Fantasmagoria - My Hunger

Fantasmagoria was a short lived thrash/death band that only ever recorded one song, which was released as the My Hunger demo tape in 1988.

Mike Teal handled bass on this demo, but otherwise played guitar for Fantasmagoria.  Here's a brief synopsis of the band from his point of view:

So, Fantasmagoria was a band that was started by James Smith, Kendall Seeman, Jon Englehart, and myself a few months before I started playing drums in Machine, we were introduced by Mark Murphy (AKA Frankie Delmane)  of Dead Conspiracy back in 1987.  They all were jamming together in a band out in Lake Oswego called Osiris, and were looking for a 2nd guitarist.  I showed up with a bunch of thrash riffs and hyperactive ideas and they loved me immediately, I insisted we change the name to something more death metal sounding, and we started playing Slayer, Metallica, Exodus, Motorhead, AC/DC covers, along with a bunch of original stuff.  After a few months we got together a pretty long set of originals, all thrash metal inspired stuff with a bit of melodic progressive metal sounding songs, we played a single live show with Dead Conspiracy and Savior out at the Uhaul place they practiced in out in Gresham, then I quit in the recording studio while we were recording the follow up demo to My Hunger.  James ended up as the vocalist for Savior later on, and I think Kendall and Jon had a band going together after Fantasmagoria.  It was my first REAL band that played live AND recorded, I was 17.

 

Fantasmagoria - My Hunger

[demo 1988]

http://www.mediafire.com/?cdqzbf8um8qqz67

The link above contains a 320k mp3, and full scans of the entire layout.  However, I've also uploaded just the song to youtube.

Demise - Portland Cable Access [3/4/94]

On March 4th, 1994, Demise played on Portland Cable Access' "In Pursuit Of Trivia" show.  I edited the video down to just the portions with Demise, and a special guest appearance by Jim Spagg.

Bludgeon - Gunman [demo 1990]

After the demise of Machine alongside the highly publicized actions and trial of Ken Death, Eric Couch (Lockjaw) aka Tool, and Mike Teal aka Mike Choad formed Bludgeon with Tom Porneau, who was formerly a live member of Dr. Mastermind.  This demo is laden with thrash riffs, but does an incredible job of maintaining a punk edge to it all.

Bludgeon released two more demos after Gunman before calling it a day in 1996.

Bludgeon - Gunman

[Demo 1990]

http://www.mediafire.com/download/9ut4e6nqn077zdu/Bludgeon_-_Gunman_%5Bdemo_1990%5D.zip

Wipers - Better Off Dead

This is the first Wipers 7" from 1978 on Greg Sage's own Trap Records.  It has always blown my mind that these tracks weren't included in the Wipers CD box set, or any of the vinyl reissues, but they were instead only re-released on the History Of Portland Punk cd.  Like many contemporary punk and hardcore records of its time, they pressed a certain amount of records, but printed a smaller number of covers.  This resulted in one pressing of the record (although I don't know how may) and two cover variations.

The first version of the cover from 1978 was black, red and yellow, and featured liner notes on the inside.

My copy has the second version of the cover from 1979, which is simply orange and black, and unfortunately doesn't contain any liner notes on the inside.

They recorded this 7" on a 4 track, which gives the record a raw vibe that really puts these tracks over the top for me.  I wanted to completely maintain the integrity of the original recording, so I didn't re-master these tracks at all.

Wipers - Better Off Dead

[1978 - Trap Records]

http://www.mediafire.com/?dbg3escb5u8889a

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://www.mediafire.com/download/7rzc8pvjf65t6f4/Backside_Disaster_-_The_Coming_Of_Iad_Urorobos_%5BDemo_1997%5D.zip

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.

Naked Violence - Demo 1991

Naked Violence spent a good 13 years (1991-2004) supplying Portland with offensive hardcore punk.  This is their five track demo tape from 1991, which contains four originals and a Dayglo Abortions cover.

Naked Violence - Demo 1991

http://www.mediafire.com/download/b959v25mf4jxbkk/Naked_Violence_-_Demo_1991.zip

Savior - Exploitation [1995]

The Exploitation full length, released in 1995 via Fan Records out of Poland was to be the last hurrah for Savior.  Unfortunately, the label only ever sent the band 4 copies and then was never heard from again.  However, I was recently able to track one down and import it, bringing the United States' total copies up to at least 5.

Savior bang out 10 tracks of death/thrash that showcase their consistently heavier progression really well.  Then, much like the Face Of Adversity tape, there are a few tracks from Savior's side punk band, Dickfinger.  At the request of the band, though, one of those Dickfinger tracks has been left out of this download.  But, this is a Savior full length that probably hasn't been heard by many people even in their hometown, so download it and crank it!

Savior - Exploitation

[1995 - Fan Records]

http://www.mediafire.com/download/3vucbouao7i7d3e/Savior_-_Exploitation_%5B1995%5D.zip