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Skinny Puppy discography

The Canadian electro-industrial 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.[1] Later that year, Skinny Puppy was picked up by Nettwerk and released another EP, Remission, in December 1984. The band's first studio album, 1985's Bites,[2] was its last with the original lineup of vocalist Nivek Ogre and producer / multi-instrumentalist cEvin Key; Dwayne Goettel joined in 1986,[3] and the band released its next two albums, Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse and Cleanse Fold and Manipulate, in 1986 and 1987 respectively.[1]

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Skinny Puppy discography
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Studio albums12
EPs2
Live albums4
Compilation albums11
Singles14
Video albums3
Music videos10
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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.[4][5][6] Bradley Torreano of AllMusic hailed the album as a masterpiece, and Jim Harper of the same publication saw VIVIsectVI as the beginning of electro-industrial music.[7][3] Rabies followed VIVIsectVI in 1989 and marked the band experimenting with industrial metal thanks to the influence of Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen.[8][9] Key and Goettel expressed dissatisfaction with the album,[10] 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,[3][11][12][13] and Key described it as a return to form for Skinny Puppy.[10][14][15] In 1992, with the band on the brink of dissolution due to Ogre's worsening drug addiction,[16][17] Last Rights was released and saw the band pushing further into extreme noise territory.[18][19] 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.[20] Following dissolution, Skinny Puppy released several compilations and a live improvisation album titled Puppy Gristle (which had been recorded in 1993).[21] Ogre and Key reunited in 2000 and a year later released a live album documenting Skinny Puppy's revival.[22] The band returned to the studio and released The Greater Wrong of the Right in 2004, Mythmaker in 2007, HanDover in 2011, and Weapon in 2013.[1]

Albums

Studio albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions Notes
US
[23]
US Heat
[24]
US Taste
[25]
US Indie
[26]
US Dance
[27]
CAN
[28]
SWE
[29]
GER
Alt

[30]
Bites
  • Reissued in 1993 with eight bonus tracks[31]
  • Certified gold in Canada in 1994[32]
Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
  • Released: September 5, 1986
  • Label: Nettwerk, Play It Again Sam
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
  • Released: June 25, 1987
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
55
[33]
  • The end of the last track segues into the beginning of the first track, forming a loop[34]
VIVIsectVI
  • Released: September 12, 1988
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
94
Rabies
  • Released: November 20, 1989
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
88
Too Dark Park
  • Released: October 30, 1990
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
  • Regarded by the band as a return to form after the musical departure of Rabies[14][15]
Last Rights
  • Released: March 1992
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
193 10
  • Much of the album features extended instrumental passages due to Nivek Ogre's drug addiction preventing him from producing complete vocals[37]
The Process 102 1 30 48
  • Last Skinny Puppy album to feature contributions from Goettel (died in 1995)[3]
The Greater Wrong of the Right 176 7 9 1
  • Skinny Puppy's first reunion album after dissolving in 1995[1]
Mythmaker
  • Released: January 30, 2007
  • Label: Synthetic Symphony
  • Format: CD, LP
200 4 12 17 5
  • Vinyl issues included three bonus tracks[38]
Handover
  • Released: October 25, 2011
  • Label: SPV GmbH
  • Format: CD
168 3 18 37 9
  • Experienced the longest recording period of any Skinny Puppy album[39]
Weapon
  • Released: May 28, 2013
  • Label: Metropolis
  • Format: CD, LP
140 2 24 21 4 60 1
  • Based on the band learning that its music had been used for torturing prisoners in Guantanamo Bay[40]
  • Originally intended to be released with a manual detailing how to use the music to torture people[41]
"—" denotes a title that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
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Extended plays

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Title EP details Notes
Back & Forth
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: self-released
  • Format: cassette
Remission
  • Released: December 1984
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
  • Reissued in 1985 and 1993 with five bonus tracks, retroactively expanding it to the length of a studio album[43]
  • Certified gold in Canada in 2000[44]
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Compilation albums

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Title Album details Notes
Bites and Remission
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: CD
  • Mixes the track listings of various Remission and Bites issues and substitutes two songs for remixes[45]
Remission & Bites
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Play It Again Sam
  • Format: CD
  • Preserves Remission and Bites releases in their original forms[46]
Twelve Inch Anthology
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: LP, CD, cassette
Back and Forth Series Two
  • Released: October 13, 1992
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: CD
  • A remastered, expanded, and reissued version of Skinny Puppy's debut EP, Back & Forth[42]
Brap: Back and Forth Series 3 & 4
  • Released: April 30, 1996
  • Label: Nettwerk, EMI
  • Format: CD
  • First disc comprises mostly instrumental demos from 1983 and 1984 while the second comprises mostly live recordings from 1990[49][50]
  • Charted on Billboard's Top Heatseekers at 39[24]
Skinned
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Time + Space
  • Format: CD
  • Compiles many of the samples employed in Skinny Puppy's music[51]
The Singles Collect
  • Released: November 16, 1999
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: CD
  • Compiles the band's singles up to and through 1992's Last Rights alongside a few tracks that were not released individually[52]
B-Sides Collect
  • Released: November 16, 1999
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: CD
  • Compiles many of the B-sides from Skinny Puppy's singles[53]
Back and Forth 06Six
  • Compiles early (1982–85) Skinny Puppy improvisations, live recordings, and demos as well as unreleased material from The Process (1996)[54]
Back & Forth Vol7
  • Released: May 2007
  • Label: Subconscious Communications
  • Format: CD
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Live albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions Notes
US Heat
[24]
GER
Ain't It Dead Yet?
  • Recorded on May 31, 1987 at Toronto Concert Hall[56]
Doomsday (Back and Forth 5)
  • Released: August 21, 2001
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Formats: CD
15
The Greater Wrong of the Right Live
  • Released: September 27, 2005
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Formats: DVD
  • Recorded over two nights (November 9 and 11, 2004) in Montreal and Toronto[58]
  • The second disc includes a documentary on the Iraq War titled Information Warfare (directed by William Morrison) as well as archival live footage from 1988, 1990, and 1992[58]
Bootlegged, Broke and in Solvent Seas
  • Released: June 12, 2012
  • Label: Metropolis
  • Formats: CD
46 2
  • Recorded over several dates on a 2010 tour of Europe[59]
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Other releases

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Title Album details Notes
Video Collection (1984–1992)
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: VHS, DVD
Remix Dystemper
  • Released: October 20, 1998
  • Label: Nettwerk
  • Format: CD
Puppy Gristle
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Singles

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Title Year Album Notes
"Dig It" 1986 Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
"Addiction" 1987 Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
"Chainsaw" Non-album single
"Stairs and Flowers" Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
"Censor" 1988 VIVIsectVI
  • Single for the song "Dogshit", censored for marketability[62]
"Testure" 1989
"Tin Omen" Rabies
"Worlock" 1990
"Tormentor" Too Dark Park
"Spasmolytic" 1991
"Inquisition" 1992 Last Rights
"Candle" 1996 The Process
"Track 10" 2000 Last Rights
"Politikil" 2007 Mythmaker
"Salvo" 2013 Weapon
  • Track title stylized as "saLvo"[64]
  • Released ahead of Weapon as a streamed single[65]
"Illisit"
  • Track title stylized as "illisiT"[64]
  • Released as a music video on November 19, 2013[66]
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