SKINNY PUPPY Albums RANKED Best To Worst (Tier List)

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[@MetalTrenches]

There have been numerous comments calling me out about mixing up a few years for these albums. I am aware of the mistake and totally own up to it. Nobody's perfect. Also, if you DO enjoy this style of music, I would strongly suggest checking out my interview with 3Teeth (kzbin.info/www/bejne/jInWl4qoj8Zkl5Y) and this review roundup that includes Dawn Of Ashes (kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2jFlHtve8Zjf9k). Two of my favorite more recent industrial metal bands around right now.

[@distortomanipulo]

Skinny Puppy easily has a spot in my top 3 favorite bands of all time.

[@Officialrostovorphan]

I just saw them recently in Philly! It was as perfect as I had imagined it 🖤⚙️

[@garretthughes2549]

If I was to rank these I'd do it this way: S: Bites, VIVIsectVI, To Dark Park, Weapon, Remission A: Cleanse Fold And Manipulate, Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse, Last Rights B: Rabies, Mythmaker, The Process C: Handover D: The Greater Wrong of the Right I absolutely love their early 80's material. Remission and Bites are my two favorite albums of all time. Glass Houses, Last Call, Deadlines, and Sleeping Beast are just perfect. For this reason I also really enjoy Weapon and I think it's their most underrated record by fans. It's a return to their roots, and it's incredibly powerful given the band's history. I feel that TDP and VIVISectVI are defaulted to S tier. They are so immensely powerful and frightening that they deserve to be there. State Aid and Convulsion are two of the scariest songs ever written and I love them for that. Also Hospital Waste makes me think of the nightmare hospital section of Silent Hill 2 which is to this day complete nightmare fuel. Cleanse Fold and Manipulate Is my favorite of my A tier albums. I think Second Tooth and Tear Or Beat are some of their best songs. I love the first half of both Rabies and the Process, but they suffer from similar issues in my opinion. Two Time Grime and Death are my favorites from these. Mythmaker is a fine album and has some of the best electronic sounds of the genre. If I'm in the mood I'll listen from start to finish, but I sometimes find that it's a little too noisy. I would have a better opinion on HanDover if it was more accessible. I've only heard it once all the way through and it's the only album I don't own. Really not a fan of TGWotR. If I want to listen to something similar I'll listen to OhGr's Welt or Front Line Assembly's Implode. This is all just my opinion. Sorry for typing all of this out lol. Skinny Puppy's community is pretty small compared to some of their peers'. I'm 18 and there aren't many people my age that have even heard of them. Hopefully they put out an album soon and come back to the spotlight for a bit. OhGr's Tricks and Cevin's Resonance are both great albums so if they make a new album together I bet it will be great. Cheers

[@joshthefunkdoc]

Wow, someone else besides me who's really high on their earliest stuff, hell yea! We agree on Mythmaker too, though i'd prob switch Handover & TGWOTR. Last Rights is my #1 all-time, and i might bump up Rabies to A with another relisten since it's been a long time for me, but we seem to share the same braincell on a lot of this haha

[@headlessdisco730]

Very close to my list but I'd personally switch Weapon with Cleanse. Testure made me tear the eff up man..

[@uncleruckus3149]

Mind the perpetual intercourse is from 1986 not 1989

[@johnstrong3029]

Good catch. Also, Chainsaw was not originally on that album.

[@prosperoeaton8201]

I enjoyed hearing your take on Skinny Puppy! Your perspective is thoughtful and insightful. My biggest disagreement was with Last Rights, which I consider to be their best album. I do agree that it shouldn't be an introduction to the band because, as you said, it's very experimental. I'm happy that you didn't trash The Process. So many people do, and I really like it. I'd rank Cleanse, Fold, and Manipulate higher personally; it's my second favorite. I completely agree that Too Dark Park is one of their best.

[@MetalTrenches]

Yeah a lot of people seem to love Last Rights a lot more than me. Guess it's kind of like cilantro XD

[@LukeNukem82]

I got into Skinny Puppy right before The Process was released and was absolutely in love with it when I got it. Don't care what the purists would say. That album was in my discman on heavy rotation every day on my bus ride home from school. I was into industrial music, mainly anything Cleopatra records put out, but The Process changed me in ways nothing had or has since then.

