Hardcore comes actually from Hardcore Punk which is a more raw, violent and fast version of punk...it was a huge influence on Thrash Metal...by the end of the 80s and beginning of the 90s, some Hardcore bands started using structures and techniques from metal, especially from thrash amd groove metal and the first wave of "Metalcore" was born, that is "Metallic Hardcore"...Biohazard was one of those pioneering bands...they also mixed some elements of hip-hop...I guess I know why you didn't like the vocals, but they are no MCs, and I don't really think they ever tried to be, their vocal style to me comes more from hardcore than from hip-hop...the groove, the energy and the raw lyrics are what make this band great...
Check out the Judgement Night soundtrack. You'll love every bit of it, especially the title track featuring Biohazard & Onyx. Also has Living Color with RunDMC, Sonic Youth with Cypress, Slayer with Ice T, Mudhoney with Sir Mix A-Lot. Many great tunes on that soundtrack.
@@jsmpodcast not only one of the best soundtracks ever, but one of the most essential albums culturally as well. I won't get into it but that album is the first album that really and truly started to blur the racial lines of Hip-Hop and Metal, two styles coming from very similar social settings. Granted Anthrax and Public Enemy did it, "it" being the first true two power group hip-hop/metal crossover, first. Unfortunately neither group really pressed the fusion much, with Anthrax adding a little bit more Hip-Hop into their later albums. The Judgement Night soundtrack came at the right time and it is sad to see the racial line breaking like they have in the past few years. All that work we put into kicking the boneheads out of Richmond, Va and now those fuckers are popping their heads up once again like a bad game of wack-a-mole...but I digress so I will say I wish you and anyone else that sees this many hours of happy music consumption.
Too short. I would go for a longer song off that album like 'Contempt' 'Full of Hell' 'Demon' or 'Hollowman'.. It's a shame these guys haven't touched on Entombed yet In their "Metal Journey" cause their post Death Metal stuff (particularly 'Wolverine Blues' and 'To Ride, Shoot straight and Speak the Truth') Is right up their alley. Really Important band.
Great reaction, guys! Me & my friends are in the Punishment video, which was the most played video ever on Headbanger's Ball on MTV back in the early/mid 90's. The filming of the video was one of the best days ever!
Hatebreed is their starter hardcore. Start with something easy with a groove, like Destroy Everything, or This is Now. Just sayin, it’s accessible and up their alley.
That was my starter band.. it was the Satisfaction is the death of desire and Under the Knife EP. But I'm more of a metal head but those albums are classics
The difference is both Evan and Billy were rappin` while both playing their instruments and that was such a sight to see. Boys, you`re lucky, Biohazard is currently touring the world so give them a chance :)
LOA was one of my favorites back in the day. Problem for me though, minus a few songs here and there, none of the albums released after River Runs Red are even comparable. They fall short and it's not even close. Again, I realize there are some gems spread out through their discography but there's a lot of hot garbage in there as well.
I think they need something more polished. That’s kind of what they’re into so I would probably go tales from the hard side. I love urban discipline, wrong side of the tracks. All the cuts that are on there they’re great, but these guys like production so State of the world address would be my selection, if I was going to introduce them to some thing from biohazard
@@DigitalBath306No. Knocked Loose isn’t hardcore, although they come from the scene and I respect them. Turnstile is basically new Leeway. Madball is hard af. It’s the real street shit.
They did 2 songs with Onyx. They did a version of their hit Slam! together and that was amazing! Then they did the title track for the Judgment Night soundtrack. Those two groups together were just awesome.
All of Judgement Night was the shit. Surprised they had t touched in it yet. I blew the dust off that album recently and forgot how good that soundtrack was.
I accidentally received this album in a Columbia House cd order when it was new. I was gonna send it back, but the cover art intrigued me so I opened it. THIS was the track that made me keep it.
