So I read this this evening and I would love to see it. I never saw them the first time around and by all accounts their shows were mental.
Pure unadulterated mancore!
https://blabbermouth.net/news/biohazards-reunited-original-lineup-announces-more-shows-plans-to-record-new-music
Billy Gradziadei is still fit as fuck and I hope the others can deliver.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gFvr0sU46C8 :-[
Jaysus, a fucking terrible band, it'd be better if it was a reunion with none of the original cunts. Some things are best left in the past.
Terribly brilliant. Yes.
That's the second or third article I've seen today claiming that it's the original line up, it's not. Schuler wasn't the original drummer.
They had a few decent tracks but the tough guy rapping shtick was tedious. I can't imagine this taking off.
I'd go for the craic, terribly brilliant is a great way of putting it. Only had State of The World Address on the other day for pure nostalgia and enjoyed it on that basis. Probably won't listen to it again for another decade but would definitely go to a show.
Fully agree, it won't do massive numbers you're probably looking at Button Facotry size venues. Didn't some version of the band play Fibbers in the 2010s at some stage?
I had State of the World Address on rotation a while back and couldn't stop listening to it for a month or two. It holds up really well. I watched an interview with Evan and he seems like a great dude, too.
It would be great to see them in a small venue but I'd say it will be festivals only.
Urban Discipline and State Of The World Address are great.
Mata Leo had it's moments but not as good.
I revisited Mata Leao while on my Biohazard buzz. I liked it enough at the time but it doesn't hold up to the standard of State... which I think is an unequivocal 90s classic. I think I even like it more now than I did then, but that might be nostalgia heightening the experience.
WHats the problem? this makes the 14 yr old in me happy, saw them many moons ago at the ill fated Tivoli gig in Dublin and they were really cool to a mini me despite the gig going tits up. Met the whole band in all their intimidating NOO YAWK demeanour and look. There was a lot more going on than the 'tough guy rap schtick'. Give me 'State of the World Address' anyday over the 'Black album', both of which have great production quality.
Looks like a bit of craic, giving it the proverbial wellington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN3hQZ0-TQo
I'll have to catch a show somewhere
The footage from Milwaukee does indeed look brilliant.
Evan Seinfeld has lost a load of weight and has a fine lady on his arm.
He is now a self help, self healing mind guru as well.
Only ever caught them at that Tattoo the planet thing in the Point,definitely a band for a smaller venue!.
Ever since I seen Evan's cum face , It just wouldn't be right.
(Him and tera Patrick if u wanna search for it) 😉😀
I'm pretty sure I had the Biohazard logo on my schoolbag as a young fella, long before I actually heard anything by them. The intro to punishment is fucking class...and then the vocals kick in and ruin everything.
Urban Discipline and State of the World Address are two absolute Metal classics.
Looking back on Biohazard now, it's all a bit parallel to a lot of the bands that we're very popular at the time - Fear Factory, Machine Head, Downset, Pro Pain etc. and maybe even Sepultura, Ministry and White Zombie - two, possibly three, absolute classic albums, and then they were never able to recapture the vibe or the quality after them.
For me, the Biohazard memories are a little tarnished by all the shite thats come out since the classics - it was let down after let down musically, and then bullshit drama, but i do still give both those albums a spin every few years.
State of the World Address is fascinating - such a mature, well written and "epic" album, an astounding jump from the brutality of Urban Discipline while the follow-up Mata Leao sounds like a pre-production demo, it almost seems out of place in their discography - it's hard to equate the guys in the band with the sheer quality of that individual album sometimes. Was it all down to Ed Stasium and a massive Warner Brothers budget?! ...or maybe just a snapshot of a moment in time never to be recaptured like "Burn My Eyes" or "Demanufacture".
State of the World Address, Burn My Eyes and Demanufacture really were exciting albums in their day. I went off on a much more underground journey after that but those albums almost epitomise being 12 or 13 for me.
Add in Slayer, Pantera and Sepultura as well. Good times.
Had UD and State on cassett,was in my mid teens so was hoovering up everything metal.Demaufacture a monster of an album at the time.
Quite fond of a bit of the old Hazard myself but then I do have somewhat of a penchant for gammy rap metal
Clawfinger the kings of 90s rap metal!
Clawfinger should all be in jail for what they did. Wasn't there some tossers from Kilkenny having a similar bash at ruining music?
Quote from: Paul keohane on June 02, 2023, 01:22:49 PMClawfinger the kings of 90s rap metal!
Nope. Downset. are the kings of 90s rap metal.
Saw them with Biohazard in Dublin in '94, they were immense, were sound to talk to as well. Rage sound like choirboys compared to them. They have since been swept under the carpet of musical history.
Quote from: leatherface on June 02, 2023, 01:27:33 PMQuote from: Paul keohane on June 02, 2023, 01:22:49 PMClawfinger the kings of 90s rap metal!
Nope. Downset. are the kings of 90s rap metal.
Saw them with Biohazard in Dublin in '94, they were immense, were sound to talk to as well. Rage against the machine sound like choirboys compared to them. They have since been swept under the carpet of musical history.
