Demise - Thrash Fest 3/10/90

Live video of Demise's full set from Thrash Fest 1990 at Starry Night.

Backside Disaster - Demo 1997 [unreleased]

On New Year's Eve of 1996, National Guard offically became Backside Disaster at Thee O, and roughly six months later in 1997, they recorded this first demo.  However, they never actually released the demo, and it has been lying dormant on a DAT tape for the last 16 years.  This demo provides a much better link between the sounds of National Guard, and the more complex riffs that would show up in later Backside Disaster songs.

There are six tracks on the demo, and people that attended early Backside Disaster shows might remember such songs as "Payback" and "Nourishment".  Of the six tracks, only one was re-recorded for the second demo in November of 1997.

Without further ado, here is the first, unreleased Backside Disaster demo; remastered from the original master DAT tape.

Backside Disaster - Demo 1997

[unreleased]

http://www.mediafire.com/download/daqaaecgxuxe6y8/Backside_Disaster_-_Demo_1997_%5Bunreleased%5D.zip



Shai Hulud - 8/15/98 @ Stage 4 Theater

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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