at radio Tangra Mega Rock studios

Saturday afternoon. It's raining in Sofia and it is cold and windy.

But it's pretty intense and noisy at the Tangra Mega Rock studios with Biohazard's Danny Schuler and Bobby Hambel guesting for more then an hour.

We talk about hardcore, about life, friends, about music, racism, Slayer, Onyx, the music business, Tera Patrick, the first days, the new beginning, Bulgaria, the future new album, the show in Sofia tomorrow!

an interview conducted by Nasso Ruskov, with the help of Alexander Boyadjiev - Chika and Dobro of Last Hope

HOW YOU DOIN GUYS?
Danny&Bobby: Hey what’s up!

WHEN DID YOU ARRIVE?
Danny: Today.

HAVE YOU ALREADY BEEN ON A TOUR ROUND ALL THE OTHER RADIO STATIONS OR IS THIS YOUR FIRST STOP?
Danny: It’s our second stop.

HOW ARE YOU LIKING OUR STUDIO?
Danny: Love it! You were rocking to some good music as soon as we walked in!

(We were had the Sex Pistols’ ‘Bodies’ cranked up when Bobby and Danny walked in and they immediately joined in on the “fuck this and fuck that” bit)

SO HOW’S THE TOUR GOING? THIS IS THE SECOND SHOW OF THE EUROPEAN LEG IS IN NOT?
Bobby: Actually this is the 2nd show of the forth European trip.

SO HOW HAS RESPONSE BEEN AND HOW DO YOU GUYS FEEL BACK TOGETHER AGAIN?
Danny: Awesome!
Bobby: Yeah, it’s amazing. We’re very lucky that we’re still here, we’re still alive. We’re not dead, we’re not in jail, we can still play. We became friends again and we got our old thing back together, the crowds are still out there, the scene is still supportive and we’re really thankful for that. It’s been amazing. It’s been better than we expected.

HOW DO YOU FEEL NOW WHEN YOU’RE ABOUT TO PLAY BULGARIA? I MEAN YOU GUYS PLAYED SERBIA LAST YEAR AND THERE WERE OVER 100 BULGARIAN FANS AT THAT GIG.
Bobby: We were amazed. The kids from Bulgaria that came down, they traveled all the way and they were really enthusiastic and they told us: “You have to come to Bulgaria! You have to come to our home and play!” And we were like: “Wow, man! We definitely have to get over there!” I mean, that show was really special to us, it was just a very important show on that particular tour, for a lot of reasons.

The enthusiasm of the kids from Bulgaria who came down was just mind-blowing, it blew us away, we were really humble to it and we were like: “Man, we definitely have to go over there.” And we had our friends in the States from other bands like 25 Ta Life and Agnostic Front and a lot of other bands from the US who’d tell us about this place and that Biohazard just gotta get over there. So, here we are man!

WITH ALL THE FREE DOWNLOADING OF MUSIC, DO YOU THINK RECORD LABELS ARE DONE FOR? DO YOU FEEL THAT FANS ARE STEALING YOUR MUSIC?
Danny: The feeling that we’re getting “robbed” – that kinda sucks. But to be honest with you I think the fact that kids can get music on the Internet so easy is kind of a great thing. Because the old way was that if somebody heard of Biohazard and they wanted to go, maybe they’d listen to us, maybe they’d hear from a friend, maybe they’d go buy the record. Now they just go: “Who? Biohazard? Let me get online and see if I can listen to some of their stuff. Oh yeah, there it is, it’s pretty cool, let me download all of it and put it on my player.” And before you know it, you have a new fan. Even though they didn’t buy anything, you have a new fan. So really that’s what it’s all about – communicating to people and I think the Internet has made it really easy. In a way it reminds me of the way me and my friends were when we were kids, we always used to trade tapes, we had cassette tapes…

DID YOU USE TO TAPE STUFF FROM THE RADIO?
Danny: All the time. When me and my friends were doing it, me and my friend Mick  who I grew up with in Brooklyn, we used to tape all the old shows that were on the radio in New York. They had independent radio back then and college radio and we’d just listen to the music. We didn’t even know who the bands were, but we’d tape it and listen to it the next day and trade it and that was how the music got around.