Biohazard debuted from NYC in 1990 w/ Evan Seinfeld (bass & vocals), Billy Graziadei (vocals & guitar), Danny Schuler (drums) and Bobby Hambel (lead guitar)... They were fusing 80's rap w/ metal before Rage Against the Machine and never truly got credit. Evan Seinfeld became famous for his role in the 1998 HBO series 'Oz'... and then got into the p+rn industry after marrying p+rn actress Tera Patrick... the 2 divorced after she wanted to quit the p+rn industry and start a family, and he did not... Evan Seinfeld ended up leaving Biohazard and the band disappeared after 2013. The good news is that Biohazard is back together and doing shows - the original band... Seinfeld, Graziadei, Schuler and Bobby Hambel. They are also talking about new music. Formed in NYC in 1987, the first Biohazard album in 1990 was followed by 'Urban discipline' (1992) which got MTV exposure and sold 1 million copies worldwide... Warner Bros. Records signed the band and released 'State of the world address' (1994) which was even more successful and sold 1 million copies worldwide as well... However, creative differences led to lead guitarist Bobby Hambel leaving by 1995. Biohazard recorded the album 'Mata Leao' (1996) as a trio and began working w/ a number of lead guitarists over the years... but the album did not get airplay on MTV or radio and sold poorly... Warner Bros. dropped the band, and a live album 'No holds barred' was released in 1997. They attempted to bring Biohazard into the new millennium w/ 'New world disorder' (1999), but the band was not generating the fanfare they once had... Biohazard declined to tour actively after 2000, but released 'Uncivilization' (2001)... 'K!ll or be k!lled' (2003)... and 'Means to an end' (2005)... before splitting up to work on other projects. In 2008, lead guitarist Bobby Hambel reunited w/ the classic Biohazard for a tour, but then bassist Evan Seinfeld ended up leaving... Seinfeld did return for the 2012 album 'Reborn in defiance' ... before quitting again. Biohazard attempted to replace Seinfeld, but ended up breaking up once again. In 2022, Evan Seinfeld reunited w/ Biohazard for shows w/ Graziadei, Schuler and Hambel. They have been playing live in 2023 and are working on a new record.
This song blues the lines between thrash and hardcore. They even throw some melodic metal in there. A unique band that captured a moment in music in the 80s and influenced so many metal bands.
A Band by the name the Crumbsuckers really pioneered the crossover of metal and hardcore with a backbeat slight funky groove in the mid to late 80’s ..straight outa NYC
Ha, had to comment .. the Crumbs were one of my fav bands back in the day. I saw them in '88 Birmingham AL. "...before you go insane, the acid you took just hit your braaaaain" 😆
@@davidom7607 I am willing to bet that was Summer 88 they came through Dallas TX and played a punk dive called The Honest Place . That scene at the time was having a major problem with Nazi Skinheads ( Hammer Skins) and I believe they showed up to Crumbsuckers show causing some trouble that night .. a few weeks later the owner shot one of the Skins at another show for Assaulting a Non Racist Skin .. but that’s a whole other story ..lol .. if you search Crumbsuckers Dallas a show called Video Free Buro .. I believe there is an interview and some footage here on You Tube
If you guys would be so kind as to do the song “tales from the hard side” and that will fix all your dislikes about this particular song. Sidebar this is the band that onyx chose to remake Slam with. So from a longtime subscriber, just something I thought that I would throw out there in fact that album and it’s entirety is probably the most polished of everything they’ve put out. Thanks for everything keep it up.
Really enjoyed Biohazard back in the day. Check out some of their later work Switchback and Breakdown you may really enjoy. Big fan of Down for Life and Human Animal, glad you all checked these guys out.
Man, y’all would love Merauder- Master Killer. The pinnacle of this Metallic hardcore punk sound with better production, meaner vocals, and none of the hip hop elements
Holy shit ... this band this movement... this track ... they were so so so ... refined defined after this track ... seriously neXt Level ... play list ⭐
we gettin into the hardcore now? lets goooo! "I question not me, it only happens to others I can't deny reality as life gets SMOTHEREDDDDDD!!!!!" these guys were pioneers no one was doin this shit at the time.
Biohazard is an excellent band to get into. A great mix of metal and rap. He has a rap style delivery, but it's more singing than rapping. They've done several collabs with their friends on Onyx. FWIW. they reunited this year and are touring with a new album due soon. They also have two side groups in Billy Bio and Powerflo Powerflo also includes members from Cypress Hill. .
I first saw them on MTV in 1993, and loved it. Then in 1999 I saw them in Atlanta with Sepultra and Spineshank. That was a brutal show! And Biohazard were very cool guys.
