Pizza (EP)

Infobox Album |
Name = Pizza EP
Type = EP
Artist = HORSE the band


Released = September 5, 2006
Genre = Metalcore
Nintendocore
Length = 20:15
Label = Koch Records
Producer = Dan Koch
Reviews =
*RebelPunk Rating|5|5 [http://rebelpunk.net/content/review.php?id=34 link]
Last album = "The Mechanical Hand" (2005)
This album = "Pizza (EP)" (2006)
Next album = "A Natural Death" (2007)

"Pizza" is an EP by the band HORSE the band on Koch Entertainment, released September 5, 2006.

According to the band's MySpace blog, HORSE the band ended their time on "The Stampeding Machines Tour", about halfway through in order to record this EP. One of their bulletins states:

:Scum: "We left that tour because we ate really, really, really good pizza in Lou Malnati's in Chicago with Dave's grandparents. The pizza was such that we were inspired by God to write music of the kind not heard in this world since Mozart was fed his first currywurst. A copy of Nietzsche's 'The Gay Science' was onhand and for 2 days we struggled with the question posed in 'The Greatest Weight' passage, which follows. In essence, it asks the reader to examine their every action if they had to repeat their lives exactly for all eternity, begging the question in each and every thing, 'Do you desire this once more, and innumerable times more?'

:We couldn't decide if we should stay in Chicago and keep eating pizza for the rest of our lives. But after two days of rigorous theory, we realized we had to write divine music about the pizza. We decided to drive home immediately and write and record a 5-song EP called "Pizza" before Sounds of the Underground and Warped Tour started. God was there."

Track listing

# "Anti-Pizza" – 4:34
# "Crippled by Pizza (Pizzarrhea in the Pizzeria)" – 3:09
# "Werepizza" – 6:33
# "Pizza Nif" – 3:31
# "T.M.N.T." – 2:28

Credits

Mastered by Tom Baker at Precission Mastering Packaging design by [http://levinmedia.com/ Levinmedia.com]

Trivia

*While playing a 2007 show in Chicago, singer Nathan Winneke blamed the crowd (and the city itself) for being responsible for the EP, in a mockingly unaffectionate tone. The band proceeded to play the track 'Anti-Pizza'.
*The CD looks like a pizza, and the interior of the CD case appears to have cheese stuck to areas of it.
*On the back the ingredients list includes fan's names who sent pizza to the band while they recorded the EP. The names are Keith Bevill, Nevin Bazi, Mark Stice, Andrew Young, and Justin Pearson.
*Of those names, Keith Bevill was listed twice, and Nevin Bazi has been confirmed by the fan on the band's official forums as misspelled. The correct spelling should be Neniv Bazi.
*Due to confusion and talk on the internet, Justin Pearson of The Locust was mistakenly thought to have contributed to the disc because of a fan of the same name being credited on the disc for sending pizza to the band during the recording process.
*550 copies of Pizza were pressed in the 10" vinyl format, sold in cardboard pizza boxes, on the band's label, LIF Records. It is currently sold out and out of print.