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During the Four of a Kind and Thrash Zone years, we were doing pretty good. We reached a certain point where we weren't getting any higher and lower, so for Definition, we decided to open for a lot of bands - like Ice-T & Body Count and Testament....

D.R.I. released their fifth album, Thrash Zone, on this day in 1989.

Recorded on this day in 1983, about a year after the classic 22-track Dirty Rotten EP, Violent Pacification includes some greats like "Couch Slouch" and "To Open Closed Doors". Still very much 'punk-era' D.R.I. - a year before Dealing with It!, three before Crossover.

D.R.I. released their third album on this day in 1987 through Metal Blade Records. As you can hear in the video, bands like D.R.I. were known as metalcore (or thrashcore), a genre term which has come to mean something completely different. As people endlessly seek to classify music into...