The DIRTY ROTTEN IMBECILES' history begins on May 2, 1982 around 4:00pm, in the city of Houston, TX. It was on this day that the musically aggressive quartet we now know as D.R.I. made their first Dirty Rotten noise and called it a song.
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D.R.I. plays a pioneering blend of hardcore punk and thrash metal, often credited with defining the "crossover" genre, as heard on albums like "Thrash Zone".
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D.R.I. currently consists of founding members Kurt Brecht on vocals and Spike Cassidy on guitar, alongside bassist Greg Orr and drummer Walter Ryan.
