CEvin Key

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The correct title of this article is cEvin Key. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

cEvin Key (pronounced "Kevin Key") is the pseudonym of Kevin Crompton (b. February 13, 1961), who was a founding member of the industrial music band Skinny Puppy, along with Nivek Ogre. In addition to his work with Skinny Puppy, cEvin Key has had several side projects, including Doubting Thomas, Cyberaktif, Hilt and Tear Garden. He was also at one point a drummer and song-writer for synthpop group, Images in Vogue. After Skinny Puppy disbanded in 1995, cEvin Key's main project was electronic noise group Download, as well as some solo releases. He also embarked on a side project with Phil Western, PlatEAU, and released another Tear Garden album in 2000, Crystal Mass.

Cover of The Dragon Experience.  The boy pictured is Spencer Elden.
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Cover of The Dragon Experience. The boy pictured is Spencer Elden.

Much of 2001-3 was spent on The Dragon Experience and the new Skinny Puppy album, The Greater Wrong of the Right, as well as the From the Vault series; seven CDs of previously unreleased material from his various projects. Included in the series was Skinny Puppy - Puppy Gristle, Download - III Steps Forward, Download - Inception - the Subconscious Jams 1994 - 1995, The Tear Garden - I Spy With my Little Eye, PlatEAU - Iceolater, Hilt - The Worst of the Flu 1985 - 1989 and Skinny Puppy - Back and Forth 6: Live Braps and Outakes 1989 - 2000. Key also served as a drummer on ohGr's 2001 tour.

The official cEvin Key web site is at Subconscious Studios.

[edit] Trivia

  • cEvin Key is exceptionally tall. He is approximately 6' 5".

[edit] Solo discography

Skinny Puppy
cEvin Key | Nivek Ogre | Mark Walk
Dwayne Goettel | Wilhelm Schroeder | Dave "Rave" Ogilvie
Discography-Albums
Back and Forth | Remission | Bites | Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse | Cleanse Fold and Manipulate | VIVIsectVI | Rabies | Too Dark Park | Last Rights | The Process | Puppy Gristle | The Greater Wrong of the Right | Mythmaker
Discography-Collections
Bites and Remission | Remission & Bites | Ain't It Dead Yet? | Twelve Inch Anthology | Back and Forth Series 2 | Brap: Back and Forth Series 3 & 4 | Remix dystemper | The Singles Collect | B-Sides Collect | Doomsday: Back and Forth, Vol. 5: Live in Dresden | Back and Forth Series 6
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Cyberaktif | Doubting Thomas | Download | Hilt | ohGr | PlatEAU | Rx | The Tear Garden
Subconscious Communications
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Download
cEvin Key | Phil Western
Dwayne Goettel | Mark Spybey | Anthony Valcic
Discography
Furnace | Microscopic | The Eyes of Stanley Pain | Sidewinder | Charlie's Family | III | Effector | Inception | III Steps Forward
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Skinny Puppy | Subconscious Communications
Cyberaktif | Doubting Thomas | Hilt | PlatEAU | The Tear Garden
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