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exMachina · Post by **exMachina** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:05 pm

Hey Guys, im a great Fan of almost everything Skinny Puppy produced and i'd like to know if there are any bands around which would be comparable.

I'm interested in relatively complex, dark and wicked ebm/industrial, not in any futurepop, gothictrance or industrialtechno, spare me with apotogyma berzerk, wumpscut, vnv nations, combichrist, funker vogt, Suicide Commando or alike. I also dont need to be informed about the well known classics (frontline assembly and so on...)

So - if you have something for me, please let me know

Thx!

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:09 pm

Maybe our own resident grump Bones band Novakill is what you're looking for ?
http://www.novakill.com/

exMachina · Post by **exMachina** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:13 pm

They are doing support for VNV nations and remix funker vogt? I will give it a try but i think you can understand my doubts

I'm really not looking for music to dance to. I want music to listen to.

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:36 pm

I think Novakill probably isn't what you're looking for, but listen anyway just to be sure.

I've listened to a lot of stuff, but nobody sounds like Skinny Puppy... not even Skinny Puppy. Compare Last Rights, The Process, Greater Wrong, and Rabies.

In small ways there's lots of music that sounds like things they've done, but overall it doesn't come together the same way. There are a lot of bands that sound like FLA or (better than) VNV, but SP pretty much stands alone.

kodama · Post by **kodama** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:47 pm

There aren't really many/any I can think of strangely enough...

The new stuff is similar to Ohgr, but of course it would be.

james0tucson · Post by **james0tucson** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:51 pm

exMachina wrote:Hey Guys, im a great Fan of almost everything Skinny Puppy produced and i'd like to know if there are any bands around which would be comparable.

Wow! Skinny Puppy. I never got into them, but here's why. I think it was '86 or '87, I was doing a lot of band promotion in Deep Ellum in those days. One night at Clearview, Skinny Puppy's manager showed up and just started talking to me and my girlfriend. I cannot remember his name, but he was a tall skinny new yorker with a brit accent. We drove that guy all over town, introducing him to people. As soon as he got in the car, he pulled out a doobe the size of my forearm. Like half a french bread. Little scarey to drive around like that in Dallas, but oh well!

Next night was the show, and I went to check it out of course. But at the time I found it annoying and scary. They were doing shit with something that looked like real blood, and doing this whole crucifixion thing on stage, and the whole thing was just louder and harsher and stranger than I guess I was prepared for.

A full twenty years later, I realize *now* that was was witnessing a *phenomenon* that would basically start an enduring performance idiom. Maybe I should have paid more attention, I dunno. I also think that experience prepared me for something that I *didn't* miss, later, and that was Crash Worship. But that's a whole nother story.

ammoniad · Post by **ammoniad** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:56 pm

Velvet Acid Christ thinks they sound like Puppy.

kodama · Post by **kodama** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:17 pm

ammoniad wrote:Velvet Acid Christ thinks they sound like Puppy.

Ermm, then they are sadly mistaken.

RTaylor · Post by **RTaylor** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:47 pm

exMachina wrote:Hey Guys, im a great Fan of almost everything Skinny Puppy produced and i'd like to know if there are any bands around which would be comparable.

Which era/sound?

the_nihilist · Post by **the_nihilist** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:31 am

kodama wrote:
ammoniad wrote:Velvet Acid Christ thinks they sound like Puppy.

Ermm, then they are sadly mistaken.

I don't think Bryan Erickson ever said that...

That being said, alot of the buzz around the new Velvet Acid Christ album seems pretty promising, and he's been hyping up that the new album has much more dynamics, switchups and more complicated song structure than previous ones, which are my biggest annoyances with older VAC releases... Kind of sad that even old simple VAC like Fun With Knives is still miles ahead of the ocean of OONTZ OONTZ shit that is the current EBM scene.

As for stuff that sounds like Puppy... Gridlock's first album (The Synthetic Form) is sure a good shot, probably the closest I've ever heard someone else coming to the puppy sound. You could also try 1995-96 era Download and the other skuppy side projects. Maybe some earlier Coil releases like Scatology and Horse Rotorvator will have a sound you like.

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:14 am

james0tucson wrote:I also think that experience prepared me for something that I *didn't* miss, later, and that was Crash Worship.

i understand crash worship ~had a thing with tucson, coming here for hallowe'en. fwiw imo skinny puppy were more of a recording phenomenon than performance, despite the relative spectacularity. you don't strike me as someone on that particular wavelength

i agree.. this is sort of an exercise in curbing one's appetite.. there is no other puppy. you go looking for bands that imitate their style, imo there's hundreds.. :p

similar memetics, yes.. imo ministry's 'twitch' album.. scraping foetus off the wheel, einsturzende neubauten, front242, ~ everything dystonia (member) listens to.. (but they're all significantly different, eg. foetus often like ragtime with more anvils..) other key/goettel projects eg. cyberaktif, hilt will feature some parallels, but they're all different. it's probably my age but after the 80's things i heard seemed a little too slick, just trying to say the same things but in a different way. the 'ohgr' seems to have a somewhat specific topic..

there's only one hexonxonx, one two time grime. smoker, smoky, sorry

another artist i feel exhibited similar inspiration and technical genius is damon edge's project 'chrome;' project went through several significantly different phases, eg. several later albums w/o damon headed by helios creed.

early albums ~different manifestations of a ~trashy acid rock ummm??? - "a musician's band.." i recommend "alien soundtracks I" (psychedelic media collage-songs) and "third from the sun," (anthems ~driven by profound guitar distortion/phaser processes) which inspired jane's addiction, prong and others. very transcendental/nihilist science fiction rock. later damon is an extreeeemely acquired taste..

ammoniad · Post by **ammoniad** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:37 am

the_nihilist wrote:
kodama wrote:
ammoniad wrote:Velvet Acid Christ thinks they sound like Puppy.

Ermm, then they are sadly mistaken.

I don't think Bryan Erickson ever said that...

the_nililist wrote:

Au contrair. On the VAC website (some time ago) Bryan posted that they had "surpassed the Masters..Skinny Puppy".
I agree with the Gridlock and Coil recommendations, and I would though in the first two Haujobb discs as Puppy-esk.

Benedict · Post by **Benedict** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:12 am

Hows about:

Hilt - Call The Ambulance Before I Hurt Myself. Doesn't sound like Skinny Puppy but is... Hard to get but a good record.

God's Gift Maggot - the best song line ever

the_nihilist · Post by **the_nihilist** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:03 am

ammoniad wrote:
the_nihilist wrote:
kodama wrote:
ammoniad wrote:Velvet Acid Christ thinks they sound like Puppy.

Ermm, then they are sadly mistaken.
I don't think Bryan Erickson ever said that...
the_nililist wrote:

Au contrair. On the VAC website (some time ago) Bryan posted that they had "surpassed the Masters..Skinny Puppy".
I agree with the Gridlock and Coil recommendations, and I would though in the first two Haujobb discs as Puppy-esk.

I remember his rant about how he once got stiffed buying weed for SP, and then later on some apologizing, so you might be right.

Suspended In Dusk · Post by **Suspended In Dusk** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:04 am

Sincerly, I could think of tons of bands that sound somewhat like most of my favorite bands. But Skinny Puppy? One of the very few truly original acts on the electro/industrial scene - along w/ Die Form.

Not Skinny Puppy, but these days I dig Dioxyde - which you probably know. "Industrial" music that you can't really dance to, unlike the bands you mentionned...

Bands Resembling Skinny Puppy