Nuvolascura triple packs, Fainting Dreams released, Inosuke on Monday!

November 01, 2025 by David Norman

First and most importantly, shipping updates. Okay so the US store has sent out every Usurp order to my knowledge, while the Canada store has only done cds as the box containing our Usurp 2x12”s arrives in a week or so. The Canada store has sent off all of the other older release shipments like Shesmadefromsuede, Coup D’etat cds, etc., while the US store’s box with those arrives next week at which point they’ll be shipped out. All of the Nuvolscura orders should be shipped by mid-November. Bandcamp orders in the US are the last orders to go out and we haven’t forgotten about you, thank you for your patience.

The new Fainting Dreams album ‘You Can Be Anything’ premiered on Idioteq.com on the 30th of October, with the full release coming yesterday. There are 40 tapes over three variants, a swirl, a blue, and some test dips. The six songs are gorgeous, expansive, layered, all-encompassing pieces not unlike Ethel Cain and Lingua Ignota. You can check out the premiere by clicking on this text, and you can buy/jam the album below.

The Nuvolascura LP digipak cd collection pack (and individual sale cds) are available in all stores! We flew through the first presses of all of these cds so snag these now, as the band has half of the copies that will end up being brought on their Asia tour that goes down in November (and you know they’re gonna sell out). Click on this text to go to the Bandcamp page where these 3 releases are at the top, each with store links and Triple Packs for sale.

Inosuke’s new album ‘Allomancer’ releases on Monday! We’ll have our copies up a little earlier than usual, this time we’ll do 7am PST / 9am CST / 10am EST. There are six tracks on this behemoth that exists somewhere between the overlap of screamo, post-hardcore, sludge, and heavy metal. Features Jason from Locktender/Men As Trees and Erik from Stormlight/Lord Snow! Last reminder for the time being about their phenomenal debut that we released in late 2023 titled ‘rage/ruin’ that you can listen to/snag a 12” for below.

Okay, I’m pretty sure this is the final ZBR Fest video, and it’s for Rosemary Nods Upon The Grave who were excellent and to boot, super fucking enthusiastic about the entire thing. Love’em. We got just a handful of 7” copies left, with the Canada/International store already sold out! ZBRUSA.com and the Bandcamp embedded split below with Heaven Through Violence are the only places left to grab.

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DOLLORES - 2010-2012 (tape)

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DOLLORES ‘2010-2012‘ tape (ZB233)

For fans of: I Hate Sex, Saetia and Eyes of Verotika

After purchasing the last tape from Bus Stop Press and completely falling in love with Ukraine’s DOLLORES, we had to make more and get it on our bandcamp. Good lord of science almighty these 11 groovy, screamy, golden nuggets have a wonderful swing to them and some of the best vocals we’ve ever heard. If you combine I Hate Sex with Suis La Lune it’d sound something like this - fucking incredible. New art by Kyle Calvert design with two differnt inner j-card variants and a bunch of gorgeous tapes.

Cassettes /78, 28 on blue swirl, 20 on yellow swirl, 10 pink swirl, 10 blue, 10 mystery swirls and 4 test dips, all with double-sided j-card and download code. 11 songs.

Listen here:
https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/2010-2012

Today’s Last Fucking Copy is actually gonna be titled Last Two Fucking Copies, as I have one of each variant left for the incredible Dollores from Ukraine. This compiles their entire discography on one cassette with is for fans of: I Hate Sex, Eyes of Verotika and Saetia. Snag or forever hold your peace! It’s in this store, which is embedded above. You can also jam it below, it’s so good!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: IN LOVING MEMORY = Goddamn, a new ILM song that features Rila from Febuary? Yes fuckin’ please!

2025 - 10 - 28 /// Coup D’état out + Nuvo cds tomorrow + Inosuke premiere!

October 28, 2025 by David Norman

Coup D’état released their sophomore album (a four-song EP, to be exact) yesterday via 100 cds in four-panel digipaks. The bandcamp orders and Canada/International store orders have already gone out, with the US store copies going out early November (cuz I have to ship them to the US store today). This shows the band getting simultaneously poppier and heavier (depending on the song), with a more varied musical palette and increased cohesiveness. So good!

Right before Nuvolascura goes on tour in Asia, we made another 100 cds of each of their full lengths! That’s right! 100 ‘Nuvolascura’ cds in a four-panel digipak, 100 ‘As We Suffer From Memory and Imagination’ in a four-panel digipak, and 100 ‘How This All Ends’ in a jewel case (1st run was in a dvd case, so these are different). These all go on sale tomorrow at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST.

