2026 - 5 - 09 /// ZBR Fest over, Orphan Donor next!

Holy fuck, ZBR Fest was insane. Lots more news on that but here’s a post with lotsa useful information.

First, above is Wollruss at pre-show. Should be recording this fall/winter.

Second, Beau Navire demo 10”s went up but there’s like a few left at most. You can also Mahria/Watcher 7”s and All Through A Life 7”s from Clue #2 Records - thanks Hieg!!!

Third, Orphan Donor album premiere stream now and full release on Monday! Scope that premiere by clicking on this text or the pic below.

Fourth, I’ll put up the remaining ZBR Fest variant versions of the Letterstoyou cassette on Monday that doesn’t technically release until May 25th! Only 20 were made and there’s only about 10 left!!!

Click here for the full album preimere and article!

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Click here for the full article and premiere!

I.O. had a premiere for their first and only single from the upcoming ‘The Beatniks Couldn’t Save The World’ cassette EP and goes on tour next week! Max from Wollruss is the mastermind behind the insanity, chaos, and inherent beauty of experimental jazz drumming, but when combined with JP’s vocal stylings it becomes like a crazy mixture of Hella and La Dispute. Truly incredible stuff! Click the pic above or this text for the premiere, jam the song below if you don’t have the time to check out the article.

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There was a Metal Injection full album premiere that I totally missed for the new Detach The Islands EP/collections released today. ‘Concrete Jungle’ contains some covers (Poison The Well, Death Grips), unreleased jams, and some alternate versions, with the cassettes including a massive audio interview between the band and CanaDave. Check that shit out! Click on the text here to go to the premiere, pics above, album below.

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Operation X-Ray played the almighty Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead as well as jams from Fingerswoventogether and Detach The Islands! The cds have been flying so snag the ‘collected’ Jens years asap! By the way their new material at ZBR Fest 2026 was fucking mindblowing!!!

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Today’s Last Fucking Copy goes to a killer and seemingly semi-slept on release in North America, our second NIONDE PLÅGAN release on 12” for ‘Reflektion’ (the black variant). Incredible posty screamo in the vein of Envy, Respire, Heaven In Her Arms, Locktender, and Suffocate For Fuck Sake. Snag it below (or by clicking on this text) or forever hold your peace.

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Click here for the full scrub!

Toliet OV Hell’s April Anti-fascist Scrub included Fainting Dreams, Dental Office Parking, and Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead. I really love the idea of this recurring segment, and I should note that pins for Dental Office Parking came in so if you order a 3”cd you get a pin for free! Yay!!! Click on the pic above or this text for the Scrub, get Dental Office Parking below.

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Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: CARTHAGE = This Kiwi screamo band wrote these songs in high school? Goddamn!!!

2023 - 10 - 23 /// 2nd Closet Witch music video

Closet Witch has a new song/music video premiere goin’ down over at Not Just A Phase! Click on the picture above or this text to go there. It features Frankie Furillo of The Central and it kicks most serious ass. Video by Jeff Carl @_this.jeff.

Mollie (vocals/lyrics) had this to say about it:
It was really cool to have two long time friends collaborate for those tracks...Frankie did vocals on the second and he's just been one of my favorite people for some time now. And then to have Jeff make a video was super cool, too, as I've known him for most of my time living in Iowa and he's just a creative individual who marches to the beat of his own drum. Both an honor to have involved. Lyrically the songs are along my usual lines, borderline story telling mixed with journalistic emotional release ...Topics relating to personal traumas that I'm sure many can in some way relate to, unfortunately, and that a lot of us find shame inducing to lament on or even bring up but cause indefinite ache in how hard they are to overcome on our own.

Full release is November 3rd, 2023 via Zegema Beach, Moment Of Collapse, Circus Of The Macabre, and Sassbolgna Records. 12"LP pre-order from Zegema Beach Records:

U.S.A. = https://www.zbrusa.com/products/chiaroscuro

Canada/International = https://www.zegemabeachrecords.com/zegema-beach-releases/chiaroscuro

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My Condolences comes out on Tomb Tree tomorrow on a super short run of 32 cassettes. Here are the variants! Features a member of Scenario!

