Metal Hammer<\/a>, 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. <\/p>\n“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.” <\/p>\n
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, \u2018My fans want to see me make movies, so if you would be so kind\u2026'” <\/p>\n
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.” <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
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