The Process (Skinny Puppy album)

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The Process
Studio album by Skinny Puppy
Released	February 27, 1996
Recorded	November 1993 - May 1995, Vancouver (Subconscious Studios), Malibu (Shangri-La Studios) & Seattle (Soundhouse)
Genre	Industrial
Length	43:15
Label	American (U.S., Canada) Sony/Columbia/American (Europe)
Producer	Dave Ogilvie, Martin Atkins & Skinny Puppy
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Skinny Puppy chronology
Last Rights (1992) The Process (1996) The Greater Wrong of the Right (2004)

The Process is a 1996 album by industrial band Skinny Puppy. Many factors complicated the recording of The Process. The album's producer changed multiple times, from Roli Mosimann to Martin Atkins to Dave Ogilvie. According to cEvin Key their label, American Recordings, had pressured the band into adapting a more commercial sound, similar to Nine Inch Nails. Following tensions between band members, Nivek Ogre left the band on June 12, 1995. American Recordings decided to drop Skinny Puppy after the release of The Process. The band's keyboardist, Dwayne Goettel, died of a heroin overdose shortly thereafter on August 23, 1995. Following Dwayne's death, cEvin and Dave completed mixing of The Process.

The Process was intended to be a concept album about a psychotherapy cult from the 1960s known as The Process Church of the Final Judgement, which Ogre was introduced to by Genesis P. Orridge.

Demos for the album leaked in 1994, supposedly due to cEvin himself.

This was intended to be the final Skinny Puppy album; the liner notes simply say "The End" after the album credits. However, Ogre and Key reformed the band in 2000 and finally released a new album, The Greater Wrong of the Right, eight years later in 2004.

The album is currently out of print and somewhat difficult to find.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Jahya" – 3:34
2. "Death" – 3:56
3. "Candle" – 4:58
4. "Hardset Head" – 4:06
5. "Cult" – 3:03
6. "Process" – 5:02
7. "Curcible" – 3:28
8. "Blue Serge" – 5:13
9. "Morter" – 4:39
10. "Amnesia" – 4:20
11. "Cellar Heat" – 0:49

[edit] Personnel

• Nivek Ogre
• cEvin Key
• Dwayne Goettel
• Dave Ogilvie – mixing, guitar (track 5)
• Ken "Hi-watt" Marshall – mixing
• Pat Sprawl – guitar (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7)
• Philth – wave manipulation (tracks 9, 10)
• Pepperdine – viola and cello section (track 5)
• Martin Atkins – voices (track 2)
• Lorne Bouquet – backing vocals (tracks 3, 4)
• Troll – guitar (track 5)