Portraits Of Past

KOTM FEST- DAY TWO Portraits Of Past Dropdead Violencia Dry Socket Body Farm Prevail Agonista Pig City Bleach Tolls Heavenbound Life Ender Gut Gash Ambretta Saturday May 23 The Rosetta Room Mesa, AZ Ticket link in bio

🦋 NEW FRIENDS FEST '26 IS LIVE! 🦋 Welcome to our seventh annual celebration of aggressive(ly) emotional DIY punk, hardcore and related music from around the world. NFF strives to be a welcoming place where folks with a shared love of cathartic music can come together to make life-long friendships. We're so excited to finally share this labour of love with all of our new and old friends alike. See you in July! More info, news, and special events to be announced. 3-day passes are live on our website, and locals only passes can be purchased at Emissions Record Shop starting today! 🎨: @yasinviolet + 🅰️: @ghc.champ #newfriendsfest #newfriendsfest2026 #nff

Portraits Of Past, joined by The Saddest Landscape and Drought, will play a couple more shows close to home in California this August! Tickets for August 20th at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and Los Angeles’s Zebulon go on sale this Friday, May 1 at 10am Pacific Daylight Time. Both shows are All Ages.

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We are just one week out from our first show of the year at @kotmrecords festival in Arizona! Portraits Of Past is sharing the stage with a grip of rad bands like @reversalofman , @dropdeadri , @policyof3_official , @febuaryemo , @prevailhardcore , and many more. Tickets at link in bio. Portraits will have a few of the split 7” we did with Saetia at our merch table and intend to stay hydrated. I think it will be HOT in the Sonoran Desert. See you soon. 🌀

PORTRAITS OF PAST play NFF’26, Sunday August 2. We are beyond honoured to host one of our favourite bands in this corner of hardcore and punk this summer. True legends who have shaped so much of emo in the decades since their short stint as an active band. A single monumental full length full of unbridled energy and intensity many have attempted to replicate but have never come close to. We cannot wait to close out our celebrations this year with a band most of us never thought we would see live. WEEKEND PASSES & SINGLE DAY TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW. #punk #emo #hardcore #skramz #screamo

Portraits Of Past Live 2026 Tickets for our August shows in Los Angeles and San Francisco with The Saddest Landscape and Drought are on sale now! After a six-month hiatus, Portraits plays the King Of The Monsters festival later this month in Arizona with all your faves. On August 2nd, we will travel to Canada for the first time since 1995 to appear at the similarly epic New Friends Fest. May 23 - Mesa, AZ - King Of The Monsters Fest August 2 - Toronto, ON - New Friends Festival August 20 - San Francisco - Great American Music Hall August 21 - Los Angeles - Zebulon Ticket links for all of these are in our bio. We leave only to return again. See you soon.
 Photo by Ryan Gomez @ryan_gomez123 @kotmrecords @newfriendsdiy @thesaddestlandscape @drought_band

PORTRAITS OF PAST (CA) To write about Portraits of Past is to write about the story of post-hardcore, perhaps to their chagrin—true innovators at a time when the borders of punk music weren’t yet so clearly defined, so infamously far ahead of their peers that no one else realized how pivotal they were until years after they’d broken up. Having reached near-mythic status over the last decade (buoyed further by a brief string of reunion activity at the end of the aughts), it is impossible to overstate not just their impact, but their total singularity, even after 30+ years. Playing in off-kilter times and open tunings, no band has managed to capture their darkly melodic sound since, a nigh-impossible feat in a corner of music so thoroughly mined for influence. The real miracle, however, is that they’ve still got it. If you could only see one band this summer, we’d ask you to consider Portraits of Past. Witness their second-ever Toronto appearance (and quite possibly their last) at NFF’26, July 31st–August 2nd! 📸 @jaimeowens #newfriendsfest #newfriendsfest2026 #nff #nff26 #portraitsofpast #portraitsofpastband

NFF’26 is LIVE! Get ready for screamo summer camp ft. RAINER MARIA, PORTRAITS OF PAST, Mat and Jenn of CARISSA’S WIERD, REVERSAL OF MAN, IN LOVING MEMORY + 31 bands from around the world! Passes available now at NewFrindsDIY.com

Portraits Of Past hats are now available in our merch store. Silver thread embroidered on a black cotton dad cap. Ornate logo tees are back in stock too. Matt along the Los Angeles River. March, 2026. We love all of you.

Portraits Of Past returns to Canada alongside Rainer Maria, Carissa’s Wierd, Reversal of Man, In Loving Memory and many more sick bands at New Friends Fest 2026 in Toronto, Ontario this summer! @newfriendsdiy @rainermariamusic @reversalofman @inlovingmemory_screamo

On this day… We’re excited to celebrate both the birth of this Saetia // Portraits Of Past split 7” and Billy (@hotcrossedout ), the man behind the mic on the Saetia side, who turns 49 today. 🎂 Thanks to the bands for letting us do this project and to the fans who ordered copies. We still have more packing to do so thanks for your patience. Be sure to catch the bands at some of their upcoming shows. 🔗: Link in bio to grab a copy 📸: @peipfex , @jonvandine , @whatwasbehind #saetianyc #portraitsofpast #solidbrassrecords #whatwasbehind

Saturday line-up now with 100% more Pig City! FRIDAY MAY 22 Reversal Of Man Febuary Policy Of Three Spiritiste My Friend, My Urn Common Wounds Dead Snitch Imagine We Had Antlers SATURDAY MAY 23 Portraits Of Past Dropdead Violencia Dry Socket Body Farm Prevail Agonista Pig City Bleach Tolls Heavenbound Life Ender Gut Gash Ambretta Get your tickets at kotmrecords.com before they are all gone.