Ha Ha! Exactly as I predicted. I knew you guys would hate the vocals but love the riffs. I love Biohazard! Saw them live in the summer and they killled it.
One of my all time fave live bands! And one of my fave bands from that time. Good reaction, as a lotnof my friends have said the same thing as you guys.
Propain and biohazard are much the same but propain had a better lyrical/vocal aspect. I just remember getting into this band because they had amazing riffs.
if i remember right, the singer of this band was also in the tv series "OZ", the show about the experimental prison. Yep, I looked it up, he played Jaz Hoyt in Oz.
I remember this band from the 90s, everyone loved that wild vocal. The most important things of punk is rage and directness. If they sang it according to hip-hop rules, no one would buy it.
Great timing these guys actually just got back together after a Long time.. Now you gotta look at Mad ball, Never ending game, Turn style, Earth crisis
Guys! I Really think you should do like a 5-10 song bit on just Hardcore alone. The term is the short version of hardcore punk, so it's roots are in punk. Basically take punk and trim all the excess, cut the intro out and the outro etc, make the songs as direct as possible. This was the early 80s. Then as these kids spent years perfecting their choos, getting influenced by a ton of other music, they started to make a lot of chugga chugga guitars and a metal type of guitar sound more. Biohazard come int play in the late 80s, this is NYHC. There was always a clown element to a lot of NY music, it was extremely "street" but these guys were no brain surgeons, just listen to their track with Onyx. Records/songs from to try and capture a bit of what is under the hardcore term: Minor Threat - Straight Edge for that og hardcore thing. Bad Brains - The Big Takeover (maybe do it from the live album " the youth are getting restless") Cro - Mags " We gotta know (react with the video playing, trust me) Earth Crisis - Firestorm (90s) All Out War - Soaked In Torment (90s litsa metal influence, Slayercore) Terror - Another Face
Great to hear honesty and i completely agree. I am a hiphop head since a baby and at the same time played in my first punk/hardcore bands at the age of 10 . musically its so great and i play drums to it all the time and now almost 25 years later i can ignore the lack of skills in the lyrics. The video of the song (the "tuff "guys behind them ) features the infamous Dms crew (nyc Graffitti and hardcore crew)
Just saw these guys open for Megadeth at Foxwoods in Connecticut! They really tore it up! I’m not a huge fan, but they were a lot of fun to watch. They still have incredible energy!
To this day, the response that any of the songs on this album will draw out of an audience beggars belief. Never seen a crowd go more nuts than they do anytime Biohazard sets foot on stage.
Ah, 1992. The thing about experiments - as this song was - is that usually the results are mixed. Historically, it's worth the deep listening in a similar (but not identical) way that Anthrax's prior offerings are. YMMV expected and found.
Live they are amazing. They call themselves Hardcore Punk/Metal. I think the Rap elements come from their upbringing but they never considered themselves rappers. These were the first band to cross all these boundaries.
Probably their most popular song, but the album after this State of the World Address was more next level for them. The song writing was better, the musicianship was better. I prefer songs like Tales From the Hardside, or What Makes Us Tick, to Punishments. They even started to do have guests like Sen Dog on songs like How it Is. I love the songs they did with Onyx like Judgement Night and Slam. They just reunited and are on tour with Megadeth right now.
@@stefantopuzov6140 I think New World Disorder may be their best album after State of the World Address. That album is so good, but I think it gets overlooked because Biohazard wasn't in flavor as much when that came out. The song New World Disorder maybe the best rap/metal/hardcore crossover song they did after Judgement Night.
"State of the World Adress" is a phenomenal album from Biohazard (1994). It has some of their finest tunes as "Tales from the Hard Side", "What Makes Us Tick?", "Failed Territory" which are my personal favorites.
i also love each day, pride and lack there of. to follow urban discipline with this was borderline miraculous. then uncivilization a few years later. unreal.
I got into these guys back in ‘93 when the Onyx video for Slam came out. Biohazard we’re the gringos in that video. They and Onyx been boys for years and have collaborated a few times.
You're in hardcore territory now boys! There's A LOT to discover!
Yep, Agnostic Front, Madball,Sick of it All, Judge, Terror, Cro Mags, they all need checking out by George and Ryan.