[@kjmmxii123]

I got into it around the same time, I was 18 and just moved into my first place. It always makes me happy to see other people appreciate this album, it still might be my favourite along with TDP.

[@themadmattster9647]

It's WAYYYY better than a lot of the other mainstream "Industrial" Rock around at the time, way more edgy. Even more "commercial" Puppy is way more edgy than other commercial stuff

[@jeffswinderman5551]

The Process is an excellent album! Love it!

[@mettacitta2000]

What an awesome review! I love industrial but for some reason Skinny Puppy had passed me by. Then I listened to Too Dark Park. Absolutely BLEW MY MIND. PS. Subscribed!

[@MetalTrenches]

🤘🏻

[@blackwaterrust476]

Will not forget the 1st time that me and my friend friend listened to VIVIsectVI for the 1st time at a record store, we both loved the cover and thought it looked like a death metal album cover. We were both teens but once I put the cd on In my car we were never the same once we heard Dogshit😂😂😂We became huge industrial fans after listening to that record. So skinny puppy definitely played a huge role in my musical evolution.

[@MetalTrenches]

That’s awesome. I have such a deep love for this band. What’s your favorite?

[@blackwaterrust476]

@@MetalTrenches The Process, VIVISect1, Weapon, Rabies its hard choosing a favorite for Skinny Puppy they are really consistent

[@MetalTrenches]

@@blackwaterrust476 Great choices. Needs more Too Dark Park though

[@dimmufrost666]

Too Dark Park, all the way

[@MetalTrenches]

Never ever gets old. Only gets better.

[@clvrswine]

No one thinks this. It's the worst, and by far.

[@hektorlinko]

In 2022 I'm now 48 and my first cherry was Too Dark Park, then Rabies and I wasn't the same after that. Hell Yeah! Of course over the years I followed the albums and then back tracked and finally up to date in a backwards method but yeah Skinny Puppy changed me and I'm a die hard fan to this day. A+++ Thumbs Up and Shared. : )))

[@greycellgreen6539]

Smothered Hope was their first big “hit” followed by Dig It, they were the tracks that got radio play and would be played at clubs. Oh, I miss the 80’s!

[@jsebastian9547]

Last rights really is a grower. I first picked it up in 98 or 99, and I didn't fully get it until probably within the last decade. Eventually, the chaos, insanity and relentless brutality of it clicks and for me, it went from being this almost unlistenable wtf noise collage to probably my favorite album in their catalog. It's less a collection of stand alone songs as much as it's the soundtrack to a violent and deranged mental breakdown.

[@MetalTrenches]

Been listening close to 20 years now and it still just doesn’t do much for me. Respect though

[@amym2775]

I don’t know why, I loved Last Rights immediately. I love SP for their polyrhythms and walls of sound though, as well as their explorations of desolation (personal, environmental, etc.), so this album was perfection for me. So powerful, so gorgeous. Also TDP ties for me as top album.

[@ConstantBurningFire]

I first heard last rights in 92 just as I was getting into NIN and KMFDM. It was way too much for me, I thought it was bloody awful but something kept me coming back to it, and it eventually grew into being my favorite all time album. Years later, I still consider the first half of it to be an unparalleled peak of industrial music but most of the second half to be just messing around a bit - something I later came to appreciate in acts like autechre.

[@subskull33]

Thank you for sharing your rankings and thank you for uploading anything SP related! I wish there was more of this on YT! Last Rights is my favorite from the first wave of Skinny Puppy albums, but it often changes to VIVIsectVI or TDP or Cleanse Fold and Manipulate, etc (you get the idea). From the new wave of SP albums for a long time it was The Greater Wrong of the Right, but recently I gave Weapon another chance after not hearing it for a while and I have to say it's really grown on me. Definitely my favorite of the newer albums.

[@Eldeecue]

Good man putting The Process on the A-Tier. TDP and VIVIsect are certainly above it, but....I do _not_ get the folks that complain about it being "mainstream". It has guitars in it....whoopty shit.

