Music > Skinny Puppy Submitted by: fatalist On: 2001-08-01 Genre: industrial electronic experimental Unofficial Site: Skinny Puppy Central Best songs: Assimilate Testure Worlock Smothered Hope Assimilate Hardset Head, Death Dig It Spasmolytic Killing Game Description, by fatalist An absolute legend of the Industrial scene, Skinny Puppy kept re-inventing the scene over and over again. The Canadian trio made many releases on the Nettwerk label, releases that some consider are so dark that they can only be listened to on fine sunny days when the birds are singing! Raw electronics and paranoid vocals accompany spastic beats, rhythms and enjoyable theatrical over-the-top live shows. They inspired so many bands that the scene wouldn't be as it is today! Although they split in 1995 due to the death of keyboardist D. Goettel, rumour has it that Skinny Puppy live shows are around the corner.

Albums: Ain't It Dead Yet [Live] Music type: industrial electronic [ Submit a comment about this album | Buy ] Bites Music type: industrial electronic Best track on the album: Assimilate You have to log in before you can vote! See best track results [ Submit a comment about this album | Buy ] Last Rights Music type: industrial Best track on the album: Killing Game You have to log in before you can vote! See best track results Featured comment (1/1) by benedict on 2003-06-21 Made at a time when they were about to split, Last Rights reveals Skinny Puppy at their peak. So cluttered with samples & noise that it can seem inpenetrable upon first listen. If you dig deep enough, however, you'll find the fragile beauty hidden beneath. Despite the overall density of the record, Last Rights spawned the hit Killing Game. A true masterpiece & at the time, a fitting send off. [ Submit a comment about this album | Buy ] Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse Music type: industrial Best track on the album: Dig It You have to log in before you can vote! See best track results [ Submit a comment about this album | Buy ] Rabies Music type: industrial Best track on the album: Worlock You have to log in before you can vote! See best track results Featured comment (1/1) by fross on 2002-03-20 Though Puppy's output was varied and concistently good, this may be their finest hour. A great amalgam of tortured tracks, with Ohgr's lyrics really coming into themselves. A variety of tracks from the heavy guitar-sample-laden Tin Omen to the epic Worlock to the ambient pseudo-tracks winding between the others. Great album. get this and Too Dark Park. [ Submit a comment about this album | Buy ] Remission Music type: industrial electronic Best track on the album: Smothered Hope You have to log in before you can vote! See best track results [ Submit a comment about this album | Buy ] Singles Collection Music type: industrial Best track on the album: Assimilate You have to log in before you can vote! See best track results Sorry, you have to log in first. The Process Music type: industrial Best track on the album: Hardset Head, Death You have to log in before you can vote! See best track results Featured comment (1/2) by fatalist on 2002-03-16 Puppy's last and what seems, most polished and realized album of their career. More guitar driven and focused than anything the band had done before, The Process is a fitting closure to the band and appropriate testimony to the late Dwayne R. Goettel, who passed away during the writing of the record. It opens with the crushingly sample-ridden intro of 'Jahya' before exploding in your face with 'Death', an industrial metal onslaught ripe with aggression and angst. Ogre's lyrics are among the best he's written and cEvin Key's music is as harsh and inventive as ever. 'Candle' is a more laid back acoustic approach to let you gain your breath before 'Hardset Head' rips through the airwaves with it's scathing guitar work and pounding dance beats. Other highlights would have to include 'Cult' full of passion and atmosphere, the title track itself and 'Morter' before closing with the outro 'Cellar Heat', which gives the sound of complete chaos, machinery overloading and keyboards winding down before the plug is pulled on the whole outfit. This quite simply is the biblical finish to the troubled existence of perhaps the ultimate Industrial band, and maybe the greatest Industrial Metal album ever produced within the genre. [ Submit a comment about this album | Buy ] Too Dark Park Music type: industrial experimental Best track on the album: Spasmolytic You have to log in before you can vote! See best track results Featured comment (1/1) by cyberdruid on 2002-03-26 Probably best described as audio surrealism in a techno-experimental vein. This a gruesome trip through the minds of some very strange people indeed. High lights are the frightening 'Spasmolytic' and the insane 'Convulsion'. A terrifying album, yet as a whole, much more accessible than any of their previous works. Consistently high quality. 9/10 [ Submit a comment about this album | Buy ] Vivi Sect VI Music type: industrial Best track on the album: Testure You have to log in before you can vote! See best track results Featured comment (4/4) by gordon_t_goth on 2003-08-14 an incredibly advanced album for its time, considering it came out in '88 and predates both nin and ministry's first industrial doodlings. taking the form of an album long blast against vivisection and other animal rights issues, it is a dark and complex piece of work, difficult to get into yet worth the effort when you finally do work it out. particularly poigniant, given current world events, is 'vx gas attack' about the gassing of a kurdish village in the iran-iraq war, way back in the day when the international community couldn't give a sod about WMD's. otherwise, 'harsh stone white' and 'dogshit' set the mould for the next ten years of industrial music. iconic. [ Submit a comment about this album | Buy ]