"so i got to hear this cd before it came out, because i made it. its pretty cool. it has some real poppy stuff and some real dark stuff. a real emotional rollercoaster. its a lot of fun. i can't believe its actually real. we really pulled the rabbit out of the hat on this one, lemme tell ya."
Pizza Knife! I mean nif
Jason John Hornyak | Dallas, Tx | 05/16/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This EP is great, if im on a long road trip and getting tired I throw this bad boy on and it wakes me up! If you get a chance to see them live its one of the best shows I have been to. Whenever they play Anti-Pizza some guy dressed up like a pizza comes out and plays the triangle!"
"Horse the Band" isn't going anywhere yet
Gareth Scullion | 05/07/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I was a little late getting on this EP. It wasn't until recently that I started finding band's EPs to be worthwhile, so just little while ago I decided to pick up the Pizza EP.
When I first popped the disc in my CD player, I admit I thought to myself that Horse the Band have finally begun to get stale. Halfway through the first song, I realized how wrong I was!
Horse the Band have stayed true to their style, but this new EP is more experimental and crazier than ever. I have a feeling an EP like this will scare away those scene fans who have trouble admitting to the nerdy culture that surrounds Horse the Band, but for the rest of this this EP will not disappoint. It's only 5 songs, and about 20 minutes long, but not one song is bad. In fact, most of the songs on this EP are better than many of the songs on previous albums.
The best song of the album, I think, is forth track "Pizza NIF" for reasons other reviewers have mentioned earlier, but their cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stands as the "Cutsman" or the "Birdo" of the album. Hopefully, this album is preview of the type of music to come from Horse the Band in the future."
Cheese Pizza
Gorgatron | 10/26/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Somewhere along the line, the genius of bands like Converge and Refused got co-opted by guys with eyeliner and a Motley Crue fetish. Horse the band is basically the opposite of that. Metalcore/punk-metal with 8-bit sounding synth and tongue in cheek lyrics. Awesome. The TMNT theme song cover is the capper. While the music isn't groundbreaking, from a technical perspective, you have to remember that music is more about feeling. If you want the limits of technical playing, eventually you end up with idiots like Steve Vai (who does for metal what Kenny G does for jazz).
Sort of like the Vandals of metalcore... oh but they call themselves "Nintendo-core". Pretty fitting. Life is too short to whine about generic things, pizza is much more interesting."