Tin Omen

Skinny Puppy spent the 1980s inventing industrial music's most disturbing visual and sonic vocabulary — Ogre's performances theatrical in the extreme, the studio productions by cEvin Key and Dave Ogilvie dense and unsettling, the content addressing animal experimentation and political violence with a commitment that went beyond shock value.

Tin Omen, from Rabies (1989), was produced by Ministry's Al Jourgensen — a collaboration that pushed the band's sound toward something harder and more confrontational. The track's subject matter addresses the Tiananmen Square massacre of the same year.

Skinny Puppy's influence on industrial, EBM, and dark electronic music broadly is enormous — Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, and dozens of other acts have processed their approach.