U.S. store closed for the next few months + t-shirts on Friday!

June 16, 2026 by David Norman

It is time. Please say goodbye to U.S. Dave aka the man aka Crowning guitarist aka awesome dad aka Biological Fathers mastermind aka my good friend. I’m gonna miss the shit outta this guy. He did so much for ZBR, it wouldn’t be what it is today without him. I wish him nothing but relaxing/hilarious/loving times with his family. <3 <3 <3

Although the US store has temporarily closed, people in the U.S.A. can still order from our bandcamp and Canada store (I ship very quickly and include a bunch of free download codes), as shipping is quite cheap as after the exchange rate you’re looking at approximately:
$11US to ship a 12”
$7.80US to ship a cassette

Friday will be a huge t-shirt sale with over 50 new items showing up! It’s literally the best place to get sick screamo shirts right as summer starts at a fraction of the retail price!!! Check out the current selection by clicking on this text!

June is very quiet for ZBR in terms of releases, but we get back on track at the end of June with the 27th installment of the Zampler series. This thing will be a certified banger and releases on the 30th of June and will be housed on a cdr in the traditional Zampler packaging. Want one? Just place an order over $20 anytime between June 30th and July 4th to receive one, so they’re essentially made-to-order. This goes for this store AND our Bandcamp page.

A friendly reminder that the Mal Criado album releases this Friday on Tomb Tree! I’ve included the variants below, pretty sweet. This Vancouver four-piece plays politically-charged power-violence with some punk, grind, and metal leanings. Tapes release at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST!!!

I went to the Victoria release show for my good friends Hillsboro who released ‘A Party in Your Name’ recently and caught some live videos (above). The tapes shipped today so I’ll have them and can ship by the end of this week !

Constrain made the trek out to the west coast this past weekend and played shows in Vancouver, Duncan, and Victoria. I made this trailer from the Duncan show in hopes of pushing the Victoria show, so check it out as there are short clips from Lakeside Amusement Park, Cadere, and Constrain. I’ve got a single copy left of their ‘Welcome to Club Vampire’ cassette EP below, thus making it today’s Last Fucking Copy! Snag now or forever hold your peace.

CONSTRAIN - Welcome To Club Vampire (cassette)

CONSTRAIN - Welcome To Club Vampire (cassette)

from CA$12.00

CONSTRAIN ‘Welcome To Club Vampire’ cassette (TT104)

For fans of: The Gorgeous, Fall Of Troy, The Bled, and SeeYouSpaceCowboy.

Since Tomb Tree’s discovery of Ontario’s best kept secret CONSTRAIN on the Loose Teeth split tape we’ve been ecstatic on them. With the release of their new, meticulously sculptured EP ‘Welcome To Club Vampire’, the band is ready to take on the metalcore and sasscore crowds with a full arsenal of amazing. These five new tracks lay heavy on the breakdowns, panic chords, and throat-ripping shrieks and the occasional clean singing. Very limited run of tapes, snag one now. Released on Tomb Tree. CDs by Wormwood Records.

Cassettes /53: 20 dairy swirl, 20 halfsies swirl, 8 nosferatu’s horde, and 5 garlic test dip w/matching swirl case, all w/two-sided j-card. 5 songs.

Listen here:
https://tombtreetapes.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-club-vampire

Variant:

Operation X-Ray featured I.O. amidst a ton of other sick artists. Our tapes are running pretty low and I’m sure he moved most of his copies on his recent across Canada tour!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU = This Australian screamo band’s debut is top-fucking-notch!!!

2026 - 6 - 12 /// Cadere trailer/shows + Liqui-Dave-tion sale ends on Sunday night!

June 12, 2026 by David Norman

First off, this is a final reminder that the US store 40% off sale aka the “Liqui-Dave-tion” sale that is automatically applied to all orders will be active until Sunday June 14th at 9pm EST / 11pm CST / 12pm EST. After this prices revert back to normal and once the US store moves to a new location, all prices will rise by a few bucks as US Dave did all this for free and ZBR USA’s new home requires us to do so - which makes the last few days of the sale even more financially helpful.

In addition, please be patient as US Dave is dealing with a ton of orders once he returns from an out-of-state trip, so some of these orders will take a while - but hey, ya got 40% off so you can give him a much-deserved breather.

Cadere (ex-Mourn Recif/Archivist/Juniper Smile, current members of Wollruss, A Recorded Dawn, Internal Dialogue, etc.) is joining the Constrain and Lakeside Amusement Park tour on the island! You can catch us with the ZBR distro at the Victoria show tonight and Duncan show tomorrow. Hope to see you there!!!

