Biohazard - Urban Discipline (1992) [LE 'Digipak' 1993] Bonus tracks

In 1992, Biohazard signed with Roadrunner Records and released Urban Discipline, which gave the band national and worldwide attention in both the heavy metal and hardcore communities. The video for the song "Punishment" became the most played video in the history of MTV's Headbanger's Ball, and the album sold over 1,000,000 copies!

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Biohazard - Urban Discipline (1992) [LE 'Digipak' 1993] Bonus tracks

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Biohazard's Urban Discipline introduced the band's one-of-a-kind, Brooklyn thrash-rap sound to hardcore fans outside the five boroughs. It's an authentic mix of inner-city vocal rhythms with metal's take-no-prisoners attitude, one that granted them international credibility. Urban Discipline is an original hardcore metal-rap album, debuting a half-decade prior to the rap-rock explosion of the late '90s. It is defiant and distinctive – in some senses a precursor of bands such as Korn, Limp Bizkit, and the Deftones, and in other ways in a class all its own. It's not the self-indulgent, "I-gotta-get-mine" rap-rock of the late '90s, as it's loaded with social criticism. It's a blue-collar metal record made by rough-shod, tattooed, fighting men. The album's highlight is "Punishment," a hard-charging anthem with a surprisingly melodic chorus. This hook was strong enough to earn them moderate playtime on MTV, even though nothing else sounded like them at the time.Though intended merely as simple music for slam dancing, Biohazard does well to mix things up within those parameters. The group successfully rearranged their typical song structure with divergent bass, drum, and guitar parts in "Shades of Grey." They're technically competent enough to implement light crescendos and decrescendos, tempo variation, and a diffuse focus of the instruments within the band. It's not Mozart, but it is one of the most authentic combinations of thrash and rap ever made.

~ Kieran McCarthy, all media guide

Tracklist:

01. Chamber Spins Three
02. Punishment
03. Shades Of Grey
04. Business
05. Black And White And Red All Over
06. Man With A Promise
07. Disease
08. Urban Discipline
09. Loss
10. Wrong Side Of The Tracks
11. Mistaken Identity
12. We're Only Gonna Die (From Our Own Arrogance)
13. Tears Of Blood
14. Hold My Own [Bonus Track]
15. Shades Of Grey {Live} [Bonus Track]
16. Punishment {Live} [Bonus Track]

all music and lyrics written and arranged by Biohazard
except "We're Only Gonna Die" written by Greg Graffin of Bad Religion


Produced by Wharton Tiers and Biohazard
Recorded May-June 1992 at Fun City Studios, NY.
Mixed by Steve Ett and Biohazard at Chung King House Of Metal, NYC.

• Billy Graziadei - vocals, guitars
• Evan Seinfeld - vocals, bass
• Bobby Hambel - guitars
• Danny Schuler - drums

Original Release Date: November 10, 1992
Limited Digipak Edition Released in 1993
Format: Original Recording Reissued
Label: Roadrunner Records
Catalog No.: RR 9112-5