[@awsometownnuked]

My mom got me into skinny puppy she had Rabies on vinyl and saw them a few times at a club she ran in Charlotte in the late 80s.

[@LuisFlores-tx4ee]

cool mom

[@Toybinger]

Damn, I miss real goth clubs

[@Zeljana93]

Great overview of SP discography. Thanks for this. I'm glad you didn't trash The Process, it's one of my favorite albums, esp. Cult. I don't love everything Skinny Puppy released, but Worlock was my most played song of the decade 2010-2020. Some of their songs are just so powerful and deep, even after so many years they still sound fresh. They have this interesting aesthetic, but under all the gore and slime there is so much beauty. The synths often have great melodies.

[@monicamaccardle8216]

The Process is excellent. Didn't care for it back when it came out. It's something that I grew to appreciate and love as I got older.

[@nightastheold9094]

Yeah your thoughts on handover are spot on. Nice list, I’ll have to give weapon a try again, but after mythmaker and handover I was probably in a more negative mindset towards it.

[@johnhrzn1501]

Vivisect Vi. Cleanse. Mind. Agree. Worlock is a haunting beautiful song. Testure is a classic.

[@MetalTrenches]

That synth line in Testure is PRISTINE

[@WyattsWildNature]

My top 3, Weapon, Rabies, Last Rights. Handover has some great tracks. My first was Last Rights and in 1994 it was pretty much my favorite album of all time to that point. I was finishing off highschool so at that point I was on the hunt for all back catalog and collecting FLA and did most of my collecting during the next 6 to 10 years. Wax Trax, Cleopatra, Zoth Ommog, fifth column , and other record labels.

[@dvrapant]

I’m not sure why you don’t think Last Rights is a great album. Love in Vein is an awesome opener, and Killing Game? My God it’s like a Industrial Goth masterpiece! That piano and the organ on it is so classic. I’m my opinion one of their best ever songs. My gamer tag is Mirrorsaw. It’s not for the faint hearted let’s face it but I saw that tour and it was phenomenal. It’s the album I listen to most often but I also listen to Weapon a lot as well. VivisectVI and To Dark Park are my next go to albums. All of their albums have great moments on them. I like your ranking for the most part.

[@MetalTrenches]

Sometimes an album just doesn’t click with certain people. I’ve owned it for like 20 years at this point and I still feel the same way. Some great songs, but start to finish I just don’t think it’s as strong as the others

[@MrJpm1989]

Last rites tour was off the chart. Saw them twice on that tour .

[@Eldeecue]

Last Rights is a an odd duck for me. What it does, it does very well; it's entirely unique in it's mood; it is a masterpiece. But whatever reason...I don't listen to it too terribly often. I have to be in a certain mood, I suppose.

[@MrJpm1989]

Skinny Puppy changed and saved my life.

[@davesworld7688]

Great list! I agree with many of your choices. Top tier for me: Too Dark Park, Rabies, VivisectVi Bottom tier: Handover and Mythmaker

[@tanz5389]

1. Too dark Park 2. Vivisect VI 3. Bites and Cleanse F&M

[@vsander09]

Great stuff! The best advice was when you advised folks to give TDP at least 5 listens to allow the noise to become music. Very true for new fans and pretty true for any of their albums really. Although, I personally think that album is more accessible than VIVIsectVI, which I think takes 10-15 listens to get into.... aside from the Testure 12”.

[@MetalTrenches]

Interesting. But then again I listened to VIVIsectVI later so by then I feel like it just made sense

[@bschuler6216]

So true. Too Dark Park was impenetrable to me at first, and I did not like it. But after several listens it opened up to me, and I love it. VIVIsect VI still eludes me, and I've owned it for 26 years, lol.

[@MetalTrenches]

What’s your favorite album from SP? And please if you are new here, DO consider sticking around and subscribing.

[@Kevin-uz6sv]

Good question, maybe The Process because that was my introduction but Too Dark Park and Last Rights are up there. My favorite track has always been Harsh Stone White. I saved this vid for latter when I have time to watch.

[@MetalTrenches]

@@Kevin-uz6sv Excellent choice. Hope you enjoy and stick around.

