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  • economic slave

  • Amazing. A Real progressive band. Been hooked on there sound for years. Got them in my CD collection along with other dark industrialized acts Kmfdm, Nine Inch Nails, Coil, Cabaret Voltaire, Depeche Mode, Angel Spit, Gary Numan, Front Line Assembly, Vex Red, AllFlaws

  • freedom as an offering

  • waste of a download

  • how much do we know about Ogre? I've been reading interviews and watching them for info about him and there's really not much about his personal life on the internet (he's probably grateful for that lol!) but really im curious about him!

  • fucking greatest band of all time.

  • DIG IT

    "Execute economic slave--

    feed it unearthly remains.

    Freedom as an offering--

    that's the game!"

    DIG IT!

  • how people forget bands such as Einstürzende Neubauten, early SPK, Test Dept. etc. when referring to industrial music is beyond me. Industrial music got it's name from bands like these, There were quite a few of true industrial bands(and still is) in Europe in the late 70's and early 80's that influenced most of the industrial music at the same time in Canada and the States.

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  • shut up and Assimilate bitches!

  • i love SP, if it wasn't for them there would be no NIN!

  • @lilashioyo GET OUT

  • @UnfedDog actually u get asshole unfed dog atlest knows who came fucking first and whos a ripoff

  • Dig it dig it

    Freedom as an offering

    Dig it dig it

  • individual people with individual tastes.

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  • Wait I'm just getting in on this...NIN owes its arse to SP.

  • If you want a good electro-rock-indus-punk'n roll, listen Punish Yourself !

  • Been into Skinny Puppy for over 20 years and they are still GOD of Industrial music!!!!

  • MIND: PERPETUAL INTERCOURSE is my FAVORITE industrial album! nothing else comes close to its intensity,beauty and decadence.

  • People need to grow up and stop fucking arguing and complaining on YouTube videos. This has to fucking stop.

  • @MarsionLove could not agree with you more!!!!!!

  • i was gonna post my opinion, but then id get flamed out :P

    (i dont like it)

  • when did they start sounding like PWEI

    bigmac fries to go

  • Good to go. Amazing how all the real industrial bands never sold out...google "fistKranKping"

  • i'm slowly getting into skinny puppy the more i listen to them, but ogre sort of sounds like the sligs from the oddworld series in this song.

  • the vocals sound like those machines guys with throat cancer speak through

  • according to trent, down in it was inspired by dig it.

  • sp stole a lot of their ideas from TG, and cabaret voltaire. the beats and what not.

  • All music artists are driven by inspiration from someone or something else. Let's just enjoy the music and the fact that we can.

  • I love the NIN video for "down in it" playing in the background!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for noticing, whoever you are made this video, that NIN ripped this song!

  • nin ripped off this song big time

  • @TheNewMusicNetwork doesn't sound even vaguely familiar to me as a nin fan.. well.. i think every 16volt song i've ever heard sounds just like this, not that that's really a bad thing

  • well you're a NIN fan so you're biased. trent clearly stole the beat ideas as well as the guitar stabs. pretty obvious. and 16 is fucking lame. always was, other than their one good song motorskill.(and i had their cds but sold them because they sucked) their latest is even worse.

  • @TheNewMusicNetwork

    "well you're a NIN fan so you're biased."

    *withholds laughter*

    A person can identify with something to varying degrees of bias. Discarding someone's opinion because of allegiance is not only fallacious, but also close-minded.

  • @SaltedRhubarb, when you're all over trents 2 inch cock like your friend their, something is afoot. no?

  • @SaltedRhubarb you cannot blame him for saying that considering how most NIN fans are nowdays tho, completely different from how they used to be:

    "wait, trent said that guy is terrible and makes shitty music? by god it must be true!"

  • @TheNewMusicNetwork All new ideas come from something that came before with an added twist.  There are no original ideas.

  • @tracycj2001 what is NEW about nin?

    nin is pretty boring from what i've seen. the kill yourself lyrics get old.

  • LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!

  • badly..

  • badass video

  • the music videos for down in it and dig it use the same type of letterbox

  • Kinda reminds me of New Order's Shellshock video too and vice versa.

  • This song directly influenced "Down in it." Listen to them back-to-back and the resemblance is unquestionable.

  • exioffice4thcircuth80s 4-0s

  • Rob Zombie owes his ass to Skinny Puppy.

  • @nickspear So does Trent Reznor.

  • Why?

  • @nickspear why rob zombie

  • @nickspear Everyone, i.e. NIN, Ministry, KMFDM, etc owes Skinny Puppy

  • acid squid nipples days lolololololol

  • YAY PUPPY!!!

  • SKINNY RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Hey, has anyone heard their song Burnt With Water?? Anyone knows what is that muslim song they sample?

  • @raso1991 It's from The Exorcist, in the first few minutes of the movie.

  • Yeeees, that's the one, that's why it was soo familiar to me! Thanks a lot!

  • I wish they had kept this version on the CD release... it's much more powerful sounding.

  • notice i said "if". if you didn't well then my comment doesn't apply to you.

  • Hype Williams need to write Skinny Puppy a check for ripping off the framing in this video

  • I love the Twilight Zone sample in this song.Weird!!!

  • If you speed it up, it does sound just like that NIN song...

  • You mean the NIN song sounds like this.

  • Haha, indeed.

  • I remember the first time I saw this video, I was about 16 or 17. It was on a music video show called "Night Flight". (back during the time when MTV was actually "Music"TV. :P) I was amazed & instantly hooked. v'''''v

  • Remember 120 Minutes??

