DYS (band)
DYS is an American straight edge hardcore band from Boston, Massachusetts who were part of the notorious "Boston Crew" in the 1980s, along with contemporaries such as SSD and Negative FX. The group later expanded their sound, becoming one of the first hardcore bands to veer into heavy metal.
History
First formation
DYS was founded in the 1980s by singer Dave Smalley and bassist Jonathan Anastas. At the time, Smalley was a freshman at Boston College, while Anastas had previously founded the short-lived band Decadence, whose song "Slam" was featured on "This Is Boston, Not LA", and later adopted for a long-running MTV advertising campaign titled "Santa, the Man, the Myth, the Slam Dancer."
DYS took its name from the Department of Youth Services, a Massachusetts governmental organization where delinquent youth were housed, as well as the Alice Cooper teen power anthem "Department of Youth." Smalley and Anastas were joined by guitarist Andy Strachan and drummer Dave Collins. In 1983, the band released their debut album Brotherhood, produced by punk recording legend Lou Giordano. The next year they released their second album, DYS, which took them in a metal direction. During their metal period, live sound was handled by noted hard rock producer Andrew Murdock, who works under the professional name "Mudrock."
Dys
Dys [dɨs] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Niemce, within Lublin County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) south-west of Niemce and 8 km (5 mi) north of the regional capital Lublin.
The village has a population of 1,200.
References
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