[@Kevin-uz6sv]

@@MetalTrenches I always do, even if I just lurk😘

[@MetalTrenches]

@@Kevin-uz6sv XD

[@Kevin-uz6sv]

@@MetalTrenches I watched the video and good job as always. As I said, I became a fan in 96 with The Process. I actually bought my girlfriend the album and she bought me PigFace - Notes from the Underground. We ended up trading cause I loved SP so much and she was more of a passive fan. From there I went backwards with Brap 3&4 and then Last Rights, Too Dark Park and so on. I would say I'm probably in the minority that I would put The Process in the top tier with LR, TDP and VIVIVI.🤣 Brap 3&4 will always hold a special place in my heart just cause I heard it before the original material and it sounded so damn different and raw compared to The Process or any other music in 96 for that matter. "Upon this wasted desert, ALL EYEEEES". Brap On🤘🏼

[@mycjohnson573]

I was introduced to Skinny Puppy in 1989 with Rabies. I was in the Ministry evolution of taste and this album blended well with Ministry's Land of Rape and Honey. When I read the liner nots for Rabies back then I saw it was partially produced by Alien Jourgensen (I chuckled because it was a pseudonym for Al) I enjoyed Rabies even more. I listened mostly to VIVIsectVI and Mind in heavy rotation during that time too. I lost touch with Too Dark Park and went back to listening to Skinny Puppy's catalog when they decided to reunite in 2000 for that one off concert in Europe. Last rights and The process were consistent in the SP sound but not really catchy as Too Dark Park. Their releases after The process I collected but may of listened to their entirety very rarely. Since 2023 will supposedly be their last tour (40th anniversary of the band) I'm glad to see their set list includes some material from their 2000 releases. Sounds good live. I'm going back to listen to Weapon and Mythmaker. Thank you for the review and rating their albums!

[@fergonfiction6889]

Cleanse, Fold and Manipulate is my favourite. On top of the music the horror sampling is amazing.

[@deckofcards87]

"Too Dark Park" is king, I never get tired of it. And "Bites" is a very catchy dance album...The original 9 track version I should add, not the cd mix.

[@michaelrichmond1886]

Like this ranking. Glad you like The Process, I rate this album despite some pushback from others. TDP, Cleanse Fold Manipulate and VIVIsectVI up there for me. I need to dig into the "newer era stuff" again and give it another chance.

[@koolklem7889]

I'd like to add the Brap compilation of demos and remixes. The demos are so interesting if you're a fan.

[@residue1830]

Great video and tier list. Vivisect VI is probably my favorite SP album, but The Process is definitely up there, too.

[@pelqel9893]

Mind TPI was actually released in 1986 on vinyl and cassette (when I first encountered them), and was released later (1989) on cd.

[@crimsonshadow7459]

Bites is prolly my favorite followed by greater wrong of the right

[@darreneffle4891]

Just came across this post.all i can say is they were all number one.14 CD and still listen to them all often.very impactful for me.love it!!

[@pizzarules22]

Sick vid.. But sorry dude TDP was most definitely written and recorded in Vancouver BC. One of their Mushroom Studio classics

[@Rytar]

Great video, I always thought "One Time, One Place" was one of their lighter/more upbeat songs of the era, almost post-punk with synths and "First Aid" was their hardest.

[@Videodrome1991]

I'm surprised it took two years for youtube to recommend me. I like your list, personally, I would have put Last Rights up there with TDP and VIVIsectVI. Also, I would love a video on the various SP eps, especially the Worlock and Tin Omen EPs. They were good., so good that I would replace some of the tracks on Rabies.

[@MetalTrenches]

Glad people are still enjoying this video. I kind of cringe at how sleepy my delivery was back then, but people still seem to appreciate the shared love of this amazing band.

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

I can't say I'm even that familiar with Skinny Puppy, but I suppose now I know where to start at least.

[@MetalTrenches]

That's exciting. Not for everyone, but I'm always thrilled to turn people onto new stuff. Let us know how it goes.

[@Zubatticus]

Same. First time I've even heard of them. Time to get acquainted!

[@MetalTrenches]

@@Zubatticus Yusss! That's what this channel is all about. Plenty more to discover here.

