*** CONSTRAIN x LAKESIDE AMUSEMENT PARK Vancouver Island tour ***

\CONSTRAIN/

\LAKESIDE AMUSEMENT PARK/

\CADERE/

\CSILLA'S STAR IS GONE/

@Brass Monkey in Victoria on June 13th, 2026
Live Show Review

A few years back I did a podcast with Hamilton's CONSTRAIN (linked here) who took the local scene (one which I used to be a part of) by storm. Their emotionally charged live show is fucking intense, their breakdowns are nuts, and the intricacy/tightness of it all puts them in a league of their own. During said podcast I told them that I had just started a new band on Vancouver Island and that they should come play with us sometime. That time was this past weekend, June 11th (in Vancouver, but I did not attend) June 12th (in Duncan) and June 13th (in Victoria). It was a very expensive trip for them so if you want to support the homies please check them out when they play and pick up some killer merch from them (or grab stuff online here). Shoutout Matty.

A few choice clips from the Duncan show

https://youtu.be/8F4YvWmJvUs

A few choice clips from the Victoria show

https://youtu.be/pKqaYwKmd70

CONSTRAIN

     Good lord these dudes came out and brought their A game! Mixing sassy metalcore with vicious hardcore, the end result is a highly potent and highly flammable that explodes during their live show. Awesome dudes too? You betcha. New EP coming this summer!!! I still can't believe Jesse is alive I thought he was going to bail hard off that table at Brass Monkey.

(2026) CONSTRAIN "The Dairy Crimes I've Committed Against My Stomach" (from 'Welcome to Club Vampire')

https://youtu.be/cP7wvPNtXMU

For fans of: SeeYouSpaceCowboy and Concealer

Bandcamp

extra video: Video #2

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LAKESIDE AMUSEMENT PARK

     This Kelowna BC band was touring with Constrain and after their Vancouver show the vocalist/bassist Jade got sick and had to go home, so the band came with a fill-in bassist (the same that helped Constrain on tour!) and then Phoebe (guitar) and Matty (fill-in bass) did vocals on top. I gotta say I wouldn't have known they were missing a member as they sounded sick. Freyja from Coup D'etat also joined on vocals for a few songs on the Victoria date.

(2026) LAKESIDE AMUSEMENT PARK

https://youtu.be/F3uGhNgS0wg

For fans of: Coup D'etat and The Names Of Our Friends

Bandcamp

extra video: Video #2

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CADERE

     These were supposed to be the final Mourn Recif shows but it didn't work out that way, which may have turned out for the best as each night I was told by different people that our set was the best they'd seen from us. Hot damn. We recorded the six songs we played both nights back in May so they will release on a 12" sometime this fall/early winter on Zegema Beach.

(2026) CADERE "Saint Catheter" (from upcoming EP)

https://youtu.be/34-lVX0LMpA

For fans of: A Paramount, A Love Supreme and Fingerswoventogether

Instagram

extra video: "My Favourite Oxymoron is Partial Ceasefire"

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CSILLA'S STAR IS GONE

     This local band is still very new but boasts members from a ton of sick Victoria bands including Coup D'etat, A Recorded Dawn, Wollruss, Bathtub Autopsy, etc. Their sets are always fast with almost no talking, just extremely vivid recollections played through an audio sample of people witnessing atrocities at farms and what I will just call death centers. This was the best set I've seen from them yet.

(2026) CSILLA'S STAR IS GONE Two Songs (currently unreleased)

https://youtu.be/whU6GC6CfEQ

For fans of: Bucket Full Of Teeth and Caust

Instagram

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*** PODCAST #197 ZBR Fest 2026 recap ***