..took long enough
@@bigkevonbass I've been hoping for "Terror" since this channel was new
MixedBreed rocks hard. Old school souls
Agreed, Cro Mags and Hatebreed would be a logical transition from metal to hardcore. Also more contemporary bands like Speed, End It, or Drain
The whole album is fire way ahead of its time for early 90s
Hardcore comes actually from Hardcore Punk which is a more raw, violent and fast version of punk...it was a huge influence on Thrash Metal...by the end of the 80s and beginning of the 90s, some Hardcore bands started using structures and techniques from metal, especially from thrash amd groove metal and the first wave of "Metalcore" was born, that is "Metallic Hardcore"...Biohazard was one of those pioneering bands...they also mixed some elements of hip-hop...I guess I know why you didn't like the vocals, but they are no MCs, and I don't really think they ever tried to be, their vocal style to me comes more from hardcore than from hip-hop...the groove, the energy and the raw lyrics are what make this band great...
Agnostic front!!!
Exactly, they are approaching it from a wrong angle thinking they are "off beat" or rappers...BIOHAZARD wasn't trying to rap from my perspective.
Check out the Judgement Night soundtrack. You'll love every bit of it, especially the title track featuring Biohazard & Onyx. Also has Living Color with RunDMC, Sonic Youth with Cypress, Slayer with Ice T, Mudhoney with Sir Mix A-Lot. Many great tunes on that soundtrack.
Hands down one of the best movie soundtracks ever created, Helmet and House of Pain, Slayer and Ice-T, Faith No More and the Booyah Tribe
@jsmpodcast most definitely! I think these guys would really love it.
Need this !
Your just another victim KID!!!
@@jsmpodcast not only one of the best soundtracks ever, but one of the most essential albums culturally as well. I won't get into it but that album is the first album that really and truly started to blur the racial lines of Hip-Hop and Metal, two styles coming from very similar social settings. Granted Anthrax and Public Enemy did it, "it" being the first true two power group hip-hop/metal crossover, first. Unfortunately neither group really pressed the fusion much, with Anthrax adding a little bit more Hip-Hop into their later albums. The Judgement Night soundtrack came at the right time and it is sad to see the racial line breaking like they have in the past few years. All that work we put into kicking the boneheads out of Richmond, Va and now those fuckers are popping their heads up once again like a bad game of wack-a-mole...but I digress so I will say I wish you and anyone else that sees this many hours of happy music consumption.
Wolverine Blues by Entombed. They will dig that song cuz of the swagger, dirtiness and back beat.
ENTOMBED!!!!!
Great suggestion!!!!!
Underrated album. They definitely need to check out some death n roll like that. Some black n roll like Kvelertak I think will be appreciated too!
Too short. I would go for a longer song off that album like 'Contempt' 'Full of Hell' 'Demon' or 'Hollowman'.. It's a shame these guys haven't touched on Entombed yet In their "Metal Journey" cause their post Death Metal stuff (particularly 'Wolverine Blues' and 'To Ride, Shoot straight and Speak the Truth') Is right up their alley. Really Important band.
GREAT choice!
\m/ E N T O M B E D \m/
Merauder Master Killer is a must for hardcore definitely one to check out 🤘
My favorite 'scream along'-album.. so damn catchy! 😎
This needs to happen. Time Ends, Life Is Pain, and of course Master KIller would make them go crazy.
Facts@@okaight7248
Master….f@&$ you….killer 😂
Downfall of Christ was my favorite song from this album.
It is really not rapping, it is a style. Like suicidal Tendencies.
Atheist here and ... amen 🙏🙌
It's New York Hardcore 👊
Ya I never considered this rapping lol
You're right.
You're just arguing semantics. It could be called "quacking" for all anyone cares-that won't change how they feel about it.
Great reaction, guys! Me & my friends are in the Punishment video, which was the most played video ever on Headbanger's Ball on MTV back in the early/mid 90's. The filming of the video was one of the best days ever!
Wasn't Rick in that video also?
Hatebreed is their starter hardcore. Start with something easy with a groove, like Destroy Everything, or This is Now. Just sayin, it’s accessible and up their alley.
or Perseverance
Didn't they do Destroy Everything?