Now, with the Internet it’s kind of the same thing, you know what I mean? That’s the great part. The shitty part is that we don’t get paid for making the music which is our work and which we work hard for. There’s a lot of bands out there who will never ever get a dime for all their hard work and all the fucking suffering they went through, being on the road and you know – no reward. That sucks! But for me the most important thing is being able to communicate with people. And have them hear our music and all this makes it easier to do that.

Bobby: The only thing I’d like to add here is that as far as the labels go, I’m not worried about the labels, I don’t think any of us are, because, basically, I think they dug their own hole and chose their own fate a long time ago and whatever happens to them happens. Music and art will always be here because it’s true human expression, you know what I’m sayin’.

The thing that really worries me about the record industry falling apart because of illegal downloading, is the fact that records cost money to make. And a band wants to make a good sounding record, right? It costs money to make a good sounding record. It costs money to deliver your music, to capture it in it’s best form, it takes a lot of work, a lot of planning, a lot of studio time. This stuff costs money and that’s why they sell it and they try to make back the money that they invested.

The record companies try to make back the money they invested. When they sign a band they would give them a huge budget or a small budget, whatever budget they gave the band to go out and make the record. And then the band has to go on tour, promote the record, sell the recordsВ  to pay back the record company and then after it all gets paid back maybe the band will start getting some royalties.

But basically the bands live off what they earn from live shows , it’s very rarely that a band makes a lot of money off their record sales, unless you’re selling an astronomical amount. But the point is that now the record companies are NOT paying for really good productions, bands are forced to start making cheaper  records and cutting corners and using all the digital cheating tools that are available today and I’m afraid of what’s gonna happen to music – music is getting cheapened or synthetic or watered-down.

When you’re stealing music from a band, you’re not supporting that band, you’re not giving them any incentive to go in and work hard and create the best thing they can. So bands will say: “Well, nobody’s gonna buy it anyway, so let’s just throw in together something cheap, so that we can get out there.”  So music’s starting to change a little bit  where the passion of making a record the old way is kinda dying, a lot of great studios are closing down and that’s what’s scary.

I mean who wants to see the great studios in the world close down, where all this magic and great records of the past were made, you know what I mean! You don’t wanna see this happen, but it’s happening! I mean, do you want all music to be coming from people’s bedrooms? Just made in their own garages or whatever…

Danny: But in a way it’s good.
Bobby: In a way it’s great, but then in a way it’s not so great.

DOBRO FROM LAST HOPE:
I’VE BEEN LIVING IN WASHINGTON FOR A WHILE NOW. I GO TO HIP HOP GIGS WITH MY BLACK FRIENDS AND TO HARDCORE CONCERTS WITH MY WHITE FRIENDS. YOU GUYS HAVE MANAGED TO ACHIEVE A KIND OF BRIDGE BETWEEN THE SCENES AND CULTURES.

IN THE US, AS OPPOSED TO EUROPE, THERE’S STILL A SORT OF DIVISION BETWEEN THE,, SAY, HIP HOP SCENE AND THE HARDCORE SCENE, THE METAL SCENE ETC AND THE AUDIENCE SEEMS TO BE SOMEWHAT STILL ETHNICALLY DIVIDED ACCORDING TO EACH SCENE.
Danny:  Yeah I think this still exists in the US. I still don’t think it’s as unified as it could and should be. The whole thing of Biohazard bringing all that together was very natural because of where we came from.

We came from New York and if you grew up in New York City during the 70s and the 80s you were exposed to everything that was going on there musically, I know I was and I know Bobby was too. That was where and when hip hop started in the streets, that was the music in the streets and there was no escaping it.

And hardcore was right around the corner from us, it’s a short train ride from my house to CBGB’s so… It was all the music of the streets, so I personally never saw it as a different thing, as a separate racial…anything… Because to me it was all the music that the kids in the streets were listening to. When we were doing Biohazard we were just regular street people like everybody else.

So there was no conscious effort to bring in a different element, it was just there naturally, it was the music of the streets at the time. And now hip hop is the music of the world, it’s a different thing. Hardcore is still very underground.

