For over three decades,
Skinny Puppy has been one of the foundations and driving forces for
Electro-Industrial, Experiemental, Industrial Rock, and have also touched many
other Electronic genres of music. This Canadian band has had trials in the shape
of a death in their musical family, band members leaving, and an eventual
breakup. The band would eventually reform when the core two members of the band
Nivek Ogre and cEvin Key did a reunion gig together and realized they still had
more to share in Skinny Puppy.
Since the reformation of Skinny Puppy, the band has Mark Walk and taken
Electronic music into directions that few would ever imagine existed. The feel
of the new music wasn't a massive leap, but a progression from the band's last
album, The Process, into the direction that Ogre and Key had envisioned
Puppy should go into. This new direction hasn't been seen by many of their fans
as a change, but more of an evolution into something even better than the
original music that Skinny Puppy has made. Some may debate this, but both core
members of Skinny Puppy have shown unity in the music and in spread the message
of every aspect of Skinny Puppy.
What does Skinny Puppy stand for? The name alone shows what this dominant band
truly is at its core. Skinny Puppy was originally a name that meant "life
through a dog's eyes." This, however, has evolved in many interpretations as
Skinny Puppy has also been a slang term for dogs that have been subjected to
experimentation in labs and with much of the music by this band tied to animal
rights, politics, religion, drug abuse, disease, and environmental degradation.
It is the amazing music that Skinny Puppy has made that has made it a vehicle
for the band to attempt to wake their fans in all that is going on in the world
while giving the masses music that is defining to a number of subcultures and an
array of genres in the music world.
Skinny Puppy has shown in the past three decades that it is a band that wants to
enlighten, entertain, and spread the passion they have in music. Death and
breakups are brutal, but they will never be the end of Skinny Puppy. Ogre and
Key have shown that when musicians love the music they make, nothing will stop
them from creating and sharing with those that love what they make. It is this
dedication and determination to overcome any odds in making quality music that
hits the mind and the music bones in the body that has made us honored to have
them as the Music Eternal Band Of The Month for October 2014.