In a brand new interview with the Des Moines, Iowa radio station Lazer 103.3, bassist/vocalist Evan Seinfeld and guitarist/vocalist Billy Graziadei of the reunited traditional lineup of BIOHAZARD spoke about “Divided We Fall”, the band’s first studio album in over a decade, which is able to arrive on October 17 through BLKIIBLK. Requested if it was bizarre getting again within the studio after so lengthy, Billy mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I’d say no, as a result of we did not get collectively… We put the band again collectively. We’re the one band from the ’90s that has unique guys, and we did not notice that till three years later. However we obtained again collectively. We had two reveals booked, three reveals, and we just about all simply sort of went with the stream. We actually did not make a lot plans. If we might’ve sat down and mentioned, ‘Hey, let’s put the band again collectively. Let’s have go on tour for a few years, have some superb reveals, and let’s do a document.’ Any time we sort of deliberate issues in our profession, it by no means labored out. After we let issues sort of simply stick on the wall and simply go together with it, it labored. So BIOHAZARD was by no means like an enormous enterprise entity that deliberate all this stuff with this big advertising plan and this enterprise proposal that works to the tee. We are the underdog. So, being the underdog, our again’s towards the wall, we come out swinging, and we make it up as we go alongside. And it really works.”
Requested what it was like working with producer Matt Hyde (SLAYER, HATEBREED, DEFTONES) on “Divided We Fall”, Evan mentioned: “Matt‘s superior. We’re all very skilled in recording music, clearly. And among the guys — Billy has his personal studio — everybody on this band’s prolific and might make an album. The function of the producer is to convey it collectively into like a standard unified imaginative and prescient. And Matt shot us down, like, day one. I believe we had been all sort of overthinking, what’s gonna be the development? What is the subsequent step for BIOHAZARD? And he was, like, ‘Hey, man. You guys are BIOHAZARD. You have gotta simply make a BIOHAZARD document prefer it’s 1993, bro.’ And we had been, like, ‘Wait. Wait a second. You imply like what we naturally simply sort of sound, you suppose that is what folks need?’ And he was, like, ‘Yeah, ‘trigger solely you guys can try this.’ And we checked out one another, like, ‘Aha.’ And subsequent factor we all know, album’s accomplished and we’re all psyched and we’re on the cellphone with you on the radio.”
Billy additionally talked concerning the themes lined on “Divided We Fall” and the significance of getting lyrics which are “extremely relatable”. He mentioned: “One of many issues that I believe that everybody gravitated to BIOHAZARD for after we began was the realism. We all the time wrote, and we solely write, about issues which are actual to us, issues that we expertise, issues that we undergo. And when that resonates with any individual else… That is why all of us love BLACK SABBATH, all of us love Ozzy [Osbourne], all of us love TOOL and all the opposite bands that we love as a result of there is a sure symbiotic sort of connection that we now have. With BIOHAZARD, our lyrics are straight up in your face and so they’re trustworthy. And I believe that, should you go take a look at the feedback… We dropped two singles [so far from the upcoming album], however these lyrics… Take a look at the feedback on the video. Everybody’s, like, ‘They’re again. I really feel 16 once more.’ And should you’re 16, you are gonna relate to it like somebody who’s 29 was referring to it once they had been 16. So it is nice to be related and doing what we do. We’re pleased with what we now have. The document ‘Divided We Fall’ is the BIOHAZARD document of all BIOHAZARD data. In our opinion, that is gonna go up there with ‘City Self-discipline’ and ‘State Of The World Handle’. And we will not wait to convey it to your a part of the world.”
BIOHAZARD has launched two singles so removed from “Divided We Fall”: “Forsaken” and “F**ok the System”.
Graziadei commented: “‘F**ok the System’ is BIOHAZARD calling it like it’s. The powers that be have us at odds and beefin’ with one another whereas they sit again and money in. It is no accident the world’s burnin’ in entrance of our eyes. It is all divide and management — whereas they preserve us divided by politics, class, race, all of it, and have us out right here combating one another, they’re pulling the strings. ‘F**ok the System’ is our conflict cry concerning the state of the world with no sugarcoated bullshit.”
Produced, blended, and mastered by Matt Hyde (SLAYER, HATEBREED, DEFTONES),“Divided We Fall” captures BIOHAZARD at their most uncooked, relentless, and unifying. The album blends the band’s unmistakable fusion of hardcore, steel, and streetwise groove with a sharpened edge for a fractured trendy world delivering a robust reminder of why BIOHAZARD stays some of the very important and influential bands in heavy music.
Recording classes passed off at Shorefire Recording Studios in Lengthy Department, New Jersey and The Hydeaway in Van Nuys, California, with engineering by Joseph DeMaio and extra recording from Matt Hyde. Guitar and manufacturing tech duties had been dealt with by Phil Caivano.
“Divided We Fall” monitor itemizing:
01. F**ok The System
02. Forsaken
03. Eyes On Six
04. Demise of Me
05. Phrase To The Smart
06. Combat To Be Free
07. Battle Inside Me
08. S.I.T.F.O.A.
09. Tear Down The Partitions
10. I Will Overcome
11. Warriors
In a current interview with Chicago’s Insurgent Radio 92.5 FM as a part of the station’s Thirty first-anniversary celebration, Graziadei acknowledged about “Forsaken”: “The tune ‘Forsaken’ is a killer BIOHAZARD monitor. It is the primary one off the brand new document that we began taking part in stay.