Bobby: I definitely can say that any type of segregation or separation of any scenes, I believe a lot of it comes from the labels and the people who market music. They’re afraid to market anything different and put money behind anything different. So they keep this crowd over here and they keep this music over here, you know what I mean?

And when you get a band that crosses the line, crosses the boundaries, the record labels don’t have the fucking balls to just get behind that band and put them out there. A perfect example is Fishbone.

Fishbone is an amazing band – all black guys, playing funk, ska, punk, reggae, metal, rap, poetry, spoken word – all kinds of elements. They have amazing talent. That’s a band that never got their fair shake and never got people behind them, because they were ahead of their time and people were afraid to cross these cultural boundaries.

I blame the industry for any separation that’s going on, because when people do get together they realize: “Holy shit, we’re alike!”  At first we were also afraid to go together, like when we first did the thing with Onyx, when they first came onstage with us, we had to explain to the audience: “Please have an open mind, we’re about to do something new,” and then when Onyx came out the crowd loved it. And we were like: “Wow, thank God!” We were worried there for a minute. But once people come together  they all come together cause everybody’s pretty much the same.

Danny: Another good example along the lines of that was back in 93’ or 94’ before we put out ‘STATE OF THE WORLD ADDRESS’, our manager called us up and he was like: “Yo, you just got an offer for a US tour – Biohazard and Fishbone together”.
At this time people were trying to get us on the PANTERA tour and all the other heavy bands and they were like:

“Yo, Fisbone, you wanna do that shit?”  And I was like: “Hell, yeah!” I love Fishbone, I was a Fishbone fan from way back. But there was a lot of concerns you know. I remember a lot of the club owners were like: “Oh no, Biohazard’s gonna bring in all these crazy skinhead maniac kids that beat the shit out of each other, and Fishbone’s got all the college kids.

There’s gonna be riots at every show. And the bands will never get along, these guys are a bunch of brothers from L.A. while the other guys are a bunch of white kids from Brooklyn, it ain’t never gonna work!”
And yet within the first week it was the best! Us and Fishbone became best friends.

Bobby: And the crowds were awesome. Their crowd and our crowd got along perfect.
Danny: Every show was amazing.
Bobby: We’re still great friends with Fishbone.
Danny: Yeah, we became great friends and great fans of the band.

Bobby: Their band and our band believed in what we were doing. Angelo from Fishbone called it the Biohazard/Fishbone Movement, not the tour. Because we were a movement, we were bringing people together and that’s what that band digs and that’s what we dug.
Danny: That’s a great band.
Bobby: Everybody else in the industry was like: “It ain’t gonna work,” but you know what – it works! 

REGARDING THE TRACK ‘HOW IT IS’ FROM YOUR ALBUM ‘STATE OF THE WORLD ADDRESS’. SEN DOG FROM CYPRESS HILL GUESTS ON THAT TRACK. YOU GUYS RECENTLY PLAYED L.A. WITH SUICIDAL TENDENCIES AND SEN DOG JOINED YOU ONSTAGE AT THAT GIG. COULD YOU TELL US A BIT ABOUT THAT.
Bobby: Yeah, the gig was in his hometown. It was a great show. We played with Suicidal Tendencies.
Danny: It was great. Anytime Sen Dog comes up and plays with us it’s fucking amazing. He’s a great friend, Cypress Hill’s a great band.
Bobby:  He’s got a great voice. He’s awesome onstage, he brings all this energy up there. He’s definitely one of them West Coast cats that we admire, cause he’s true to who he is.

There’s no fake bullshit about Cypress Hill, they are who they are and that’s what’s cool about them. And Suicidal was great. It’s a big honour to play with them. Cause from back when we first started, people kinda looked at us like were this Brooklyn version of this little Suicidal band.

Before people knew how to call Biohazard what it was, before we put records out or anything, they were like: “Man, you guys are like the East Coast Suicidal or something.”

Danny: We always looked up to that band, always.

