Portion Control are opening for them at their London show! Wish I could afford to get to London, two legendary bands in one night, Goddamn it!

I hear the Ohgr in it. I didn't expect it to be as great as "Too Dark Park". I still really enjoy it regardless. It's not as noisy & dark, but I like the Experimental, d'n'b , Hip Hoppy, Techno mixture anyway.

It just seems really trite for a puppy release. Mind you, so did The Process..

I listened to Last Rights again recently and it still blows my socks off even though it's a 12 year old album.

I think it's a pretty damn good industrial-metal release, and that genre normally sucks. It just doesn't sound like Skinny Puppy, perhaps they should lay the name to rest.
Last Rights, to my mind, is still the last 'proper' Skinny Puppy album, I've tried to erase all memory of the abomination that was The Process.

i got my first Skinny Puppy album a couple weeks ago; Doomsday-back and Forth vol 5 live in dresden.

I now have a new favorite band.

I didn't read this whole thread, so I hope I'm not a repeater pencil here.
I love Skinny Puppy for their work with electronics. With all the electronic music I've heard in the 18 years since I first listened to Skinny Puppy, I still say SP--particularly cEvin Key--had a great ear from electronic texture and color. What I don't like about SP is Ogre. I don't like the death metal vox, I don't like the the cheesy horror movie samples, I don't like the juvenile ultraviolent/nihilist lyrics.
By far my favorite SP album is "Cleanse, Fold, and Manipulate." That one gives the best examples of their electronic texturing. The songs are more diverse than on other albums, from the quasi-ambient "Draining Faces" to the industrial dance rhythms of "Addiction." "Deep Down (Trauma Hounds)" is one of my favorite SP tracks of all. There's some good remixes of it, too, except the one where Adrian Sherwood included the Warner Bros. cartoon samples.
"Assimilate" from "Bites" another one of my favorites, including a sample I love, from Marathon Man, Lawrence Olivier aking, "Is it safe?" "The Choke" is another great track, with cool samples from Roman Polanski in The Tenant

I didn't like most of the "Rabies" album. Al Jourgensen has the anti-Midas Touch. Everything he touches turns to sh*t. I love "Warlock," though.

cEvin Key on his own, and as Download is excellent. So is Key and other Puppy members in collaboration with Edward Ka Spel, and members of the Legendary Pink Dots, as The Tear Garden. A recent Key release, archival material recorded in '84-'85 with Ken Marshall, "The Dragon Experience" is totally superb. The old tapes were mixed and remastered in a most delightful manner!

I totally agree. I love all the Key solo material along with the Download stuff. Ever hear of Tim Western? I believe he worked with Download. You should check out his solo projects, if you haven't already...

Download is a member of Skinny Puppy? No wonder I liked it...

I've heard Phil Western under various names on comps, such as the Subconscious samplers. Some trax are pretty good. I did hear that solo double CD he put out earlier this year, a lot of it was pretty lackluster, again, some good trax, though.

yeah, Download was a mixture of cEvin Key, Ken Marshall, Tim Western, and even Nivek Ogre, I believe (I could be wrong on the last one). "III" and "Effector" are great.