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Free Music Review: 1986!!!? i'm in disbelief
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is absoolutely Incredible! This is probably the best and if not, truly the first industrial album ever created. Songs like Worlock and Tin Omen will remain as some of the best of its kind. A definite 5 stars, this album in my opinion surmounts both pretty hate machine and the mind is a terrible thing to taste in terms of absolute industrial quality.Free Music Review: skinny puppy
Hit: 5 Stars
i love skinny puppy!!!!!!!! and this album was the first one i ever heard. with tracks like rodent, facsit jock itch, warlock,rain hexonx,tin omen. need i say moreFree Music Review: Remastered!
Hit: 5 Stars
Definitely a much better job of mastering than the original. This was my favourite SP album so I'm really glad they had another look at it and improved it so much.Free Music Review: Off and pure Sure tonight It feeds itself Freeze in time Or shadows Climb
Hit: 4 Stars
In 1989, hot on the heels of Vivisect VI, one of their most popular albums, Skinny Puppy released 'Rabies' to mixed reviews. Recorded during a problematic period for founding members Ogre and Key, 'Rabies' reflects a different recording approach than previous albums. This was due in-part to the production of Ministry's Al Jourgensen, with whom Ogre had begun a brief recording partnership. Right off the bat, Rabies' sound seems cleaner than earlier works, and the change in direction has turned a lot of fans away from the album itself.
"Rodent" and "Hexonxonx" start the show with aggressive dance-floor rhythms that attempt to marry clean electronica with hard-rock. In some ways that's typical in contemporary industrial music, but the sound here is slightly atypical for SP. It isn't Ministry-hard, but it's immediately clear that this isn't Skinny Puppy's usual raw chaos.
"Fascist Jock Itch" is the closest to Ministry-sounding the album gets, with Ogre in an unusually confrontational mood screaming over hyper-active drums and a simple metal-guitar riff that grinds again and again. While the beat is pretty energetic headbanging stuff, it can get a bit overly-repetitive and irritating. Skinny Puppy's never been an angry head-bang outfit anyway. On the other hand, Jourgensen's influence over the production of "Tin Omen" did produce a brilliant, guitar heavy dance-metal hybrid that is nearly as energetic as "Fascist Jock Itch" while still maintaining the intelligent song-craft of Puppy at their best.
"Two Time Grime," "Rain," "Rivers," "Chloralone," and "Amputate," all take a structureless, experimental approach, sounding more like earlier Puppy songs. "Rain" and "Chloralone" are both rather spare, unsettling mood pieces, evoking the surreal nightmarish world SP often conjures, and both are darkly delightful. "Rivers" is a particularly inspired instrumental track, featuring voice samples from classic films that meld to suggest a kind of conversation or storyline that is pretty intriguing, while the beat remains catchy.
It is "Worlock," however that really helps define Skinny Puppy's sound and crowns this album: a gorgeous melody laid over an infectious beat intertwined with stark, imposing background elements. Layers of synthesizer and samples all come together perfectly in this slow, emotional track that on one hand is very catchy and icily beautiful. It also dwells within that familiar terrain of dread of unease that permeates SP's whole aesthetic. "Worlock" is one of the band's all time most popular (and best) songs.
Though 'Rabies' is often disparaged by fans, it is slightly more accessible in some ways and does contain some of the bands best work. It may be a good place to start for those unfamiliar with the band. I'll admit it has several low points... especially in the final track, "Spahn Dirge," a nearly 17 minute live-jam session that I really don't care for. And overall, Rabies doesn't really demonstrate the typical SP sound. But it is still pretty unique, intricate industrial music from one one of the most creative groups I've heard. 4 stars for the strengths outweighing weaknesses.
Free Music Review: An industrial essential
Hit: 4 Stars
Taking into consideration that Skinny Puppy has 'other' albums that people classify as 'essential industrial albums' (I.E. the singles collection, VIVIsectVI...), it is more so just my personal opinion then that this is the one album SP has that is an essential. What makes Rabies stand out amongst the rest of the albums that SP has released is more so just the fact that Worlock is on this album. If you stripped away everything from Skinny Puppy and just left Worlock, you would still have a band with one song that would forever be remembered, maybe only as a one hit wonder, but still, as a band that had a song that made just about anyone who listened to it's day. Worlock for me is a wonderful tour-de-force of electronic music. Featuring Ogre's distorted vocals and the haunting melody worked out by Dwayne and Cev, you have just one incredible piece of work.
With the Worlock praise out of the way though, there are other wonderful songs on this album. Mainly those songs would be Rodent, a wonderful dance floor number, Tin Omen, a blatantly Ministry induced SP track, and Rivers, a strange but wonderful instrumental (which has a sequel track to it on Last Rites). The only other track that I can think of on this album that makes it interesting is Choralone, mainly because of it's evil sound. The other tracks on the album sound incomplete when compared to the songs just listed, which is a shame. If SP had done just as good of a job on the already mentioned tracks as they did on every other track on this album, then it is possible that this album would be uncontested when it came to someone claiming it to be the "essential" Skinny Puppy album. Oh well....