[@uncleruckus3149]

The fact that just about everyone is unfamiliar with skinny puppy bothers me

[@vsander09]

@@uncleruckus3149 agree.... completely

[@CarlMullen]

Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse was released in 1986

[@MetalTrenches]

Damn. I knew I was gonna get one of these dates wrong. Year I was born. Crazy to think.

[@CarlMullen]

@@MetalTrenches Last Rights was my first Skinny Puppy album and it convinced me to listen to more

[@MetalTrenches]

@@CarlMullen Challenging album to start with for sure.

[@MetalTrenches]

@skrapyard444 Can’t win em all 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@fungifago]

Great, GREAT tierlist for Skinny Puppy, but I must say... kinda heartbroken you didn't favorited Natures Revenge, probably my favorite on Too Dark Park

[@MetalTrenches]

Honestly every track on that album would be favorited lol

[@bschuler6216]

Grave Wisdom.is great too!

[@johnchedsey1306]

My first experience was SP was Too Dark Park and I frankly didn't get it at first. Keep in mind that I was 19, pretty much a total metal head and this "Industrial" thing was totally new to me. Later on I found Spasmolytic for $3 on CD and that completely changed how I heard them. It just clicked for me and made me able to revisit Too Dark Park to understand how amazing it was. Last Rights was the "new album" around the time I was getting into them and I can easily say I've spent so much time engrossed in the sounds on that release more than any other album of theirs. Curious if others have ever checked out the side project Hilt, which featured lighting guy Alan Nelson on vocals. "Journey To the Center Of the Bowl" is to me their best side album ever and one I probably have listened to more than any Skinny Puppy album. I just think it's that good.

[@CKT1138]

The Rabies Remaster from 2004 is the CD you'd want to track down. Lower dynamic range, but everything about it is so much better otherwise that I don't care like I usually do, it sounds great! The original mastering from 1989 is horrible as you said. Muffled and inconsistent. Also how dare you not give a heart to Nature's Revenge, that Dale Plevin fretless bass bit is so great! (Just kidding, but I do love that song) Also I agree that Last Rights doesn't quite impress as much as the hype would suggest, Mirror Saw, Inquisition, and Scrapyard are great, and the other stuff is mostly good, but I always feel that the album drags a bit.... Lust Chance is the one I really think needed to be cut, boring and goofy.

[@MetalTrenches]

Yeah it's like night and day.

[@CKT1138]

@@MetalTrenches also, The production of The Process is actually even crazier than you thought, there was drug abuse, THREE producers taking on the project, infighting, American recordings dropping them from a 3 album contract to one, floods, a huge earthquake, Ogre quitting the band entirely, and then after all of that, Dwayne dying. At the end of the album's production, it was just cEvin. Frankly I'm astonished it came out at all.

[@joshthefunkdoc]

Ooh, glad somebody did this! i'm probably an outlier among Puppy fans in preferring their earlier, more synthpop-tinged work over their first couple albums with Dwayne, and also in not quite seeing VIVIsectVI as GOAT material. My fav track from VIVIsect is actually Hospital Waste, if you can believe that lol Imagine you might be a bit of an outlier on The Process & to a lesser extent Rabies, though maybe there's been a reevaluation in more recent years i missed. Rabies does have two of their top 10 all-time songs imo so could see that getting more of a look. And of course you're a metal guy so you would dig those albums more, while a lot more hardcore SP fans in my experience have been anti-guitar purists...

[@petrihukka915]

When I at first listened VIVIsect VI, I hated it, well I listened some more times and now it's one of my favourite albumes ever.

[@corinelliott3596]

I personally love cleanse, fold, and manipulate. It's easily A tier for me.

[@xkidmidnightx]

As a long time skinny puppy fan, I pretty much agree with this list. I think Last Rights is always rated a little high that the process is crapped on unfairly. I mean, the same people that love Rabies will trash the process. Never made sense to me.

[@ShakaCthulu]

CF&M, VivisectVI, Rabies are the pinnacle for me. They don’t have any bad albums though, all have at least 2 bangers on them. I think their overall sound suffered some when Dave Ogilvie left though, he was a major part of the SP sound & admittedly by them the fourth member of Puppy.

