• Sturgist@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    Skinny Puppy was one of the bands I was introduced to when I started forming my own opinions on music. In my opinion just about 90%+ of their discography is AAA classic industrial. Absolutely minted.
    They were essentially a duo of Kevin Crompton (cEvin Key) and Kevin Ogilvie (Nivek Oger) and the rest of the members were essentially a rotating cast with some on again off again regulars, and a fair few guest artists who contributed to a single track or several albums. Some of the “supporting” members were notable musicians/industry movers in their own right.

    • Danny Carey, drummer for Tool (“guest” musician)
    • Al Jourgensen, founder/frontman for Ministry (“guest” artist)
    • Bill Leeb, founder of Front Line Assembly and Delirium (on and off member)
    • Dave Ogilvie(no relation), engineer and musician, several projects with Trent Reznor, co-producer on Manson’s Antichrist Superstar, also worked with: Loverboy, 54-40, SNFU, Ministry, Carly Rae Jepsen, Rob Halford and Mötley Crüe. (on and off member and frequently producer for Skinny Puppy)
    • Dwayne Goettel, not a widely known artist, but incredibly talented, highly recommend looking at some of his work. Had a sad needless death. (member early days, moved on and came back a few times before his death)
    • Mike Walk, honestly have not a single clue about him, seems his contributions to Skinny Puppy is his only published works…at least his Wiki page lists the albums he’s credited on, but automatically redirects back to the Skinny Puppy page.

    Oger’s side projects are worth listening to as well, specifically ohGr(side project as well as moniker change) has 4 studio albums. The first, Welt, is 1000000% worthy of at least a single listening…even if industrial is the farthest thing from your jam. Oger also did some bits parts in film, “Funboy” in The Crown for instance.

    Everyone involved with Skinny Puppy were highly influential, and while most weren’t necessarily well known names, they had a real and deep impact on music as a whole let alone industrial.

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        3 days ago

        Skinny Puppy is easy top 3 bands. And I’m from Vancouver, so a bit of local pride in the folks from my home town that made such a big difference.

        If you’re curious, the other 2 are Dieselboy (dnb) and Underworld(massively influential UK electronic group, if I had a gun to my head I wouldn’t be able to say where any of the three actually rank.

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          3 days ago

          Skinny Puppy were a huge influence on me growing up.

          As for Underworld: Trainspotting. Born Slippy. Yes.