The first single from the next Inosuke album was premiered by Not Just A Phase yesterday. ‘Allomancer’ releases November 3rd on 12”LP and features Jason from Locktender and Erik from Stormlight! We still got some sweet vinyl of their debut album ‘rage/ruin’ embedded below. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the premiere for “a thousand years of ash and mist”.

Coup D’état’s release show for their self-titled cd happened this past Friday in Victoria with support from A Recorded Dawn and Mourn Recif. You can watch the 3-minute recap above, listen to the supporters split below, and/or click on this text to go to the full OMSB post with five total videos, including four currently unreleased songs!

Click here for the full premiere including links

Elle from Athousandangelsandseven fronts Fainting Dreams who had their final song premiere go up on the (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) blog, and it’s a gorgeous few minutes with additional help from Midwife and Allison Lorenzen. The tapes release October 31st on Softseed Music with an early full stream going down on October 30th via Idioteq.com! Go to the premiere by clicking on the pic above or this text.

Operation X-Ray followed up their CanaDave episode with another great smattering of tracks, including our very own Shesmadefromsuede and Adobe Homes. We’re already low on the former so pick one up before they’re gone forever.

Respire played one of the best sets I’ve ever seen them play at the most recent ZBR Fest. Here’s the official fest video above with the final copy of the third press of ‘Gravity and Grace’ embedded below.

RESPIRE - Gravity and Grace (12")

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RESPIRE - Gravity and Grace (12”LP)

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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

Today’s Last Fucking Copy goes to Bloom Dream’s ‘It Didn’t Have To Be This Way’ which we have had serious trouble keeping in stock (did two tapes run and a cd run), leaving only a test dip left. This is extra surprising as those usually go first. Snag or forever hold your peace! It’s on our bandcamp page embedded below.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MIRA CORPORA = The first song from this band who’s been brewing for nearly 5 years just dropped their first single and it is fucking fire. Ex-Crowning, ex-Excrucis, with members of Valatie.

2025 - 10 - 22 /// Shesmadefromsuede + Coup D'etat release show

October 22, 2025 by David Norman

Mississippi’s Shesmadefromsuede released their first and last album on Tomb Tree and it’s a fucking banger. 5 tracks of screamo/metallic hardcore bliss for fans of Mondrary, Blind Girls, and Grimlitter. Tapes /78 but we sold about half the first day!

Friday is the cd release show for the new Coup D’etat EP where we’ll have copies in hand as well as the ZBR distro. This is also the A Record Dawn/Mourn Recif cd release! So much yummy.

Adobe Homes releases their new 12”LP ‘Años’ November 10th via Zegema Beach and Dog Knights. We did 300 copies with an extra surprise in the packaging, stay tuned for more info, but you can jam a song from the album below!

This Noise Is Ours reviewed the new Nuvolascura album ‘How This All Ends’, which we’ve got like 7 copies left of the OG cd press, as the new/upcoming press are in regular jewel cases so this is the last of the DVD-style case. Jam/buy below or go to the review by clicking on this text or the pic above.

A heads up to all that ordered the Usurp Synapse 2 x 12” and/or cd, here’s the current update:
- 90% of the US store orders have gone out for the 2 x 12”
- bandcamp and Canada/International orders for the 2 x 12” won’t be going out until I get the box from the US, which should be here by the end of Oct, with all copies being out during the first week of November
- no US cd orders have gone out as the cds arrive in the US tomorrow
- all non-US cd orders have gone out!

Thanks for your patience on this, there are literally hundreds of orders and lots of moving parts (including family illness), but we should meet the deadline as we said during the pre-order that they’d ship early/mid-November. Please pick up a copy if you haven’t already! If we do a 2nd run they won’t be with the crazy laser-cut jackets so pick up this version while you can, or pay the dreaded reseller price!

CanaDave co-hosted the always awesome Operation X-Ray radio show! There are three premieres (two of them screamo) and a lotta ridiculous jams in this episode. Thanks so much to Andre for having me!

Oh shiiiiit there are some ZBR Fest video stragglers, so here’s Salvinorin-A and Punxsatuawney at our 2025 fest! There are a handful more videos to post…so until next time!

Holy shit how is there a Boneflower cassette left?!?! That’s right, today’s Last Fucking Copy goes to ‘A(r)mour)’, arguably their strongest album to date (but that new one is pretty sick too). Please take this off my hands (it’s in the bandcamp store embedded below).

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MOURIR DEMAIN = A new project from Montreal that has some all-stars in it! Wicked emo-violence debut and it’s PWYC on Bandcamp.

2025 - 10 - 16 /// Mau 10"s round #2 + Usurp Synapse out!

October 16, 2025 by David Norman

We got a restock of another 50 Mau 10”s for their debut EP complete with sick etched b-side. Don’t wait too long on these as we moved our first 50 in 36 hours. U.S. store copies and Canada/International store copies are linked at the bottom of each release on Bandcamp. You can also snag one on our bandcamp but we gotta charge more cuz they take a buncha fees from us that these two stores don’t.

