Humanimal was a musical project featuring

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(Great King Rat) and

Marcel Jacob Marcel Karl Jacob (30 January 1964 – 21 July 2009), professionally known as Marcel Jacob, was a Swedish musician, best known as the founder, chief songwriter, and bassist of the hard rock band Talisman. For a brief period, he also played in th ...

(

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). The band's name idea come from Marcel Jacob who used the following quote: "...we might be human but in the end, we still being animals". The main idea was to have a hard rock record with three singers:

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(Great King Rat,

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, Michael Schenker Group),

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(Talisman, ex-

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) and

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, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen). After some research and testing, they decided to go with one singer, because they also thought it would be easier for the listeners if they only used one, and well they chose Jeff Scott Soto. After that, again Norgren and Jacob were thinking about who could be the best drummer that they should use for that kind of musical project and they chose Tomas Broman (Great King Rat, Electric Boys, Amaze Me,

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, Glenn Hughes). They released their only record on January 28, 2002 in USA and February 1 in Europe, but by popular demand the record label made a second edition to reach at least three European countries. Also on June 17, 2002, the record label released a 3-track EP called "Find My Way Home". In May the band played a couple of shows to support it. After some personal, professional and legal problems, Pontus and Marcel had a falling-out and Pontus was out both of

and Humanimal, then on October 19 of that year, Humanimal split. On June 14, 2019, the "new" record label Sun Hill Production re-released the complete Humanimal album to all digital platforms as well on CD.

Discography

* 2002 - ''Humanimal'' * 2002 - ''Find My Way Home'' EP * 2019 - ''Humanimal'' complete version in digipak packaging.

Members

- Bass *

- Vocals *

- Guitars *Tomas Broman - Drums *Jesse Nylander - Organ {{DEFAULTSORT:Humanimal (Band) Swedish hard rock musical groups