Downfall was a ska and punk band from the Bay Area formed by Tim Armstrong, Matt Freeman, Dave Mello, Pat Mello, and Jason Hammon following the break-up of Operation Ivy in 1989 and pre-dating Armstrong's and Freeman's wider recognition in Rancid.
[1] They performed three shows, one at 924 Gilman Street, over a period of three months.
In 1994 a number of those songs were going to be compiled for a release on Lookout!
The album would have been Lookout!#99, and was scheduled for release in late 1994.
Brett Gurewitz remixed the album, but due to Rancid's mainstream attention, it was also never released.