Music videos were made for the album's four singles: "Tomorrow", "Pure Massacre", "Israel's Son", and "Shade".

"[1] Prior to recording Frogstomp, Silverchair were previously named Innocent Criminals and consisted of drummer Ben Gillies and vocalist and guitarist Daniel Johns, with bassist Chris Joannou joining shortly after the band formed in 1992.

[3] Demo versions of the songs "Acid Rain", "Cicada", "Pure Massacre", and "Tomorrow" were recorded by the band at Platinum Sound Studios in early 1994.

Three months after the release of the EP, the band began recording their debut album, Frogstomp, during which "Cicada", "Pure Massacre", and "Tomorrow" were re-recorded.

The recording sessions for the album began in late December 1994 and ended in mid-January 1995 at Festival Studios in Pyrmont, New South Wales.

[8] In January 1996, when asked why the album's name is Frogstomp, Johns said: I was at a guy from our record company's house one night and I was looking through his CDs because he's got a really good collection.

[9] The LP version of the album was sold on a green vinyl with "Blind", from the Tomorrow EP, as a bonus track and limited to 3,000 copies worldwide.

[10] The standard edition of the 20th Anniversary remaster includes a second CD titled "Rarities" with Silverchair's Tomorrow EP, a vocal version of the song "Madman" (from the single "Shade"), and audio of a concert from June 1995 at the Cambridge Hotel in Newcastle, Australia.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote:For their age [15 years old], their instrumental capabilities are quite impressive, as the guitars and vocals growl with the force of rockers in their early twenties.

[11] Chuck Eddy of Entertainment Weekly wrote in July 1995:the songs on Frogstomp almost all start out like dreary Metallica ballads and build toward gloomy, by-the-numbers grunge".

[14] David Fricke of Rolling Stone, on the other hand, wrote: "Truly shameless wanna-be's [sic] like Bush should be so lucky to have the hard smarts that Silverchair – particularly the band's main writers, singer-guitarist Daniel Johns and drummer Ben Gillies – show on such Frogstomp-ers as ‘Pure Massacre‘ and ‘Israel's Son‘.

[21] In 1995, ABC Australia wrote that Silverchair provided:a thrilling synthesis of rage, confusion and pain, and as a distillation of teen angst, you couldn't get a purer generational timestamp than Frogstomp.

[22]In June 2015, Colm Browne of Soundscape Magazine said the lyrics on Frogstomp "show intelligence" and "a want to question the world, express feelings, get rid of negatives and be positive", saying the album "was and still is mightily impressive.

There’s a lot to love, and much of it is heavy: the furious double-time onslaughts of “Israel’s Son“ and “Faultline“, the pop-punk “Findaway“ and the thrash-y instrumental “Madman“.

[27] In September 2020, the publication said the album had a "hard-edged sound with angsty (yet all too relatable) lyricism" and described Frogstomp as "one of the most definitive grunge records of its era.