D.R.I.

March 06, 2024 - 09:44 PM - 981 views

Genre	crossover, thrash metal, hardcore, hardcore punk, punk

D.R.I. (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles) are a hardcore punk band formed in Houston, USA in 1982. Current line-up comprises founding members vocalist Kurt Brecht and guitarist Spike Cassidy, as well as drummer Rob Rampy and bassist Harald Oimoen. D.R.I. never gained a mainstream audience, but integrating hardcore punk roots with thrash-metal influences was a stylistic catalyst for their contemporaries - most notably Agnostic Front, Corrosion Of Conformity, Verbal Abuse, Cro-Mags, Dr. Know - alongside whom they are considered pioneers of what they called "Crossover" in their third album (1987). To date, D.R.I. have released 7 albums. Since then, the band has continued touring and intermittently going on hiatus. In 2004, D.R.I. released a web-only demo track "Against Me", their first recording in a decade. For years, there has been talk of an eighth D.R.I. album, which has yet to materialize. D.R.I. has also its own label called "Rotten Records".

Top Tracks

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I Don't Need Society

2

Thrashard

3

I'd Rather Be Sleeping

4

Beneath The Wheel

5

Couch Slouch

6

Yes Ma'am

7

Snap

8

You Say I'm Scum

9

Enemy Within

10

Commuter Man

Top Albums

Thrash Zone

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Dirty Rotten LP

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Dealing With It! (Millennium Edition)

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