Vancouver/Victoria band Hillsboro released ‘A Party in Your Name’ two weeks back and were recently interviewed by Punknews.org

The tapes should finish by the early next week and be shipping in June. I also snagged some live videos from their Victoria release show that I’ll post next.

Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead got the This Noise Is Ours treatment, so click on the pic above or this text to get a track-by-track run-through of the Vancouver powerhouse’s entire career thus far. Snag a cd below.

Today’s Last Fucking Copy goes to yet another super old release, and likely the last in this series. Canada’s Worst Gift was all over Toronto from 2012 to 2015 before members moved to other countries. Includes ex-Ispoke and Tonnn. This 12” will not be repressed so snag this last copy (below) or forever hold your peace.

Orphan Donor’s ‘Ailments’ got some love from Soda Pop under their Length Isn’t Everything round-up. You can check that out by clicking on the pic above or this text. Snag a cd below!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: LIVE LONGER BURN EVERYTHING = Yoooooo been stoked on this for quite some time. Scope!!!

2026 - 6 - 08 /// Zampler art submissions now open!!!

June 08, 2026 by David Norman

Just a quick reminder that the US store 40% off sale aka the “Liqui-Dave-tion” sale that is automatically applied to all orders will be active until Sunday June 14th at 9pm EST / 11pm CST / 12pm EST.

The big news from the past few days is that all upcoming Zamplers are open to art submissions! Starting right now you can go watch Starship Troopers (just the first one) and then check out the other Zampler covers and then cook up something sick that references the movie (and isn’t the same as a previous cover). Art submitted will be considered for the June 30th Zampler, with everything that isn’t chosen and comes after that date automatically will be considered for the next Zampler, and so on and so on as these things release every 6 months. You don’t need to include a Zampler # on the cover so just leave that open for when a # is chosen at a later date. You can email your submissions to zegemabeachrecords@gmail.com

And I feel the need to reiterate, all art MUST reference Starship Troopers or it doesn’t fit with the theme I’ve had going for more than 13 years. Jam #25 below with art from Jackson Schott!

I had Josh (A Recorded Dawn, Cadere, etc.) and Nima (Hillsboro, Wollruss) over to house for a Fest recap podcast as we reminisced about Vancouver’s 2026 ZBR Fest. Check it out above! I’ve included a few live videos below.

Cadere (formerly Mourn Recif) has two shows coming up with Ontario’s Constrain in Duncan this Friday and in Victora this Saturday. ZBR distro will be in hand. A teaser video of the band’s debut EP drops on Friday!

Following the Vancouver Island band’s new release ‘A Party in Your Name’ by my friends in Hillsboro, they also released a 13-minute video that acts as kind of a music video for a few jams. Very cool, artistic stuff! The tapes should finish this week and be in-hand next week. I also snagged some live videos from their Victoria release show that I’ll post next week.

Nhomme released one of the greatest and mind-bending EPs I’ve ever heard a few years back. Despite keeping mostly silent (but playing a few shows now and then) they’ve been pretty quiet, but Ryan from Meatcube recently completed an interview with them! I don’t know about you but I’d love to see them in Canada someday!!! Click on the pic above or this text to go there. Jam the EP below.

Detach The Islands got a sick write-up from IYE which you should check out, then immediately jam the EP. Such a sick and diverse set of tracks. I still can’t get over that Poison The Well cover though, hot fucking damn!!! Click on the pic above or this text to go to the review. Listen/buy the cassette EP below.

Today’s Last Fucking Copy goes to more super old releases, this one being Italy’s Lamantide. The EP ended up making me ask the band to participate in the 2x12” 8-way split. Very dark and heavy shit, like Converge on nightmare fuel. This 12” will not be repressed so snag this last copy (below) or forever hold your peace.

Nsixhundred, Detach The Islands, Fingerswoventogether, and Orphan Donor all popped up in the May Anti-Fascist Scrub from Toilet OV Hell! Scope the full list of bands by clicking on the pic above or this text. Snag those last Fingerswoventogether 10”s before they’re gone, cuz we’re getting low and it’s phenomenal!!!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: CLAY BIRDS = Oh my god new Clay Birds. Hoorah!!!

2026 - 6 - 01 /// 40% off ZBR U.S.A. store!!!

June 01, 2026 by David Norman

The U.S.A. store is closing and until Jun 14th at midnight you can get 40% off your entire order! Holy fuck!!! The discount is applied automatically as we try and thin down our stock before moving it to a new home. All hail Dave Cullen. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the U.S. store.

Mal Criado’s debut, self-titled full length pre-order just went up! These 13 tracks release in full on Friday June 19th!!! Wicked Vancouver powerviolence for fans of Despise You, Los Crudos and World Peace. If you snag one now I will ship it asap though <3 Click on this text to jam a song from the album.

