Thank You Driver out today!

November 07, 2022 by David Norman

Thank You Driver was premiered yesterday on Mathcore Index (full premiere/write-up/links are here) and then uploaded to our bandcamp earlier today. The Canada/International store only has the primary variant left but there are still some rarer copies in the U.S. store. If you are in BC or the upper west coast of the U.S. and wanna come chill with CanaDave at the Thank You Driver release show on the 19th get yourself here. Variants are pictured under the stream :)

CanaDave spoke at length with Hal Capone via his Chopping It Up Hardcore instagram interview. Twas tons of fun and lots of homies were given props.

With an upcoming secret early 2023 release of the band’s follow-up project, it was a good time for This Noise Is Ours to feature Smile To The Wind aka Улыбайся Ветру on the ZBR Roster Review. And what’s that? We only have one copy left!?!?!?! Holy fuck! Someone pick up this unheralded masterpiece asap before the loss pushes you into a longing spiral. Click on the text for the review and nab the last copy below!

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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

Out Past the Rings #132 for the first In Wolves’ Clothing self-titled demo cassette! Got any in stock? Hell no. What about their subsequent full length? Ahahahaha no. Well shit there’s that new Letterbombs split 12” got any of those? Yes! But if history plays itself out again these will be unavailable soon.

Next on the Best Of (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) Podcast was Sean Leary of hmmmmm let’s see…Loma Prieta, Beau Navire, Archeoptryx, Stormlight, Elle, and Jeromes Dream (and that’s not even all of them!). He speaks here about the formation of Loma Prieta, very interesting and very important for the screamo world, although no one knew it at the time.

Operation X-Ray played a list of bangers last Friday including Lower Automation, Thank You Driver, Infall, and To Be Gentle!

Infall continues to get serious press prior to the release of their 12-song cassette full length on November 14th via Tomb Tree. Here’s more love from Metal Epidemic.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: PIQUE = There’s a new Pique 12” from Larry and Illuminate My Heart and it’s really fucking good!

2022 - 11 - 03 /// Holly Caught A Contact High tomorrow!

November 03, 2022 by David Norman

You better be quick tomorrow if you’re interested in one of these Holly Caught A Contact High releasing on Tomb Tree at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST. The band has 25 copies and we have 25 copies, only 10 of each variant (pictured on the right) and 5 of the halfsies (pictured on the top). Ridiculously awesome mathcore/grind from a member of Colacon! Further surprise going down tomorrow after the drop!!!

Keratin announced their first release, also on Tomb Tree, today with a debut single “Survive snake” from the 5-song EP ‘Only Eyes” that releases in mid-December. Gorgeous yet heavy, it’s like Swedish night combined with Australian heat…or Suis La Lune/Nionde Plagan mixed with Gil Cerrone. Whatever’s easiest to digest! Thanks for the premiere Miss The Stars. Click on this link for the full post/premiere.

Finishing off the Tomb Tree news is the Works 12”LP reminder that released on November 1st. Stellar stuff for those that like bassy grooves and disjointed/mathy guitars.

Next on the Best Of (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) Podcast we’ve got Josh Jakubowski from Neil Perry, The Now, Joshua Fit For Battle, Hot Cross, etc. talking about what the hell was going on during the “porch scene” of the Neil Perry tour video. Hint: Munch’ems.

CanaDave did another Out Past the Rings, number 131 to be exact, for Euclid C Finder’s double EP cassette release we did way back in 2018. Copies left? Hellllllz no.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: ROMAN CANDLE = Ridiculous new EP from this Nevada-based band. Kinda Nuvolascura but a bit less techy.

2022 - 11 - 01 /// 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

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!!!