Video: Bane & Countervail - Portland, OR 3/16/99

Full sets from both Bane and Countervail at the Schoolhouse in Portland, OR back on 3/16/99.

Video: Botch - Portland, OR [10/13/99]

Here's a full set from Botch at 17 Nautical Miles in Portland, OR on 10/13/99.

Video: Earth Crisis - Portland, OR 11/27/98

At the time of this show, Earth Crisis were out touring for the recently released Breed The Killers album.  I can't remember if Hatebreed dropped off of just this show, or the entire tour, but they definitely didn't play on this night.

Video: Converge - Portland, OR 6/7/98

Video cuts in during the first track, but this is a full set of Converge from the second time they came to Portland at the Stage 4 Theater on 6/7/98.

Video: Turmoil - Portland, OR 4/5/99

The next installment from my friend Adam's video vault is this full set from Turmoil at the Spin Cycle in Portland, OR on 4/5/99.  I was actually out of town when this show happened, so I'm especially happy to be able to go back and see it now.

Video: Trial / Avail - Portland, OR 5/16/98

I recently got together with my old friend Adam to hang out for a few with our kids, and he handed me a stack of late 90s Portland videos that I didn't already have.  Virtually any hardcore video you see from Portland between 1997 and 1999 was filmed by him.
Let's start with Trial and Avail at Stage 4 Theater on May 16th, 1998.  I have no memory of the opening bands, but this show was pretty nuts during both Trial's and Avail's sets.

Cursed - Porltand, OR 3/28/04

This was the first time that Cursed played in Portland.  The Dead Unknown went and did all of the Northwest dates with them and Breather Resist.  It was a great few days in all possible regards.

The audio gets a little janky at times, but if you ever saw Cursed play life, you should know that's just because they played so damn loud that they were undoubtedly overloading the camera's mic.

Left With Nothing / Backside Disaster / Last Man Standing - 3/20/98

I pulled out a VHS last night of a smaller Northwest Hardcore show that happened at Stage 4 Theater in Portland back on 3/20/98.  On tape were Last Man Standing, Backside Disaster and Left With Nothing.

RIP Brian Redman

Young Turks - new video and 7"

Young Turks out of Portland, OR have just put out a new 7", titled Where I Rise, on Animal Style Records.  Here's a video for the track "Roe vs. Wade vs. Westbrook".

The record can be ordered here.

Backside Disaster - The Coming Of Iad Urorobos [demo 1997]

Backside Disaster's second demo recording from November of 1997.  Forgive is the only track that was re-recorded from the first, unreleased demo a few months prior.  The new songs contained on this demo were much heavier and guitar harmonies were becoming much more prevalent.  

I'm not sure how many cassettes were made in total, but only the first 25 or 30 came with the handmade lyric booklet, which I fully scanned and included in the download.  This conversion also comes directly from the master DAT, and I gave it a slight remaster.

Backside Disaster - The Coming Of Iad Urorobos

[Demo 1997]

http://www55.zippyshare.com/v/55191228/file.html

Although I can't remember for sure, I believe these tapes were first made available at the Final Destination fest at Stage 4, which they were added to after the flyer below had already made the rounds.

Unrestrained to launch Kickstarter campaign.

Straight from the band announcement:

We (Unrestrained) have traditionally held full time jobs to fund our passion filled pursuit of recording hardcore records since we were teenagers, but it's 2013 and that shit is for the birds, so now we're going to crowdsource all future endeavors.

Please watch this video detailing our first Kickstarter campaign while we continue to get everything lined up on their site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTmluQpJBLA

Shai Hulud - 8/15/98 - Portland, OR

In 1998, Florida's Shai Hulud came to Portland for the first time with Overcast and Disembodied, and they all played at the Stage 4 Theater.  The show was originally set to be at 17 Nautical Miles, but it got moved a couple weeks prior, and it's a good thing it did, because there's no way everyone would have fit into that tiny venue.  Unfortunately, video of Overcast and Disembodied from that night are lost forever, as the master copies got destroyed when the original filmer's basement flooded.  But I still had the Shai Hulud set on VHS, and here it is.

The Dead Unknown / Backside Disaster - 4/1/00

April 1st, 2000 served as the first show for my old band, The Dead Unknown, and the final show for Backside Disaster.  Now that I finally have myself setup for transferring VHS tapes, here are full sets of both bands from that night.

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Trial - live in Portland [4/29/12]

On Sunday, April 29th, Trial played Portland, OR again for the first time in 13 years.  Jeff from Because We Must got it all on video and has shared it with the interwebz.

Trial (full set) 4/29/12 from Because We Must on Vimeo. Also, here is the full Unrestrained set from the same show: