Full Speed Ahead (D.R.I. album)

Full Speed Ahead is an album by the American crossover thrash band D.R.I., released in 1995.^[2][3] It is the band's final studio album.^[4] The band's former roadie, Chumly Porter, played bass.^[5]

Full Speed Ahead
Studio album by D.R.I.
Released	November 14, 1995
Recorded	1994–1995
Genre	Crossover thrash
Length	72:44
Label	Rotten Records[1]
Producer	Spike Cassidy
D.R.I. chronology
Live (1994) Full Speed Ahead (1995) The Dirty Rotten Power (2001)

The album was not a commercial success. D.R.I. supported it by touring with Acid Bath.^[6][7]

After the album's release, the band decided that they would no longer record any new music; however, they recorded and released the track "Against Me" in 2003. D.R.I. would not release any material until 2016, with the EP But Wait... There's More!

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Rock Hard	8.0/10[8]

The Charlotte Observer called the album "teeth-gnashing thrash-core," writing that the "pulverizing, heavy guitar chords collide with rat-tat-tat drumming for World War III."^[9] The Arizona Daily Star noted that the album title "is a testament to [D.R.I.'s] unrelenting attack."^[10] The Wisconsin State Journal wrote that the band's "still blindly and wantonly cranking out metallic, old-school, hard-core punk rock."^[11]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Problem Addict"	1:39
2.	"I'm the Liar"	4:13
3.	"Under the Overpass"	3:24
4.	"They Don't Care"	4:53
5.	"Drawn and Quartered"	2:30
6.	"No End"	3:33
7.	"Wages of Sin"	2:15
8.	"Syringes in the Sandbox"	3:40
9.	"Who Am I?"	0:47
10.	"Girl with a Gun"	4:29
11.	"Dead Meat"	4:03
12.	"Down to the Wire"	3:14
13.	"Level 7"	3:29
14.	"Broke"	0:45
15.	"Sucker"	3:31
16.	"Underneath the Surface"	26:19

Note

"Underneath the Surface" is a 4:56 song. There is a 20 minute silence before a one minute instrumental tune is played

Credits

• Kurt Brecht – vocals
• Spike Cassidy – guitars
• Chumly Porter – bass
• Rob Rampy – drums