Customer Reviews

Definition

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For any fan of fast heavy and hard music, this album is a must own. The boys from D.R.I. are back and they mean business on this one. The album features a new drummer which made me hesitate at first, but when I heard the first few bars of the first song, I knew it was gonna rock. D.R.I. has yet to put out an album of any less then superb quality so this one getting a five star rating is typical of all their music. These guys just keep crankin' it out year after year, they never get soft. Enjoy!!

This is pure thrash,I love D.R.I.,they are very original.They were the first ever band to do a blast beat on there first album in 83'.Definition is a great album,Acid Rain is a perfect song to start the album.They have there punk style to them like there lyrics,the lyrics rule,they always do!Guilt Trip is great,
Paying To Play is awesome, all the songs rule.The Target,one of the best songs on the album.Here are some lyrics to some songs,
Dry Heaves-
I was drinking beer
Then I was drinking Jagar
I know I shouldn't mix the two
I always pay later.
Acid Rain-
Will our children look back
With hatred or despair
At a generation of idiots
Who just didn't care.
D.R.I. stands for Dirty Rotten Imbeciles.
If you like original thrash bands, pick this album up.

Definition isn't D.R.I.'s best album, although superb. Some songs are repetative and others sound the same. But it is fast, heavy and raw, and adrenaline filled music. Overall, this album is a must buy for any crossover thrash or D.R.I. fan.

This is D.R.I.'s 6th album that came out in 1992. This record tends to go more towards the thrash metal side and less hardcore punk than their previous "Thrash Zone" LP. Kurt Brecht continues to write social political lyrics as he has in the past with topics ranging from environmental issues to the days when the band was just starting out. D.R.I. tends to draw both punk and metal enthusiasts....I would say if you are strictly into hardcore punk than this record may not be for you. However, if you're a punk with an open mind than give it a shot.

this is a great cd the band is rock solid not a weak link.great song during a very rocky time in the band live excellent bonus songs for each format.some very memerable tracks on this cd.better track say it,acid rain, hard ball,time out,paying to play,don't ask,you and let it go.heavy guitar,thunderious bass,excellent drumming and kurt mr.tonedeaf If you lliked 4 of a kind and thrash zone oe crossover you'll love this but old school fans will not be disappointed, either!the target is a classic ,too!

Three years can make a big difference in any band's career. But these weren't just any three random years. These were the years when grunge rock and Death metal/Grind were beginning to encroach on Thrash metal's dominance for the music fan's ears.
D.R.I. had also lost a great band member, Felix Griffin one of the best drummer's in the genre and one of my favorite drummer's of all time. The boys replaced Griffin with Rob Rampy and 1992 'Definition' is off.

'Definition' starts out incredibly promising with the absolutely heavy and thunderous 'Acid Rain'. The next song 'Tone Deaf' pokes fun at Kurt Brecht's atonal vocals, which I love because they're so inoffensive. The song's okay but the third one 'Guilt Trip', ushers back in the good music...and for the rest of the album it goes back and forth between the great creative riffs and the sluggish numbers it sounded like they wrote and recorded in a day ('Dry Heaves'?)

The not-sure-of-which-direction-we're-going is very evident on this album whereas Thrash Zone ('89) was incredibly competent on delivery. Too bad for these guys, 'cause for anyone that remembers back in '85 it was all about Hirax, pre-Reign in Blood- Slayer, Exodus, Possessed, that odd one called Hallow's Eve, and of course D.R.I. I won't say 'Definition' is bad, it is quite good in parts, but the album is so ridiculously inconsistent it's tough to listen too straight through. This would also be the last good D.R.I. album as 1995's "Full Speed Ahead" proved to be a total joke. Yeah, it was tough to believe at the time.