[@tomworrier]

I got into SP roundabouts 1996 and TDP was the first album I heard. I find myself listening to Mind more often than not. Antagonism, 200 Years, and Dig It, is a helluva sequence! can't go wrong with anything from the DRG era. one of the best live shows I've ever seen as well

[@roadkill9141]

Hey Metal Trenches, could you help us out finding that alternative rabies album? Some of us been looking but having no luck. Thanks!

[@MetalTrenches]

I wish I still knew a place to find it. I lucked into some random guy on AIM in college that either sent it to me or a link for it. This would have been in like 2006 or so. You could hit up my email or the Discord.

[@norseczar27]

I got into skinny puppy in 2002 when I bought a used copy of the process pretty cool

[@1031Kathleen]

Mind: TPI, is brilliant and under appreciated. Nice to hear from other Skinny Puppy fans...none better! Thanks for this!

[@TheVeeOhla]

I got banned from Tower Records in Port Chester the day the Process came out lol. My friend got caught shop lifting while me and my other friends were there to buy it. I honestly didn't even give the last 2 albums a chance, their music without Dwayne felt diluted in my opinion. Your tier list is pretty on point with how I'd rate them though. Totally going to share this video

[@MetalTrenches]

lmao great story. Thanks for watching.

[@bschuler6216]

S: The Process; Cleanse, Fold & Manipulate A: Too Dark Park B: Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse & Rabies B--: Remission & Last Rites & Weapon, C+: Bites C: VIVIsect VI & The Greater Right Of The Wrong D: MythMaker & Handover

[@memoryalphamale]

Vivisect VI was the album that radicalized me. Real rock-n-roll. Enjoyed the vid. Thanks. Would love to hear your take on Foetus:) Keep on comrades.

[@ashleymartinez7704]

Cleanse Fold Manipulate my #1

[@MetalTrenches]

Classic

[@lowgradesignal9046]

I remember a guy sitting front of me in science class 1991, dude what are you listening too? Think it was Rabies, he pulls out Cleanse Fold Manipulate from his walkman, listen to this before class starts. I was sold on it with a quick listen and ordered it on CD from the Label. Awesome album

[@bschuler6216]

That's my favorite too. Along with The Process.

[@d_walsh]

Great review thanks. New sub. Been listening to my SP cds of late

[@ViViVex]

*Last Rights is the best album*

[@megazillion2946]

Last Rights is so incredible.

[@stonehorsegaming]

Torn between Last Rights and Mythmaker as my favourite Skinny Puppy album. Last Rights has a fantastic first half, gets a very experimental half way through. Mythmaker, just something about it, not sure what. Regarding HanDover, the only song that managed to stick in my head was Village. Haven't given Weapon a listen to yet.

[@coolhandchunk]

Protest from Greater Wrong of the Right was the first SP song i ever heard...so it will forever hold a special place in my ranking.... but also really enjoy Mythmaker, Too Dark Park and The Process. I have favourite songs from other albums (the choke, assimilate, worlock, smothered hope etc) but not albums as a whole.

[@TheLostBoy1974]

Remission is still the only one a listen to at 48 years old…so, my favorite.

[@AJSTITAN14]

lol this is definitely a list from a metal perspective. In our clique back in the early 90s CFM was the top tier SP record. When we wanted metal it was Ministry, Helmet, Metallica, Sepultura and NIN Broken. My top 5: CFM Rabies TDP Vivisect6 Mind For what it's worth we called it Vivisect6 because that is what was sun at the end of Testure. Can't comment on Last Rights I bought it but iirc the tracks were not coded correctly on the CD and it drove me nuts that I couldn't cue any of the tracks correctly so it mostly stayed on the shelf.

[@johnkolodziej5761]

I have been a fan of these guys since the beginning. Totally agree with you too dark park is my favorite and l never could get into last rights. Maybe a need to listen to it a few more times.

[@vsander09]

For the record, NIN were not accused of ripping off Dig It. Trent himself said that Down In It borrowed a lot from Dig It. He openly outed himself in a public interview.

[@ZillMob]

Hey we have the exact same mask! Actually mone was more greenish when I bought it. Painted it to be more white. Did you too?

