Reunited traditional lineup of BIOHAZARD will crew up with the American hip-hop group ONYX for a North American tour this fall. Further assist on the “Divided We Fall” trek will come from BAYWAY and SWOLLEN TEETH.
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“Divided We Fall” tour dates:
Oct. 03 – Preserving – Pittsburgh, PA (purchase tickets)
Oct. 04 – Hello Fi Annex – Indianapolis, IN (purchase tickets)
Oct. 05 – Furnace Fest – Birmingham, AL
Oct. 07 – Ferris Wheeler’s – Dallas, TX (purchase tickets)
Oct. 08 – Paper Tiger – San Antonio, TX (purchase tickets)
Oct. 10 – Sunshine Theater – Albuquerque, NM (purchase tickets)
Oct. 11 – Van Buren – Phoenix, AZ (purchase tickets)
Oct. 12 – The Bellwether – Los Angeles, CA (purchase tickets)
Oct. 13 – UC Theatre – Berkeley, CA (purchase tickets)
Oct. 15 – The Complicated – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT (purchase tickets)
Oct. 16 – Gothic – Denver, CO (purchase tickets)
Oct. 18 – Liberty Corridor – Lawrence, KS (purchase tickets)
Oct. 19 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN (purchase tickets)
Oct. 21 – Harmony Music Corridor – Chicago, IL (purchase tickets)
Oct. 22 – Majestic Theater – Madison, WI (purchase tickets)
Oct. 23 – Crofoot – Pontiac, MI (purchase tickets)
Oct. 25 – Beanfield Theatre – Montreal, QC (purchase tickets)
Oct. 26 – Mod Membership – Toronto, ON
Oct. 28 – Warsaw – Brooklyn, NY (purchase tickets)
Oct. 29 – Palladium – Worcester, MA (purchase tickets)
Oct. 31 – Archer Music Corridor – Allentown, PA (purchase tickets)
Nov. 01 – Starland Ballroom – Sayreville, NJ (purchase tickets)
Nov. 02 – Toad’s – New Haven, CT (purchase tickets)
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 Might 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 accessible as a maxi-single titled “Slam: The Alternate options” in June 1993.
BIOHAZARD and ONYX additionally labored collectively on the tune “Judgment Evening” for the soundtrack to the 1993 movie of the identical title.
Final month, the reunited traditional lineup of BIOHAZARD launched its first new music in over a decade within the type of a brand new tune referred to as “Forsaken”. The monitor, which was premiered throughout BIOHAZARD‘s current European headlining tour, gives a primary style of the band’s upcoming album. Honoring their old-school roots whereas pushing ahead, “Forsaken” arrived with an lively stay video directed by guitarist/vocalist Billy Graziadei, filmed on tour in March 2025 because the band debuted the tune to packed crowds throughout Europe.
BIOHAZARD bassist/vocalist Evan Seinfeld commented on the brand new single: “We shot this video in Amsterdam, at Melkweg, an iconic venue the place BIOHAZARD first made our bones in Europe again within the late ’80s and ‘90s. It is actually natural, and a little bit pattern of the vitality of our first new album in fifteen years, carried out in a stay setting. Ensure you’re strapped in and put together for some actual mayhem when our new album drops!”
In December 2024, BIOHAZARD entered Shorefire Recording Studios in Lengthy Department, New Jersey to start recording its new LP, due later within the yr by way of Frontiers Label Group‘s new imprint BLKIIBLK.
BIOHAZARD, famend for his or her aggressive type and socially aware lyrics, has been a seminal power within the hardcore and steel scenes since their formation within the late Nineteen Eighties. Their distinctive mix of hardcore punk, heavy steel, and hip-hop parts has garnered them a devoted fan base and important acclaim. BIOHAZARD‘s signing with BLKIIBLK marks a brand new chapter of their illustrious profession, promising thrilling new music and initiatives.
“What began as three reunion exhibits of the OG lineup was three unstoppable years of kicking ass on stage evening after evening! Now we’re again with a brand new report that hits with all of the traditional BIOHAZARD vitality, louder and tougher than ever,” commented Graziadei.