That was my starter band.. it was the Satisfaction is the death of desire and Under the Knife EP. But I'm more of a metal head but those albums are classics
Puritan!
The difference is both Evan and Billy were rappin` while both playing their instruments and that was such a sight to see. Boys, you`re lucky, Biohazard is currently touring the world so give them a chance :)
I think, from hardcore genre, Life of Agony "This Time" or any other song from "River Runs Red" album will be perfect fit for you guys
I agree. LOA would be a great option.
LOA was one of my favorites back in the day. Problem for me though, minus a few songs here and there, none of the albums released after River Runs Red are even comparable. They fall short and it's not even close. Again, I realize there are some gems spread out through their discography but there's a lot of hot garbage in there as well.
They wont like LOA 😂 You gotta learn to like bands like that if you didnt grow up on it
@@BroHurst - that's rather assumptive.
@@streganona8185 i call it how i see it
PLEASE do more hardcore! "Terror" "Madball" "No Turning Back" would all be amazing choices but I doubt you can go wrong!
NTB!
slapshot!
This is one of my childhood bands man. Makes me nostalgic. You should check out more from them. The song "Urban Discipline" is a strong suggestion!
That and chamber spins 3
I think they need something more polished. That’s kind of what they’re into so I would probably go tales from the hard side. I love urban discipline, wrong side of the tracks. All the cuts that are on there they’re great, but these guys like production so State of the world address would be my selection, if I was going to introduce them to some thing from biohazard
If you are going into Hardcore then you have to listen to Madball
they would hate madball
terrible vocals too, they should go for new bands like turnstile, knocked loose or ingrown
@@DigitalBath306No. Knocked Loose isn’t hardcore, although they come from the scene and I respect them. Turnstile is basically new Leeway. Madball is hard af. It’s the real street shit.
yeah i grew to love madball, but if they didnt like the vocals here theyre not gonna like madball vocals too @@channtastic
They did 2 songs with Onyx. They did a version of their hit Slam! together and that was amazing! Then they did the title track for the Judgment Night soundtrack. Those two groups together were just awesome.
Bionyx !
All of Judgement Night was the shit. Surprised they had t touched in it yet. I blew the dust off that album recently and forgot how good that soundtrack was.
I was at the academy that night when Drew Stone video did it
Holy shit, wasn't expecting this! 🤯
Keep the metal reactions coming guys! 👍🏻👍🏻
Would love to see their reaction to the Biohazard X Onyx track Judgement Night
Or How it is w Cypress Hill!
great soundtrack
I’m telling you guys you gotta do some more Corrosion of Conformity. I suggest 13 Angels or Broken Man.
I bought this on cassette at the mall and I didn't regret.
❤ yeah ... pocket money = life time hug ...
I accidentally received this album in a Columbia House cd order when it was new. I was gonna send it back, but the cover art intrigued me so I opened it. THIS was the track that made me keep it.
Same
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! I asked you guys to do this one a LONG time ago. Thank you!!!!!
I saw Biohazard and Onyx perform live together in NYC in the 1990’s…truly one of the greatest live shows I’ve ever seen
Biohazard one of my top 20 bands of all time! Fits like a glove never old for me 🥊
Biohazard debuted from NYC in 1990 w/ Evan Seinfeld (bass & vocals), Billy Graziadei (vocals & guitar), Danny Schuler (drums) and Bobby Hambel (lead guitar)... They were fusing 80's rap w/ metal before Rage Against the Machine and never truly got credit.
Evan Seinfeld became famous for his role in the 1998 HBO series 'Oz'... and then got into the p+rn industry after marrying p+rn actress Tera Patrick... the 2 divorced after she wanted to quit the p+rn industry and start a family, and he did not... Evan Seinfeld ended up leaving Biohazard and the band disappeared after 2013.
The good news is that Biohazard is back together and doing shows - the original band... Seinfeld, Graziadei, Schuler and Bobby Hambel. They are also talking about new music.
Formed in NYC in 1987, the first Biohazard album in 1990 was followed by 'Urban discipline' (1992) which got MTV exposure and sold 1 million copies worldwide... Warner Bros. Records signed the band and released 'State of the world address' (1994) which was even more successful and sold 1 million copies worldwide as well... However, creative differences led to lead guitarist Bobby Hambel leaving by 1995.