[@michaelprice3607]

Bites & Remission, Cleanse Fold and Manipulate are by far my favorites.

[@headlessdisco730]

I love Bites a lot it's got this ice cold feeling to it's sound.

[@sethmatthews7394]

Last rights is their least accessible but it's like what you said about too dark park. Give it a good 5 listens.

[@vsander09]

You clearly meant most accessible. Literally had a club hit .... not just industrial clubs. Had multiple MTV videos.

[@sethmatthews7394]

@@vsander09 nope I meant exactly what I typed

[@bschuler6216]

@@vsander09 The Killing Game was a somewhat accessible single, but the rest of this album goes far out there. Maybe Inquisition was a single too. But that still leaves like a 40 minute dense sonic collage.

[@user-ue1ct6xd3b]

@@vsander09yea I never understood how people think last rights is their most inaccessible album lol love in vein, killing game, mirror saw, inquisition, riverz end and lust chance are all very accessible

[@ronanjenkins2323]

Great rankings. Some of your choices are a bit construed but I totally agree with the majority of it.

[@rundbaum]

i saw the 'mind' tour in 87', it was amazing, & one of the few 'rock' shows i've actually ever seen. he came out to 'burnt' in this big white bubble then slashed out of it on the breakaway part & there were INCREDIBLE films showing, everything was black & white; but not in the paul simon song way, in the crazy skinny puppy INSANE way . . .

[@robertkershaw1177]

The NIN Skinny Puppy beat connection isn't modeled after Dig It, it was modeled after Stairs and Flowers.

[@themadmattster9647]

not what Trent himself says

[@robertkershaw1177]

The Beat in Down In It when it used the slow loops sounds more similar to Stairs and Flowers than Dig It to me. Just saying my opinion.

[@jakemorgan844]

I enjoy HanDover, but I can understand why people don't like it. I find I burn out on it fairly quick. Listened to it a lot when I first got it, then grew bored of it. I'll still pop it on from time to time though. Village is pretty stellar.

[@PuBearsticks]

So glad to hear from someone else who appreciates The Process. Cult and Amnesia held space in my head rent free for a couple decades

[@tomt5745]

Spahn Dirge is in my ears an absoute gem and one of their greatest pieces. Listening to this with a hangover is just cathartic. Here the attitude is: fancypants off, lets go. :)

[@phantom-pr6op]

You have to do front line assembly at one point if you haven't already :)

[@MetalTrenches]

One day

[@apoplexiamusic]

It’s funny that i listened to a lot of industrial music over the years and i absolutely love ohGr’s Welt, and I’ve also heard some of their side projects like Rx and Download, but i never actually listened to Skinny Puppy

[@MetalTrenches]

No time like the present

[@robbieortiz4895]

Not new to Skinny Puppy... Im pushing 50. I think you overlooked the fact that Rivers on Rabies and Riverz End on Last Rites are connected.

[@daedevillewrestling]

cEvin Key says it’s pronounced Vivisect Six. Ogre says it at the end of Testure too.

[@bucksatanII]

Ain't it Dead Yet is also one of the best live albums of all time

[@ISEESPACEMONKEYS00]

Too dark park and Cleanse,fold, and manipulate for me.

[@soundhealingbygene]

I do really love skinny puppy however I have not listened to their full discography so I'll have to take your word on these..

[@MetalTrenches]

Dig in. Very much worth it.

[@soundhealingbygene]

@@MetalTrenches yeah Im mainly into more of, godflesh, ministry, killing joke, front 242, Frontline assembly, combiChrist, pitchshifter, project pitchfork, hanzel und gretyl. But also sleepy time gorilla museum, and nurse with wound, which for the most part are more experimental and avant-garde music, but somewhat industrial and metal elements too.

[@PeaceAtLastMetal]

On Handover I really enjoy Ovirt, Cullorblind, Point, and Noisex

[@foresthanes1405]

I always thought it was cEvin on the front of Cleanse, Fold...

[@uncleruckus3149]

I always thought it was someone that looked like cevin

[@williampowell4817]

The picture on the cover for cleanse fold and manipulate is from The 1960 horror movie Village of the Damned.

