New BIOHAZARD Album Coming In 2010

Fabien Blackwater of More-Metal.com conducted an interview with BIOHAZARD guitarist Bobby Hambel on July 14, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. Watch the 10-minute chat below.

Regarding how the reunion of BIOHAZARD's original lineup came about and the group's future plans, Hambel said, "The 20th anniversary of BIOHAZARD came up last year, and we decided to get the original band back together and just go out and play some shows — be the old band that we were and go play for the audience that we miss and play the old songs and feel alive again and celebrate 20 years of great BIOHAZARD. We went all over the world with it. There's no record out — there's no record company or anything; it's just us, four friends, playing. BIOHAZARD's the same old band that it was; it's like nothing's changed [even though] 10 years, 12 years, have gone by. We wanna do a new record. So we're gonna take this experience and just be completely inspired by the crowds that we have been playing to for the last year and a half. It's such a great opportunity to have a second chance, so we're gonna do a new record, man. So 2010 should see a brand new original BIOHAZARD album. . . We're working on music. We're trying to get the live playing out of the way. This is, like, the last leg of the tour. We're doing this here in July and then we have one more show in August — we fly back to Europe to play a big festival in Prague — and then we go home. The only thing we're scheduling right now is to be in the studio and be recording throughout September, October and November, putting together a new record."

When asked for his opinion on the current metal/hardcore scene, Hambel said, "It's great. It's great that there's all these new bands coming out, there's always somebody trying to take it to the next level. We really like the bands that are trying to do their own thing a little bit, that are not afraid to be original. It's really easy to put together a band and sound like everybody else, but it's the people that have the guts to go out and try to be a little bit different and risk failing... Just to be themselves, you have to take a risk — we all do. BIOHAZARD did. In the beginning, people were like, 'What the fuck is this?' The politically correct hardcore people were like, 'You're not hardcore because you do this and you do that,' and the metal people were like, 'You're not metal because you do this and you do that.' And we were like, 'Fuck you and fuck you.' We're doing what the fuck we do and we're doing it with conviction and that makes us hardcore. Instead of being stereotypical hardcore, we're just trying to be our own version. And anytime we see new bands coming out that are trying to do their own thing, it's great. We just love music; we love music. There's a lot of great bands; I could sit here all day and name them. But we're also glad to see a lot of the older bands that we started out with still playing, like SICK OF IT ALL and AGNOSTIC FRONT; it's fucking amazing, and it's such an inspiration to us. And we see, like, HATEBREED and fucking SLIPKNOT and all these others bands that came up kind of after us, but they took it to another level with a whole new style of intensity, which is also inspiring to us. So it's just great that we're still a part of it."