D.R.I.

Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (also known as D.R.I.) are a United States hardcore punk/thrashcore/crossover thrash band that formed in Houston, Texas, in 1982. The band currently comprises founding members, vocalist Kurt Brecht and guitarist Spike Cassidy, as well as drummer Rob Rampy and bassist Harald Oimoen.

D.R.I. never gained a mainstream audience, but the integration of their hardcore punk roots with thrash metal influences was a stylistic catalyst for their contemporaries —most notably Suicidal Tendencies, Corrosion of Conformity, and Stormtroopers of Death— alongside whom they are considered pioneers of what would later be called “crossover thrash.” This subgenre was also coined from their 1987 album Crossover.

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Members of Beak and Yakuza regress into ’80’s crossover thrash, emulating a far too short lived era with a plethora of deplorable (and fun) one minute songs about some heinous shit. For fans of COC, DRI, Cryptic Slaughter, The Accused, Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, Slayer, Spazz, etc.

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SPARE CHANGE

Spare Change was originally formed on the south-side of Chicago in 1989. The band plays their own unique style of raw hardcore punk / metal crossover. Through hard time and many lineup changes singer Bryan ‘Chump Change’ Robertson has managed to keep the beast alive, putting out over 20 releases in the process. The current lineup of Bryan on vocals, David Grek on guitar, Al Salad on bass and Fabian Arroyo on drums is the strongest to date. In 2013 the band put out their first release with its current lineup, Crash and Burn. This EP contains four tracks of straight up, ripping crossover and is the first sign that after 25 years Spare Change is still as relevant and as they were when they first started making a rauncous noise back in ’89.

Spare Change has had the pleasure to share the stage with the likes of D.R.I., Dead Kennedys, Grim Reaper, Riot, Black Death, Iron Reagan (Municiple Waste), The Addicts, The Casualties, Verbal Abuse, Fang, Toxic Reasons, Raw Power, The Effigies, CJ Ramone, The Mentors, Macabre, Helstar, Poison Idea, M.D.C., Necrophagia, Venom (inc.) and many others. They were the only punk/metal band to play the Taste of Chicago in 2001 and are currently working on there new album “Bonded By Beer”

DEAD SPLIT EGOS

Hailing from the Chicagoland area comes the in your face, high energy, punk rock of the Dead Split Egos. Featuring the raw vocals and guitar playing of Nick Toppel, the punchy bass lines of Brett Sullivan, and the hard hitting drums of Dennis Toppel. Dead Split Egos brings you a taste of old school hardcore punk mixed with their own style of new school punk rock. Come prepared for a hard hitting, fast paced, hard-as-hell-core punk show that will blow your head off.