l’ve listened to a lot of different music over the years, and now I can expand my horizons consi­derably with this, let’s just say, distinctive EP re­lease by Hog Meets Frog from Austria. A crazy mix of funk metal, prog metal, and quirky chords and sudden tempo changes, with a heck of a lot of virtuosity from all 3 members of the band. Then you’ve got Primus on steroids, with a dash of Tool and Frank Zappa thrown in. lt sounds like a wild ride, and it’s certainly not something that’s easily accessible on first listen. But it’s so technically wildly executed that you keep finding more and more details in all the mess, because it’s confusing to listen to, but in an exciting way. Six tracks with such mundane titles as „Apes Don’t Smoke Cigars – Just Pipes“ and „Ziggy the Unipigcorn“ may say a little about the weird uni­verse we are moving in. But there should be no doubt that these gentlemen can play and chal­lenge you as a listener, and I can only encoura­ge you to give it a listen if you are into anything but mainstream metal.
(Momme)

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We don’t know the history of Hog Meet Frog, but it seems that the band has been around since at least 2003, when they released a first CD-R EP, a second three years later, an album in 2013, and finally this five-song set titled humANIMALi­zation. Are you a Primus fan, but the band no longer regularly offers enough albums to satiate you? Then try Hog Meets Frog, which draws more than its fair share of inspiration from Primus, from the almost constantly slapping bass to the nasal vocals (which Les Claypool eventually borrowed from the Residents) to the guitar dissonances. In short, Hog Meets Frog sucks too. lf you’ve always found Primus a bit too wacky, but like funk metal in general, you might like this Austrian trio, which offers an equally wacky, if slightly more accessible versi­on of the San Franciscans‘ music, thanks largely to a guitar that relies much more on tat, lush riffs, and an instantly communicable, even festi­ve, energy.
(Olivier Drago)

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To call the proposal of the three HOG MEETS FROG bizarre and unconventional is reductive at best:
the Austrian band is no stranger to daring expe­rimentation of this kind, but what they offer bet­ween the grooves of their new work humANIMA­Lization seems to have set new, improbable standards. The five pieces are a compendium of insane artistic gimmicks, assembled by paying homage to the most disparate musical genres in the absence of any reference model. The prota­gonists are quirky animals grappling with impro­bable situations, and following them and their vi­cissitudes becomes an opportunity to go in search of quotations, knockout hits and crazy passages. They are reminiscent, due propor­tions established, of the sonic anarchy of certain Primus from which Hogs Meets Frag have certainly bor­rowed the taste for The contamination and the most total lack of linearity in the development of individual songs. 1 which, starting from Of Snakes ’n‘ Moles ’n‘ Bulls ’n‘ Dough up to Ziggy The Unipigcorn unleash a mixture of humor and genius: while fantasy is left anarchically free to give voice anarchically free to give voice and life to kalei­doscopic images in a colorful palette of notes that chase each other in a frenzied and bombas­tic manner.

The Austrian band Hog Meets Frog releases its third E.P., which consists of five tracks. The first single „Peeping-Bear’s Exegesis Of Not Peeping“ is an experimental metal that reminds Infectious Grooves with its funky bass and Mr. Bungle’s finest hours with its vocals. The mixture of „old school“ funk, prog and metal is very entertaining, not to say bizarre. In the lyrics you can follow the weird stories of many fascinating animals, including a bigoted monkey, an insecure pig, a voyeuristic bear and a greedy bull.
In a class of its own!
Noteworthy is the very „arty“ cover by Attila Zsolt Tornyi.
The band kindly says: „It’s always a nice compliment when people tell us they had fun listening to our music!“ (Julien Hamann)