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January 12, 2023 by David Norman

2022 - 08 - 15 /// In Wolves' Clothing + Letterbombs split!

August 15, 2022 by David Norman

On Saturday we’ve got an In Wolves Clothing (members of Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow, Armagideon Time, etc.) and Letterbombs (from Finland!) split 12” in addition to the posting of ‘The Weight of Everything’ Blind Girls tapes!

The boxes both stores were waiting for have arrived and we can now ship absolutely everything except Meditations #5 (that last 7” in the series) as those STILL are not done yet but should be soon. As we go on a two-week break for the final two weeks of August we’ll get all of our orders out before then <3

A friendly reminder that the Cara Neir ‘Phantasmal’ still has like 2 mages and 4 OG splatters going out randomly and there’s only about 35 copies left of the Hellfire left in both stores…so your odds are 6/35 aka 17%!!! Order links are on our bandcamp page :)

Tomb Tree is releasing the Amber Daybreak ‘Sentinels’ album on swirl tapes (and some gold ones, pictured below). Limited to something like 80 copies, these won’t hang around as members now play in the very successful screamo act Chalk Hands. Fans of Via Fondo, Trachimbrod, and Raein should take note.

Hundreds Of AU were an obvious choice to have play ZBR Fest as we love their band and were finally lucky enough to be involved in their 12”EP last year. These veterans put on a fucking clinic and are just straight-up awesome people, bringing us near th end of ZBR Fest Mid-West 2022 Day 1 on June 11th, 2022.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE LETS YOU TORTURE THEM DOESN’T MEAN YOU SHOULD = Woah this came outta nowhere and is a seriously incredible EP. Super mathy, very screamy, a tad twinkly? Whatever it is I love it.

2022 - 08 - 01 /// 'Phantasmal' copies dwindling, CanaDave still on "vacation"

August 01, 2022 by David Norman

CARA NEIR’s ‘Phantasmal’ popped off! About 85% of our stock is gone, with only Hellfire Rex swirls left. Buuuuuuuut, if you order a Hellfire Rex Swirl you have about a 1 in 10 chance of winning a handmade variant! Hooray for rando insertions to help level the playing field. If you click on this text you can read a review one of the songs by Machine Music.

Please remember that CanaDave is still on vacation so the Euclid, Piri, and Cara won’t be shipping until the 2nd week of August.

CanaDave tagged along with Australia’s Blind Girls for their 2nd date in Canada and recorded/documented the destruction…and the heat. Live videos by Blind Girls, Basque, Stay Down, and Menial Rips. More shows coming! Click on this text or the picture below to go to the (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) post!

Click on this picture to go to the review/videos!!!

After a substantial break (cuz of shows/covid) the ZBR Fest Mid-West 2022 videos from the June 11th Day 1 are rolling back out again. Here is a punishing video from the 4th band of the night, the almighty Horsewhip!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: UN AUTOMNE DE PLUS = I’ve been following this band for years and they just released another album spanning 15 minutes in 5 tracks. Somewhere between punk, screamo and post-rock.

2022 - 07 - 25 /// New Cara Neir song premiere

July 25, 2022 by David Norman

You want a decent taste of Cara Neir’s ‘Phantasmal’? Well hot deeeee-amn just click on this text to head on over to Heavy Blog Is Heavy to jam “Unkindness”, an exclusive premiere of this behemoth of a track. 12”s release July 29th at 9am PST / 11am CST /12pm EST. Remember, only one copy of each variant allowed per order buuuuuuut if you order a Hellfire Rex Swirl you have about a 1 in 10 chance of winning a handmade variant! Hooray for rando insertions to help level the playing field. Here are the variants again :)

Hellfire Rex Swirl /150 (shown below)

Health Points Infinity /100 (shown above)

Save Data Corrupted by Portals Wax Mage /25 (picture imminent)

Ex-Swallows Nest aka Cuck from Dunedin, New Zealand release their self-titled debut tomorrow and it’s full-on cathartic joy disguised as sniped rage. Tapes go up at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST on July 26th.

ZBR Fest Mid-West 2022 videos from the June 11th Day 1 are definitely moving along now. Here are two videos (the 2nd and 3rd bands of the night. Pains was without a doubt the heaviest set of the entire fest. Get fucked.

Next? The Wind In The Trees from Baltimore just ruining the place. I dunno how the hell they write that shit. Also, Dave is hella nice.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: CHARGER PORT = I was shown this last night by the musician who makes it and I shat my pants. Expect this EP to release on tapes via Softseed Music in the near future! FFO: Hella, Ahleuchatistas, Tera Melos, etc.

2022 - 07 - 22 /// 'Phantasmal' variant titles

July 22, 2022 by David Norman

Cara Neir’s ‘Phantasmal’ is coming up very, very, VERY SOON. July 29th to be exact. We’ve got 150 of the primary variant, 100 handmades, and 25 wax mages going up at 9am PST / 11am CST /12pm EST. Only one copy of each variant allowed per order. 16 tracks of hardcore/grind/black-metal/chip-tune/noise/screamo bliss continue the 'Phase Out’ trilogy, this one being horror-themed and ominous as fuck. We’ve got a song premiere happening over the weekend and variant pics coming next week! Until then here are the variant names, which give you a good idea of what the wax might look like :)

Hellfire Rex Swirl /150

Health Points Infinity /100

Save Data Corrupted by Portals Wax Mage /25

And what’s that? Rando insertions? You bet your ass. As we have this entire run we can help out those who can’t score a coveted mage or handmade (the infinity splatter). What the hell am I talking about? Well, rando insertions are our way of evening the playing field and having about 1 in every 10 primary switched out for an infinity or mage variant at no extra cost. So if you miss on drop day, fret not! Your odds of getting one in the “rando insertion” is probably just as high as scoring on the madness known as 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST.

Idioteq.com premiered another Cuck song from their self-titled debut due out June 26th. Check out “Eat Dirt” below or click on this text for the full song premiere post. Unreal powerviolence from ex-members of Swallows Nest.

ZBR Fest Mid-West 2022 videos from the June 11th Day 1 are officially rolling out as of today! First up is opener Scenario who put out a sick 12”EP on Zegema Beach and The Ghost Is Clear last year (which is still in stock and linked to this text) and although it’s a great fuckin’ EP, their live show was next level. That kind of energy is generally reserved for the locals on release night or a big band coming through on tour…not the opener. Those riffs are so fucking yummy.

There’s a really good review of the ‘Ritma’ full length by Piri Reis by the blog Junklist. All the labels sold out in a few days so we’ll be doing a repress as soon as possible. Thank you to everyone who bought a copy or even just took time to jam a song. We’ll be seeing this all over the Best Of 2022 lists for sure. Click on this text for the review.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: TERRAFORMER = This previously instru-metal band gained a vocalist then got really fucking heavy and mixed it up a bit with some From A Second Story Window vibes. New music video!