No love for The Finger on here!
The Finger were ultra fucken PC before it was cool.
Clawfinger = Eurovision Grade Rap Metal
Clawfinger were always god awful from what I remember.
Quote from: Bürggermeister on June 02, 2023, 01:56:37 PMThe Finger were ultra fucken PC before it was cool.
Well, they tried to be. Imagine if a band of white Swedish lads came out today with a song preaching to black people that even they shouldn't use the N-word. They wouldn't be getting called PC, I'll tell ya that :laugh:
Anyway, yeah, shite band. Though objectively no worse than the likes of Bodycount.
No worse than Bodycount? Ah here.
Now now Bodycount are still great.
Danny from Biohazard was on Hoya Roc's podcast a few months ago, way before reunion rumours.
He said that Warner were so sure of a hit record they let them at it on the studio. No pressures other than make the record.
Once it was released they then put a saddle on the band and booked them tour wise in a similar vein to the Metallica black album tour.
That's what led to the downward spiral.
Also the fact the Evan Seinfeld became a rock star all pushed them over the edge.
As I stated already a club show would be bananas.
The line up for their 2 NYC shows is testosterone fueled madness.
Bodycount and Clawfinger are equally awful.
There was another one from around that time called Gurd (Drug backwards OMG radical! gnarly!), they weren't as bad if memory serves.
Quote from: Paul keohane on June 02, 2023, 01:22:49 PMClawfinger the kings of 90s rap metal!
Yes I am partial to a little Clawfinger here and there. Well just Use Your Brain really.
And yeah as said up there, they have to be the original wokest of the woke
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on June 02, 2023, 02:48:40 PMQuote from: Bürggermeister on June 02, 2023, 01:56:37 PMThe Finger were ultra fucken PC before it was cool.
Well, they tried to be. Imagine if a band of white Swedish lads came out today with a song preaching to black people that even they shouldn't use the N-word. They wouldn't be getting called PC, I'll tell ya that :laugh:
Anyway, yeah, shite band. Though objectively no worse than the likes of Bodycount.
Yeah but they were making a perfectly fair point though
Quote from: open face surgery on June 02, 2023, 02:22:42 PMClawfinger were always god awful from what I remember.
There's a riff or two on use your brain that lads would be praising if it wasn't Clawfinger with the gammy rap
When I heard Clawfinger on the metal show I thought it was so heavy and out there.
I bought the first album on cassette from the sound cellar thinking I was the business as I visited the big city.
Biohazard are a completely different affair.
They have the riffs and grit that stand out.
Three pages into a thread on dodgy rap metal and not a mention of Stuck Mojo?!
I was always very dubious about Clawfinger (that fucking name... Jeasas!). Downset I thought were a more serious affair. I remember Do We Speak A Dead Language being good but it must be nearly 30 years since I've heard it so no idea how it holds up these days.
Downset cane across as serious no messing around type stuff.
I only had their first album.
Stuck Mojo had one moment of glory and that was joining Type O for Kill All The White People in the SFX.
I remember picking up Stuck Mojo's Pigwalk years ago just because it was produced by Devin Townsend. It was decent enough but I was pretty much done with that style by that point. If I'd got it a few years earlier I reckon I'd have absolutely loved it
Quote from: Carnage on June 02, 2023, 04:38:40 PMBodycount and Clawfinger are equally awful.
There was another one from around that time called Gurd (Drug backwards OMG radical! gnarly!), they weren't as bad if memory serves.
Yes.
And, jaysus, don't remember ever hearing of Gurd, haha. Terrible band name if that's the reason!
Quote from: John Kimble on June 02, 2023, 08:20:08 PMThree pages into a thread on dodgy rap metal and not a mention of Stuck Mojo?!
Bought a signed copy of snapping necks for 3 euro a few years back. It's a bad album but I like it
Suck Mojo.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on June 03, 2023, 12:39:42 PMSuck Mojo.
Yes and no on that one. Sometimes the wank off the Argos catalogue is worth several blue movies depending on things
:laugh:
Ah here, Body Count's first album is one of my favourites. Pure young teenage nostalgia listening to that with all my friends, and watching Friday, Boyz in tha Hood, Menace to Society etc. I think for about a year we spoke to each other exclusively in White Men Can't Jump quotes, thinking our Belfast suburb was the ghetto :laugh:
As for Biohazard, saw them in a small club in Berlin with Suicidal Tendencies about a decade ago. Class show! Both of them slayed. ST in particular are a fantastic live show.
New Biohazrd song been out for about 2 or 3 weeks now I don't think it got a mention on here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uj7ojsGYIc
When they said they were going to make a new album I was expecting a car crash.
This song is brilliantly Biohazard.
Hopefully the full length is a shirt sharp shock. Some of the albums are overly long.
On the first listen I thought this isn't good or bad just what you would expect but after multiple listens I am really starting to like it. Even the lyrics are decent in their own cheesy Biohazard kind of way. I love the dual vocals with Evan doing two lines then Billy doing the next two.
