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Skinny Puppy discography

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Skinny Puppy discography
Studio albums12
EPs2
Live albums4
Compilation albums11
Singles14
Video albums3
Music videos10

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]

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

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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.

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]

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

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]
"—" denotes a title that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

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

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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