D.R.I.: Greatest Hits (limited edition, red & silver splatter vinyl) [CLEOPATRA]

Why you'll love it

A limited pressing on red & silver splatter vinyl. Seventeen tracks from the Houston crossover pioneers, from "Who Am I" and "Commuter Man" to "I Don't Need Society" and "Five Year Plan".

This edition

• Limited edition red & silver splatter vinyl
• Seventeen tracks across two sides

About the album

Dirty Rotten Imbeciles started in Houston in 1982, practised every night for four months, and recorded their debut in the Brecht family home in a room soundproofed with egg cartons. That record, Dirty Rotten, is now counted among the first thrashcore albums, and the band later moved to San Francisco and pulled hardcore punk and thrash metal together so tightly that the result got its own name: crossover.

This set rounds up the essentials from Kurt Brecht and Spike Cassidy's early years, short, ferocious and a lot funnier than you'd expect ("Couch Slouch", "Nursing Home Blues"). Suicidal Tendencies, Corrosion Of Conformity and S.O.D. were all running on the same fuel. Most songs are over before you've found the volume knob, so we'd set it in advance.

Tracklist

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Out September 18, 2026 on Cleopatra (cat# 88946675391), a reissue of the 2002 compilation.