When individuals discuss crossover figures in heavy music, they normally imply metal-to-hip-hop or hardcore-to-mainstream. They do not normally imply hardcore-to-adult-film. However that is precisely the trail singer/bassist and co-founder of Biohazard, Evan Seinfeld, took within the 2000s, and he is unusually frank about why.
He spelled it out in a current interview with Metal Hammer, explaining it was a enterprise choice as a lot as something. He occurred to be clear-eyed in regards to the economics of a pre-streaming grownup business that also ran on gross sales.
“I made extra money within the first three years of the porn enterprise than I made in 20 years of enjoying in Biohazard. On the time, there was no Pornhub. Folks had been paying for it, and intercourse is probably the most primal intuition now we have.”
In response to Seinfeld, the entire thing did not begin as some grasp plan to shock the hardcore scene. “It was completely unintentional as a result of I met my second spouse, Tera Patrick, who was an enormous star, and we fell in love. She mentioned, ‘My followers need to see me make motion pictures, so in case you could be so type…'”
He added extra context immediately: “The reality is, I’ve all the time been sort of an exhibitionist, and it was an fascinating expertise. I did that for a few years and I loved it, however I took it very critically.”
Seinfeld was on-screen for practically a decade, from assembly Patrick in 2001 by way of to 2009, the 12 months they divorced. Even after he stopped performing, he did not stroll away from the model-first method that grownup leisure was shifting towards. He launched the (now-defunct) IsMyGirl platform so performers might create and promote their very own content material on to followers. So mainly OnlyFans earlier than OnlyFans.
It is also value remembering the place Seinfeld was coming from. He co-founded Biohazard in 1987, helped drive that rap/hardcore/NYC grit fusion that made them a reputation, and stayed till 2011, when he stepped away for private causes. The band itself folded in 2016 after which got here again in 2022 with him again within the ranks.
On October 17, they dropped Divided We Fall, their first full-length since Born In Defiance in 2012. That makes his complete detour look loads much less like “leaving music for porn” and much more like “I will make one other income stream whereas the business figures itself out.”
And if some corners of the scene nonetheless do not know what to make of it? That is advantageous. As he mentioned himself: “They do not have to have a look at it.”
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