New World Disorder

Performer: Biohazard
Artist: Sticky Fingaz; Igor Cavalera
Engineer: Ed Stasium
Producer: Ed Stasium
Distributor: Fontana Distribution

Notes: NEW WORLD DISORDER is an Enhanced CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Biohazard: Billy Graziadei (vocals, guitar); Evan Seinfeld (vocals, bass); Rob Echeverris (guitar); Danny Schuler (drums). Additional personnel: Sticky Fingaz (vocals); Christian Olde Wolbers (bass); Igor Cavalera (percussion). Recorded at Right Track and Baby Monster, New York, New York; A & M Studios, Los Angeles, California. This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. DISORDER is Biohazard's fifth and heaviest album to date. The band that pioneered the hardcore/hip hop genre a few years ago on the JUDGEMENT NIGHT soundtrack squashes all the competition and takes the genre to the next level on this album. The Brooklyn quartet delivers a dark, aggressive album seething with urban angst. "Skin" deals with realizing you're in a bad relationship and taking the steps to move on. "End Of My Rope" focuses on the frustrations of life and the suicide option. The title track and "Dogs Of War" are the standout political songs on the record, with rappers Onyx adding their form of vocal brutality to the latter. Drawing from Suicidal Tendencies, Public Enemy and Bad Brains, Biohazard can't really join metal's "resurgence" because they have been keeping the genre's flame alive all the while. DISORDER keeps it real and does not disappoint.

Q (7/99, p.104) - 3 stars (out of 5) - "...Direct and focused, this could be the one that pushes Biohazard up to the Sepultura/Pantera level of success." New Music Monthly (7/99, p.46) - "...[BIOHAZARD] should reclaim its title as champion of the metal-core ring with NEW WORLD DISORDER....[combining] social consciousness - the lyrics focus on life in warzone-like Brooklyn - with choppy, metallic riffs..."

Although Biohazard's landmark collaboration with rap group Onyx on a remix of that group's hit "Slam" (they also joined forces for the soundtrack to the film JUDGEMENT NIGHT) was far from the first rock/rap collaboration, it remains a commercial and in many ways artistic high point for the Brooklyn-based metal act. That said, Biohazard retained a loyal fanbase over the course of their decades-plus career, and their embrace of rap presaged many of the funk-oriented nu-metal acts that followed in Biohazard's wake, including Korn and Linkin Park. Likewise, their particular fusion of hardcore punk and metal was a direct precursor of the intense metalcore style that arose in the early 2000s.

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