Biohazard recorded the album 'Mata Leao' (1996) as a trio and began working w/ a number of lead guitarists over the years... but the album did not get airplay on MTV or radio and sold poorly... Warner Bros. dropped the band, and a live album 'No holds barred' was released in 1997.
They attempted to bring Biohazard into the new millennium w/ 'New world disorder' (1999), but the band was not generating the fanfare they once had... Biohazard declined to tour actively after 2000, but released 'Uncivilization' (2001)... 'K!ll or be k!lled' (2003)... and 'Means to an end' (2005)... before splitting up to work on other projects.
In 2008, lead guitarist Bobby Hambel reunited w/ the classic Biohazard for a tour, but then bassist Evan Seinfeld ended up leaving... Seinfeld did return for the 2012 album 'Reborn in defiance' ... before quitting again. Biohazard attempted to replace Seinfeld, but ended up breaking up once again.
In 2022, Evan Seinfeld reunited w/ Biohazard for shows w/ Graziadei, Schuler and Hambel. They have been playing live in 2023 and are working on a new record.
That’s How it Is, with Cypress Hill and biohazard you may enjoy that song from them
Its time for you to listen to the Judgement Night soundtrack.
lol i said this too :)
Good call!!!
This song blues the lines between thrash and hardcore. They even throw some melodic metal in there. A unique band that captured a moment in music in the 80s and influenced so many metal bands.
A Band by the name the Crumbsuckers really pioneered the crossover of metal and hardcore with a backbeat slight funky groove in the mid to late 80’s ..straight outa NYC
Ha, had to comment .. the Crumbs were one of my fav bands back in the day. I saw them in '88 Birmingham AL. "...before you go insane, the acid you took just hit your braaaaain" 😆
@@davidom7607 I am willing to bet that was Summer 88 they came through Dallas TX and played a punk dive called The Honest Place . That scene at the time was having a major problem with Nazi Skinheads ( Hammer Skins) and I believe they showed up to Crumbsuckers show causing some trouble that night .. a few weeks later the owner shot one of the Skins at another show for Assaulting a Non Racist Skin .. but that’s a whole other story ..lol .. if you search Crumbsuckers Dallas a show called Video Free Buro .. I believe there is an interview and some footage here on You Tube
That Mixedbreed clip was dope. Love to see these boys doing it their way.
YES!!!!! 🤘🏽🤘🏽 I was hoping you’d get to Biohazard!!!!
If you guys would be so kind as to do the song “tales from the hard side” and that will fix all your dislikes about this particular song. Sidebar this is the band that onyx chose to remake Slam with. So from a longtime subscriber, just something I thought that I would throw out there in fact that album and it’s entirety is probably the most polished of everything they’ve put out. Thanks for everything keep it up.
Ouh yes!Tears of blood would be their stuff too!
Really enjoyed Biohazard back in the day. Check out some of their later work Switchback and Breakdown you may really enjoy. Big fan of Down for Life and Human Animal, glad you all checked these guys out.
they're a great live band
Man, y’all would love Merauder- Master Killer. The pinnacle of this Metallic hardcore punk sound with better production, meaner vocals, and none of the hip hop elements
Great suggestion 👍
I have been listening to this song for years. It's the shit. The whole CD is fire.
Biohazard is not gonna be easy to get into. But once you guys do, it's a whole different thing. Do more of them 🔥
Gotta check out the tracks they did with Onyx. Judgement Night, from the movie soundtrack, and the Slam metal remix.
For sure
Just saw them live 2 days ago for the first time in about 26 years. Still going strong!
Holy shit ... this band this movement... this track ... they were so so so ... refined defined after this track ... seriously neXt Level ... play list ⭐
Just love listening to tracks with you guyz. Much love sirs.
we gettin into the hardcore now? lets goooo! "I question not me, it only happens to others
I can't deny reality as life gets SMOTHEREDDDDDD!!!!!" these guys were pioneers no one was doin this shit at the time.
i think the guys misunderstood the vocals on this track, they maybe need to hear more punk/hardcore to understand a bit more. its not amateur at all.
Hardcore comes from New York mostly so lots of street style, punk, beats, and GROOVE 💪
I’ve never clicked on a video so fast!!!!!!