Last Friday Vancouver’s Hillsboro released their new album ‘A Party in Your Name’ via Softseed Music. The tapes are set to finish June 8th so they’ll be ready to ship and arrive by the end of June but you can pre-order them now! I only made 30 because at least one other label is doing tape runs too…but mine is the only one with sexy swirls, baby! An honest, eloquent and mature album from some super awesome people. Features members of Bok Suna, Wollruss, etc.

This Noise Is Ours reviewed the current Nsixhundred discography but I think we just sold the last tape. I heard they have new material coming so I’m fucking hyped! Click on the pic above or this text to go to the review. Jam that sucker below.

Today’s Last Fucking Copy goes to a super old split between Oaken and Marnost. Dark, dirty, doomy, and heavy as fuck, this split will not be repressed so snag this last copy (below) or forever hold your peace.

The always reliable Operation X-Ray shone some light on Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead and Hillsboro as well as a plethora of other amazing bands!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: NEW FORMS = Oh shit they have a new EP! Snag their debut LP above!

2026 - 5 - 26 /// ZBR U.S.A. closing/sale + U.S. Dave retiring + Letterstoyou tapes released!

May 26, 2026 by David Norman

The Daves Era is coming to a close as US Dave is retiring from ZBR. There is zero bad blood, he just needs to focus on his family and his actual job so he’ll be hanging around for a bit. With that said, we are officially closing the US store, no date is determined yet but I think by the fall we’ll have our stock somewhere else. Good news for you is this Friday the US store is having a big sale, a Liqui-Dave-tion, if you will, to rid ourselves of additional shipping to a new location and to just move some stock in general. The % off will be pretty substantial so as of Friday at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST we’ll let you know what that’ll be and the discount will come off of your order automatically. Gonna miss you my dude!!! <3 <3 <3

Letterstoyou has their first three releases compiled onto one insane cassette titled ‘a shoebox of letterstoyou’ that just came out! Some variants are sold out but the ‘leaves swirl’ variant is fucking ace - that’s the one I kept.

I am stoked to announce that Sungaze’s ‘I’m No Longer Afraid of Heights’ has finally released! This full length is awesome and anyone who is enjoying the trajectory lock that Softseed Music is on will dig it hard. Dreamy shoegaze that brings the genre back in a time machine to the late 60s/70s and mixes the two!

Hillsboro’s ‘A Party In Your Name’ releases on Friday! This new 8-song GP houses an additional Softseed-exclusive track on the cassette!!! Tapes will be shipping mid-June but I’ll have promo pics up for the release. Check out the three music videos that have already been released.

Today’s Last Fucking Copy goes to the final Usurp Synapse 2x12” with an alternate cover. If you don’t already own this you NEED this particular copy, as the additional sleeve looks fucking insane. I 100% kept one for myself because the additional wow factor puts this release from incredible to out-of-this-world. Snag it now (below) or forever hold your peace.

USURP SYNAPSE - Disinformation Fix (alternate cover 2x12")

CA$85.00

USURP SYNAPSE ‘Disinformation Fix‘ 2x12” (ZB380)

For fans of: Jeromes Dream, Combatwoundedveteran, Gas Up Yr Hearse!, Reversal Of Man, and Tyranny Of Shaw.

This is the rare Limited To One alternate cover /20 or so

This legendary compilation of Lafayette, Indiana’s USURP SYNAPSE’s early material is finally coming on vinyl over 20 years after it’s 2003 double-cd release. This cornerstone screamo band wrote and recorded a massive amount of tracks in a short time before going on a few lengthy hiatus/breakups but returned with a vengeance in late 2023. Their short, abrasive, and sassy take on hardcore put forth a confusing-as-all-hell blueprint that many bands attempted to resurrect but never quite replicated the unhinged assault that was Usurp. Knowing full well what an honor it is to help release this, we spared no expense and with T.J. Oslund at the helm, we knocked out a gatefold cover complete with 13 laser-cuts that reveal interchangeable inner sleeves. We limited the release to just 500 copies so act fast or forever miss out on this iconic release on vinyl (which was remastered by Josh Bonati, by the way) for the very first time. FYI this release does not include the extra songs on the Endless Breath release.

cds /200 in a 4-panel digipak case with insert. 2x12”s /500 colored hand-poured vinyl. Includes printed inner-sleeves and 13-hole laser-cut gatefold jackets. 50 tracks.

Listen here:
https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/disinformation-fix

Operation X-Ray dropped another killer episode, this time including Letterstoyou, Sans Visage, and Sungaze in the playlist. Check it out above! Grab those last few Sans Visage tapes below.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MY PRECIOUS SOLITUDE = Wicked metalcore from Florida that Severed Records obviously has a hand in.