Skinny Puppy – hanDover
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Label: Synthetic Symphony
Website: skinnypuppy.com

Review by: Tiffany Angeney

Skinny Puppy, the name beats in the heart of the Industrial Music scene. Skinny Puppy was founded in 1982 as a mere side project of the master of music that is cEvin Key. Add in the unsettling vocals of Nivek Ogre and the unrelenting genius of Dwayne Goettel and you arguably have the most influential Industrial bands of this century. Raw, Organic and hard hitting, Skinny Puppy became the sound many associate with the industrial genre. The complex layers of sound fused with Nivek’s mind numbing vocals, and stimulating lyrics in open monologue form fed the music. With the loss of Dwayne in the mid 90′s and Ogre’s leaving the band, Skinny Puppy was put on hold. In 2004 “The Greater Wrong Of The Right” was released and it was clear the Skinny Puppy we knew had changed forever. Gone was the signature vocals and raw power we once knew. Ogre’s vocals were clean, the samples fewer and the sound modern. Production value was clearly given thought, yet somehow it wasn’t the same. “Mythmaker” was soon to follow with its simplified sound and it fared well on the charts. Four long years later and we are finally seeing the release of the long awaited hanDover. (more…)