Sleem today, surprise drop tomorrow

September 13, 2023 by David Norman

Tomorrow we’ve got a surprise, two-song, lathe 7” limited to 100 copies (we’ll only have 50 though, and the band will have the remainder) dropping at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST. It’s an absolute banger and the band played ZBR Fest 2022, blowing us all away. End of hints.

Riversleem got a premiere of their opening track from the forthcoming ‘A Second Release by Riversleem’ that drops September 25th on red 7” vinyl /100 Zegema Beach and the band. Big thanks to Borderline Fuckup for the premiere. That site has been poppin’ off lately. Love the anniversary posts they’ve been up to. Click on any of this text or the pic above to jam that premiere!

CanaDave has been posting ZBR Fest videos on the label’s Youtube account the past few days. These are essentially the second of two videos that will be posted in the CanaDave wrapup of ZBR Fest 2023 on the (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) blogspot in the next few days.

There was also this Massa Nera full set filmed by [hate5six] that is definitely worth the 28 minutes of your time. All variants of every format are either sold out or almost sold out, everything can be bought/is linked through this text via our bandcamp.

CanaDave did a very full circle Out Past the Rings for Carrion Spring’s 2019 self title cassette. There’s one copy left on bandcamp! (linked here)

There were a bunch of restock updates last week that included some ZBR releases and distro items. I’ve embedded the ones below that didn’t sell immediately. These generally are down to the last copies!

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APOSTLES OF ERIS + PIQUE - Split (12")

CA$60.00

DESCUBRIENDO A MR. MIME - silkscreened EP (12

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DESCUBRIENDO A MR. MIME - silkscreened EP (12")

CA$40.00

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Улыбайся Ветру - Illusions (12")

CA$23.50

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LIFE - demo two (12")

CA$20.00 CA$25.00

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GHOST SPIRIT - Hourglass (12"LP)

CA$16.00

Fianl reminder!!!

Hey! If you have ever wanted to be a part of one of the grave, neighbors Halloween cover compilations that I do, this may be your last chance. To be honest each year it’s getting more and more difficult to get people to submit. Last year, some friends came through at the last minute and help me wrangle up some more songs, but this year it’s starting to look like i’ll have to do a bunch myself if I want to make a decent size compilation out of it. Anyway, if you have an unreleased recording of a cover song or would like to do one and can submit it by October 1, Let me know. I would love to continue doing this but if there’s no interest maybe I should just let it go.
~Edie: Coma Regalia/Middle Man Records/etc.

Hit them up here: middlemanrecords@gmail.com

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: NÉBOAS = This Spanish screamo/crust band released a fire new album the other day. It’s free/donation-based so everyone wins!

2023 - 08 - 11 /// Not Just A Phase Vol.2

August 11, 2023 by David Norman

Not Just A Phase volume 2 compilation is out! It’s amazing! 20 unreleased tracks! Tapes are flying, get one. Jams from Warren Of Ohms, Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow, Letterbombs, Snag, Matter Field, Retratos De Heroina, My Hair Is A Rat’s Nest, New Forms, Hetta, Perfumed Saturnine Angels, Burial Etiquette, Salt Money, Lagrimas, Geronomostilton, Novely, Norfair, VS Self, Iburiedyourflowers, and Piet Onthel!

Widowdusk and Ihuntmonsters comes out on Monday via Tomb Tree. There are 102 copies. Almost 1,000 people liked the Instagram post so methinks we drastically under-ordered. Be there 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST on August 14th!!!

We had to restock the Loose Teeth and Constrain split because this store and Bandcamp sold out in 24 hours while the US store copies just sat there, so we took 75% of that stock and shipped it back to Canada. We’ll keep these in the shop until Tuesday then whatever leftovers we have I’m sending to the band for tour.

CONSTRAIN + LOOSE TEETH - Split (cassette)

from CA$12.50

CONSTRAIN + LOOSE TEETH ‘Split’ cassette (TT096)

For fans of: The Fall Of Troy, Colacon, Exhalants, and From A Second Story Window.

Last summer Tomb Tree was approached by Loose Teeth to release their first output since the ‘A Commorbid Letter’ that the two had worked on together. Their split partners were introduced later and floored us, just like the new Loose Teeth material. A truly commanding split between two of Ontario’s sickest live bands. Part metallic hardcore, part metal, part emotive. Fer fuck’s sake even Thomas Erak of The Fall Of Troy lends his vocal talents to the opening track! This is a low first run, get’em before they’re gone! Art by Nate from No Funeral/Basque. <3

Tapes /33, 20 on swirl, 10 on grey and 3 test dips, all w/jcard. 3 songs by each band.

Listen here:
https://tombtreetapes.bandcamp.com/album/split-5

Colour:

Our Orchid ‘Gatefold’ 12”s are way more than half gone after just 24 hours, so snatch up the final ones before they’re gone. We won’t be putting in any more orders anytime soon! US store linked to this text.

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ORCHID - Gatefold (2023 repress 12")

CA$30.00

Invisible Oranges gave Perfumed Saturnine Angels some love. There’s one copy left on bandcamp (linked below) and another brand new track dropped on the Not Just A Phase compilation 2 today! Click on this text or the picture above to go to the review page.

