The new US ZBR store is open! Persistent Vision Records has partnered with us to be the new US home. Currently they are stocking 12”s from Nuvolascura, Blue Youth, Carrion Spring, Sear, Vibora, Adobe Homes, Closet Witch, Joliette, Anna Sage, New Forms, and Serrate. I’ll update you again before more stuff goes up…but as of Friday they will have the Senza x Rainmaking split 12”! That sucker releases on Friday August 24th at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST. 125 black ice glitter and 125 insomnia splatter with an etched b-side! This is a ZBR-only release.

ZBR U.S. store linked here

A reminder that last Friday we repressed Nuvolascura’s ‘As We Suffer From Memory and Imagination’ on 12” over two variants with our friends Dog Knights. 293 on splatter and 215 on merge, these should ship by the end of the month!

Hillsboro had a cool 11-minute live video come out of eSpot. Check it out and snag the new album ‘A Party In Your Name’ below, as Softseed Music released that sucker on cassette!

I Y Ezine reviewed Orphan Donor’s ‘Ailments’ cdLP that we released a few months back. It’s a great review of a truly exceptional album. Click on the pic above or this text to go there. Jam/buy below. Here’s an excerpt:
“Orphan Donor's work represents an emotional confusion that we can honestly call our own, capable of breaking the linear passage of time to build an alternative one, in which everything loses meaning and is rewritten and redirected, aiming to settle the chaos and bring peace to our lives.”

Wollruss has a show coming up on August 27th with a buncha sick screamo bands. ZBR distro will be in hand - if you want something specific feel free to message me and I’ll bring it. You can scope a new live song from the 2026 ZBR Fest pre-show below.

I thought I had posted the finished Constrain tapes but alas, I did not! Well here you go. I got a few extra tapes so I made three sick test dips and a transparent yellow /1

I did a Valatie song premiere on OMSB so you should scope that. Members of sick bands. Rad song. Album comes out on the 21st if memory serves correct. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the full premiere, just jam the song below.

Today Last Fucking Copy goes to the one and only Shoganai EP cassette! I didn’t know I had one left but I was amalgamating boxes and noticed it in there. Variant above! Buy below! Snag it now or forever hold your peace.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: DEAR DIARY, THIS IS FROM MY TEENAGE ANGST TO MY FUTURE SELF = Ooooo three new song remixes!