Works is out, Holly Caught A Contact High comin'

November 01, 2022 by David Norman

The final Works song premiere went up yesterday for “Laura Palmer” ‘Is there a head in there’ which just released on Tomb Tree via 100 12”s. Incredibly groovy, mathy, bass-driven, math/noise/indie rock from Quebec. Click on this text for the full premiere or jam the full LP below and pick up dat 12” baby!

Holly Caught A Contact High tapes go on sale this Friday for EP3 with a wee little surprise, find out after we sell out muhahahahaha. Only 25 copies for Tomb Tree/Zegema Beach and 25 for the band.

We’re doing a new thing for (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) podcast where we’ll upload a short clip of an interesting section from some previous episodes. Listen to this first one about the best Nuvolascura ever. Try not smiling and not wanting to shout, “It’s 10 o’clock!!!” pffft good luck.

Infall released another new song this time by way of lyric/clip music video. Very awesome stuff and the tapes release November 14th on Tomb Tree! Thanks Cvlt Nation! Click on this text for the full premiere!

Out Past the Rings 130 is for the stellar and ill-fated Komusō ‘Luck Will Be On Your Side This Week’ 7”EP. Find out some rarely discussed info and pick up one of our last copies before they’re all gone.

The Fiesta Bizarra cassette EP is out in full! Give it a jam and nab a tape before they all end up in Peru.

King Slender’s cassette EP was the most recent candidate for This Noise Is Ours’ ZBR Roster reviews. There is only a copy or two left of this run /50! Buy below or click on this text for the full review and more links!

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KING SLENDER - King Slender (cassette)

CA$6.00

ZBR087

KING SLENDER - 'King Slender' cassette
released November 2017

ffo: Wolves, Daniel Striped Tiger and Secret Smoker

Tight as fuck hardcore punk with strong leanings towards emotive hardcore and I guess therefore screamo. Desperate yells, driving drums, rolling bass and intricate guitar riffs envelop all four songs in late 90s emo.

50 smokey metallic tapes with j-card in a resealable plastic bag. 4 songs.

Listen here:
https://soundcloud.com/dave-norman-996713162/sets/king-slender-king-slender/s-faTAh

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: THE SAWTOOTH GRIN = We were lucky enough to distro the ‘Cuddlemonster’ 12” when it came out back in 2020 on vinyl, and yesterday the band released their first new material in about 15 years! It’s uhhhhhh good to say the least.

Click on this pic for the full premiere post!

2022 - 10 - 26 /// Thank You Driver premiere

October 26, 2022 by David Norman

Thank You Driver is releasing their ‘Nothing You Do Can Stop This’ cassette EP on ZBR November 6th through a Mathcore Index exclusive premiere. We’ll have 60-ish tapes and CanaDave is going to the release show (fb event linked here). Click on the pick to go straight to the full premiere!

Distro update tomorrow! Le Blast sent us a fresh round of restocks and about 7 new releases! Pictured below are the newbies, these will be up with the distro update in the Canada/International store and the U.S. store in 2-4 weeks. Both stores will have a ton of new ditro/restocks of other releases too including Icorrupt, Dingleberry, Relapse, and some randos!

I worked for an ungodly amount of time cranking out these To Be Gentle tapes for ‘It always hurts and one day it will win’ so here are the variants. Tomb Tree still has some left in our stores but I don’t expect them to last into 2023. Tomb Tree also just put it on their bandcamp!

Aeryn from Massa Nera was on the (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) podcast with CanaDave so head on over to that by clicking on the pic above or this text. Gotta post that “April 7th” video again as she talks a lot about the meaning behind the lyrics!

MASSA NERA - Los Pensamientos De Una Cara Palida (12"LP)

from CA$15.00

ZBR101 Release date: November 2017
For fans of: Off Minor, City Of Caterpillar and Shizune

'Los Pensamientos De Una Cara Palida'

12" vinyl on translucent purple/200 & black/300 with insert. 7 songs.

Listen here:
https://zegemabeachrecords.bandcamp.com/album/los-pensamientos-de-una-cara-palida

Vinyl colour:

Hiding In The Outpost is back with the final Massa Nera 12”! What timing! Get it now before the new album drops as I’m unsure if this will get a repress or not as many members have changed. LAST COPY!!!

now sold out:
Binary 12”
People’s Temple Project + Sleeper Wave 12”
Sans Visage tapes
Blind Girls ‘Residue’ / Blind Girls ‘The Weight of Everything’ (tapes still available for both!)
Rotting In Dirt 12”

Our good friend and supporter Christopher Livingstone from Letterbombs was on Edie’s Everything Remade podcast, check it out! Letterbombs have tons of releases out so go to their bandcamp and nab it all!

CanaDave’s bestie Jesse Mowery was on The Unquiet Grave’s radio show and co-hosted the History of Screamo. It’s a truly amazing/accurate listen from the late 1980s to now, including our Trachimbrod to close it out! Click on this text to listen. It’s Episode 65 and titled “Waiting for the Crash”. We love you Jesse!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: VOTIVE = Good god go listen to this fucking shit. Unreal!

October 27th is massive distro update day!

2022 - 10 - 25 /// Distro update on the 27th!