YOUR SONG ‘TALES FROM THE HARD SIDE’ TALKS ABOUT KIDS BEING INFLUENCED BY THE MEDIA TO LOOK UP TO FIGURES OF CRIME AND GET INTO CRIME THEMSELVES. MICHAEL JACKSON HAD A SONG ABOUT IT TOO – ‘BEAT IT’.

YOU GUYS COME FROM AN AREA OF NEW YORK RENOWNED FOR ITS CRIME AND WE, HERE IN BULGARIA, ALSO LIVE IN A CRIME-DOMINATED SOCIETY….
Bobby: Yeah, 'Tales from the Hard Side' is our 'Beat It', haha. Yeah, you know – Michael Jackson, Biohazard, Bob Dylan… people with something to say, trying to find a positive way out of a negative situation. As far as living in an area full of crime – your area is what you make of it. We all have choices, man. When you’re growing up…when we were growing up, of course we wanted to be like the bad guys.

The bad guys got the most respect, the bad guys got all the girls, all the money….we looked up to the bad guys. And then we realized – wait a minute, this is real, this is life and you really have to be true to yourself, you have to be brave enough to make your own choices and go away from the crowd and be an individual.

We were just lucky that we found music, we found the band. That got us of trouble, because if we didn’t start Biohazard, the four of us, we probably would have ended up being the bad guys, being stupid, making mistakes.

I mean, I’m not calling anybody who’s tough or bad stupid – you gotta do what you gotta do and sometimes you gotta be hard to survive. But anytime you can make a choice, especially at a young age, to rise above and be more positive, it emulates on the rest of your surroundings.

One person can really change an area, can change a scene, can change a culture, can change a whole neighbourhood. But unfortunately the change always takes place in the negative way, faster than the positive. We’re just trying to bring a positive message to the negative. 

THERE’S A GUY HERE WHO’S A MASSIVE FAN AND HE’S BEEN DOING A FANSITE OF THE BAND. IT’S AT WWW.BIOHAZARDOUS.HIT.BG 
Bobby: Thank you, brother, that’s awesome. Check out the site guys.

A QUESTION ABOUT YOUR MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS AND INFLUENCES. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT BIOHAZARD IS THE LAST UNDERGROUND BAND TO HAVE BROKEN BIG THAT USES THE CLASSIC ROCK STRUCTURE, WITH ALL THE GUITAR SOLOS AND STUFF.

THIS IS LACKING IN MOST MODERN BANDS’ MUSIC. MANY BANDS THAT PEOPLE ASSOCIATE WITH BIOHAZARD ACTUALLY LACK THIS KIND OF STRUCTURE TO THEIR MUSIC – YOU HAVE THE TWO GUITARS, LEAD AND RHYTHM, AND COMPLICATED STRUCTURES OF YOUR SONGS – INTRO, VERSES, SLOW PARTS ETC.

SO WHAT BANDS INFLUENCED YOU, ON THE HARDCORE SIDE, ON THE METAL SIDE, EVEN THE HARD ROCK SIDE AND HOW DID YOU INVENT THE CONCEPT OF YOUR OWN MUSIC?
Bobby: That’s a great question man. It makes me think. There’s a lot of bands who leave guitar solos out and that’s fine. But, for me, if I didn’t hear guitar solos, I would have never wanted to play the guitar, you know what I’m sayin’.

I heard Jimi Hendrix play solos, I heard Randy Rhoads, Eddie Van Halen, Tony Iommi, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour from Pink Floyd… I heard guys put feeling and soul into solos. That’s what turned me onto the guitar in the first place and also great songwriting from the great rock bands. From Black Sabbath to Led Zeppelin, all the way to the Sex Pistols, Motorhead, anybody who writes great songs, Metallica, whatever.

You got song structure and then there’s expression in trying to really say something with your instrument, whether it’s drums, bass, guitar, you know…That’s where we all come from – looking at guys who took it to the next level. Yeah, some bands came out for a while that left guitar solos out and maybe that was a trend, maybe the next trend will be drums without any drum fills.

To me it all comes from inside and it’s supposed to help the song - if it doesn’t help the song you don’t do it. It’s supposed to be part of the whole.  If I had two more hands I’d be doing something else on top of it.

