Biohazard guitarist/vocalist, Billy Graziadei, lately defined the band’s unorthodox strategy to crafting their albums. Neglect your typical songwriting periods – Biohazard operates a “meat grinder” the place particular person concepts are reworked into pure, unadulterated Biohazard.
“Like all the time, we have now this factor known as the Biohazard meat grinder. All of us write, and all of us have our concepts, and we put them by way of this — nonetheless they arrive in — they undergo this meat grinder course of. My solo stuff is materials that is just a little bit extra punk and extra melodic than Biohazard, however it’s nonetheless bought the roots of what Biohazard is for me, my aspect of it.
“However I feel any particular person music that we write does not change into a Biohazard music till all of us piss within the fucking bucket, you recognize what I imply? It is bought to have our blood, sweat, tears, piss, and fucking DNA in it. And that goes by way of this meat grinder and we jam on it and it begins to develop and it begins to change into this entity that is separate and completely different from the way it was initially created and crafted,” Graziadei revealed in a brand new interview with 518Scene.com.
Graziadei additionally reminisced in regards to the band’s early days, the place songs like “Punishment” and “Black And White And Purple All Over” advanced on the highway. Touring with The Exploited turned a testing floor, every evening shaping the songs by way of viewers reactions and experimentation.
“I bear in mind after we did the primary report [1990’s self-titled effort], we did a number of touring after which we wrote 4 songs that ended up being on City Self-discipline [1992]. It was ‘Punishment’, ‘Black And White And Purple All Over’, ‘Shades Of Gray’ and the title monitor. We wrote them and performed them on tour: We did this superior U.S. tour with The Exploited and we might play them each evening, and they’d change. The songs would evolve.
“Each evening we might be, like, ‘Yeah that half was fucking cool.’ ‘The pit went loopy for that half.’ ‘Yeah, let’s strive breaking this half down.’ ‘Let’s strive doing this.’ ‘Let’s strive shuffling these two components round.’ And people songs grew as a result of we performed them each evening. And after we got here residence from that tour, we went proper again within the studio, completed writing for the report and recorded City Self-discipline, then went proper again on tour. That entire course of made these songs and stored the reside vitality pumping by way of our veins, which has all the time been the essence of Biohazard that we love, and I feel a number of different folks additionally love.”
However capturing lightning in a bottle is not simple. Whereas Reborn In Defiance got here shut, Graziadei acknowledges the challenges of translating reside vitality to studio recordings. The brand new album, nonetheless, guarantees to be completely different.
“We have been by no means in a position actually to seize the vitality of us reside on a report, in my view, to a full 100%. I feel the one report that actually got here shut was satirically the final report we did collectively, known as Reborn In Defiance, however on that report, we went by way of some turmoil and it form of shines on that one too. So, the place we’re at is protecting that vitality alive and dealing our data, our expertise, our inspiration into that, bundled up with that vitality, and placing that on vinyl or digital.”
Graziadei, guitarist Bobby Hambel, drummer Danny Schuler, and bassist/vocalist Evan Seinfeld first reunited as Biohazard on Might 26, 2023, on the Milwaukee Metallic Fest in Wisconsin.
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