cEvin Key(Kevin Crompton) and Nivek Ogre(Kevin Ogilvie) the founding fathers of the brilliance known as Skinny Puppy. They have had many people help some of them included Wilhelm Schroder(a.k.a Bill Leeb), Dave Ogilvie (no relation to Kevin), Martin Atkins, and the late Dwayne R. Goettel.

cEvin was playing in a pop band known as Images In Vogue, but he had the urge to create something that was completely different. cEvin left and eventually met Ogre. Ogre added lyrics to cEvin's music. They begin writing songs as a reaction to everything they hated about pop music. Their first demo/tape/album was called 'Back and Forth'. A friend of cEvin's was starting up a record label called Nettwerk. Skinny Puppy signed to Nettwerk and released their first album called 'Remission' in 1984. There were many bands that influenced Skinny Puppy. One of the major influences was Throbbing Gristle and Kraftwerk. cEvin said once that when he got his first Kraftwerk album, he got rid of the rest of his record collection and started over.

cEvin has a few sideprojects Download, which is the main one, and The Tear Garden and PlatEAU are two others. Ogre's most recent project is Rx (formerly known as Ritalin). He has also contributed to that last couple of KMFDM albums.

This is just some random stuff about Skinny Puppy

Ogre, cEvin, and Dwayne appear in a brief cameo as a gang of thugs in the movie The Doom Generation. During the filming of the scene with the band cEvin fell off a car and broke his arm .

Ogre appears in the official video for the Revolting Cock's "Stainless Steel Providers".

The video for "Worlock" was comprised of just clips from horror films. It is a nonstop gore-fest that was immediately banned by every video station that has ever existed. Here is a list of some of the movies in the video: Death Warmed Up, Bad Taste, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Intruder, Luther The Geek, Eraserhead, Re-Animator, From Beyond, Parents, Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer, Altered States, Combat Shock, The Beyond, Phenomena, Tenebrae, Demons, Opera, Deep Red, Suspiria, Dead And Buried, and probably a few others.

Ogre did part of the soundtrack to the Descent 2 computer game. Ogre and Mark Walk only did 2 tracks called Glut and Ratzez.

Discography

Connections to Others Bands

Cyberaktif was a band created by Bill Leeb (Front Line Assembly), cEvin Key, and Dwayne Goettel. All their releases were put out on WaxTrax! records.

cEvin Key released an album called Music For Cats on the label Metropolis. He plans on doing more solo work in the future.

Dwayne Goettel had a solo project called aDuck. They put very few releases but, did have a song on a compilation produced by Front Line Assembly's Bill Leeb.

Download is a project which grew out of cEvin and Dwayne's jam sessions during the recording of The Process. These jam sessions included such people as DJ Philth and Mark Spybey. Download's name came from a track on Last Rights. It is currently cEvin's full time project. They have had help from such friends as Ken Marshall and Anthony Valcic (both long time Puppy friends and engineers) and Genesis P-Orridge (of Throbbing Gristle and later Psychic TV).

Doubting Thomas is a side project of cEvin and Dwayne. Their was an album, "The Infidel", and companion single, "Father Don't Cry", released on WaxTrax!. There is some other band called Doubting Thomas with absolutely no relation to this project.

Hilt is kind of a punk pop like band. The line up included cEvin, Dwayne, Al Nelson, Lee Salford, Don Harrison, Dave Rave, Ryan Moore, and others. Hilt has released two albums, two singles, and an EP.

PlatEAU featured DJ Philth, cEvin, and Anthony Valcic. The concept for this band was born from the the european leg of the '96 Download tour, mainly at hash bars in Amsterdam.

Rx is a project of Ogre and Martin Atkins, originally titled Ritalin but changed for legal reasons. They have released an album, "Bedside Toxicology".

Ogre did part of the soundtrack to the Descent 2 computer game. Ogre and Mark Walk only did 2 tracks called Glut and Ratzez.

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