The band blended a mixture of punk, ska and many other influences, including traditional African music to create an original sound, sometimes referred to as Porkrock.
They have also had a profound impact on South African alternative music influencing bands from The Rudimentals, Half Price to Fokofpolisiekar.
Apparently Poker wanted to, "...start a band that sings about death and Satan" and Skeeto wasn't really a big fan of ska or punk.
Way Cool was an independent label started by an old punk rocker turned advertising executive, Hennie La Grange.
He started the label with the sole purpose of recording the Hogs, but later went on to sign, among others, Fungy gone West, Pothole and 7th Breed.
At this stage the band was now 3 quarters of the old Leviathan members and while still keeping to the plan of borrowing from various genres, the Hogs started going more in the direction of punk and ska.
The punk scene at the time was Hog Hoggidy Hog and a group of about 4 or 5 friends, but the band started holding 'punk nights' at Arties Underground, where the scene started to grow and eventually a few more bands appeared too such as Fungy gone West and Diminished Return (The original incarnation of 3 Chord Theory).
Popstar explosion was the first local punk song ever to be played on national radio and the popularity of the band and the scene as a whole increased even more.
This was the first SA punk album to be released on CD and the 2nd single, 'Jim' reached the top ten on the national rock charts.
They were in the writing process for the next album, but the newer material tended to be more experimental (sources say that this was mostly due to the band's excessive drug and alcohol abuse at the time) and most of it never ever made it out of the practice room.
This was when Hogs first met up with the two other main pioneers of the SA scene, Leek & The Bouncing Uptones from Pretoria and Fuzigish from Joburg.
The Hogs were supposed to play at 18:00 on the Friday night, however, dummer Mybergie had got arrested on the way to the festival for possession of illegal substances.
A lot of the friendships and bonds made in these early days set the foundations for the infrastructure of the SA scene on a national level and paved the way for a touring circuit to be used much more frequently.
A young 17-year-old Ross McDonald was brought in to replace Lips, but the band found that the trombone sound wasn't cutting through the punk rock quite like the trumpet did.
In late 2001 the Hogs played a small intimate show at the Bio Cafe at CityVarsity in Cape Town.
It was at this point that the Hogs, evidently wanting to take the focus off the poor sound, decided to walk out onto stage completely naked.
The Hogs' penchant for excess and debauchery was renowned, but Mybergie's alcohol and Crack cocaine addictions started affecting the band a little too much.
The band admits to having to secretly drug Mybergie with sleeping pills while on tour in order to keep him under control.
This was released on the Naked EP along with all the music videos off Driving Over Miss Davie and a couple of live tracks.
It's in this documentary that George Bacon can be seen wearing a cast on his foot after breaking some bones kicking over a monitor in frustration at a poorly organised festival in Paarl, Western Cape.
Earlier in 2005, Lee Thompson and Ross McDonald co-produced the debut album of another up and coming Cape Town ska band called Captain Stu.
The tour must have been quite excessive because trombonist, Ross McDonald, upon landing at Cape Town airport, was taken directly to rehab for alcohol and substance abuse.
Lips recalls his first meeting DV, "We were at a festival and George pointed out the person he was considering to replace Mike on drums.
He was apparently stabbed outside of a 7 Eleven in his home suburb of Southfield while buying cigarettes, but the rest of the details remain unclear.
The Hogs followed this up with another European tour in 2011 hitting the festival circuit in Slovenia sharing the stage with bands like Nofx, Bad Religion, Strung Out, The Toasters, The Real McKenzies, The Bouncing Souls, Total Chaos, Talco and more.
The Hogs toured Europe once again in 2012 and have had well-received shows in Germany, Austria, Slovenia, England, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Netherlands.
According to the band's Facebook page, they are currently working on a new album and hope to support that up with a South African as well as a European tour.