Crossover

D.R.I.

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• Original Release Date: 1987
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Dead Line
• ASIN: B00000E768
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #400,660 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The change over from early Punk to metal in the '80s, April 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Crossover (Audio CD)

in this album one can easily see the change in style between earlyer DRI albums with there more raw street punk style to a more speed metal sound that is an example of what was happening at the time and is more prevalent in some of their later albums.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic, April 28, 2007

By	Gogol (England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crossover (Audio CD)

Thrash, metal, crossover whatever you want to call it DRI had one simple thing going for them, they played damn good music and even had decent lyrics to go with it. Maybe its their punk history that done it but this band were able to combine two styles so well it was something many punk bands tried in the 80s and failed miserably.

Buy this, you will not regret it.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most progressive album of their career, October 28, 2005

By	Zander Haberstaft (Miami, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crossover (Audio CD)

When this came out in 1987, it sounded like a Thrash record just like everything else on Metal Blade at the time. But on closer inspection, this D.R.I. album is the most progressive album of thier career and ahead of it's time. Songs like "Decisions" and "Tear it Down" have a very progressive structure and the breaks are amazing in musicmanship.

The production was also much better than the production on "Dealing with It". Bill Metoyer, the producer of the first couple Slayer albums and two Hirax albums, does a really good job here. The speed of the band had generally mellowed out a little at this point. Don't get me wrong there are some fast songs, but the slowness and disonance of some numbers gives the general feel of the album a slow one. On the next album, "Four of a Kind", the speedy numbers would make quite a return. For this reason, no two D.R.I. albums sound alike.

This was also a very successful tour for D.R.I. Playing with bands like Possessed, Executioner, only made the shows better.

Oh, and to the reviewer who said "Crossover, bad idea" and "If you like Thrash this is okay". Let's get one thing straight, Dealing with It was a Thrash (or if you prefer Thrashcore) album. What do you think you are listening to? How old are you? 12? This is a Thrash band, just because they had a hardcore tendency at times doesn't make them any less of one. Was Nuclear Assault less Thrash just because they had a hardcore element?