REISSUED with 7 Bonus Tracks
... out NOW!

...formed in the fall of '85 in a basement on the posh east side of Cincinnati, Human Zoo kicked out some jams consisting of revamped Zep and AC/DC tunes. Playing a couple of low-key house partys, the band honed their craft and assembled a handful of original material. With Bevo singing thru a guitar amp, it was quite a while till the rest could figure out what the hell he was doing/singing.
By the next summer , the fella's were becoming a good draw in the local music scene. Bevo twisted his mothers arm into fronting the cash to put the group in the studio. So.... in late June of '86 they went to Group Effort Studios and recorded their self titled E.P. for the Hospital label. They released 500 12" EP's, with cover art  by Bevo.
Only 100 of these records saw thier way into the regional outlets,  25 were sent away to distributors and 2 were sent to be reviewed... one to Gerard Cosloy (of Homestead Records) and the other to Chuck Eddy (Creem Magazine). The rest ?...were thrown to audiences over the next year or so.
Karl left for college in the fall of '86 and was replaced by many different bass players until the band settled on Steve Schmoll in Jan. of '87.
In late spring of that same year they penned another 6 tunes and headed to Ultrasuede Studio to lay them on tape. These songs were never released to the public... for good reason (until now!).
William left the band by the fall of '87 and Bevo took Dan with him to form Human Zoo II. Spring of '88, this line-up recorded a slew of tunes in Wood Studio's , but again, these recordings never made it to the public ear.
In the latter part of '90, Karl moved back to Cincinnati and the band reformed under the guise of Intercourse. They played out for the next six months or so... until William split to NYC.

Chuck Eddy listed the E.P. at 182 in his book "Stairway to Hell - the top 500 heavy metal albums of all time"


Human Zoo at their 20th year reunion show -  October 8 2005 - The Southgate House, Newport KY

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