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Operation X-Ray continues killin’ it, this time playing jams from New Forms and Vibora, but I also highly recommend Flooding and Wednesday which were also played.

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CanaDave helped put on this Hexis + Trauma Model + Jisei show back in September. If you need a show in Nanaimo hit me up. If you need a show in Victoria…I’m not your man. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the live videos/links/reviews/etc.

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This Noise Is Ours released the next in the ZBR Roster Review series which happens to be the ‘Reflektion’ 12”LP by Sweden’s Nionde Plagan. We definitely helped release that and still have a few stragglers left! Click on this text or the pic above to read it, and you can jam/buy the album below!

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Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: DREAMWELL = This band played ZBR Fest 2023 and were awesome…and now their new album is out!!!

2022 - 10 - 21 /// Lower Automation premiere!!!

Brooklyn Vegan premiered the 2nd track on the upcoming ‘Strobe Light Shadow Play’ from Lower Automation. We’ll have these 12”s in-hand (hopefully) for the November 22nd, release. Click on the text or pic for the full premiere.

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So what’s going on with Reversal Of Man? Okay, I got word that the issue is the first pressing has A/B and C/D finished but the plant just straight up hasn’t finished doing the E/F because of issues. The 2nd press is done already (weird eh?) so they should arrive in late October and ready to be shipped off. This isn’t an issue on our end. It isn’t an issue on Repeater’s end. It’s the plant.

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Soul Crusher released their debut EP this week. Features Sasha of Life In Vacuum, Congratulations, and Kiken!

SOUL CRUSHER - Soul Crusher (cassette)

from CA$10.00

For fans of: Radiohead, Life In Vacuum, and Elliot Smith.

Sasha from Life In Vacuum, Congratulations, and Kiken has had this solo project in his head for a decade and today you get to hear the fruits of a decade of inspiration, revisions, fine-tuning, and passion. Relatively stripped down indie/synth/acoustic rock with additional instrumentation that truly breathes additional life into this very intriguing debut EP.

Cassettes /40, 15 on red swirl, 10 on clear swirl, 10 on red, and 5 test dips w/matching swirl case, all in a plastic case with j-card and download code. 6 songs.

Listen here:
https://youtu.be/JPopZlbRq10

Colour:

Select Colour Red swirl (/15) Clear swirl (/10) Red (/10) Test Dip w/matching swirl case (/5)

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Cara Neir’s Garry Brents was recently interviewed by No Clean Singing in which he divulges more plot points from the new record. We’re pretty low and should run out at some point in 2023. Click on the text to go to the review and nab a record below for a 1/10 chance at winning a Health Points Infinity variant!

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CARA NEIR - Phantasmal (12"LP)

from CA$23.50

CARA NEIR ‘Phantasmal‘ 12"LP (ZB290)

For fans of: Horse The Band, Gonemage, and An Albatross

Building off of the immensely dense and imaginative story/album ‘Phase Out’, the prolific CARA NEIR has released the second of three experimental black metal, chip-tune, hardcore, screamo albums in their video game + music series. ‘Phantasmal’ is a survival horror game. Chris and Garry find themselves warped from The One's RPG Gauntlet into a darker dimension known as Saint Succipio. Pulling the strings of this sinister and strangely familiar place is a pale entity known as Rex. Set in what seems like a suburban neighborhood, yet off-kilter with its eerie silence and inhuman presence lurking the deeper one ventures. Released across 289 12”s by the absolute legends at Wax Mage / Gotta Groove:
159 “Hellfire Rex Swirl“ red
105 “Health Points Infinity” OG handmade splatter
25 “Save Data Corrupted By Portals” Wax Mage
5 Test Presses

Includes two-sided insert and stickers (only included in the Hellfire Rex Swirl). 1 in 10 Hellfire Rex Swirl will be switched out for a mage or OG splatter, so if you miss on the initial drop then you still have a chance at scoring the more sought after variants. 16 tracks.

Listen here:
https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/phantasmal

Variant:

Select Variant “Hellfire Rex Swirl“ red (/159) “Health Points Infinity” OG handmade splatter (/105) “Save Data Corrupted By Portals” Wax Mage (/25)

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Out Past the Rings #128 is for the most recent Nionde Plågan album (not the new one releasing in a few weeks) titled ‘Reflektion’. We still have a few copies left but don’t expect them to sit around once that new record drops.