    I sat down with my buoys Josh and Nima. We all play in Wollruss together and like listening to the new Ostraca album before its release. Josh spends his time playing in so many band it'd be stupid if they weren't all amazing, like A Recorded Dawn and Csilla's Star Is Gone. Oh also Cadere. Oh oh, and that unnamed metalcore project. Nima spends most of his time on Hillsboro but his recent indoctrination to screamo is now complete. We talked about every band (at least once): Csilla's Star Is Gone, Wollruss, Clay Birds, Carrion Spring, Othiel, Treewell, Terrifying Girl's High School, Cadere (ex-Mourn Recif), Coup D'etat, Fingerswoventogether, Serrate, Emma Goldman, Mage Tears, Mieke, Nuvolascura, Ostraca, Hillsboro, Jisei, A Recorded Dawn, Mau, The Names Of Our Friends, Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, Hetta, Wallflower, Crossed, and The Caution Children. Besides every band that played, A few additional things discussed: dead cats, rollerskating at the screamo show, exploding heads, Red Gate the Hospital, Dave fights an SG (and loses), Yes I want to feed the goats, 2026: The Year of Spirit Fingers, Handshake of the Year Award, rolling ankles, Top 5 Screamo Songs of the last 10 years, weed puffer magic, etc. Bands played in this podcast: Fingerswoventogether, Othiel, and Treewell. Listen to podcast #197 which is available to stream and/or download for free via this link.

A RECORDED DAWN

Bandcamp

HILLSBORO

Bandcamp

1 The Pre-Show
TREEWELL "Antlers" (Josh)

2 Day One

FINGERSWOVENTOGETHER "One Glass Eye and Knives for Hands" (Dave)

3 Day Two

OTHIEL "Treasures" (Nima)

~Dave

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PODCAST #197 linked here

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*** ERETIA exclusive song premiere ***

ERETIA

"VIII"
exclusive song premiere

For fans of: Fall Of Efrara, LVTN, Kollapse and Isis

Bandcamp

pre-orders linked here

album releases June 15th!!!

     Back in November of 2022 I premiered "II" by the Cantabrian band ERETIA (ex-OsoLuna and Tempano) and I dug it so much that I snagged a few copies for the ZBR distro. It was wicked, pulsing, jagged, heavy, and melodic simultaneously, reminding me sonically of Fall Of Efrafa, Cult Of Luna, Rosetta, R. Josef, etc. and their upcoming EP takes this formula and saturates the listener in even more pummeling, crushing riffage with wild, primal vocals.

     And that brings us to today, as I am premiering the first single from their upcoming one-sided 12" 'The Autumn of Civilization.'. It will feature four songs in 21 minutes, with the band returning to have "Papelillo" record at Cubil Studio. This project has also been enhanced by the participation of Scott Evans@gse on mixing and @matthewbarnhart on mastering, two people the band deeply admires for their careers and work with bands like Sumac, Neurosis, Pelican, La Dispute and Kowloon Walled City, among many others. The album artwork is by the incredibly talented @asatxasat. The album will be released on all formats.

*250 copies on Ultraclear transparent vinyl

*250 copies on Yellow transparent vinyl

via:

@engrecsguy (UK)

@dingleberry_records (GERMANY)

@nothingtoharvestrcrd (GREECE),

Araki Records (FRANCE)

@diy.kolo.records (POLAND)

@vinarecords (ITALY)

@exabrupto.records (MÉXICO)

@prejudice_me (UK)

5FeetUnder Records (NORWAY)

@pifiarecords (ASTURIAS/MANNHEIM)

@produccionestudancas (CANTABRIA)

@primitive_noise_producciones (CANTABRIA)

@autoestimadiy (CANTABRIA)

Tapes /49:

@threemoonsrecs (POLAND)

Digipak CDs /100:

@slow.down.records (NORWAY)

The band had the following to say regarding the concept of the album:

"We lived believing we could bend nature's cycles without consequences, climate-control winters, import summers, and call oil dependency progress. Climate crisis, energy shortages, food and material scarcity, broken supply chains, and rampant speculation. This isn't bad luck or a passing crisis; it's the result of a model that exhausted the Earth as if it were infinite. We were warned for decades, and we chose to look the other way. "The autumn of civilization" is a metaphor; it's time to slow down, take care of what's essential, relocate our lives, and decide whether we continue squeezing an exhausted planet or finally learn to live within its limits."

(2026) ERETIA "VIII" (from 'The Autumn of Civilization.')

https://youtu.be/H2o-8B6tQuw

     The song wastes no time moving into a massive section that Amia Venera Landscape would be proud of, as the combo attack of gorgeous riffing and shockwave chugs is mesmerizing. The song moves into a Maserati-esque midsection with a driving rhythm section amidst a flurry of guitar delay and echo. The band concludes with masterful and powerful palm mutes that absolutely crush the listener into submission. Fuck to the yes.