Formed in Vancouver in 1982 by Nivek Ogre (Kevin Ogilvie) and cEvin Key (Kevin Crompton), Skinny Puppy are a Canadian industrial/electro‑industrial group noted for confrontational performances, dense sampling and political themes. Dwayne Goettel was a key member until his death in 1995.

Skinny Puppy are widely cited as influential in the development of industrial and electro‑industrial music. Key members named in reviews and public records include Nivek Ogre, cEvin Key and Dwayne Goettel. Several DeBaser reviews highlight anti‑vivisection and animal‑rights themes and note heavy drug use affecting late‑80s/90s recordings.

DeBaser reviews present Skinny Puppy as a seminal Canadian industrial/electro‑industrial group. Reviewers consistently praise late‑80s/early‑90s albums (Rabies, Last Rights, Too Dark Park) and highlight bleak, confrontational themes. The writing emphasizes atmosphere, experimentation, and political/ethical engagement.

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 A destabilizing nightmare of infected electronics, contaminated by sound perversions inclined to total nihilism, the wildest and most bizarre experiments that know no boundaries, but are constantly projected towards a raw, pessimistic, and sick vision of a reality represented as a terminally ill patient spending their last hours of life in anguish, delirium, spasms, and convulsions, a cry of alarm against the total indifference of people who do not notice the unhealthy sores that, like chasms, swallow the world day by day.

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 Born in 1982 in Vancouver by the hands of Ogre (in real life Kevin Ogilvie) and drummer cEvin Key (Key Kevin William Crompton), Skinny Puppy quickly demonstrated, through their early works, a clear delineation of the traits of their musical aesthetic, distancing themselves from the chaotic noise of Throbbing Gristle in favor of a more conventional use of the instruments made available by electronics: synthesizers, drum machines, keyboards, and samplers soon became the main interlocutors of the Canadians' industrial nightmare.

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 Historic album, don't miss it.

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