This was long time ago... thanks for reminding me about this track:)
it's great, please continue doing hardcore reactions, greatings from colombia. God bless you
Guys, try the band called Lykathea Aflame. It is a really unique metal band!
Biohazard is an excellent band to get into. A great mix of metal and rap. He has a rap style delivery, but it's more singing than rapping. They've done several collabs with their friends on Onyx. FWIW. they reunited this year and are touring with a new album due soon. They also have two side groups in Billy Bio and Powerflo
Powerflo also includes members from Cypress Hill. .
I'd have to dig up their catalog for some song recommendations.
I first saw them on MTV in 1993, and loved it. Then in 1999 I saw them in Atlanta with Sepultra and Spineshank. That was a brutal show! And Biohazard were very cool guys.
Can concur, Biohazard live are fantastic, well worth it even if you're 'on the fence' about their recorded output.
Well shit, now where my Rock Video Monthly VHS at??
HAHA!! It was a great VHS collection set...brings back INCREDIBLE memories...UNREAL!!!
Love Biohazard since the early nineties. I checked out mixedbreed. I could get into them.🤘
Yes! Biohazard!
Ha Ha! Exactly as I predicted. I knew you guys would hate the vocals but love the riffs.
I love Biohazard! Saw them live in the summer and they killled it.
hell yes great choice for a reaction
90s NYHC. So many good bands. Biohazard. Merauder. Madball. Dying Breed. Stigmata. So many more.
90s at Saratoga Winners - many shows and memories made.
Saw these guys open for Fishbone in the early 90s and got my ass launched off the stage a few times, what a show.
One of my all time fave live bands! And one of my fave bands from that time. Good reaction, as a lotnof my friends have said the same thing as you guys.
Propain and biohazard are much the same but propain had a better lyrical/vocal aspect. I just remember getting into this band because they had amazing riffs.
Been a pro pain fan since foul taste of freedom. They keep evolving and getting better.
@@MedTechMetal agreed
if i remember right, the singer of this band was also in the tv series "OZ", the show about the experimental prison. Yep, I looked it up, he played Jaz Hoyt in Oz.
And he was in the adult movie business for a decade
I remember this band from the 90s, everyone loved that wild vocal. The most important things of punk is rage and directness. If they sang it according to hip-hop rules, no one would buy it.
Great timing these guys actually just got back together after a Long time.. Now you gotta look at Mad ball, Never ending game, Turn style, Earth crisis
Got to meet these guys once twenty some years ago. They played a tiny club in Hagerstown Maryland. Super nice guys, great live show.
Guys! I Really think you should do like a 5-10 song bit on just Hardcore alone. The term is the short version of hardcore punk, so it's roots are in punk. Basically take punk and trim all the excess, cut the intro out and the outro etc, make the songs as direct as possible. This was the early 80s. Then as these kids spent years perfecting their choos, getting influenced by a ton of other music, they started to make a lot of chugga chugga guitars and a metal type of guitar sound more.
Biohazard come int play in the late 80s, this is NYHC. There was always a clown element to a lot of NY music, it was extremely "street" but these guys were no brain surgeons, just listen to their track with Onyx.
Records/songs from to try and capture a bit of what is under the hardcore term:
Minor Threat - Straight Edge for that og hardcore thing.
Bad Brains - The Big Takeover (maybe do it from the live album " the youth are getting restless")
Cro - Mags " We gotta know (react with the video playing, trust me)
Earth Crisis - Firestorm (90s)
All Out War - Soaked In Torment (90s litsa metal influence, Slayercore)
Terror - Another Face
This is a blast from my past from when I was in the scene as a hardcore kid. NYHC til I die!
The modern hardcore deep end is Knocked Loose. Y’all probably won’t like the vocals but the music is incredibly heavy
Knocked Loose are magic. But yeah, they won't like the vox
Great to hear honesty and i completely agree. I am a hiphop head since a baby and at the same time played in my first punk/hardcore bands at the age of 10 . musically its so great and i play drums to it all the time and now almost 25 years later i can ignore the lack of skills in the lyrics. The video of the song (the "tuff "guys behind them ) features the infamous Dms crew (nyc Graffitti and hardcore crew)
Megadeth on tour right now with Biohazard! Just saw this show a week ago. Hope it comes your way fellas! Love your videos, keep up the good work!
