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DZ alum It Is Rain In My Face. has his sophomore full-length all but finished and Mat has bestowed upon the masses a sneak peak for our listening pleasure. Debuted earlier this week on Ad Hoc, "Raise Your Hands, Raise The Dead" is a stellar track, "brought to life with coiled riffs and frenetic yet melodic chanting," that will surely help you warm up to winter's glacial numbing with its hypnotically soothing resonance. "The Framer" will be available from Chill Mega Chill, who has been on fire with recent releases from friends of the label Born Gold and Orca Life. Check out the single below and look out for the new album dropping November 19.

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The next DZ live event is coming up on October 12, and this time around features three relentlessly explosive acts from Murderland in Two Inch Astronaut, Hive Bent, and Scott Russell. This will most assuredly be a bitchin' loud time. Come out to the Dougout to catch these three hard acts and enjoy the crisp autumn evening with some friends and brews. Limited edition glow-in-the-dark screenprints have been specially concocted for the occasion by Mike O'Brien at Red Table Press and will be on sale at the show in addition to other gnarly band merch. Click the image below for more details about the show.

In other upcoming concert news, Birkwin Jersey will be supporting Small Black for their show on October 8 at Sticky Mike's in Brighton. Click here for the scoop.

Lastly, I've got some new It Is Rain In My Face. goodies to share with you. Mat's been working hard recently in preparations for an upcoming LP on Chill Mega Chill, but has still managed to put together some other new material in the meantime. Stream and purchase his new Untitled EP below:

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It's with both great pleasure and sadness that I announce that all physical merch has sold out. While working through the doldrums here at HQ, I want to take this moment to thank each and every fan out there for supporting the label and helping it grow steadily one album at a time. As a show of appreciation, I'm offering up a 25% discount on all digital downloads through Halloween by using the code "tom_nook" in the shop. There are a couple of things in the works for the near future, but I'd like to encourage any musician(s) interested in potentially working on releasing something with DZ TAPES to submit their content for consideration via email. So take some time to enjoy the ensuing arboreal metamorphosis, stay tuned for more event news and cassette previews to come, and check out the Seabright's recent work with the folks over at Love Our Records: