2023 - 08 - 14 /// ORBIT CINTA BENJAMIN + WIDOWDUSK + IHUNTMONSTERS
Not Just a Phase sold out. There’s a few left over in case some orders get lost, so if we still got’em in a few weeks we’ll add them to the next Big Stuff Thing.
Widowdusk + Ihuntmonsters split tapes just released and likely will sell out today! This is Tomb Tree #100 and quite a milestone for the label <3 If you didn’t notice, the two variants together read as Tomb Tree and to be completely honest this was a total coincidence that I exploited. Or maybe it was destiny. New art by Kyle Calvert Design!!!
Over the weekend we had a hefty distro update, with most of the US copies selling out immediately. This store still has the following updated stock still in:
For fans of: Portrayal Of Guilt, Envy, A Paramount A Love Supreme, Respire, and Majority Rule.
2023’s contender for album of the year is definitely from RVA’s Ostraca. Masterfully done by members who also have played in a plethora of sick bands like .gif from god, Swan Of Tuonela, etc. Released on Icorrupt Records.
12” on white w/black splatter vinyl with lyric insert. 6 songs.
Listen here:
https://icorruptrecords.bandcamp.com/album/disaster
for fans of: Respire, Portrayal Of Guilt and Kilgore Trout.
2018’s unreal full length.
Listen here:
https://ostraca.bandcamp.com/album/enemy
The most important screamo release of the last 10 years? Probably. Released on Icorrupt Records.
12” on transparent blue vinyl with lyric insert. 6 songs.
Listen here:
https://icorruptrecords.bandcamp.com/album/last
For fans of: Locktender, Envy, Le Pré Où Je Suis Mort, and Respire.
Massive, epic, sprawling post-hardcore/screamo from the band that became Locktender. Released on Icorrupt Records.
2x12” on green and goldenrod vinyl with gatefold cover. 8 songs.
Listen here:
https://icorruptrecords.bandcamp.com/album/weltschmerz-sea-of-ice-songs
For fans of: Piri Reis and Piet Onthel.
Featuring members of the bands listed above, this new project is amazing Malaysian emo-violence/screamo. ONLY 1 COPY IN STOCK!!!
10” on clear vinyl with lyric insert. 6 songs.
Listen here:
https://jamaisvupunx.bandcamp.com/album/babak-1
Graf Orlock the kings of cinema-grind’s best fucking album. Original Level Plane Records pressing!!!
12” on blue vinyl with lyric insert. 16 songs.
Listen here:
https://vitriolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/graf-orlock-destination-time-yesterday
Justin from Graf Orlock/Dangers/Ghostlimb’s new band. Rockin’, screamy, pissed-off. Love it. Amazing packaging! ONLY 1 COPY IN STOCK!!!
12” on ? vinyl (sealed). 10 songs.
Listen here:
https://sweatrockers.bandcamp.com/album/gotta-give-it-up
Operation X-Ray gave a shout-out to ZBR again in their 2nd comeback episode, featuring Dear Diary This Is From My Teenage Angst To My Adult Self as well as Hillsboro who is releasing on CanaDave’s softer label Softseed Music in September.
Mathcore Index’s Mathcast gave some love to Seasons Worn who released their sophomore EP a few weeks back on Tomb Tree. Amazing metalcore with prog influences. Tapes still in stock!!!
Both Dave’s have been in love with Closet Witch for years (we even sport identical couple hoodies!) so it was a no brainer to ask the Iowa-based band to tear our ears apart. And they did. New album coming 2023 <3 We will continue posting the single videos for each band that played the last day of ZBR Fest 2023 in the order that they played, so there’s more coming! Actually, there are only two more!!!
Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: HEXIS = Our Denmark friends just released a split with fellow countrymen Telos (whom Tomb Tree works with) which you can snag from Init Records. Remember Hexis + Trauma Model is the next Canadian ZBR show on Vancounver Island in Victoria, tickets here!!!