[@mournblade1066]

Yeah, I always thought it was cEvin, too--I mean, it totally looks like him. But alas, it's from Village of the Damned.

[@JennlyT]

Still haven't forgiven Al Jorgenson for covering Smothered Hope, even with Ogre's blessing I thought it was horrible. I literally was 19 and tossing the cassette that I had it on out of my car window in a rage. I used to refer to it as "the abomination". For me, Puppy is untouchable, everyone else just wants to be them.

[@chrisjanssens4333]

Does anyone know where one could find that alterative mix version of rabies mentioned? Thanks

[@christopherklein8434]

Remix Dystemper is my personal favorite (I know, it's remixes).

[@bubbanstix2536]

S: Weapon, Too Dark Park A: Mythmaker, B: Handover, Remission C: The Greater Wrong of the Right, D: The Process,

[@TheVeeOhla]

Man same story, the first album I heard was Too Dark Park and I went and bought all the past albums in high school too

[@MetalTrenches]

There is no other possible outcome

[@holopanen]

I think you missed "Aint it dead yet?"

[@MetalTrenches]

Not an LP

[@texaho]

@@MetalTrenchesWorth of an honorable mention. I had it on heavy rotation back in the day. But no complaints! Interesting commentary from a younger, metal-oriented fan’s perspective. I prefer the 80’s synth era. Lol. 🤷‍♀️

[@loganryansmith]

Top 3 Skinny Puppy Albums 1. Too Dark Park 2. Rabies 3. Cleanse Fold and Manipulate

[@redmondartwork]

The warlock video.. you are correct. More info... the original video was kind of lost to time...But in the late 2000s... El Snarto...compiled and recreated it. Almost scene for scene. SP gave full approval. So when you see it know it is second hand and made out of love for the band.

[@ng0249]

process is s tier. change my mind.

[@Murderbot2000]

Too dark park splattered my brains all over my bedroom wall.

[@MetalTrenches]

In the best way

[@ShadowWizard123]

Bites is a LOT better than a C. Thanks for making the video though, not trying to be a jerk.

[@ShadowWizard123]

Also how is there no red heart next to Blue Serge on The Process? Best damn song on the album imo.

[@redmondartwork]

Last Rights... Song 10... it was a sample of Timothy Leary. The track was actually released at their Dresden Germany "Doomsday" performance... i have a copy of the disc autographed by the band.

[@kirilbiseroski5253]

Weapon is my favorite actually. I like all the classics but this one was top when it came out and todayis equaly exuting listening. Maybe because Iike Electronic music in general, glitch, noise and experimental and similar stuff. To be all that and still communicating as ordinary song - I think that only genious can achieve such thing. Every single song is awsome and unique. For the other albums, I have similar opinion. It is all about personal tastes and nuances.

[@lowgradesignal9046]

It is a great album, I listen to it mostly now on the regular. Rabies and Last Right was really the ones at the top for me, maybe over listened now.

[@bschuler6216]

If you like Weapon, you'll probably like Undeveloped by Ohgr too.

[@kirilbiseroski5253]

@@bschuler6216 i will check it for sure. Thanks.

[@riseautomaton]

Weapon, Mythmaker, Process, Greater Wrong all belong in S tier for me along with Too Dark Park. I'd bump Vivi Sect down a bit. Handover deserves the D. I don't know what happened there. Other than Village I can't call up a single note of music or lyric from that boring thing. I also struggle with Last Rights. I do think it's a very creative album but it almost dares you to like it. For all the hatred Rabies has gotten over the years I think it's pretty solid. There are some weaker tracks on it but I think it's better than Vivi Sect, Cleanse or Mind.

[@jnorten]

Mind was 86, Cleanse 87. You have them reversed. Rabies was never remixed, it was remastered, they are the same mix.

[@MetalTrenches]

See the pinned comment

[@Kevin-uz6sv]

Time for a roll call on who's going to the final tour🤚🏼

[@eternalgoldenvoid6988]

Whatever website/app you are using incorrectly lists the song "Circustance" as "Circumstance".

[@MetalTrenches]

That was just me misspelling it probably when migrating files at some point

[@UnRepentantBastard]

The "Blue" in Worlock is a reference to Cyan Meeks.