Urban Discipline

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Urban Discipline
Biohazard studio album

Publication
(s)

1992

Label (s) Roadrunner Records

Genre (s)

Hardcore punk , crossover

Title (number)

14th

running time

56 min 41 s

occupation
  • Bass / vocals: Evan Seinfeld
  • Guitar: Bobby Hambel

production

Wharton Tiers & Biohazard

chronology
Biohazard
(1990)
Urban Discipline State of the World Address
(1994)

Urban Discipline is the second studio album by the American hardcore / crossover band Biohazard . It was released on November 10, 1992 via Roadrunner Records .

Emergence

Released in 1990, the self-titled debut album had sold around 40,000 times by Urban Discipline . However, the band was dissatisfied with their Maze Records label . After concerts, the musicians were often approached by viewers, as the album was available in many record stores. Biohazard also received offers from various major labels . However, the band opted for Roadrunner Records because, according to bassist Evan Seinfeld , the musicians “never wanted to lose touch with the grassroots”.

Produced was Urban Discipline by Wharton Tiers and the band. The recordings took place in Tiers' house in Manhattan . According to guitarist Billy Graziadei, the band could only work until five in the morning, as Tiers' wife would not tolerate noise after that time. Before the band went into the studio, they had only finished four or five songs. The rest was done in the studio because Biohazard wanted to go on tour a short time later in the opening act for The Exploited .

The song Wrong Side of the Tracks appeared on the previous album and was re-recorded for Urban Discipline . We're Only Gonna Die (From Our Own Arrogance) is a cover version of the song of the same name by the punk band Bad Religion . The musicians were not satisfied with Tiers' first mix of the album, so Urban Discipline was mixed again by Steve Ett. According to Graziadei, the entire production cost $ 12,000 . For the songs Punishment and Shades of Gray were music videos rotated.

background

Track list
  1. Chamber Spins Three - 3:41
  2. Punishment - 4:44
  3. Shades of Gray - 3:27
  4. Business - 4:04
  5. Black and White and Red All Over - 4:04
  6. Man With a Promise - 3:20
  7. Disease - 4:01
  8. Urban Discipline - 5:34
  9. Loss - 5:20
  10. Wrong Side of the Tracks - 3:37
  11. Mistaken Identity - 4:32
  12. We're Only Gonna Die
    (From Our Own Arrogance)
    - 2:19
  13. Tears of Blood - 4:52
  14. Hold My Own - 2:51

Chamber Spins Three is an obituary for a shot drug dealer . According to the lyrics, the band would spit on his grave for the lives the dealer destroyed and the people he mourned. The intro of the song Punishment was taken from the movie The Punisher . The songs Business and Man With a Promise are about the band's experiences with their old record label.

The band felt ripped off by the owner of Maze Records and had to invest a lot of time and money to get out of the contract. After a concert, the Maze owner would have approached the band to give the musicians a friendly welcome. Black and White and Red All Over refers to the accusations of racism that were brought against the band because of the song Justified Violence from the debut album.

"I'm a Jew , I would have to be a pretty idiot if I were a Nazi regardless , right?"

- Evan Seinfeld

The theme song Urban Discipline is an autobiographical song for all four band members, as it tells about education through life on the street. Billy Graziadei complained in an interview that many people misunderstand the band's lyrics because they would just skim the lyrics. Loss would be an important song for Evan Seinfeld as it is about the loss of many friends and acquaintances who either died of an overdose , were shot senselessly, committed suicide, or lost their parents to alcohol .

Hold My Own can be heard as a hidden track on the album. The song originally appeared on the debut album and was re-recorded as there would have been some free play time. In 2000 a remastered version of the album was released, which contained demo versions of the songs Business , Urban Discipline , Loss and Black and White and Red All Over as bonus .

reception

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Urban Discipline
  DE 70 08/02/1993 (9 weeks)

Reviews

For Frank Albrecht from the German magazine Rock Hard , Urban Discipline offers "brutal, powerful and honest music from the street, skillfully done, sometimes with polyphonic singing and a good portion of anger". Among the 13 compositions there was “not a single failure” and the texts were “courageous and topical”. Albrecht awarded 9.5 out of ten points.

meaning

Urban Discipline reached number 70 in the German album charts and was Biohazard's first chart position in their career. Kieran McCarthy of Allmusic called Urban Discipline as "an original Hardcore Metal - Rap album that half a decade appeared in the late 1990s before the rap-rock explosion." The album was "defiant and unmistakable and a harbinger of bands like Korn , Limp Bizkit and the Deftones ". The album was sold more than a million times worldwide. Urban Discipline took 277th place in the book Best of Rock & Metal by the German magazine Rock Hard, which lists the 500 strongest metal and hard rock albums of all time according to the Rock Hard editors .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Marcus Schleutermann: The Tables Are Turned! . In: Rock Hard , December 1992, p. 20
  2. a b laut.de: Laut.de biography: Biohazard
  3. a b Buffo Schnädelbach: "Classic Albums: Biohazard - Urban Discipline". In: Rock Hard, March 2009, page 140
  4. officialcharts.de: Biohazard in the German album charts
  5. Frank Albrecht: Bioohazard: Urban Discipline. Rock Hard, accessed September 9, 2018 .
  6. allmusic.com: Biohazard - Urban Discipline review
  7. Rock Hard (Ed.): Best of Rock & Metal - The 500 strongest discs of all time . Heel Verlag , Königswinter 2005, ISBN 3-89880-517-4 , p. 103 .