Usurp Synape was released back on Monday, which is when US Dave released this killer trailer for the record and jacket to give you a better idea of just how fucking epic this shit is. If we sell out and repress we won’t be doing the laser-cut thing again, so that’s incentive for you to pick up this insane piece of history. All stores linked at the bottom of the embedded bandcamp page below.

Shesmadefromsuede had their first single premiered on This Noise Is Ours. The tapes just arrived and Tomb Tree made 78 for your listening pleasure. This is the screamo/emo-violence/metallic hardcore band’s first and only release, making it hit that much harder. Full release is Monday October 20th!

Inosuke has a new album coming November 3rd titled ‘Allomancer’ (cover above), so to remind you how sick this band is check out their debut 12” below that we put out cuz it rules. Featuring Jason from Locktender and Erik from Lord Snow.

Softseed Music’s next release is the Fainting Dreams album ‘You Can Be Anything’ which releases October 31st, but you can jam the first epic single from Everything Is Noise now. The project is the brainchild of Elle from Athousandangelsandseven and lands on the other end of the spectrum, with this album being a thing of beauty instead of ugly catharsis. Click on the pic above or this text to go there. Jam the song below.

Operation X-Ray had their 200th episode this past Friday and played Usurp Synapse and Lucidity, among other fucking bangers. Yours truly will be co-hosting the next episode!

I used to post something about our final copies of stuff, and after seeing a ton of “last copy” items at my place, I thought I’d revive this segment. I forget what I called this weekly thing, but now it’s just called Last Fucking Copy. This is our Last Fucking Copy of мятеж’s ‘Riot/Mutiny’ aka the final release from this project from CanaDave and Chris from Makara, Jenny Piccolo, Yaphet Kotto, etc. This release will NEVER be made again. Please take this off my hands (it’s in the bandcamp store embedded below).

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: WHANE = This Italian band dropped a wicked new album and you should def check that shit out. We would have released it if we weren’t broke af.

2025 - 10 - 10 /// Usurp Synapse releases on Monday!

October 10, 2025 by David Norman

Usurp Synapse’s ‘Disinformation Fix’ releases on 2x12” and cd this Monday October 13th! This has been in the works for quite some time so it’s exciting to finally get these beauts out in the world. We are very, very humbled to have been asked to put out this seminal compilation on wax for the first time ever. Don’t forget the different colored hand-poured vinyl come in a 13-hole laser cut gatefold jacket. The vinyl is /500 and cd is /200. Check out the promo pics above and live video of their Vancouver show below.

Dollie Rot released her first two EPs ‘Survivor’s Guilt’ and ‘Mercy of the Gutter’ on cassette via Softseed Music. This is the first time her material has ended up on physical media and I couldn’t be more stoked on it. Should have some more stuff in the works shortly! You can snag these from the ZBR stores for less than we’re charging on Bandcamp (cuz of the fees).

Congratulations played a reunion show last month and Public Seating took a multi-camera video of the entire set! This band was at the heart of the early ZBR scene in Ontario alongside Foxmoulder and Terry Green. We still have some straggler 12” copies, but the mage and nebula are long sold out.

Click here for the full feature/interview!

Bok Suna received a glowing feature and interview that gestates in the mind like a warm hug. 12”s and tapes available in all stores. A truly awesome bedroom/shoegaze combo unlike no other. Read the interview by clicking on the pic above or this text. Jam/buy below!

An exceptional quote from the interview

Pain has a way of consuming space, but once you transmute it into music, it shifts—it becomes less about what hurt and more about what you did with the hurt. The act of writing reclaims power. It says: this pain didn’t end me, I bent it into sound. That’s the resilience. The song may carry sorrow, but it also carries the proof that I lived through it.

Demersal got some love from Rockambula so check that shit out. Unfortunately the plant miffed the tests so it’ll be more like Nov/Dec until we have our 30 copies. We’ll keep you posted though. Click on the pic above or this text for the review. Jam/buy below.

Operation X-Ray played some Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow and Naufraage on this particular episode. The 200th episode is next! Lotta premieres going up on that one.

Okay I think this is the final ZBR Fest video from 2025, and it’s Clay Birds! I’ve got like 1-2 copies left of their ‘A Separation of Vanity’ cassette (and one is an /1!!!). Access that below and watch them kill it live above.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: NICOLE DOLLANGANGER = Yesterday a 10-year anniversary edition of ‘Natural Born Losers’ was released for pre-order over 72 hours by Vertigo Vinyl. This album changed my life and has led to Softseed Music searching for this style of music almost exclusively, so this is the hardest of recommends.