WHAT LED TO THE INITIAL PARTING OF WAYS BETWEEN YOU GUYS?
Danny: I don’t think we have enough time to go into that…

IF IT’S A DELICATE ISSUE…
Danny: No, it’s not. It’s just that when we started out…When you take a bunch of fucking guys, who are just regular guys…

I mean, none of us ever had any success, none of us were raised with any money…when we were kids none of us had any money or any success, we weren’t used to hearing success stories.

The way I grew up, nobody in my family ever made it big, nobody had any success, they were just hard working people. They traveled, my father was in the military.

Bobby:В  Yeah, my father too.
Danny:  All these things were impossible to us. Success and everything that we’re doing now, that was like a fantasy. There was no concept of that, it didn’t even exist in our minds. What existed in my mind was what was going on in our neighbourhood.

We always felt kinda stuck into the only life we knew, in our neighbourhood, which was a tough life. When the band, we didn’t even realize it was happening, but when the band started getting popular, to us we got popular in our neighbourhood first – in Brooklyn. In our local place where all our friends were.

Then it started getting bigger and bigger. As it got bigger we were so innocent and fucking naïve, we didn’t realize there were people clinging onto us who were trying to hurt us. We didn’t realize how success can complicate things in life and it affected the four of us in four different ways – we’re four very different people.

All the success kinda just made us lose our minds a little bit. It kinda pulled us apart from each other. I could put my finger on a million different things as to why Bobby left the band and why the band didn’t stay the same and why it just didn’t work then. But what it really was, was that we were forced to deal with a strange situation – success.

Bobby: Which means you’re business with a bunch of people who are swearing that they are your friends now…when in fact they don’t give a shit about you.
Danny: And it made us change, it pulled us apart. It made us kinda forget that the original reason we got together to play was cause we loved it.

Bobby: That’s what this tour’s about. No bullshit, four guys who are friends.
Danny: It’s about playing, having fun, being friends again – we rediscovered it. We forgot it back then because we weren’t ready for all that success. We were too young, we didn’t know.

SO DO YOU GUYS WATCH ANY OF EVAN’S FILMS?
Danny: No.
Bobby: Nope.

YOU’RE JOKING!
Bobby: No, we all live our own lives. If that’s what Evan wants to do, that’s fine. It’s not how we know him. I know Evan because we talk about music and motorcycles and hot rods and that’s basically how we know each other. What he does in his own time is his own thing.

To me watching a sex video is one thing, but when your friends are in it, it’s kinda like: “I don’t wanna see that shit!”

Danny: I stay at Evan’s house all the time when I go out to L.A. to do stuff with the band. And Evan’s wife is a very good friend of mine.
Bobby: She’s a great person.
Danny: We’re very close you know and I could never watch her in one of these movies.
Bobby: Yeah, we don’t know her like that.

Danny: Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with sex, nothing wrong with beautiful women, it’s all good man.
Bobby: To us she’s like a sister, she’s just Tera, she’s like a sister. Whatever she does that’s her business and we respect that.
Danny: They’re happy, man, they’re doing what they wanna do, it’s all good.

WELL THEY CERTAINLY LOOK HAPPY ENOUGH...
(Danny bursts out laughing)
OF COURSE I MEANT ALL THE INTERVIEWS THAT THEY’RE TOGETHER IN.
Bobby: We’ll take your word for it.
Danny: So I guess you’ve watched a few videos, huh?

OH, WHO HASN’T!
Bobby: Evan’s our brother and that makes her our sister, so we respect that part of their lives. That’s what they do and that’s cool.

L to R: Alex - Chika, Nasso,В Dobro (blury),В Bobby (seated)

HOW DID THIS REUNION COME ABOUT?
Bobby: After I left Biohazard, I felt I lost that part of my life. It was like something was chopped off from me, I lost my music, I lost my brothers, I lost my relation with the crowd that I’ve come to love all around the world.

It was very hard for me, I went through a lot of grief. It was very hard for me just to be around music anymore. I just kinda went my other direction and I saw them guys going on and I’m really glad that they did. Biohazard kept going and thank God they did, cause if they didn’t we wouldn’t be here today.

