If you are a Metalhead of a certain age, which I am, Brooklyn bruisers Biohazard should need no introduction. If not, Biohazard are hardcore legends and have returned with their first album in 13 years, Divided We Fall.
Biohazard – Divided We Fall
Release Date: 17 October 2025
Words: Robert Adams
The early ’90s saw Biohazard take Metal, punk and rap, pour it in a blender and come up with a snarling, growling beast that was Hardcore.
These four street-wise Brooklyn yobs, Evan Seinfeld (bass/vocals), Billy Graziadel (guitar/vocals), Danny Schuler (drums) and Bobby Hambel (lead guitar) literally exploded onto the rock scene, took it by the scruff of the neck and gave it a good musical kicking. Their first three albums – 1990’s Biohazard, 1992’s Urban Discipline and 1994’s State Of The World Address quite literally changed heavy music forever.
Lineup and label changes ensued, leading to extended periods of inactivity for the band until the original lineup regrouped in 2022. They did a few shows, then a full world tour in 2023. Biohazard were back and sounded better than ever.
Divided We Fall is an album that is a proper throwback to the band’s glory days of those first three albums. Granted, the production is a lot sharper now, but that fight and hunger has remarkably remained intact, if not got stronger.
Never a band to shy away from lyrically speaking their mind, Biohazard have not changed one bit with this album. You will be hard pushed to find a better opening two tracks on any other album released this year than Fuck The System and Forsaken.
As soon as those driving riffs and venomous vocals surge from your ears to your brain, you will find yourself with a huge grin on your face and, most likely, headbanging like a maniac. Your body will soon tell you that you are 58 and not 28 anymore.
Eyes On Six opens with an eerie keyboard motif, before a Sabbath-esque sludgy riff carries us forward. Think of it like an old steam train leaving the station. It chugs along slowly, gaining momentum, before you suddenly find yourself galloping along at full pelt.
S.I.T.F.O.A sees the return of the band’s rap style vocals, coupled with brutal guitars.
The album closes with two tracks that fully explain Biohazard’s ethos in I Will Overcome and Warriors. Like a lot of bands, they have had their issues through the years.
“When we started,” Evan Seinfeld told MetalTalk, “we were street kids from Brooklyn who would take no shit from anyone. We all came from poor families, and this was our way to break free. I’ve been flat broke, living in my car, a millionaire, then flat broke again.
“You have to show a lot of resilience to get through these situations, both rich and poor. I am a lot more settled in myself these days, and getting back with my original brothers in Biohazard just feels right.”
Biohazard are back, and they are taking no prisoners. If you caught them at Donington or Bloodstock over the past couple of years, you will know exactly what I mean.
The band are no spring chickens, but their onstage and recorded energy puts most of their younger peers to shame. I will have several pints of whatever Biohazard are drinking.
If you remember Biohazard from your younger days, or you just want to hear what a legendary band sounds like in 2025, Divided We Fall is a must-listen. With the world going to shit all around us, you can bet that Biohazard have something to say about it.
I was hoping that Divided We Fall would live up to my memories of those first three albums and seeing them live in the mid-’90s. It has far surpassed my hopes. This is the sound of a band reclaiming their crown and soaring above the competition.
Biohazard release Divided We Fall, their first studio release in over a decade, on 17 October 2025 via BLKIIBLK. For pre-orders, visit ffm.to/biohazard_dwf.