I will be seeing them again now in October with Onyx supporting this time which should be great so hopefully they play this at the show. They said in Belfast that they had finished recording album.
I lobe Bobby Hambel's playing, it's so sleazy.
Seeing them with Onyx should be fun.
I am actually more excited about seeing Onyx again than Biohazard. The venue I am seeing them in has a smaller capacity then the village which surprised me considering they sold out the Academy here. I would have assumed Biohazard were massive in North America and would be playing Olympia sized venues.
Biohazard were never really big in the States outside of NY, they'd good connections as they'd blagged a management with Russell Simmon's company and got loads of support gigs with major acts.
That said with the yank hardcore scene obsessed with the 90s at the moment, they'd probably do bigger venues.
New song is alright.
Enjoyed that tune there so I did. I have a soft spot for the few gang vocals.
Just coming over from the Paradise Lost thread there and thinking how much more energy is in this than in their latest thing, even though both bands have certainly settled into what one would call a signature sound.
Also I'm sure whenever Bobby Hambel kicks the bucket, he'll be spinning in his grave
Grand tune. Which I will likely never listen to again.
Is the Evan Seinfeld "Mantorship" system exempt from being fucked though?
Quote from: Sworntothecans on July 17, 2025, 05:21:00 PM
Is the Evan Seinfeld "Mantorship" system exempt from being fucked though?
I don't know how they get away with it but they just do.
Love a bit of the oul Hazard
https://youtu.be/hy1Wf4fP1CA?si=chWb7LxoZVaqL1U8
Em wow! this is strong!
Really like that track.
It's another great song. Makes me feel like the album will be belter.
Decent and yeah, full of raw energy. But I wonder could they ever capture the scope of State of the World Address ever again. The production is huge, the songs are epic in many cases and the bro is so fucking beefed up it would give you BSE. The new stuff has the passion, catchy song writing and general Biohazard ridiculousness, but lacks that sense of the majestic that made SOTWA such a wonderful, over the top experience. 30 years of aging will do that I suppose, and no disrespect to the bucks.
McL - Have to say, its hard for me to pick between "state" and "Urban" but I think this tune has the vibe. To me the vibe is what this band is about. This is 10/10
Other than Mata Leo I like all their albums "Uncivilisation" is epic "Reborn in defiance" is also rocking.
Maybe I am bias! that gig in Fibbers wtf? brilliant!
Mata Leao definitely isn't as bad as all that. Not a classic, but some cool tunes... These dreams come and go and are never the same, I await new journeys, asleep I remain, when I hold my eyes shut tight I dream, something something something through my dreams I scream! That song is fucking righteous!
I shall revisit on your recommendation good sir!
The new album is out at the end of October pre-orders went up on a few site yesterday.
Ah lads it's generic "old nyhc does new stuff" at best.
They definitely have some great stuff in the back catalog,but it'll be a by the numbers record.
McLove has me listing to that tune mentioned above 'Cleansing' man, I haven't listened to that since it came out in 96.... must have been on rotation in the cans / session stereo on the beach. Someone was defo playing it anyway!
Quote from: KingHostile on July 18, 2025, 02:18:37 PMMcLove has me listing to that tune mentioned above 'Cleansing' man, I haven't listened to that since it came out in 96.... must have been on rotation in the cans / session stereo on the beach. Someone was defo playing it anyway!
The dirt's so thick it won't come clean
Savage.
Also Fuck the rules, fuck,fuck the rules.
Classic.
I have another of their later albums that I listened to once or twice and can't remember a note of. No time like the present to grab it off the shelf (if it's still there) and brodafukkup.
Uncivilization is pretty decent too. Does suffer from the early 2000s guest appearances but ticks all the corny tough guy boxes.
New World Disorder is the other one I have. I'll give it another go.
Quote from: Sworntothecans on July 19, 2025, 09:37:03 AMUncivilization is pretty decent too. Does suffer from the early 2000s guest appearances but ticks all the corny tough guy boxes.
But one of those guest appearances is by none other than Peter Steele so can't really go wrong there.
It's actually a very good album overall
New World Disorder was the last one I bought, it's poor.
I listened to Mata Leao this morning at work. It's more miss than hit.
Having said that, the good bits are very good.
Quote from: astfgyl on July 19, 2025, 10:15:33 AMQuote from: Sworntothecans on July 19, 2025, 09:37:03 AMUncivilization is pretty decent too. Does suffer from the early 2000s guest appearances but ticks all the corny tough guy boxes.
But one of those guest appearances is by none other than Peter Steele so can't really go wrong there.
It's actually a very good album overall
Sure they were the Carnivore/Type roadie's for a bit so it was natural the Green Man's show up.
And they cover Sex And Violence on it too!
The video, :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I watched a clip earlier that came up after that video, an interview with Billy and Bobby talking about how they got the name Biohazard. I had no idea Pete Steele came up with it for them! New song sounds decent but they'll never top State of Your Oul One's Dress.
I'd never heard that Pete Steele had anything to do with the naming either. That's a kinda cool little bit of trivia there