We had nothing to really say to each other for a long time, which is a shame. And like I mentioned before we had the wrong people around us. After I left we continued to have the wrong people around us, so people were saying things to me, trying to keep me away from them, and people were saying things to them, trying to keep them away from me and it was totally untrue.

It wasn’t until we came face to face that we realized: “Hey, wait a minute, this is bullshit! We belong together, there’s no reason why we can’t make up and be the band again!”

Danny and I first ran into each other and started talking and it unfolded and a lot of people around the world were urging us to get the band back together again, so we kinda listened and respected that. And that’s it. 

TELL US HOW YOU ALL MET UP AND STARTED THE BAND.
Bobby: We all used to hang out at this club called L’Amour’s in Brooklyn, which was like the rock capital of Brooklyn, it’s a pretty well known, legendary club. Evan was a roadie for Pete Steele…

Danny: Carnivore!
Bobby: That was Steele's band before Type O Negative. I used to go to L’Amour and see Carnivore, Cro-Mags and all these other bands, and that’s the kind of band I wanted to start. Danny also hung around L’Amour.

Danny: I knew Bobby from when I was probably 13-14 years old.
Bobby:В  We ended up in the same high school night class.
Danny: Yeah we were in the same high school dropout class, me and Bobby.
Bobby: I only went one day and I went hung out with him and talked to him all the time.

Danny: It was the only day I showed up too. And Evan, I’ve known Evan since I was 11 years old.
Bobby: It was actually this friend of ours named Anthony Meo who started playing drums with us and he introduced me and Evan.

Danny: Anthony was the original drummer in Biohazard and I’ve known him since I was six or seven years old.
Bobby: Yeah, so it’s a very small circle, you know. And then Anthony had to leave the band, so we were thinking who we could get and Evan said: “Danny, Danny Schuler!”

And I was like “Oh yeah, get Danny!”  And we had, I think, two days to do a show and Danny came down, practiced with us, did the show and it was awesome. And we were like: “Yo, you gonna join this band or what?”

Danny: What’s funny is that at the time I was living down the block from L’Amour. I was literally 200 feet from the front doors, I mean where I was living with my girlfriend at the time. I was like 17-18 years old then.

Bobby was my friend, we had a lot of mutual friends in the neighbourhood. Evan lived on the other side of my neighbourhood, but I knew Evan and I saw that they had a band with Anthony Meo who was also a childhood friend of mine. I didn’t know this kid Billy, didn’t know where he came from or who he was, but I knew them and I went to see some of the first Biohazard shows.

I remember seeing them and thinking they’d be good if the drummer played things a little differently. Nothing against Meo because Meo’s great and he knows I love him and he knows he’s welcome onstage with Biohazard anytime.

Anyway, one day I was going to a show in Manhattan , I can’t remember who I was going to see, but I was walking down the avenue and I ran into Evan and the original manager of Biohazard, a guy called Rich Frein – a real legend back in the day in Brooklyn, big tall guy, almost 7 feet tall, he’s in Seattle now, we just saw him and he’s still a great friend.

Anyway, Evan walks over and says: “Yo man, we’re having problems with Meo in the band, we need a drummer, you wanna come down and jam with us?” And I was like: “Yeah!”

Bobby: We had a gig with Sheer Terror at the Sundance and you came down and you jumped onstage and you played the gig.
Danny:В Actually it was M.O.D.
Bobby:В Oh yeah, M.O.D.
Danny: Evan hands me the demo – I already had one demo – he hands me a new demo and I listened to it and thought it was fucking great. Billy, I met Billy when he used to work in a place called the Pink Pussycat which was a sex store. That’s where I met him, cause he wasn’t from Brooklyn originally.

Anyway, when Evan handed me the tape he said I should go down to the studio. A week later I went there, it was a studio called Fast Lane Studios on Flatbush Avenue. So in I go and they’re all there. I was like: “This is crazy! What’s up Bobby! What’s up Ev! What are we doing?” And they said they needed a drummer. So they auditioned me and I played a couple of songs and right away it sounded as it sounds now. We really clicked.

