LwTw Artist Album Biohazard, "". Roadrunner.... Admittedly, this review has been longa time coming (the record 1 1 EXODUS Force Of Habit too). Possibly Brooklyn's brashest and heaviest band ever, 3 2 ALICE IN CHAINS Dirt Biohazard have been cranking 2 3 MEGADETH Countdown To... out a reputation of unshakable 6 4 FLOTSAM & JETSAM Cuatro proportions for years now as an 7 5 PRO-PAIN Foul Taste Of Freedom 5 6 UGLY KID JOE America's Least Wanted unsigned act. However, nota so 4 7 HELMET Meantime solid deal with highlya question- 8 8 MINISTRY Psalm 69 able label threatened to keep the 9 9 Soul Of/New Machine band a local phenomenon (and 14 10 WARRIOR SOUL Salutations From... unfortunately out of the pages of 11 11 DREAM THEATER Images And Words Hard). Not surprisingly, their 16 12 GRUNTRUCK Push first release landed but never Is 13 NON-FICTION In The Know really impacted. Luckily for all 17 14 CANNIBAL CORPSE Tomb Of The... involved, Biohazard have pounded past all of that and are now 12 15 SUICIDAL TEND. The Art Of Rebellion on the verge of their debut album for Roadrunner — the very 27 16 D.R.I. Definition aptly titled "Urban Discipline". Biohazard (- 10 17 ROB HALFORD Light Comes Out... vocals/bass, Billy Graziadei-vocals/guitar, Bobby Hambel-lead 21 18 NINE INCH NAILS Broken guitars and Danny Schuler-drums) are unarguably one of the 20 19 $.0.D, Live At Budokan strongest rising purveyors of street ethics, attitude and aggression 13 20 RAMONES Mondo Bizarro around. Their music is an inescapable crash course in metal, 18 21 SICK OF IT ALL Just Look Around blistered with rap, hip-hop and hardcore elements — fast, unde- 19 22 DANZIG Danzig III/How The... niably heavy and fierce (pocketed constantly by unbelievable 26 23 STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Core grooves). Made all the more crucial by the shared (rapped, 28 24 DRUTAL TRUTH Extreme Conditions.... yelled or sung) lead vocals of Graziadei and Seinfeld. Lyrically, 22 25 KILLERS Murder One they grapple with the human element and, most noticeably, the 29 26 W ARRANT Dog Eat Dog darker realities of the urban crawl. Words encased in brooding 25 27 SKID ROW B-Side Ourselves anger that ripples with cynicism and negativity. Well versed in 24 28 LIFE/SEX/DEATH The Silent Majority the facts of life (and death), these guys don't need to mince 23 29 EPIDEMIC Decameron words or soften the blows; they deliver the clear cut picture, like 34 30 DEICIDE Legion it or not. But their strength also lies in their underlying opti- 30 31 EXTREME III Sides To Every Story 32 32 BAD GOOD4 Refugee mism. Rather than let the negativity pull them down, they allow 39 33 KYUSS Blues For/Red Sun it to spur them into action with pride and conviction, and they 46 34 ANIMAL BAG Animal Bag encourage everyone to do the same. "Urban Discipline" is a 31 35 WIDO WMAKER Blood & Bullets lesson in endurance. It churns with tension and bristling anger... 35 36 SOLITUDE AETUR Beyond The Crimson... and still doesn't completely capture their live intensity (hope you 38 37 BELLRAISER lU Soundtrack saw them play at Foundations — they were unbelievably loud 40 38 MOTORHEAD March Or Die and heavy). It's bold enough for our purposes though, and you'll 47 39 AC/DC AC/DC Live just have to go see 'ern live, if you dare, for the full impact. 33 40 PARADISE LOST Shades Of God There are plenty of tracks to choose from, including the cover of 36 41 TROUBLE Manic Frustration Bad Religion's "We're Only Going To Die". You'll also want 37 42 FAITH NO MORE Angel Dust to check out "Tears Of Blood", "Black And White And Red All + D 43 CATHEDRAL Soul Sacrifice Over", "Urban Discipline", "Loss" (with its surprisingly senti- 43 44 KIK TRACEE Field Trip Ep mental intro) and "Mistaken Identity". Biohazard... Brooklyn, 41 45 PANTERA Vulgar Display Of... NYC. They'll break your world in two if you let them. 42 46 SKREW Burning In Water... 44 47 NAPALM DEATH Utopia Banished + D 48 SKATENIGS Skatenigs 1 Ind :L3t»eù (3.1itstal + D 49 COLLISION Collision + D 50 MOTHER LOVE BONE Mother Love Bone I. (22)N1ANONN AR "Manomar Kills" (Atlantic) 2. (19)WIDOWMAKER "The Widowmaker" (Esquire) RUMBLERS GRAVE, ATROCITY, SAIGON KICK, SAINTS & 3. (18)RAGE AGAINST/MACHINE "Killing..." (Epic) SINNERS, BLACK SABBATH, GWAR EP, KISS, SCREAMING 4. (12)CHAINSA W KITTENS "High In..." (Mammoth) TREES, WHITE ZOMBIE, SKEW SISIUN, MUDHONEY, SIN- (12)TUMBLEWEED "Weedseed" (Seed) GLES, GWAR, JACKYL, , STYGIAN, T-RIDE, COP- 5. (8)CATHEDRAL ...."Soul Sacrifice" (Earache/Columbia) PERHEAD, SEANCE, UNLEASHED. (8)G WAR "The Road Behind" (Metal Blade) ALSO ADDED: MILK (7), COPPERHEAD (6), JESUS LIZARD (6), MUDHONEY (6), RATTLEBONE (6), AC/DC (5), WARRIOR SOUL (5), D.R.I. (4), DISMEMBER (4), FRANCES X (4), SEPULTURA (4), DAVE UHRICH (3), nest 1{t•titicsteb 31-letat FASTER PUSSYCAT (3), MALHAVOC (3), SCHNITT ACHT (3), SKEW SISKAN (3), STONE TEMPLE PILOTS (3), STY- GIAN (3), UGLY KID JOE (3), X-TRA LARGE (3). 1. MEGADETH 6. HELMET 2. ALICE IN CHAINS 7. UGLY KID JOE ALSO REQUESTED: MINISTRY, WARRIOR SOUL, 3. PRO-PAIN 8. CANNIBAL CORPSE DREA M THEATER, BRUTAL TRUTH, GRUNTRUCK, 4. FLOTSAM & JETSAM 9. D.R.I S.O.D., SICK OF IT ALL, ROB HALFORD, DANZIG, GWAR, 5. EXODUS 10. FEAR FACTORY NINE INCH NAILS, NON-FICTION.

THE HARD REPORT 45 OCTOBER 30, 1992