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iohazard make loud music. Very good loud music. Starting out on the streets of Brooklyn way back in 1987, they’re still going strong today, commanding loyal fans and audiences


across the world. Tey were innovators in the early 90’s as one of the first groups to combine hip hop and metal, most notably their contribution to the now legendary Judgement Night soundtrack. I spoke to drummer Danny Schuler who’s been with the band almost since the very beginning about being hardcore, their new album and what his five kids think of Biohazard.


You’re playing at Te Owl Sanctuary here in Norwich which has a capacity of just 150. Biohazard last came to Norwich in 1994 and played the Oval Rockhouse. How does it feel to play such a small venue compared with arenas and fields full of people? I’m really excited. I love playing the UK and small clubs in particular. We love coming back to cities that we haven’t played for a long time. Biohazard was born in Brooklyn back in 1987 and you joined a year later in ‘88. What was the scene like there and then for you guys starting out? At that time, especially in Brooklyn, there was a club called L’Amour which was our hometown club where bands could play and we had the opportunity to play. New York had had a big


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hardcore scene for years before that and it fed into Brooklyn. When we came up it was at the tail end of that. Te scene in Brooklyn was great; everybody I knew played music and was in a band, Carnivore (who became Type O Negative), Life of Agony, Sheer Terror, a million other bands that we played with all the time from the neighbourhood. So when Biohazard came up at that time the scene comprised of a lot of our friends. Looking back now, knowing that a lot of those bands have lasted all these years since then, we had something cool happening. You weren’t labelled as a hardcore band but you did share the stage with some, like Agnostic Front. Bands like Agnostic Front were there


at the very beginning, and they set the blueprint for a lot of what a band like ours does. Out of respect for bands like them, Bad Brains, Cro-Mags and others who came before us we didn’t call ourselves a straight up New York City hardcore band when we first started because we weren’t trying to take the spot away from these guys that we felt we owed in terms of influence. If it weren’t for those bands we wouldn’t even exist today. Biohazard have a hardcore attitude and a punk heart beating within our chests. We were always very open to whatever was around us at the time; there was a bit of a different vibe in Brooklyn back then. Tere was a lot of music on the streets, hip hop, hardcore, metal, everything was there.


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