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Biohazard kicked out Evan!?
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?...
Bassist/co-vocalist Evan Seinfeld has left seminal New York City hardcore/metal band BIOHAZARD.
"We have a long history together, but it's time for a change," said guitarist/co-founder Bobby Hambel. "We wish Evan well."
Scott Roberts, who played on the band's 2005 "Means To An End" album and has been part of the BIOHAZARD extended family since, will step in for
Seinfeld when BIOHAZARD plays the U.K.'s Download festival on June 12, and again on June 13 at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards in London. Hambel,
guitarist/vocalist Billy Graziadei and drummer Danny Schuler will begin scouting for a permanent replacement when they return to the U.S.
Working with producer Toby Wright, BIOHAZARD has just completed its first new studio album in six years and the first with the original lineup since
1994's "State of The World Address". The LP will be released this fall, and will be followed by an extensive world tour, with concerts planned in
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
"We had a great time recording this album and we're psyched about it," said Graziadei. "We're really looking forward to having everyone hear it and to
get back on the road to rip it up!"
"I think it's one of the best albums we've ever done," echoed Schuler, "so we're ready to see what the future holds."
In a May 2011 interview with "The Big Rock Show", Graziadei stated about BIOHAZARD's long-awaited tenth studio album, "I think the reason we ended up
kicking out a record of this stature is probably because we went on tour and played live first. There was no other reason — it wasn't business, it
wasn't money; there's not much money in this genre of music, especially with our career. It was more so to get a chance to rewrite history.
"People kind of wrote BIOHAZARD off. And one thing for me, personally, was I always wished that we could have gotten back together with Bobby and we
never did. So that was important for us. And that brought us back into that live element of the band. It's like we never stopped; we got on stage
together and it was like we were 19 again. And we rocked it; it was awesome. That live energy made it so we were able to go back and be on the right
foot going into the studio to make a record."
"I think that we had some records that defined us in the past, and this record is gonna be the record that will rewrite history for BIOHAZARD in a lot
of ways. It's the meat and potatoes of BIOHAZARD, but there's a growth… we stepped up in the songwriting… kind of what we have experienced over the
years into BIOHAZARD without changing the sound of BIOHAZARD. It was difficult to continue to be satisfied as a musician and as an artist but yet
remain true to what we have inside, and that transcribes in the writing. You still hear the passion, the angst and the energy that I felt and I hear
when I listen to 'Urban Discipline' and some of our early records. But it's just a step forward in a good way."
On the songwriting process for the new CD:
"What we did is we went into the studio and we were in the studio for a couple of weeks and we kicked out 12 songs, and we were like, 'Cool. Fucking
awesome. This is gonna be easy. We know BIOHAZARD; we could do this with our eyes closed. And then we stepped back and we listened to everything, and
we were like… I said to Danny, 'It's cool, and there's really cool moments and I love a lot of the stuff, but if we take our time and we are brutally
honest with each other and we go in and throw out anything that's crap, anything that's not 100 percent that we all four of us feel 100 percent about,
we're gonna make a record that's gonna be a timely record; people are gonna appreciate that as the heart and soul of BIOHAZARD.'
"It was easy for us to go in and just kick out a bunch of cool, groovy riffs, but we threw those songs out, kept a couple of things here and there. It
took a lot longer, but we made a record that is gonna be timely in our career, not a record that is just gonna be, 'Oh, cool, it's an excuse to tour.'
I think that in the past, sometimes we kind of settled on that for many reasons. But this record was more important to us than anything that's going
on in our lives — we all put our lives on hold and really took our time in being brutally honest with each other and made a great record."
"It doesn't really matter where the song starts from — it could be three of us sitting in a room, it could be two of us, one of us coming in with a
demo, or someone could just have a riff — but wherever the song is born from, lyrically or musically, we all put it through what we call the
"meatgrinder.' We all put in our ideas — 'What about this? What about that?' — and we jam on the song and sometimes rip it apart, and sometimes it
doesn't need much work. But it's the individual input that makes it BIOHAZARD. Pretty much any of us could write a solo record, but it's the input of
the other guys that makes what I write BIOHAZARD and vice versa for those guys."
On collaborating with producer Toby Wright, who has previously worked with KORN, SLAYER, MÖTLEY CRÜE, KISS, FEAR FACTORY, IN FLAMES, STONE SOUR and
OZZY OSBOURNE, among others:
"Toby was great; he's a great dude, and I'm looking forward to working with him again. He brought something to the table that no other producer has
brought before. He stayed with us through thick and thin; no producer we've ever worked with has stayed with us for a year. And Toby, he was focused.
