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. Back then it was Spike Cassidy (guitar), Kurt Brecht (vocals), Eric Brecht (drums), and Dennis Johnson (bass). The group started practicing at Kurt and Eric's pa...See More Description Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (also known as D.R.I.) are a United States hardcore punk/thrashcore/crossover thrash band that formed in Houston, Texas, in 1982. The band currently 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 the integration of their hardcore punk roots with thrash metal influences was a stylistic catalyst for their contemporaries --most notably Suicidal Tendencies, Corrosion of Conformity, and Stormtroopers of Death-- alongside whom they are considered pioneers of what would later be called "crossover thrash." This subgenre was also coined from their 1987 album Crossover.        

Intent is a thrash metal band from the wasteland of Mesa, Arizona. Formed in 2016 by Jeremy Lambert, Garrett Loper, and Ricardo Hall; The band would eventually recruit Jimmy Nelson and Alex Zucker and go on to produce their debut album, "Vox Populi" in early 2018.

Contrapact is a new band from Portland, Oregon and includes members of some well known vands such as Vastation, GAASP, Terminal Conquest and Erradict. Here we got their first recording, a 5 track demo of metallic motorcrust at its finest. Engineered and mixed by Jesse at Low Shelf Recording. Mastered by Will at Dead Air Studios, the demo lasts seventeen minutes of D-beat driven crust punk with some healthy dose of Motorhead. Excellent motorcharged punk. Available in bandcamp