Biohazard
Pumpehuset, Copenhagen - 2008
Text: Tobias Nilsson Photo: Lunah Lauridsen
It isn't often that I go to a concert that is so good I forget about everything else, and come home completely without notes. It doesn't mean I don't see a lot of good shows, but sometimes, just sometimes, you encounter one of those unforgettable ones that will stay with you for a looong time. Biohazard gave me such a show this night at Pumpehuset.
Being a reunion tour for the original line-up, and also being their 20th anniversary, Biohazard had everything going for them. They had a good venue to play, fitting support bands, a great setlist and most important of all, they were brimming with energy and a lust to play.
I have seen Biohazard before and the shows have been good, but never before has it been anywhere near what I witnessed here.
Honouring the music made by the band in this shape, and the albums that made Biohazard what they are today, they chose only to play songs from their first three releases; Biohazard (1990), Urban Discipline (1992) and State Of The World Address (1994). This idea was well received by the audience, which went amok in true Biohazard style with moshing, a giant circle pit, and of course loads of people crawling up on the stage to jump around with the band and finally stage-dive back into the swirling mass on the floor.
The pure intensity of the show even compelled me to heedlessly throw myself into the fray, a thing which I haven't done in quite some time; and it felt good!
As if all this had not been enough to excite the crowd, Billy Graziadei kicked his microphone stand out into the audience at one point, so as to make people more heard as they sang along to all the lyrics.
The only one trying to keep a (small) lid on things so they wouldn't get out of hand was Evan Seinfeld. While still saying that it was ok for people to come up on the stage and party, he didn't want anyone touching any of the equipment; and seeing how their monitors were lined up from one side of the stage to the other, it was impossible to enter the stage without coming into contact with them.
Still, up came the crowd, in droves, and a party they had.
For all of us here at Metalmoments, this definitely ranks as one the top concerts of the year; unforgettably good. Seeing Bobby Hambel back in Biohazard was something few of us had probably dared hope for, but he was jumping around like he had never left.
And of course, one of the best parts about the whole thing; we were going to see it all over again in Malmoe the very next day!
Setlist:
Shades Of Grey
What Makes Us Tick
Tales From The Hard Side
Urban Discipline
Survival Of The Fittest
Black And White And Red All Over
Down For Life
Chamber Spins Three
Retribution
Five Blocks To The Subway
We're Only Gonna Die (From Our Own Arrogance) (Bad Religion cover)
Love Denied
Wrong Side Of The Tracks
Punishment
How It Is
Hold My Own
Being a reunion tour for the original line-up, and also being their 20th anniversary, Biohazard had everything going for them. They had a good venue to play, fitting support bands, a great setlist and most important of all, they were brimming with energy and a lust to play.
I have seen Biohazard before and the shows have been good, but never before has it been anywhere near what I witnessed here.
Honouring the music made by the band in this shape, and the albums that made Biohazard what they are today, they chose only to play songs from their first three releases; Biohazard (1990), Urban Discipline (1992) and State Of The World Address (1994). This idea was well received by the audience, which went amok in true Biohazard style with moshing, a giant circle pit, and of course loads of people crawling up on the stage to jump around with the band and finally stage-dive back into the swirling mass on the floor.
The pure intensity of the show even compelled me to heedlessly throw myself into the fray, a thing which I haven't done in quite some time; and it felt good!
As if all this had not been enough to excite the crowd, Billy Graziadei kicked his microphone stand out into the audience at one point, so as to make people more heard as they sang along to all the lyrics.
The only one trying to keep a (small) lid on things so they wouldn't get out of hand was Evan Seinfeld. While still saying that it was ok for people to come up on the stage and party, he didn't want anyone touching any of the equipment; and seeing how their monitors were lined up from one side of the stage to the other, it was impossible to enter the stage without coming into contact with them.
Still, up came the crowd, in droves, and a party they had.
For all of us here at Metalmoments, this definitely ranks as one the top concerts of the year; unforgettably good. Seeing Bobby Hambel back in Biohazard was something few of us had probably dared hope for, but he was jumping around like he had never left.
And of course, one of the best parts about the whole thing; we were going to see it all over again in Malmoe the very next day!
Setlist:
Shades Of Grey
What Makes Us Tick
Tales From The Hard Side
Urban Discipline
Survival Of The Fittest
Black And White And Red All Over
Down For Life
Chamber Spins Three
Retribution
Five Blocks To The Subway
We're Only Gonna Die (From Our Own Arrogance) (Bad Religion cover)
Love Denied
Wrong Side Of The Tracks
Punishment
How It Is
Hold My Own