New Breed Scene gave the entire Zampler 21 a review and they seemed to dig it! Some apt and some peculiar references, this was a treat to read! Click on the pic above or this text to go there.

Find out why Blind Girls is the hottest screamo band in the world. Weeeeeooooo! 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!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: PIQUE = Honeysuckle Records released a discography of this now dead but extremely important New York screamo band.

2023 - 05 - 18 /// New Forms is gonna get ya

May 18, 2023 by David Norman

At ZBR Fest 2023 during the pre-show New Forms came in and fucking ruined everyone’s lives. They’ve got new material. We’re gonna release it. Here’s a jam from it. It’s sensational.

Olth released their music video for “screamO sucks” and it does anything but. Click on the pic above or this text for the full premiere and backstory on the video or just get smacked across the face below.

Perfumed Saturnine Angels interview/premiere tomorrow via Moshpit Nation. Jam “Hope is Draining” below.

Lots of stuff going up on Bandcamp. Currently have some Infant Island 12”s and Iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook tapes as well as a buncha other shit. Numerous items going up daily. Bandcamp page linked via this text.

Out Past the Rings #159 is upon us as are the last copies of the Lytic + Amitie + Chivala + Pique 12”.

No Action was interviewed about the No Action/Amid The Old Wounds split on Idioteq.com so you should check it out! Interview linked here and there’s the new music video below.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: IKIGAI = Awesome new Swiss emo-violence!

2022 - 11 - 09 /// Eyelet 2nd press out now

November 09, 2022 by David Norman

Eyelet’s ‘The Devil Shining Out Your Eyes’ pretty much sold out for us in a few weeks so we’ve been planning this alongside the band and other labels The Ghost Is Clear and Icorrupt Records for some time now. Opting for a full handmade set of nebulas /100 on top of 25 color-matching red-in-the-dark mages. All links on our bandcamp page linked here!

Thank You Driver’s new EP ‘Nothing You Do Can Stop This’ was featured on Idioteq.com so take a gander then get pulverized. Tapes way past half gone. Click on this text for the review. Listen below.

Next on the Best Of (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) Podcast was Jack Shirley of Comadre! (cries) here he discusses what ultimately led to the demise of the band and why you’ll likely never get a reunion.

Infall gets a good review from Metal Heads. Here’s a good quote, “An album that is a mess because it is complex.“ Click on the text for the full review.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: пустота = Unreal stuff from Bulgaria. Black metal with lots of screamo infusion!

2022 - 11 - 07 /// Thank You Driver out today!

November 07, 2022 by David Norman

Thank You Driver was premiered yesterday on Mathcore Index (full premiere/write-up/links are here) and then uploaded to our bandcamp earlier today. The Canada/International store only has the primary variant left but there are still some rarer copies in the U.S. store. If you are in BC or the upper west coast of the U.S. and wanna come chill with CanaDave at the Thank You Driver release show on the 19th get yourself here. Variants are pictured under the stream :)

CanaDave spoke at length with Hal Capone via his Chopping It Up Hardcore instagram interview. Twas tons of fun and lots of homies were given props.

With an upcoming secret early 2023 release of the band’s follow-up project, it was a good time for This Noise Is Ours to feature Smile To The Wind aka Улыбайся Ветру on the ZBR Roster Review. And what’s that? We only have one copy left!?!?!?! Holy fuck! Someone pick up this unheralded masterpiece asap before the loss pushes you into a longing spiral. Click on the text for the review and nab the last copy below!

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Улыбайся Ветру - Illusions (12")

CA$23.50

ZBR088 Release date: Mar. 21st, 2018
For fans of: Louise Cyphre, Loma Prieta and Carrion Spring

Flabbergastingly good, this new 11-song 12"LP by Russia's Улыбайся Ветру (aka Smile To The Wind) titled 'Illusions' is a testament to chaotic, mathy, dual screaming hardcore. Seriously this is easily a contender for album of the year and fans of any technical, blazing screamo such as Loma Prieta, Neil Perry, Crowning, Louise Cyphre and Carrion Spring will likely be so happy they may soil themselves. Yep, it's that good. And the art is unreal, created by Ekaterina Zalesskaya. Released by Zegema Beach, Dead Tank, Trace In A Maze and Upwind Productions.

'Illusions' 12" vinyl on blue/300 with insert. 11 songs. Download code included.

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

Out Past the Rings #132 for the first In Wolves’ Clothing self-titled demo cassette! Got any in stock? Hell no. What about their subsequent full length? Ahahahaha no. Well shit there’s that new Letterbombs split 12” got any of those? Yes! But if history plays itself out again these will be unavailable soon.

Next on the Best Of (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) Podcast was Sean Leary of hmmmmm let’s see…Loma Prieta, Beau Navire, Archeoptryx, Stormlight, Elle, and Jeromes Dream (and that’s not even all of them!). He speaks here about the formation of Loma Prieta, very interesting and very important for the screamo world, although no one knew it at the time.

Operation X-Ray played a list of bangers last Friday including Lower Automation, Thank You Driver, Infall, and To Be Gentle!

Infall continues to get serious press prior to the release of their 12-song cassette full length on November 14th via Tomb Tree. Here’s more love from Metal Epidemic.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: PIQUE = There’s a new Pique 12” from Larry and Illuminate My Heart and it’s really fucking good!