He didn't write anything, he didn't do anything other than just say, 'No, do it again.' He helped us kind of organize everything and even though I'm a
producer outside of BIOHAZARD and I have a studio here in L.A., it's different when you produce your own band; you can't do that. You have to have an
objective person — an outsider and someone everyone respects that isn't really tied to what you're doing emotionally. So having Toby around, he was
there every during the writing [process] and rehearsals, and it was great. It was the first time in our career that we had that much attention [from a
producer]. But it was weird — it was kind of like having somebody there for support but without interjecting any ideas that would cloud up who you
are. When we got into the studio, he stepped up on a different tip as far as a producer goes, and I learned a lot from him as a producer and as a
musician; he really helped me individually — from singing and playing guitar to the way he recorded us. He's a [good] communicator of ideas; [he would
say] 'I want it to sound like this,' and he helped attain that. So it was great. We had a couple of disasters [that happened during the recording
process], but that's life."
| Quote: | Originally posted by REV.PAULIE
HONUS-as much as i can't stand a great deal of what you really like (for my own reasons that i would never hold,nor impose,against you),YOU FUCKING
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YOU,HONUS,IS WHAT MAKES THE "EDGE" COOL.
YOUR FRIEND,
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Man Evan seemed like the biggest douche bag on the planet. I do not know him at all but I have followed this band 1990. Seen them play countless times
and they always rocked. That being said he was the first to grope a girl in stage during the Mata Leo tour in front of everyone. Then when they
finished the show he groped another different girl when they were leaving the stage. She played it off and smacked his hand, but he got more
persistent and grabbed her tits again and said something. Who knows maybe they were backstage and knew each other but she looked freaked out a bit.
Plus that shit was way out in front of everyone. Basically, I started to dislike that dude. Then all porn shit and when the public really got to see
who this dude really is with that vh1 show. Seriously, how the fuck did that person create records like they did? Leads credence to what others like
Jimmy G and others have said publicly about them as people and a band. Again, I do not know them personally, but what I see now is not what I thought
they were. Ridding the band of this guy seems to be a good thing. I only hope they continue with the BIOHAZARD path they have blazed down minus the
shitty early 2000's sound and DO NOT go the route Billy has done with his other band. See ya Evan and I hope that BIOHAZARD can bring the hardcore
sound back from now on.
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Bio-Hazard sucks. One of the worst "so called" hardcore bands out there.
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Never got into Biohazard
Well I've got a feeling I'm gonna get mine in. Retribution let the games begin.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BKT
Bio-Hazard sucks. One of the worst "so called" hardcore bands out there.
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‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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Years ago, I saw them in Brockton, Mass with Wrecking Crew, and interviewed them for my college radio station. Every other word out of Evan's mouth
was "Fuck". I couldn't use any of it. A few months later I interviewed Wattie from the Exploited and had the same problem.
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evan made tera patrick get fake tits. band sucks, nothing to do with hardcore, just wanted money. see chuck valle memorial show, for exhibit a.
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What happened at the Valle memorial?
‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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They're just trying to cut expenses. They could no longer afford the roadie they need to carry around the dude's massive cock for him.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Discipline
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They made a new record with him and they kicked him out? Odd.
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Love Biohazard. LOVE them. Have only seen them three times. Each time the guys were out before the show having a great time chatting it up with fans.
Met Evan twice and each time he was very gracious. I know he's got a bad rep but for me, it has always been good.
Billy and I have exchanged e-mails over the years and he was always the nicest dude ever. This story is wild. Biohazard without Evan will not be
Biohazard to me. His vocals really are the majority of songs. This will be interesting to say the least. Well, at least to dudes like me it will.
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I stopped following them after State of the World Address but I still like those old albums. I can't imagine how they would go on without him. Billy
has lost all of the high end of his voice and sounds terrible singing the BFB songs. My guess would be that they get a sub to support the album and
then they call it a day.
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from what i heard, at the benefit show while murphy's law were playing, jimmy went on a rant about how some people on the bill only cared about money
and what time slot they were on, and had nothing to do with the spirit of the show, which was helping chuck's family. i dont know if he called out
biohazard directly or made a thinly veiled reference to them, but he was talking about them. they also tried to sell their shitty 88 demo for 5 bucks
back when no one did that, and no one was buying it, and they didnt know why. punishment is a pretty good song i guess, but overall they suck and were
never really part of the hardcore scene. they tried to market themselves as hardcore but they were really trying to cash in on the cheesy rap metal
crossover(judgment night, onyx slam remix).yeah, they toured with sheer terror and sick of it all, but i think that was b/c they and st were on maze
at the time. it's not like they were taking some new band on the road, they knew those bands would bring in the hardcore crowd. every time i heard
evan open his mouth he could never say anything except he grew up in the ghetto and smoke weed to sabbath. got kind of old.