Musical pioneers in each sense of the phrase, BIOHAZARD have 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 evening of the legendary Milwaukee Steel Fest for his or her first present again. Ghost Cult journal stated they “explosively unleashed their fury with fortitude and power” with “a superhuman set and an awe-inspiring present.”
The band adopted with two sold-out hometown exhibits in New York Metropolis, a late-summer pageant run in Europe, and a fall direct assist slot with MEGADETH throughout North America. That was simply the beginning. They returned to Europe in 2024 for the early summer season pageant season and made their triumphant return to South America in spring, then returned dwelling to blow out America’s exploding pageant circuit.
In late November, BIOHAZARD guitarist Bobby Hambel confirmed to The Brooklyn Blast Furnace podcast that he and his bandmates would enter the studio “in a few weeks” to start recording their long-awaited new album.
“After enjoying collectively — what’s it? — fucking yr and a half, I believe we’re prepared to put it down, to start out puking out some extra fucking stuff,” Bobby stated. “It is occurring, too. It is heavy shit, too.
“Lots of people say — they offer their opinions on what they suppose we must always do,” he continued. “And so they’re all the time asking questions like, ‘Is it gonna be like this album or that album?’, and I am unable to actually reply any of that. I simply can reply it is coming from the identical place it all the time got here from, and I believe all people’s on level. All people desires it. So I believe it is time. We have got numerous shit to say.”
In October, BIOHAZARD drummer Danny Schuler instructed Pod Scum in regards to the group’s songwriting course of: “It is actually everywhere in BIOHAZARD. Generally one man brings in a few songs and we type of go along with that. Generally anyone has an thought and we’re all collectively within the jam room and we type of all work by it collectively. It type of occurs numerous other ways, however all 4 guys are very artistic, some greater than others, however all people creates and brings in stuff. So there is not any one author in BIOHAZARD. There’s by no means actually been. However all of us write. And now we’re on the point of report a brand new report and we now have a lot new stuff. And it has been actually cool currently — a really artistic setting currently to be round with all people writing new stuff and getting psyched for a brand new album. It is cool proper now.”
Requested why he thinks proper now’s the very best time for a brand new BIOHAZARD album, Danny stated: “Nicely, I do not know if proper now’s the very best time. I do not suppose when it comes to, like, ‘Oh, effectively, let’s do an album out now as a result of now’s the very best time.’ I do not know that stuff. I do not know when’s a very good time to do a report. I simply know after I really feel impressed and I do know after I’m developing with stuff that I really feel is actual robust and significant, and currently it has been a very good time for that type of artistic course of. So, for me, when the concepts are flowing and every part feels actual pure, actual robust, that is a very good time to do a report. Enterprise-wise, I do not know when’s a very good time to do a report. I am not a businessman, in that regard with the music enterprise.”
Evan mentioned BIOHAZARD‘s plans for brand new music in April 2024 in an interview with El Planeta Del Rock. On the time, he stated: “We’re engaged on our course of on a few actually cool songs, and when one thing is particular sufficient and we’re enthusiastic about it, I think about we’ll launch a single earlier than launch an album, however there is a full-length album within the works. That is the mission… We wanna go into the studio and actually lock ourselves down, like we used to do within the ’90s, and spend a while actually [making a strong album]. For us, it is not about one tune, one tune. Making an album continues to be one thing that we care about.”
He continued: “I do know it is not the favored [way of doing things]. How many individuals purchase new albums by artists and hearken to the entire album from starting to finish? Younger individuals do not actually ingest music like that a lot. However BIOHAZARD is about authenticity. We do what we do, and we’re gonna make the very best album we will make.”
In 2022, Graziadei stated in an interview that there had been “speak” about placing BIOHAZARD again collectively.
The group, which is acknowledged as one of many earliest outfits to fuse hardcore punk and heavy steel with parts of hip-hop, had been out of the general public eye since Scott Roberts left the band greater than 9 years in the past.
Roberts, who performed guitar on BIOHAZARD‘s 2005 album “Means To An Finish”, rejoined the group in June 2011 because the substitute for Seinfeld. Scott fronted BIOHAZARD for practically 5 years earlier than exiting the band in February 2016.
Picture credit score: Istvan Bruggen
