When people talk about crossover figures in heavy music, they usually mean metal-to-hip-hop or hardcore-to-mainstream. They don’t usually mean hardcore-to-adult-film. But that’s exactly the path singer/bassist and co-founder of Biohazard, Evan Seinfeld, took in the 2000s, and he’s unusually frank about why.
He spelled it out in a recent interview with Metal Hammer, explaining it was a business decision as much as anything. He happened to be clear-eyed about the economics of a pre-streaming adult industry that still ran on sales.
“I made more money in the first three years of the porn business than I made in 20 years of playing in Biohazard. At the time, there was no Pornhub. People were paying for it, and sex is the most primal instinct we have.”
According to Seinfeld, the whole thing didn’t start as some master plan to shock the hardcore scene. “It was entirely unintentional because I met my second wife, Tera Patrick, who was a huge star, and we fell in love. She said, ‘My fans want to see me make movies, so if you would be so kind…'”
He added more context right away: “The truth is, I’ve always been kind of an exhibitionist, and it was an interesting experience. I did that for many years and I enjoyed it, but I took it very seriously.”
Seinfeld was on-screen for nearly a decade, from meeting Patrick in 2001 through to 2009, the year they divorced. Even after he stopped performing, he didn’t walk away from the model-first approach that adult entertainment was moving toward. He launched the (now-defunct) IsMyGirl platform so performers could create and sell their own content directly to fans. So basically OnlyFans before OnlyFans.
It’s also worth remembering where Seinfeld was coming from. He co-founded Biohazard in 1987, helped drive that rap/hardcore/NYC grit fusion that made them a name, and stayed until 2011, when he stepped away for personal reasons. The band itself folded in 2016 and then came back in 2022 with him back in the ranks.
On October 17, they dropped Divided We Fall, their first full-length since Born In Defiance in 2012. That makes his whole detour look a lot less like “leaving music for porn” and a lot more like “I’m going to make another revenue stream while the industry figures itself out.”
And if some corners of the scene still don’t know what to make of it? That’s fine. As he said himself: “They don’t have to look at it.”
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