Ya hardcore is sort of separate from punk and metal, keep checking it out and you’ll start to see 👍
Saw them a couple of weeks ago in the Netherlands. They still got it.
Dudes the music video would of done this song an the N.Y.H.C. life style SO much more justice !!
Didn't they take over the Brooklyn bridge to film the vid... without permission from the city... ?
@@nikjohnson9944 yes they did.
I love this entire album
cool reaction. Cro-Mags (NYC HC) might be more up your alley. Cheers.
Life of Agony - through and through
Their collaborations with Onyx hit harder!
Just saw these guys open for Megadeth at Foxwoods in Connecticut! They really tore it up! I’m not a huge fan, but they were a lot of fun to watch. They still have incredible energy!
Always enjoyed Biohazard to get pumped up
One of the best live bands I've ever seen live . \m/
Great reaction and couldn't agree more💯
The rapping is your „punishment“, George! 🤣🤣🤣
I understand the reaction to vocal rapping. But that’s today & been done by 1000 bands after. To hear it in 90-92 before the others was a surprise
I NOW don't consider them rap metal, but them and Pro Pain got me into rap metal in 1993. Fuckin one of the best live bands I've ever saw .
Pro pain is hard shit. When I hear “DIE FUCKER!” On Voice Of Rebellion, shit is going down.
I doubt we’ll ever see Biohazard on this channel again, but I think the boys would like “Switchback.”
To this day, the response that any of the songs on this album will draw out of an audience beggars belief. Never seen a crowd go more nuts than they do anytime Biohazard sets foot on stage.
Just so you know. The two vocalists are playing guitar and bass while performing this song live.
Ah, 1992. The thing about experiments - as this song was - is that usually the results are mixed. Historically, it's worth the deep listening in a similar (but not identical) way that Anthrax's prior offerings are. YMMV expected and found.
Live they are amazing. They call themselves Hardcore Punk/Metal. I think the Rap elements come from their upbringing but they never considered themselves rappers. These were the first band to cross all these boundaries.
Entombed - 'Full Of Hell,' 'Damn Deal Done.'
You should have done it to the video. The video is EPIC
Probably their most popular song, but the album after this State of the World Address was more next level for them. The song writing was better, the musicianship was better. I prefer songs like Tales From the Hardside, or What Makes Us Tick, to Punishments. They even started to do have guests like Sen Dog on songs like How it Is. I love the songs they did with Onyx like Judgement Night and Slam. They just reunited and are on tour with Megadeth right now.
Amen! State of the World Address is absolutely brilliant start to finish. My favorite by Biohazard for sure
@@stefantopuzov6140 I think New World Disorder may be their best album after State of the World Address. That album is so good, but I think it gets overlooked because Biohazard wasn't in flavor as much when that came out. The song New World Disorder maybe the best rap/metal/hardcore crossover song they did after Judgement Night.
I love the rapping. Admittedly it’s not high level rhyme and vocal dexterity but it works in hardcore.
Didn't you guys do this song a long time ago?
Check out out Switchback from Biohazard guys. That kicks ass 🤘🤘
Biohazard 23.04.1997 , Poland one of the best concerts I've ever been to :D
NYHC !!!! Just saw these guys a few months back for the reunion shows and they killed it.
Would love to see more hardcore on this channel, I think you guys would really appreciate the messaging and lyrics broadly.
"State of the World Adress" is a phenomenal album from Biohazard (1994). It has some of their finest tunes as "Tales from the Hard Side", "What Makes Us Tick?", "Failed Territory" which are my personal favorites.
i also love each day, pride and lack there of. to follow urban discipline with this was borderline miraculous. then uncivilization a few years later. unreal.
HUH? It was an awful album SMH
I was surprised when i didn’t see any Cage The Elephant reactions.. :O Cmon guys!
I just started watching this video…I have a feeling they’re gonna like it
Halfway thru the video…I haven’t listened to Biohazard in a while…yep, gotta admit the rapping isn’t that great
I got into these guys back in ‘93 when the Onyx video for Slam came out. Biohazard we’re the gringos in that video. They and Onyx been boys for years and have collaborated a few times.