Bites

Performer: Skinny Puppy
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Skinny Puppy's full-length follow-up to REMISSION, BITES finds industrial music's staunch anti-vivisectionists ripping the guts out of the studio and their equipment. The challenging, brave, and controversial horror-show music they created has yet to be eclipsed. Nivek Ogre snarls, gnarls, and chews his way through the black sequencer ballet of "Assimilate." As he approaches "Dead Lines," Ogre gets up close and personal with microprocessors gone amok and a battalion of synth basslines. Ogre lets us know, in no uncertain terms, that there may not be a "Tomorrow" if it's wrapped in quacking, de-feathered electronics programmed from a computer's chirping death throes. Main electronics man Cevin Key taps into a frightening universe of disturbing music and motion, capturing Ogre's lyrics in a surreal, almost Dali-esque portrait of Lovecraftian proportions. In all manners of the word, BITES is awesome.

Vancouver's Skinny Puppy took the somewhat scattershot rage of industrial pioneers like Throbbing Gristle and gave it focus--exploring the endless catalogue of evils of which mankind is capable, all in lyrically graphic detail. Though not as commercially successful as the like-minded if somewhat more rock-oriented Ministry, Skinny Puppy never wavered from their extreme vision. After producing their savage brand of sonic assault for nearly a decade, the band disbanded in 1995 after the heroin overdose death of keyboardist Dwayne Goettel, but reformed in 2000. Skinny Puppy's THE GREATER WRONG OF THE RIGHT album/tour drew the ire of Republicans during the 2004 election for its musical disparagement of President George W. Bush.

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