The Canadian

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band Skinny Puppy has released twelve studio albums and two extended plays along with a number of live albums, compilations, and singles. The group formed in 1982 and released its debut EP, '' Back & Forth'', in 1984. Later that year, Skinny Puppy was picked up by

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and released another EP, '' Remission'', in December 1984. The band's first studio album, 1985's ''

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'', was its last with the original lineup of vocalist

Nivek Ogre Kevin Graham Ogilvie (born December 5, 1962), known professionally as Nivek Ogre, is a Canadian musician, performance artist and actor, best known for his work with the industrial music group Skinny Puppy, which he co-founded with cEvin Key. Sin ...

and producer / multi-instrumentalist

cEvin Key Kevin William Crompton (born February 13, 1961), known professionally as cEvin Key, is a Canadian musician, songwriter, producer, and composer. He is best known as a member of the industrial music group Skinny Puppy, which he co-founded in 1982 wi ...

;

Dwayne Goettel Dwayne Rudolph Goettel (February 1, 1964August 23, 1995) was a Canadian electronic musician, best known for his work in the industrial music group Skinny Puppy. Starting his career playing for a variety of acts around Edmonton, he joined Skinny P ...

joined in 1986, and the band released its next two albums, '' Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse'' and '' Cleanse Fold and Manipulate'', in 1986 and 1987 respectively. '' VIVIsectVI'' (1988), Skinny Puppy's fourth album, was one of the band's most well-received efforts, placing on '' Melody Maker's'' best of 1988 list and garnering several retrospective accolades. Bradley Torreano of

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hailed the album as a masterpiece, and Jim Harper of the same publication saw ''VIVIsectVI'' as the beginning of electro-industrial music. ''

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'' followed ''VIVIsectVI'' in 1989 and marked the band experimenting with industrial metal thanks to the influence of

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frontman

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. Key and Goettel expressed dissatisfaction with the album, and Skinny Puppy quickly returned to the studio for its sixth album, 1990's '' Too Dark Park''. ''Too Dark Park'' was another critical highlight of the band's career, and Key described it as a return to form for Skinny Puppy. In 1992, with the band on the brink of dissolution due to Ogre's worsening drug addiction, '' Last Rights'' was released and saw the band pushing further into extreme

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territory. The making of Skinny Puppy's next and eighth album, '' The Process'' (which would eventually be released in 1996), was fraught with difficulties both internal and external; the band shifted to a new record label with a new recording studio and new producers, Ogre left, Goettel died of a heroin overdose, and the band ultimately dissolved with the album unfinished. Following dissolution, Skinny Puppy released several compilations and a live improvisation album titled '' Puppy Gristle'' (which had been recorded in 1993). Ogre and Key reunited in 2000 and a year later released a live album documenting Skinny Puppy's revival. The band returned to the studio and released ''

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'' in 2004, '' Mythmaker'' in 2007, ''

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'' in 2011, and ''

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'' in 2013.

Albums

Studio albums

Extended plays

Compilation albums

Live albums

Other releases

Singles

References

External links

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