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Virgin Mother played their release show a few days back and the 12”s continue to move. I think about half out already. Machine Music gave it some love along with some other great bands in their Nine Songs roundup. Click this text for the link!

VIRGIN MOTHER - Mourning Ritual (12"LP)

CA$35.00

VIRGIN MOTHER ‘Mourning Ritual’ 12”LP (TT078)

For fans of: An Autumn For Crippled Children, New Order, and Meth.

Over two years ago we released a short run of demo tapes titled ‘It Is’, and after much more writing, polishing, and expanding of the VIRGIN MOTHER sound, we are set to drop the brand new debut 12”LP ‘Mourning Ritual’ on Friday October 17th. Drawing cues from industrial, new wave, black metal, noise, screamo, punk, post-punk, and more, this deep, dark look into Seb’s subconscious and it’s subsequent artistic representation is truly a work of art. From the hellish, eerie, almost gothic-sounding intro of “[promised end]“ it becomes obvious that this album is meant to be consumed in full, with spiking adrenaline surges (see “I’d Never Feel Like Anything” and “Fault”), soothing/groovy vibes (“Traffic Stop” and “Black Light On 16th Street“), uncomfortable noise (“Vanity’s Sake“ and “Parasite“) and the epic genre-mashes (“Blossoming Winter” and “Field of Warmth“). Released on Tomb Tree. Ships mid-October.

Vinyl /113 on 180gram Eco-Grime. Includes sticker. 11 songs.

Listen here:
https://tombtreetapes.bandcamp.com/album/mourning-ritual

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Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: VIENTRE + SATON = We premiered this killer split/tour video thing yesterday and you’re missing out if you don’t watch it.

2022 - 06 - 03 /// ZBR Fest only a week away!

Tomb Tree just released Australia’s Gil Cerrone and their new/ridiculous EP ‘Coronach’. Honestly if you love the screamos then this fits like a sexy, nylon one-piece of skramz. FFO: Beau Navire, Loma Prieta, Funeral Diner, Raein, Via Fondo, etc.

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ZBR Fest Mid-West 2022 is only a week away! Join the facebook group (linked here) or nab yourself some tickets (linked here). Mystery set confirmed and lol you gonna be very happy when you realize what’s happening <3 Here are some videos from the 2017 fest!!!

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This Noise Is Ours did another ZBR retrospective, this time for the breakout debut 12” by Respire. ‘Gravity and Grace’ review is linked to this text and the 12”s are now on sale for a week!

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RESPIRE - Gravity and Grace (12")

from CA$25.00

RESPIRE - Gravity and Grace (12”LP) 

ZBR062
For fans of: Old Soul, Alaskan, Godspeed You! Black Emperoror, Neil On Impression and Fall Of Efrafa

Respire is a six-piece band from Toronto, Canada, who combine epic post-hardcore, screamo, and black metal into a very cohesive formula that drips of maturity and patience. Gravity and Grace is their debut LP - a sprawling memoir of genre-defying soundscapes, reverb-washed tremolo harmonies, cascading arpeggios, dreamlike textures and walls of distorted guitars roaring over frantic rhythms, punctuated by tormented vocals and a near-orchestral array of instruments and contributors. Themes of loss, addiction, heartbreak, and existential anguish paint a bleak picture, but somewhere over the horizon rests a glimmering sense of hope, resolve and forgiveness.

This is a co-release between Zegema Beach Records (Canada), Ozona Records (USA), Dingleberry Records (Germany) and Narshardaa Records (Germany).

1st press:
12" vinyl on black (/100) and white (/200)

2nd press:
12” vinyl on clear (/200)

3rd press:
12” vinyl on half white/half black with a poster insert. 9 songs.

Listen here:
https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gravity-and-grace

Vinyl colour:

Select Vinyl colour Half white/Half black Alternate 2nd press (white inversion) Black White

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This Noise Is Ours also did a The World That Summer and Nionde Plagan review, only a few 10”s left! Click this text for the full review.

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Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MIDDLE MAN RECORDS = This label rules and predates ZBR by a few decades. Edie is a beautiful person who has helped so many. Please consider supporting them! P.S. new Overo!