“Smothered Hope” by Skinny Puppy

"Smothered Hope" comes from Remission, the record that launched Skinny Puppy on Nettwerk. It started life in 1984 as a six-song 12-inch EP from the Canadian electro-industrial outfit, and a year later a cassette edition tacked on five more tracks and turned it into a full album, which became the version everyone knows.

Ogre sings it, and he wrote it with Kevin Crompton. It's cold, clanking machine music with a human being trapped somewhere inside, and Remission went on to earn a gold certification in Canada in 2000.

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