Rabies

Performer: Skinny Puppy
Artist: Alain Jourgensen
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Skinny Puppy: Cevin Key, N. Ogre, Rudolf Goettel. Additional personnel: Alain Jourgensen (vocals, guitar); Rave, Cyan (background vocals). Producers: David Oglivie, Alien Jourgensen, Cevin Key. Engineers: David Oglivie, Alien Jourgensen, Cevin Key. Recorded at Mushroom Studios, Vancouver, Canada. RABIES, Skinny Puppy's 1989 release, is the band's most commercially successful album. This is due in large part to the production of the Canadian trio's fifth full-length album, handled by Ministry helmsman and Wax Trax! Records figurehead, Al Jourgenson. He adds plenty of electro-skronk guitar to the formerly pristine electronic proceedings. RABIES was not much noisier than earlier albums like 1987's CLEANSE FOLD AND MANIPULATE, but Jourgenson's taste for high-decibel, high-pitched squalls make it sound superficially different. "Tin Omen" and "Fascist Jock Itch" particularly benefit from Jourgenson's inimitable input. Elsewhere, the more traditional-sounding "Worlock" and the sample overload "Hexonxonx" sound much more like the Skinny Puppy of albums past, but it's the atmospheric and almost terrifying instrumental "Spahn Dirge" that particularly stands out. This lengthy and effective noise piece is the best work of Skinny Puppy's career.

Alternative Press (11/99, p.23) - Included in AP's 10 Essential Industrial-Rock Albums - "...unflinchingly wields visceral six-string sternum-kicks to the atmospheric electronics of Cevin Key and Dwayne Goettel..."

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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