Rainmaking x Senza 12"s released!

August 27, 2026 by David Norman

The Rainmaking x Senza split 12” is out! These songs are phenomenal and dare I say we knocked it out of the park with those etched b-sides and sick blue/black color scheme and glitter variants! There are a few tests presses still up too (but I sold half of those already).

Wollruss is playing this show tonight. Please come out if you are on the island (it’s in Victoria). I’ll have the ZBR distro. Here’s the last song I’ll post from the pre-show.

First, Coup D’etat’s new EP was reviewed by This Noise Is Ours. 7” lathes are still available (although we’re almost sold out) and info on them is below. Click on the pic above or this text for the review, listen/buy below.

should arrive late September as the box that shipped out June 11th was in limbo from June 18th in Illinois until a few days ago when the pressing plant received the returned box. They are shipping it out again alongside another release so they should ship mid-September for me to ship to you a week or two afterward. Thanks for you patience on this one!

Orphan Donor were interviewed by Nine Circles after releasing the spectacular ‘Ailments’ full length a few months back via cd on ZBR. This band has always been amazing but this new release is some next level shit. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the interview. Jam/buy below!

Oh shit somehow I still have an extra Excrucis tape of their debut album on Tomb Tree! It’s in an opaque white swirled case aka a test dip /5, which is crazy cuz those usually sell first. Buy it below, listen above, thus making it today’s Last Fucking Copy. Act now or forever hold your peace.

EXCRUCIS - Excrucis (cassette)

from CA$10.00

EXCRUCIS ‘Excrucis’ cassette LP (TT099)

For fans of: Dianacrawls, I Hate Sex, Oathbreaker, and These Arms Are Snakes.

Born from Nouveau (IL), Not For You (IL), Wrestle Crow (VT), and Yail (CO), this experimental Chicago four-piece is turning screamo on it’s head. This nine track debut full length delivers visceral screamy/shouted vocals, incredible drums, shockwaving bass, and extremely playful guitars that’ll have you simultaneously scratching your head whilst dancing…it’s a weird move to behold you silly dancer. Focusing on social crises, economic exploitation, climate denial, and all the other shit that’s been piled on top of the younger generations’ plates.

Tapes /151, 100 white, 25 on orange swirl, 21 random swirl, and 5 test dips, all w/jcard and download code. 9 songs.

Listen here:
https://tombtreetapes.bandcamp.com/album/excrucis

Colour:

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MORAL BOMBING = Wicked stuff from Germany.

2025 - 11 - 28 /// CanaDave's SkramzCave tomorrow, Sine Nomine now!

November 28, 2025 by David Norman

After nearly 22 hours of work CanaDave’s SkramzCave finally goes live tomorrow at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST. This is 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. A few more key items are pictured in the gallery below, but the two product tabs will house about 300 products!!! Oh, and remember to check back on Monday for the Mercy Necromancy reveal!

Sine Nomine’s first release in a decade is out and ‘The Sunder Veil’ is a fucking trip. Whether it be the unsettling noise, massive riffs, unhinged vocals, or almost Helmet-esque dabbling in grunge/noise rock, something here is sure to pique your interest. For fans of Eyes, Deftones, (early) Blcklstrs, etc.

Emma Goldman’s ‘all you are is we’ made Exclaim’s Best Albums of 2025, beating out some serious heavy hitters. Check out their list by clicking on the pic above or this text. Go jam the album below and snag a tape before they’re gone too.

Crossed’s ‘Realismo ausente’ 12”LP ranked in the top 30 Metal Albums of 2025! Hell fucking yeah, this band and this album in particular are fucking incredible. Click on the pic above or this text for the full list, jam/buy this beast below before we sell out of it like we did their first two LPs.

Coup D’etat got a wicked write-up via Broc Nelson from Everything Is Noise. This band owns Vancouver Island, check it out by clicking on the pic above or this text. Jam/buy below!

Hetta’s new album ‘Acetate’ has been all over my feeds the past week, and with just reason! Their debut LP is bursting with righteous jams that land somewhere between The Blood Brothers and The Locust. Check out the Glam Magazine review by clicking on the pic above or this text. Jam/buy below - the pics for the tapes will go up on Monday as I just have to stamp those suckers then snap their beauty shots.

This Noise Is Ours gave the new Hoari EP two thumbs in their most recent review. We released this stellar 2024 EP in 2025 cuz it needed more love - and now here we are! Review linked to the pic above and this text, jam/buy the last few copies below!

Another tape that was just in limbo as it wasn’t in stock anywhere but I gotz one left! I just put the first Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow cassette EP 2nd run mystery swirl /10 up in the store but the product is embedded below for your convenience on our Bandcamp, making it Today’s Last Fucking Copy. Snag now or forever hold your peace!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MONDRARY = Phenomenal album. Just wicked stuff.

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 - 09 - 23 /// Mourn Recif x A Recorded Dawn released

September 23, 2025 by David Norman

The Mourn Recif x A Recorded Dawn split (also known around here as the ‘Josh split’) was released yesterday with the cds arriving today! Please take a listen and if you like what you hear snag a copy, as ZBR only has 25! Vancouver Island pinball skramz, baby.

Next up is the Demersal self-titled 12”EP releasing this Friday on Tomb Tree! Pre-orders will be going up, should ship in November.

Mourn Recif got a nice write-up from the always reliable This Noise Is Ours. The band is playing with A Recorded Dawn and Coup D’etat on October 24th in Victoria, making it essentially a triple-ZBR release show! Click on the pic above or this text for the review, jam/buy the EP tapes below.

Nuvolascura continues to embrace all that love they’re getting for a groundbreaking third full length ‘How This All Ends’. Our final copies are up in the stores, get’em or forever hold your peace. That being said, we’ve got another run of cds coming in a jewel case instead of dvd case. Lastly, above is a great interview with the band and below is the album with links and whatnot.

Operation X-Ray ran with a record-tying four band on this episode, including the premiere of “Twelves” by Mourn Recif, a couple of Abandoncy jams, Athousandangelsandseven cuz of dem 7”s, and a new Demersal jam which comes out in full on Friday!!!

The Names Of Our Friends lived up to the hype and tore through their set with abandon. We were lucky enough to snag some 10”s of that beast, too. There’s just a few of the individual band videos from ZBR Fest left. You can access more via our Youtube channel. Snag the last of our 10”s by clicking on this text.

Bok Suna got some love from The Bad Copy, and if you haven’t scoped this phenomenal sophomore album from Seattle/Tacoma’s best kept secret then I’ve gotta say, ya fuckin’ up. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the review. Jam/buy below.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: BACKYARD CAMPING = My boy Mathew from Athousandangelsandseven sent me his high school band. It’s fucking awesome. Check it!