Venns + ZBR "Micro Label" documentary

March 03, 2023 by David Norman

Venns and their The Bunn youtube channel just released this amazing little 7-minute documentary about Micro Labels. Lots of shout-outs and saying the word “skramz”. We absolutely love this shit. Thank you!!! The 7” EP for ‘team sports’ releases on March 9th at 11am CST.

Today’s Hiding In the Outpost (aka our last copy of something):

Woah I found another single Nuvolascura 12” self-titled (the first one) and pretty much everything else by the band is now sold out. Listen to it here.

now sold out:
Komuso 1st EP tape
Nuvolascura 2nd LP tape/12”
Alas 12”
Eyelet new 12”

sold out

NUVOLASCURA - Nuvolascura (cassette/12"LP)

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NUVOLASCURA - Nuvolascura 12"LP (ZBR140)

For fans of: Blind Girls, Mahria and Lord Snow.

Released January 26th, 2019. First press of 200 black 12"s sold out. Second press available on 300 white 12"s.

Featuring members of SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Letters To Catalonia, Ghost Spirit, Curtains and Heritage Unit, this California band (previously named Vril) unleash an absolute whirlwind of screamo fury with their 2019 self titled ‘Nuvolascura’ 12”LP. Combining head-scratching technicality with explosive, screamy, metallic hardcore, this full length will surely be among the top records of 2019. Mastered by Jack Shirley and art by Sean Leary. Released in Europe by our good friends at Dog Knights Productions.

12” white vinyl/300 w/black cover & lyrics on back cover.

Cassettes, technically 2nd run (1st were free with ZBR orders for a limited time): /50, 20 on yellow, 20 on multi-color swirl, and 10 on green/yellow/black swirl. 3rd run /58: 27 white, 18 on red swirl, 10 on black/white swirl, and 3 test dips w/matching swirl cases.

Download code included.

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

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Nhomme continues to make the rounds and blows people’s minds. Here’s a new review from Moshpit Nation, just click this text or the pic below to go there.

Virgin Mother was reviewed on Re Gen Magazine and they reaaaaaaaaaaally got this record and what Seb and the band was going for. Again, click on this text or the pic below to go to the review.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: BITTER PILL = Supergroup? You betcha!

2023 - 01 - 18 /// Operation X-Ray Best of 2022 + Lower Automation tour

January 18, 2023 by David Norman

Advertising On The Channel Of Dreams came out two days ago to quite a few surprised ears who hadn’t hear this absolute gem yet. Are your ears lonely? Need some incredible/previously obscure music? Well hell yeah there ya go. 67 tapes, 43 on pearl swirl, 13 random swirl, 10 purple swirl and one halfsies. Technical, speedy, and gorgeous screamo in the vein of Via Fondo, Beau Navire, and Rainmaking.

Lower Automation is doing a run of easterly-ish dates in the US and one in Canada! The dates are below and you can go to the band’s facebook page by clicking on it.

Operation X-Ray held their Best of 2022 radio show and the final section for “screamo/skramz” was littered with Zegema and Tomb Tree releases. Some of our bands that were played: Rotting In Dirt, Virgin Mother, Hetta, Massa Nera, Apostles Of Eris, Venus Twins, Blind Girls, Anna Sage, Gil Cerrone, Piri Reis, Trophy Hunt, Qatsi, Lower Automation, and Keratin. Holy moly!

The debut release ‘Mount Whateverest’ by Ego Death Children’s Choir was set free to destroy the world and almost all of the copies are gone. 1 copy remains on the Softseed Music bandcamp and 1 copy remains in this store, otherwise that’s all she wrote! The band plays mind-altering noise/jazz/grind with saxophone and features members of Blue Youth, Library Voices, Anemone, etc. and it’s highly unlistenable aka great for this crowd!

CanaDave’s favourite EP of 2022 was Hetta’s ‘Headlights’ by a landslide. Apparently he isn’t the only one who’s lid has been flipped, because Bandcamp Daily just interviewed them! Hot damn! What? Really? New songs coming? Oooooo baby! Click on the pic or text to read the interview.

