When Skinny Puppy Goes Mellow

January 31, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

There was a time when Skinny Puppy was among the heaviest, hardest and most brutal artists out there. But that never meant that under all that angry noise there wasn’t a good song. Let me illustrate.

Here’s the original version of “Assimilate” from 1985.

http://youtu.be/MYC5VFuiblU

Stripping away all the Ogre-ness and Radical Face found this.

For more modern interpretations of Nettwerk artists like Skinny Puppy, investigate the new compilation, From Cover to Cover: 30 Years at Nettwerk.

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