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Full Speed Ahead

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D.R.I. is one of the most consistent bands ever.

Every album is incredibly solid and this one is

no exception. Full Speed Ahead is definitly their

heaviest and most METAL album to date. If you

like metal or punk you must buy this totally

awsome album.

Any punk who hates metal should listen to this record. Any metalhead who hates punk should listen to this record. "They Don't Care" is the greatest song ever laid down on magnetic tape, with Megadeth's "Hangar 18" a distant second. I don't think I have heard a better album front to back, and my collection has everything from funk jazz & rap to blues reggae & ska.

I remember the very first time I ever listened to an album by D.R.I. It must have been 1988 or so and I was on my way to see the band.

A lot has changed since 1998, but thankfully the boys of D.R.I. have not. If you, like me, are growing wearly of listening to the same CD's from 10 years ago, check into the latest from these bay area thrashers.

I can't believe that these 40 yr old Thrashes still play 3 chord punk rock. I love this band and always will

after all the years, D.R.I still delivers a hammer of kick'n music. here they also redo some of the older classics on this LP.

This album is the debut for the infamous bass player known only as "CHUMLY". He was huge! This was by far the best version of the band and even though the scene was dying during that period, DRI was still going strong. Unfortunately it was also the last DRI record ever released. Chumly is now in another hardcore band named "Doomsday Device". He is one of the best metal/hardcore bass players out there. He has a unique tone and style that makes him stand out. That and he weighs over 300lbs!

That was the last decent version of DRI. They are still going strong but they just aren't the same without Chumly. Does anybody know why he quit?

"Full Speed Ahead" starts off with the super hardcordesque "Problem Addict" which isn't any good...and that's how most of the album remains.

It was clear after 1992's 'Definition' that the once classic D.R.I. method of hardcore meets Thrash metal was through with. "Full Speed Ahead" has all the elements to lend it a winning hand, it has hardcore, Thrash/Crossover and even Death Metal elements, but it fails at being an even halfway decent album.

The only good songs: "I'm the Liar", "They Don't Care", and the based on a true story in Oakland "Syringes in the Sandbox". Other than that, the rest of the albums sucks hard. Should've gone the hypertechnical death metal route if they wanted to stay afloat or simply tried something entirely different. There are very few albums that I listen to where it sounds like the band is tired. This is one of those albums. Or maybe they should've done what all the non-platinum level Thrash or all Crossover artists did, which was just to fade out and die.

Seeing how it's been twelve years since their last album one has to wonder if they have enough in them to record another album. I ask Kurt that same question everytime I see him. His response, "We don't have the money." With all these Thrash and Crossover bands coming back to record, Exodus, Nuclear Assault, Hirax (maybe even Cryptic Slaughter) etc. one would think that now would be the time to record a new album because I hope that FSA isn't the last D.R.I. album -that'd just be pathetic.