October 25, 2022 by David Norman

We’ve been very busy behind the scenes getting our latest Distro Update ready…and it’s probably the largest one ever. This behemoth includes so much shit I didn’t even bother trying to get them all out for a picture. Here is maybe 7% of what we’ll have going up.

I took some Massa Nera promo pics for their cassettes yesterday and promptly passed out for four hours. So I thought I’d kinda like…post them. The cds are done. The tapes are done. Just waiting for the vinyl and inserts to come in for the December 2nd release!!! Don’t forget you can watch the music video for “April 7th” now!

Brooklyn Vegan just premiered a new song/music video from Holly Caught A Contact High’s third EP release that we’ve got coming on Tomb Tree! Full Breaking Bad fix releases digitally October 28th and on cassette November 4th! Click on this text or the album art for the premiere!

Works (formerly known as Girl Arm) just had their second single premiere over at This Noise Is Ours. Tomb Tree already has the records which will go up for sale on November 1st and are /100. Really incredible math rock/indie/experimental stuff from Quebec. Click on this text for the full premiere and additional video!

This Noise Is Ours did a little piece about the мятеж and Synodus Horrenda split tape. Definitely out of stock. Jam it if you’d like. This is kind of a pre-cursor to the Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow and Eyelet split as part of the Cube 6-way. Click on this text for the review.

Rob aka Brobaire wrote his first and very awesome article for Not Just A Phase. Click on the text for the the article.

I recently did Out Past the Rings 129 for the Respire ‘Début’ tape that was released and sold out rather quickly.

I wrote a Venus Twins review for (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) so you should check it out cuz that ‘RAXIS’ album is easily in my top 10 albums of 2022. Jam it below and/or click on the text for the full review complete with music videos, history, and live videos. SO GOOD!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: THE MONARCH = Yoooo there’s a sick band in the next town over from me on Vancouver Island! Nanaimo gets its Isis/Cult Of Luna/Amia Venera Landscape on and I’m so stoked!!!

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)

from CA$10.00

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

Colour:

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!

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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

Variant:

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

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.

Click on this picture to hear a new track now!!!

2022 - 10 - 18 /// Song premiere tomorrow! (Lower Automation)

October 18, 2022 by David Norman

With a recent premiere on Brooklyn Vegan, we’re going right back to our friends there for a new Lower Automation song premiere tomorrow Wednesday October 19th! Make sure you check it out as the full album is only a little over a month away!

Massa Nera’s brand new song/music video for the first single “April 7th” from the upcoming cd/tape/12”LP ‘Derramar | Querer | Borrar‘ came out on Friday and got the screamo community fucking hyped. CHeck it out below and head over to Stereogum via this text link to read news about the release.

Soul Crusher (Sasha of Life In Vacuum, Kiken, and Congratulations) just premiered their debut EP. Jam it below or get all the order details in the full blog post, linked to this text. You can also go straight to the order page here.

Victor Shores premiered a new song on (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) from their first new album in 6 years. They’ve now dropped two music videos and this additional single, embedded below. Click on this text for the full premiere/info/etc.

The Lessener 12” was recently reviewed on This Noise Is Ours’s ZBR Roster series. Click on this text for the review or jam the digitals below…we’re out of 12”s!

Canada’s coast-to-coast punk radio show Operation X-Ray is bursting with bangers yet again. Besides stuff like Torche, Liturgy, Birds In Row, City Of Caterpillar, and Daniel Striped Tiger, Andre also played choice cuts from ZBR-related bands Massa Nera, Of Death, Virgin Mother.

Улыбайся Ветру - Illusions (12")

CA$23.50

ZBR088 Release date: Mar. 21st, 2018
For fans of: Louise Cyphre, Loma Prieta and Carrion Spring

Flabbergastingly good, this new 11-song 12"LP by Russia's Улыбайся Ветру (aka Smile To The Wind) titled 'Illusions' is a testament to chaotic, mathy, dual screaming hardcore. Seriously this is easily a contender for album of the year and fans of any technical, blazing screamo such as Loma Prieta, Neil Perry, Crowning, Louise Cyphre and Carrion Spring will likely be so happy they may soil themselves. Yep, it's that good. And the art is unreal, created by Ekaterina Zalesskaya. Released by Zegema Beach, Dead Tank, Trace In A Maze and Upwind Productions.

'Illusions' 12" vinyl on blue/300 with insert. 11 songs. Download code included.

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

Today’s Hiding In The Outpost features Russia’s Улыбайся Ветру and their astounding ‘Illusions’ 12”LP that was released back in 2018. The group then disbanded but fear not…we’ve got a surprise for you in 2023!

I recently did Out Past the Rings 127.5 aka Zampler #11 ‘Death From Above’. For some reason I had kept one of every colour variant (5) and only need one so if you order from this store you will have one included in your order for free. These are four years old and very hard to get, as of this post there are 3 freebies left.

Infall has another jam from their upcoming ‘Far’ cassette on Tomb Tree up for rocking-out purposes. I’ve been jamming this release more and more and it’s absolutely fantastic. Fans of Anna Sage, The Bled, Judas-era Ed Gein, Miverva Superduty, Stuntman, etc. will be all over this.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: THANK YOU DRIVER = Keep your eye on this Canadian band. We sure are. Hint. Hint.