Dirt

Your entire presentation was very professional and well done. You can be proud of your efforts. It's clear that everyone in the group are great players and the recording captured a live energy that I really enjoyed. The producer is excellent. - Foley Entertainment

Here's a band on a mission if ever I saw one! They play hard core aggressive rap-rock, but with a difference. What I liked about this group is that they have clearly thought about being unique. There are twists and turns in the arrangements and production that keep you on your toes... It's the ultimate fusion music for kids! - A & R Online/Chris Standring

One helluva disc, great blend of unique arrangements, yet easy to listen to. Angry, melodic, sophisticated, raw - you name it and it's there, pure. - Scott Reid

"What U Said" would fit perfectly on today's radio, yet it falls in a category that's rare...high quality. - The Cleveland Free Times

Welcome To The Pressure Cooker is a 14 song full length enhanced CD that contains some of the best sounding original rap-metal style music that I have heard in a long time. I really hate to label these guys as rap-metal; they combine various musical generes to create a brutal and thick sound that is different from anything that I heard for this style of music. All the songs on the CD are great! The sound quality of Welcome To The Pressure Cooker is great as well. Dirt has put together an aggressive sounding CD that will make your ears want more. Dirt make some great music and they can kick some ass as well. Go out and buy the CD, it rocks and won't leave you disappointed! - Brian Kerr/Lakeland Community College

Great CD, I bought yours with three others from CD Baby but I haven't been able to listen to the others yet. Its good to hear your getting radio coverage, every station should join the band wagon. Thanks for taking the time to contact your fans! It's great!! Have fun and I'll keep bugging the stations. - CD Baby Listener - Shane - Australia

First of all very impressed with the cd..Production is great , lyrics are clever and over all I thought the whole thing really rocked...I am really digging it...going to share it with the MD of the CHR station so he can sample the flavor. must have you in soon. - Jim Edwards - WZRX 107.5-Lima, OH

I foresee a long and prosperous future. Very catchy. - Richard Vilantano - CPE Pubs.

Rap Metal, Metal Core, Nu-Metal or whatever other name this type of music is labelled, there is never going to be any middle ground where someone is going to say “Yeah, it’s okay.” Metal fans are always going to complain about Rap singing in a Metal song and Rap fans will say the Metal guitars are spoiling a good Rap tune.

For all you Metal fans out there, Welcome to the Pressure Cooker has some pretty awesome rough, chugging and sludgy guitar riffs skilfully played by Jim Bryant. Bass player Justin Pocock keeps the songs rumbling along and there is some fanciful drumming from Mark Patrick keeping the beat. Take away the Rapping, the samples, programming, turntable wiggling, and other various MIDI insertions, and you have a down an’ dirty, kinda Grungy Rock album.

Take a listen to “Get Mine” and “What U Said” to get your head nodding. You even have a Rock Ballad to mellow out to in the haunting, acoustically melodic “Yesterday.” Dave “DBC” Burzanko has a very strong voice with a wide vocal range, backed and harmonized by Jim Bryant and Justin Pockock, and is well suited for singing Rock and Metal.

Welcome to the Pressure Cooker has more to offer Rap, Nu-Metal and Hip-Hop fans. DBC’s raping ability is as good as anything Limp Biskit’s Fred Durst, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda, or even Emenem pumps out. His turntable wiggling, programming, samples and other MIDI electronica flow with, and are part of, each song, rather than just put in for the sake of having them in there somewhere to make it sound Hip-Hop. The tracks “Killing Me,” “Gimmie,” “Root of All Evil,” and “Bossman,” being the better tracks typifying this style of music. “Killing Me” also features Cali Hawk adding her vocal uniqueness to the mix.

Welcome to the Pressure Cooker belongs to that controversial hybrid fusion of Rap, Metal, Rock, and Hip-Hop, you can’t call it Nu-Metal as Nu-Metal is dead, many out there have read the obituary, and this style of music appeals to quite a narrow band of fans. Whatever label you want to give this type of music, Dirt play it very well. If you are a fan of this musical hybrid, then Dirt have created an album that will spend a long time on your playlist. However, Metal and Rap aficionados will shun it as the offspring from a marriage of musical genres that should under no circumstances have ever met, never mind made it to the alter. - SHOEGAZER ROSS/Metal Express