Skinny Puppy discography | |
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Studio albums | 12 |
Live albums | 4 |
Compilation albums | 11 |
Video albums | 3 |
Music videos | 10 |
EPs | 2 |
Singles | 14 |
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]
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Notes | |||||||
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US [23] |
US Heat [24] |
US Taste [25] |
US Indie [26] |
US Dance [27] |
CAN [28] |
SWE [29] |
GER Alt [30] | |||
Bites |
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β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | |
Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse |
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β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β |
|
Cleanse Fold and Manipulate |
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β | β | β | β | β | β | 55 [33] |
β |
|
VIVIsectVI |
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β | β | β | β | β | 94 | β | β |
|
Rabies |
|
β | β | β | β | β | 88 | β | β |
|
Too Dark Park |
|
β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | |
Last Rights |
|
193 | 10 | β | β | β | β | β | β |
|
The Process |
|
102 | 1 | β | β | β | 30 | 48 | β |
|
The Greater Wrong of the Right |
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176 | 7 | β | 9 | β | β | β | 1 |
|
Mythmaker |
|
200 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 5 | β | β | β |
|
Handover |
|
168 | 3 | 18 | 37 | 9 | β | β | β |
|
Weapon |
|
140 | 2 | 24 | 21 | 4 | β | 60 | 1 |
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"β" denotes a title that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Title | EP details | Notes |
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Back & Forth |
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Remission |
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Title | Album details | Notes |
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Bites and Remission |
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Remission & Bites |
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Twelve Inch Anthology |
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Back and Forth Series Two |
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Brap: Back and Forth Series 3 & 4 |
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Skinned |
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The Singles Collect |
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B-Sides Collect |
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Back and Forth 06Six |
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Back & Forth Vol7 |
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Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Notes | |
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US Heat [24] |
GER | |||
Ain't It Dead Yet? | β | β |
| |
Doomsday (Back and Forth 5) |
|
β | 15 |
|
The Greater Wrong of the Right Live |
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β | β | |
Bootlegged, Broke and in Solvent Seas |
|
46 | 2 |
|
"β" denotes a title that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Title | Album details | Notes |
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Video Collection (1984β1992) |
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Remix Dystemper |
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Puppy Gristle |
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Title | Year | Album | Notes |
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" Dig It" | 1986 | Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse | β |
" Addiction" | 1987 | Cleanse Fold and Manipulate | |
" Chainsaw" | Non-album single | ||
" Stairs and Flowers" | Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse | ||
" Censor" | 1988 | VIVIsectVI |
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" Testure" | 1989 |
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" Tin Omen" | Rabies | β | |
" 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 | |
"Illisit" |
Skinny Puppy discography | |
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![]() | |
Studio albums | 12 |
Live albums | 4 |
Compilation albums | 11 |
Video albums | 3 |
Music videos | 10 |
EPs | 2 |
Singles | 14 |
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]
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 |
|
β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | |
Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse |
|
β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β |
|
Cleanse Fold and Manipulate |
|
β | β | β | β | β | β | 55 [33] |
β |
|
VIVIsectVI |
|
β | β | β | β | β | 94 | β | β |
|
Rabies |
|
β | β | β | β | β | 88 | β | β |
|
Too Dark Park |
|
β | β | β | β | β | β | β | β | |
Last Rights |
|
193 | 10 | β | β | β | β | β | β |
|
The Process |
|
102 | 1 | β | β | β | 30 | 48 | β |
|
The Greater Wrong of the Right |
|
176 | 7 | β | 9 | β | β | β | 1 |
|
Mythmaker |
|
200 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 5 | β | β | β |
|
Handover |
|
168 | 3 | 18 | 37 | 9 | β | β | β |
|
Weapon |
|
140 | 2 | 24 | 21 | 4 | β | 60 | 1 |
|
"β" denotes a title that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Title | EP details | Notes |
---|---|---|
Back & Forth |
|
|
Remission |
|
Title | Album details | Notes |
---|---|---|
Bites and Remission |
|
|
Remission & Bites |
|
|
Twelve Inch Anthology |
|
|
Back and Forth Series Two |
|
|
Brap: Back and Forth Series 3 & 4 |
|
|
Skinned |
|
|
The Singles Collect |
|
|
B-Sides Collect |
|
|
Back and Forth 06Six |
|
|
Back & Forth Vol7 |
|
|
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
US Heat [24] |
GER | |||
Ain't It Dead Yet? | β | β |
| |
Doomsday (Back and Forth 5) |
|
β | 15 |
|
The Greater Wrong of the Right Live |
|
β | β | |
Bootlegged, Broke and in Solvent Seas |
|
46 | 2 |
|
"β" denotes a title that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Title | Album details | Notes |
---|---|---|
Video Collection (1984β1992) |
|
|
Remix Dystemper |
|
|
Puppy Gristle |
|
|
Title | Year | Album | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
" Dig It" | 1986 | Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse | β |
" Addiction" | 1987 | Cleanse Fold and Manipulate | |
" Chainsaw" | Non-album single | ||
" Stairs and Flowers" | Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse | ||
" Censor" | 1988 | VIVIsectVI |
|
" Testure" | 1989 |
| |
" Tin Omen" | Rabies | β | |
" 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 | |
"Illisit" |