Greed Worm was on the No Echo spotlight and has their Blackwater Sniper tapes coming through Tomb Tree in February when you’ll find it on our bandcamp. You can jam their debut EP below or click on za pic for the interview/spotlight.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MEIßEL = I hereby apologize for sleeping on this sick 2022 EP. Hot, punchy, two-piece hardcore/emo-violence.

2022 - 11 - 17 /// Piri Reispress on Friday!!!

November 17, 2022 by David Norman

Piri Reis repress tomorrow! The first press of ‘Ritma’ sold out in a day and we had 50 copies. Same deal this time but on a new/sick splatter variant. Plus a nice little distro update that includes Daighila’s new 12”LP, Blue Skies Fade tapes, and the new Pique 12”LP.

Me And Him Call It Us were on the (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) podcast and Aaron gave Zegema Beach Records some love. This also acted as a soft Lower Automation premiere for their new song “End Scene”, the closer from the Nov 22nd ‘Strobe Light Shadow Play’ 12”LP. Click on this text or the picture below to listen!

Oooo baby Paramind Recordings posted the full Virgin Mother set! 12”s still available through Tomb Tree!

Speaking of full sets, here’s Orphaned’s full set from earlier this month at Saint Vitus. Tomb Tree released four massive songs on the band’s debut cassette, a few copies still remain.

Infall was reviewed on Grind On The Road and got an awesome grade! Way to go fellas! This full length is getting A LOT of attention so nab a tape while you still can! Click on this text to go to the review.

Here’s a мятеж/Samarra review in the ongoing This Noise Is Ours series for the Zegema Beach Records Roster Review. We actually still have tapes of this! Why? I have no idea Samarra was sick as fuck and this is the only place you can actually hear the worst мятеж song ever. Click on this text to read the review and nab a tape through the embedded Bandcamp link below.

Massa Nera’s new single/music video “Adrift” was featured on Destroy//Exist. Check it out by clicking on this text!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: DAIGHILA = Malaysia’s longest running screamo band came back this year with a momentous 12”LP that we now have in stock. Jam 3 of the songs on their bandcamp and get a full download if you snag the 12”.

2022 - 11 - 13 /// Massa Nera 2nd video/single

November 13, 2022 by David Norman

Massa Nera video unveiled their second music video and single a few days back at Idioteq.com for track four’s “Adrift”, a certifiable banger and video ode to a ton of screamo bands. Check out the full article including lyrical content and themes by click on this text or just jam the video below. Full release is December 2nd and we couldn’t be more stoked!

We dropped the 12” repress of EYELET’s ‘The Devil Shining Out Your Eyes’ and we sold those mages and nebulas in record time. The black with innersleeve splatter are our final copies and we’re down to about 10 copies of those. It was released less than a week ago, so don’t expect these black ones to sit around. Bandcamp page linked here with all the links you need!

Reversal Of Man swirl copies are in! The Red/Black/Yellow is on press expected before the year is done! Quite a wait, but totally worth it. All of these ROM copies go out on Monday. Here is CanaDave with his personal copy. These are fire and look like fire too! Great work Repeater Records!!!

Infall releases tomorrow so get pumped! 12 tracks to smack your brain around and hopefully open your eyes. Here’s what the tapes look like and if you click on them or this text you can go to a nice little write-up from Invisible Oranges.

Lower Automation words from Prog Rock Journal as well as the band! New song this Tuesday on the (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) blog! Click on this text for the post or jam that song below.

Paramind Recordings started a Patreon page for live shows, merch and other cool things. They started it all off with a cool full set thingy for Virgin Mother which was released on Tomb Tree tapes recently. There is an unlocked video linked below, and you can access everything for less than $5 a month. Click on this text to go to the Paramind page to get started.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: RORRIM = Yep, that’s Mirror backwards. I know nothing about this project except that it’s from San Francisco and it’s pretty fucking cool.

Click on the pic to go to the premiere!!!

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

October 21, 2022 by David Norman

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.

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.

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

SOUL CRUSHER - Soul Crusher (cassette)

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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

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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!

CARA NEIR - Phantasmal (12"LP)

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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

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“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.

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.