VIVIsectVI by Skinny Puppy

VIVIsectVI, Skinny Puppy's fourth studio album (say it "vivisect six"), came out on Nettwerk on September 12, 1988, and it's the Vancouver band's harsh, clanking, sample-choked sound honed to a razor. cEvin Key, Ogre on vocals and Dwayne Goettel pile up the noise, with Dave "Rave" Ogilvie, their longtime producer, briefly in the ranks as well, and the targets are animal rights, chemical warfare and environmental waste.

For all that, it went down well. "Testure" became the only Skinny Puppy song ever to crack Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart, and "Censor" snuck onto the album under the title "Dogshit". The tour that followed was a full-blown theatrical production, with Nine Inch Nails opening. Critics have since hailed it as a landmark of industrial and electronic music, and some call it the band's finest hour.

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