pic below or this text for the site.

Our Last Fucking Copy today goes to the last Tenue cassette for ‘Arcos, Bóvedas, Pórticos’. It’s of the ‘random color’ variety, but as it’s in my hand I can see it’s a half white/half black copy that matches the art beautifully. If you like Respire but want more crusty/metal in the mix, Tenue is your ticket! Snag now or forever hold your peace!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: GRAVE GNAW = Members of Lower Automation started up this new noise project and it’ll liquefy your brain.

2025 - 12 - 11 /// Sans Visage is next!

December 09, 2025 by David Norman

Sans Visage tapes arrive tomorrow and will be ready for their December 15th release. ‘drowned/resistance’ houses five jams, many of which are re-recorded versions of earlier songs. I’ll have some pictures ready before they drop. This EP is sooooo good! Their previous LP is also insanely good, and I’ve got 3 copies left below/pictured above!

I decided to keep this open for another week, with it closing Friday at 11:59pm PST and then items I still don’t want I’ll put up in the stores but all sales prices will revert back to normal prices. So that affects a ton of the cds in there, so scope now if you want a deal. A few choice items embedded below!

Vinyl + Cassettes -> https://www.zegemabeachrecords.com/skramzcave1
CDs + Stickers + Patches + Buttons (aka misc) -> https://www.zegemabeachrecords.com/skramzcave2

мища / MNWA - Premier Discography (double cassette in vinyl case)

Sold out

мища / MNWA - Premier Discography (double cassette in vinyl case)

CA$30.00

Sold out

BLOODY KNIVES - Drowning In Light (12")

CA$75.00

Sold out

CROWNING - Survival/Sickness (tape)

CA$20.00

SUFFOCATE FOR FUCK SAKE - 3x LP Discography (5 x 12")

CA$120.00

UNITED NATIONS - The Next Four Years (vinyl + tape box)

CA$75.00

Demersal has arrived in Canada! They’ll arrive in the US late December, so sorry about the delay but it was completely out of our hands.

Just a friendly reminder that Softseed Music is releasing the first Mercy Necromancy EP ‘Fallen’ on 12” with a special surprise. Mmmhmm. If you need a Dollanganger fix in-between albums, there is nothing better to ease the pain. In fact, it’s so good you’ll end up falling in love with this too.

Inosuke’s ‘Allomancer’ got a nice review from This Noise Is Ours that you should scope. Our 10”s for this are dwindling as we only got 25 of each variant. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the review, jam/buy below!

Twins, Sine Nomine, and Hetta were featured on this banger-busting episode of Operation X-Ray. Jam/buy Hetta below!

The Noise of November 2025 included Jota and Hetta! Thanks Everything Is Noise. Click on the pic above or this text to go there. Jam Hetta above and Jota below!

Dollie Rot was named artist of the month by The Eastern Echo! Congratulations, Queen. Snag a tape of her first two EPs below. I’m down to just one variant left. Click on the pic above or this text for the full article.

Avery Friedman got the (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) treatment. Read the review, jam the album, watch the live session videos, snag that 12” baby! Access the review by clicking on the pic above or this text.

Piri Reis gets our Last Fucking Copy today, as these tapes were made for New Friends Fest 2025 and the /100 is already pretty much donezo. The band sold out on tour and the 12”s have sold out of numerous pressings aka get this now! Snag now or forever hold your peace!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: SMUSH = Oh my god there’s new Smush and it’s amazing. Is it a cover? You betcha, the new EP is all covers and I’ve heard it…so fucking good. I believe the entire thing comes out in January.

2025 - 12 - 01 /// Mercy Necromancy 12" pre-order

December 01, 2025 by David Norman

Well holy shit, CanaDave is in heaven because his Softseed Music label is releasing Mercy Necromancy for the first time…on vinyl! The 12” pre-order for ‘Fallen’ just went up so please go snag that if minimal/ethereal goth with the most gorgeous of vocals. For fans of: Nicole Dollanganger, Ethel Cain, Grouper, Cozy St. Jean, etc. 12”s should be in hand March 2026.

CanaDave’s SkramzCave closes at midnight tonight PST, but just a heads up if you already scoped - a buncha new stuff was added to the “miscellaneous page” if you wanna check it before finishing up at my place. Above are a pics of a few choice products that haven’t sold yet, and the links for the pages are below. They are comprised of a vast number of personal items that I just don’t need anymore and would live better lives in homes that have the space and time to appreciate them.

Vinyl + Cassettes -> https://www.zegemabeachrecords.com/skramzcave1
CDs + Stickers + Patches + Buttons (aka misc) -> https://www.zegemabeachrecords.com/skramzcave2

Hetta tapes are all finished! The US box heads out today so if you ordered from there they’ll be shipping mid-December but all other orders will go out this week. And just a heads up, we ended up with an extra copy so there’s now an /1 white variant!!! Truly like a scalpel to the brain, this shit will fuck you up.

The new album from Fainting Dreams ‘You Can Be Anything’ got an amazing review from none other than Everything Is Noise. We sold a good amount of these tapes already and some variants are sold out so if gorgeous trauma is your thing, snag immediately. For fans of: Ethel Cain, Nicole Dollanganger, and Lingua Ignota. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the review, jam/buy below.

ZBR Fest 2026 is already nearly complete. We’ve got 20 bands already confirmed with the final round having until this week to let us know if they can play. It’s going down May 1st (pre-show) in Victoria on Vancouver Island, then May 2nd and 3rd (day 1 + day 2) in Vancouver on the mainland. Please note that cities are confusing here and Victoria and Vancouver are about 3 hours apart via a ferry, so if you plan on attending the pre-show and the main fest you should book some place to stay in or around Victoria or you’ll get stranded as the ferries close by the time the pre-show ends. We’ll start revealing bands in January!

Emma Goldman and Blue Youth made the Best Album Covers of 2025 by Cups’n’Cakes Pod. What was your favourite? I think, off the top of my head, I liked the Usurp Synapse art but I’m pretty goddamn fucking biased. Check out the full list by clicking on the pic above or this text. Check out the exceptional ‘Defeatist’ 12”LP below!

Today’s Last Fucking Copy goes to Stormlight! I thought we were mad outta these tapes but I just found one more and it’s the best variant (gas swirl) on our Bandcamp page. I don’t expect we’ll make more of these as the band is dormant and it took us five years to sell all this stuff. Features Erik from Lord Snow/Inosuke and Sean from Loma Prieta/Jeromes Dream. Snag now or forever hold your peace!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: HYNOKI = Very stoked on this Richmond, Virginia band as I was awaiting this release and ooooo baby it does not disappoint.