“We had been on tour in Europe with LIFE OF AGONY and a band referred to as LYLVC,” he continued. “We had an ideal tour. Most of it was bought out. So we began taking part in new songs throughout soundcheck, and one night time we threw ‘Forsaken’ into the set. As a result of as soon as social media began occurring and everyone had a mobile phone, we did not like taking part in new songs as a result of it was up on YouTube the subsequent day. So we had been, like, ‘Screw it. Let’s simply play it. Who cares?’ After which we performed it. And, bro, it was like 1992 once more, the best way the youngsters and the viewers was reacting. We saved taking part in it each night time. After which the [fan-filmed live] movies began popping out [on YouTube]. And it is humorous, as a result of we weren’t tight with the tune. And it is all the time like that — a brand new tune, it takes a short while to get tight. However after, like, per week of play that each night time, there was one other video of us taking part in it, and it obtained higher and higher. So then we had been like, ‘Yo, the youngsters like this new tune. Let’s do a [proper] video.’ So I talked to the label, and the document wasn’t even accomplished but. However I used to be, like, ‘Let’s simply do a video. Let’s movie this. If one thing comes cool of it…'”
Billy added: “Individuals have been seeing the [reunited] unique [lineup] BIOHAZARD taking part in stay for [the last] three years. We have been speaking about doing a [new] document, we have been teasing it and we lastly did it late final 12 months and completed it through the winter after which went on tour. So it simply got here collectively. I employed some dudes I knew from England [to make the ‘Forsaken’ video]. They flew over to Amsterdam and Belgium, filmed a pair reveals, after which we put collectively this… It is an actual video. It isn’t a stay video, but it surely captures all of the power. The brand new document is like that.”
Touching upon BIOHAZARD‘s method to creating the brand new album, Billy mentioned: “One of many issues about BIOHAZARD was we all the time had been higher stay than we had been on data. In order that was a aim of mine, is to attempt to seize that stay power and sound. And I by no means was capable of do it. With BILLYBIO and my solo stuff, I figured it out. BIOHAZARD, this document we labored with this producer named Matt Hyde, and he introduced an entire totally different factor and realization to the desk with me. ‘Trigger I’ve POWERFLO with Sen Canine and Christian from FEAR FACTORY, I’ve my solo stuff, BILLYBIO. He mentioned, ‘You grew as an artist, as a author.’ He goes, ‘And I find it irresistible. It is nice. However you’ll be able to’t be that dude. You gotta be Billy BIOHAZARD from 1994. That is when folks fucking cherished you guys. You have gotta be Billy BIOHAZARD from the early ’90s when everyone cherished you. That was whenever you guys made music and also you did not care about construction. It was actual and uncooked and proper in your face.’ And that realization, that was the resonating theme of this document. And we went again — each band says, ‘We’re going again to the roots.’ Guys, you heard it on ‘Forsaken’. We’re dropping one thing new subsequent. You may hear it.”
Elaborating on the musical route of the brand new BIOHAZARD materials, Billy mentioned: “The document — it is not a rerun, but it surely’s sort of like we actually discovered the center and soul of the band that we… I assume it is simply the formulation of the 4 of us being collectively. And being on the highway for 3 years taking part in like all of the traditional BIOHAZARD songs, it reignited the identical ardour that we had again then. And it is all there on the brand new document. So I can not watch for you guys to get one other monitor to play. The following monitor will not allow you to down.”
As beforehand reported, BIOHAZARD will group up with the American hip-hop group ONYX for a North American tour this fall. Extra help on the “Divided We Fall” trek will come from BAYWAY and SWOLLEN TEETH.
BIOHAZARD was joined by ONYX on stage on February 23 on the Academy in Dublin, Eire to carry out the 1993 ONYX tune “Slam”.
“Slam” was initially launched in Could 1993 because the second single from ONYX‘s debut album, “Bacdafucup”. An official remix, “Slam (Bionyx Remix)”, was a collaboration with BIOHAZARD and was made out there as a maxi-single titled “Slam: The Options” in June 1993.
BIOHAZARD and ONYX additionally labored collectively on the tune “Judgment Night time” for the soundtrack to the 1993 movie of the identical title.
BIOHAZARD, famend for his or her aggressive model and socially aware lyrics, has been a seminal drive within the hardcore and steel scenes since their formation within the late Eighties. Their distinctive mix of hardcore punk, heavy steel, and hip-hop components has garnered them a devoted fan base and important acclaim.
Musical pioneers in each sense of the phrase, BIOHAZARD had been one of many first bands to seamlessly mix hardcore, heavy steel, punk, and hip hop into an intoxicating style all their very own. After greater than a decade away, the Brooklyn, New York band’s OG lineup reunited in 2023 to each fan fervor and important acclaim, headlining the opening night time of the legendary Milwaukee Metallic Fest for his or her first present again. Ghost Cult journal mentioned they “explosively unleashed their fury with fortitude and drive” with “a superhuman set and an awe-inspiring present.”
The band adopted with two sold-out hometown reveals in New York Metropolis, a late-summer competition run in Europe, and a fall direct help slot with MEGADETH throughout North America. That was simply the beginning. They returned to Europe in 2024 for the early summer time competition season and made their triumphant return to South America in spring, then returned house to blow out America’s exploding competition circuit.
Picture credit score: Istvan Bruggen