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If anything the fact he's not in the band makes me less inclined to write them off like I usually do.
I always thought they'd at least be passable if he just didn't do any vocals as he sounds consistently awful on everything he's ever done.
I still think Shades of Grey and Punishment are great songs but I'm not sure I'd think that if I'd never seen the videos.
They've never been a hardcore band in my opinion, just a metal band who knew how to manipulate their underground roots for commercial gain.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mattybar
They've never been a hardcore band in my opinion, just a metal band who knew how to manipulate their underground roots for commercial gain.
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I agree with that statement to some degree. I don't know how it was in the areas where you guys are from but I really can't think of another band off
the top of my head that made such a large and immediate impact on the hardcore scene. Here in Boston everyone wanted to be them or be like them and it
went on for years. I really don't know how to define "hardcore" but I'd say they had a huge impact on it.
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They toured with Insane Clown Posse... I don't think anything else has to be said about their "hardcore" cred...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by XnMeX
They toured with Insane Clown Posse... I don't think anything else has to be said about their "hardcore" cred... |
^^^^ I had no idea that happened, but I remember someone posting the NRSV opening slot video with them. I detest everything about those clowns.
BIOHAZARD has opened and toured with many good bands, EXPLOITED, SHEER TERROR, SOIA, etc and many awful ones TYPE-O-NEGATIVE(no disrespect ment for
those who like em, just not my thing, but I know they had history with prior bands), and many others. I dig nearly all the records they put out minus,
NEW WORLD ORDER, many songs off kill or be killed. The last one was ok.
I saw them play with many bands over the years and they always kicked ass live. They freaking blew SEPULTRA and PANTERA off the stage and they were
the opening act. Not to mention they brought THE SUDMONSTERS out to play a Spuds song during BIOHAZARD set I might add. This was at the old Municipal
Stadium and packed with people. Coolest part was Billy going off about racism and the crowd started booing him. BIlly proceeded to spit on the crowd
and shame them with the mic. Then finished the set and the crowd still got into them. Win, win. Another good show was THE EXPLOITED, BIOHAZRD and
type-o-negative. Type-o-sucked and the rest of the show rocked. Billy admitely defended TYPE-O during BIO set. If anything sticks to his guns and Evan
not so much. So it will be interesting to see what they sound like.
In summer of 1992 I saw MURPHYS LAW and Jimmy went off on BIOHAZARD and called them closet racists and fake. Claiming HC when in reality they are not.
I can see the being fake, but I never heard or located the first "racist demo".
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mark Lind
| Quote: | Originally posted by mattybar
They've never been a hardcore band in my opinion, just a metal band who knew how to manipulate their underground roots for commercial gain.
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I agree with that statement to some degree. I don't know how it was in the areas where you guys are from but I really can't think of another band off
the top of my head that made such a large and immediate impact on the hardcore scene. Here in Boston everyone wanted to be them or be like them and it
went on for years. I really don't know how to define "hardcore" but I'd say they had a huge impact on it. |
Biohazard's "Urban Discipline" is what brought me to the hardcore scene. I know a few people from your area who are my age and I'd say you're probably
right about that.
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i always just had them down as a rap-metal band really like Downset or Dog Eat Dog (they used to come over here with those bands a lot back in the
day).
i remember someone lending me Urban Discipline and me thinking it was basically a load of sub-par Helmet riffs with rapped vocals over it and overall
was pretty thin.
i think they were very influential in just getting that whole image across to the masses but on the whole their music doesn't stand up.
They had a formula that a lot of other bands took and simply did better, eg Fury of Five, Krutch, Excessive Force etc.
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I recall Dom from Day Of Mourning playing me that demo years ago. Pretty crazy when you think about it.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BKT
I recall Dom from Day Of Mourning playing me that demo years ago. Pretty crazy when you think about it.
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^^^^^ What the music like? Same as normal BIOHAZARD? wher lyrics really racist.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by clevohardcore
| Quote: | Originally posted by BKT
I recall Dom from Day Of Mourning playing me that demo years ago. Pretty crazy when you think about it.
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^^^^^ What the music like? Same as normal BIOHAZARD? wher lyrics really racist. |
I'll upload it later. Some of the songs ended up on the first record with changed lyrics. One song that's only on the demo has a line that goes
"we'll march across the world with American Nazi pride" and there's a song called "Master Race."
I always thought that they were trying to go for that "sarcastic tongue-in-cheek racist for shock value" thing like Carnivore and MOD but were just
really bad at it. Evan is jewish...why he would sing of American Nazi pride for any other reason than thinking it would be funny or
attention-grabbing doesn't make much sense. But maybe they were just retards or on drugs or both.
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I always thought that demo was an urban legend.
‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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