Bobby: He brought something to the table right away, he had his own idea of what should be happening and we knew that was what we were missing. Even back then, when we were just kids, we were going against the grain anyway, because people were like: “You can’t have two bald guys and two people with long hair in the same band – you can’t do that!” And we were like, “fuck you”. That’s how stupid and small the world was to us back then.

Danny: These guys were breaking my chops, they were saying: “We want you in the band, but you’ve got such long nice hair…”
Bobby: We were telling him he had to shave his head.

Danny: So first thing I told them was: “I ain’t shavin’ my head, this is who I am, man!” At that point in my life that’s what I was – a guy who loved all kinds of music, I listened to all kinds of shit and I had fucking long hair.

Bobby: That shit never really mattered, it’s who you are inside. And I also want to add that Pete Steele from Type O Negative, who was originally in the band Carnivore, he was the one who told us to use the Biohazard symbol and the name Biohazard.

We were saying to him: “Yo man, check it out, this is what we’re singing about, we’re singing about all the hazards in life and all this stuff, and we need a name.”
And he was like: “I know what – I have a name for you guys.”
So that was back in 1987 – Pete Steele was the guy who helped us there, so we owe a lot to him.

TELL US SOME OF THE NEWER BANDS THAT YOU’RE INTO.
Bobby: Hatebreed’s a great band.
Danny: I love Slipknot.
Bobby: I love the fact that the Cavalera brothers got back together and made a record. Love the fact that Slayer’s still playing. We hate the fact that Dimebag Darrell’s gone. One of the greatest things we ever did was play with Pantera and get to know great guys like that. As for bands today, there’s so many great bands out there…

Danny: I like that Metallica did a heavy record.
Bobby: Yeah, Metallica doing a heavy record was good. Motorhead’s doing a lot of stuff and I’m buzzed about that. But there’s a lot of bands, from the New York and US scene alone, so many of our friends, Madball…

Danny: Madball still fucking doing it, Agnostic Front, Sick of It All. In fact I saw Sick of it All last year. It had been a while since I’d last seen them and I was fucking blown away by how fucking incredible they were. I also love Agnostic Front.

Bobby: It’s really cool when you see a band stay together that long and they’re still doing it because they love doing it. And believe me, all those bands have been through hard times too. It almost destroyed us, but we’re lucky we had got a chance to get back together again. A lot of those bands have held on and that’s amazing.

CRO-MAGS ARE QUITE POPULAR IN BULGARIA. WE KNOW THAT BOBBY PLAYED IN WHITE DEVIL WITH HARLEY FLANAGAN , WHILE DANNY PLAYED WITH JOHN JOSEPH…
Bobby:  Yeah and the fact that John and Harley are not friends anymore – it’s kinda weird. Let me just sum it up – we’ll always look up to the Cro-Mags and we’ll always be thankful for what they brought to the scene and what they inspired us to do and what they taught us, what they stood for and what they still stand for.

Biohazard would love to see the original Cro-Mags come together. I mean, if we could do it, we hope that they can do it too. And if it doesn’t happen we still love all those guys and wish them the best anyway.

We know those guys and when Harley asked me to play of course I agreed and went out on tour with him. Danny and John are very good friends. Harley I consider a really good friend of mine.

I mean, we’re all from the same area, it’s just a shame when the band split up, it kind of divided a lot of people in New York, they were very important to a lot of people as a unit and when they split up it divided a lot of people. But we pray that one day the original Cro-Mags will come back together. .

BOBBY, HOW DID YOU FIRST MEET RICK FROM 25 TA LIFE?
Bobby:В The first time I think I saw him was when I saw him do a backflip off the stage one night and take ten people out.
Danny: Probably in Long Island at the Sundance club where we used to play a long time ago.

FINALLY, ARE WE TO EXPECT A NEW ALBUM FROM YOU GUYS?
Bobby:В Yeah, Biohazard is definitely doing a new record. This is not a stunt just to get some shows, this is about us really reforming, putting the old band back together, making a record and picking up where we left off. So look out for a new records, should be out in 2010!

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