Urban Discipline/No Holds Barred [PA]

Performer: Biohazard
Engineer: Larry Bunker
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Originally released separately as URBAN DISCIPLINE (1992) and NO HOLDS BARRED: LIVE IN EUROPE (1997). Biohazard: Billy Graziadei (vocals, guitar); Evan Seinfeld (vocals, bass); Bobby Hambel, Rob Echeverria (guitar); Danny Schuler (drums). Producers include: Wharton Tiers, Biohazard. URBAN DISCIPLE was recorded at Fun City Studios, New York, New York between May and June 1992. NO HOLDS BARRED was recorded live at The Markhalle, Hamburg, Germany on February 17, 1997. Includes liner notes by Ed Rivadavia. Personnel: Billy Graziadei (vocals, guitar); Evan Seinfeld (vocals); Bobby Hambel, Rob Echeverria (guitar); Danny Schuler (drums, percussion). Audio Mixers: Steven Ett; Tom Soares; Biohazard. Audio Remasterer: George Marino. Liner Note Author: Eduardo Rivadavia. Recording information: Fun City Studios, New York, NY (05/??/1992-02/17/1997); The Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany (05/??/1992-02/17/1997). Photographers: Bill Thomas; Deanna Bailey; Tony Woolliscroft; Sabine Matsushita; Andrea Katz; Ursula Coyote; Kristin Callahan. Arranger: Biohazard.

Alternative Press (4/93, p.54) - "...Biohazard pump out serious raw frustration with both meaning and metal....[they] are desperate and there's nothing quiet about them..." NME (Magazine) (8/23/97, p.52) - "...NO HOLDS BARRED is a compendium of bullying, fist-waving machismo untidily saddled on the back of huge, turgid slabs of grungy guitar and sledgehamer drumming, tailor-made for people who talk about `the system' and `being f---ed up' all the time..."

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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