    I still have a lot of it on VHS tape. ;-)

  • wax trax records gets all of them including kmfdm and my life with the thrill kill cult

  • for all you new "rivetheads" out there who just joined the industrial league, i suggest you dive deeper into the industrial/EBM scene. theres more to SP,NIN and ministry. if u want to find out more industrial bands, u can pm me =) i recommend these bands: Front242 Wumpscut Funker Vogt Velvet Acid Christ Frontline Assembly Hocico Suicide Commando Leaether Strip Frontline Assembly Blutengel
  • Also try the bands Download and Ohgr

    both are side projects of SP members.

  • Download is some pretty cool shit.. I really liked Furnace...that was a unique experimental album

  • Why the fuck would you recomend Suicide Commando to anyone? they suck some cock, I'd recomend something ORIGINAL like Throbbing Gristle or Psychic TV

  • it seems like so few ppl actually know about those two these days =/

  • Leatherface was another good one.

  • wanna tell me what it is jerk?

  • sp is industrial. practically the epitome of such, if you are saying anything to the contrary , well, you good sir , are an idiot.

  • sp is one of my fav bands and i dont think they are ebm...

  • and i was replying to someone, my comment is not about sp

  • The hell it isnt you dumb cocksucker!

  • old time fav..

  • i dont see how trent ripped this song off for down in it, i heard a little terrible lie familarity

  • up yours vapid cunt

    TRENT IS OVER! SLIP IS A FUCKING JOKE!

  • Must you start band wars? Really?

    Grow up.

  • Skinny Puppy is the hardest band around period. damn, they've been around since I was a youngster and I just got into them- I really missed out! But I have them now.

  • C'mon guys. NIN is fucking great, Skinny Puppy is fucking great, Ministry is fucking great, TG is fucking great. Industrial is fucking awesome. We shouldn't be fighting over good bands when theres way shittier music out there

  • AMEN!!!

  • @superfundeathhammer your getting subed for that comment... yea like greeday they suck...any1 who thinks greenday are sellout whores give a like to this vid or thumbs up me

  • yeah but none of those bands are really industrial except tg and some sp stuff.

  • @superfundeathhammer

    True that

  • @superfundeathhammer He's right guys. Hate on fags like Justin Beiber, not people who actually do shit: Like Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Acid Bath, Nine Inch Nails (only pretty hate machine), Trivium, Skinny Puppy, Mark Walk, Skinny Puppy, Cephalic Carnage, Skinny Puppy, Goat Squeal, Skinny Puppy, or Skinny Puppy.

  • @Gamnash4 why the fuck isnt front line on that list

  • @SkinnyPuppy208 Frontline Assembly is awesome... I was being general; there are a lot of groups I appreciate.

  • @Gamnash4 ok Lol i love FLA

  • @SkinnyPuppy208 Me too... Have you heard the new Napalm Death album? Pretty sick if ya ask me.

  • @Gamnash4 no i havent ill check it out i got to meet FLA and got my guitar signed bill leeb is awesome!!!

  • @SkinnyPuppy208 That's great. I'm just glad people still listen to these bands, ya know? It's just... I dunno, makes me feel that much more happy at the end of the day.

  • @Gamnash4 hell yeah

  • @superfundeathhammer GET OUT! NIN sucks.

  • @UnfedDog Maybe they do... But you gargle, swallow, and spit it back out.

  • @superfundeathhammer All Industrial Metal Bandas are great, Ministry is great, Skinny Puppy is great, Frontline Assembly is great, even ive never heard any of their music, also Oomph, Diekrupps, or how should be written, i dont know, Junkie XL, Godflesh, KMFDM, Classic Rammstein, Fear Factory, Static-X, well, its just awesome, please mention me some other industrial metal bands i dont know yet. Thanks

  • I agree with hellchild65, Trent is supremely overrated. People think he's just this musical genius. There are a few good NIN songs, but there are plenty of artists who were into Edward Gorey and David Bowie before Trent.

    Skinny Puppy is one of the greatest industrial bands, but they have had some albums that weren't that great.

    Rabies and SK's earlier albums were their best just as NIN's first few albums where their best, IMO.

    The problem with NIN is that it's not original like it was.

  • so what`?

  • these guys with the guys from wax trax taught trent everything he knows. trent made it "big". good for fucking him.

  • Reminds me more of Terrible Lie than Down In It, tbh.

  • lets be honest, if it wasnt for trent opening his mouth about ripping off this song, half of us wouldnt be here. that being said, i think everyone should shut the fuck up about Nine Inch Nails, and just leave comments regarding Skinny Puppy. i think 90 percent of the comments here are about how trent stole the music. this topic will probably never end as long as Nine Inch Nail fans are alowed to post.

  • yes the singer does sound like a mechanical pirate but hey im stoned too LOL

    Skinny Puppy ROCKS i've been a fan since early 90's!

  • the singer makes me think of a giant gay mechanical sailor. then again, im stoned

  • Very well said Superbombast

  • I am so fucking sick of this argument, its never going to go away is it?

    I'm kind of thankful, because I had never listened to Skinny Puppy and someone had mentioned how Down In It was influenced by Dig It, so I checked out this song, probably this very video, on youtube. This guy gave me Ohgr's Welt, but I never got to checking out anything about SP. With that being said,

    Down In it was influenced by Dig It. Trent did not copy it nor did he take Skinny Puppy's image or whatever.

  • talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  • as much as i like NIN i think,in this decade, they are overrated. last good NIN album for me was with teeth, the last 3 trent made were shit. SP is still pretty sweet still, i havent seen them live yet but i heard they put on a killer live show, very artsy-like.

  • Year Zero was one of his best albums, in my opinion. A lot better than With Teeth.

  • see thats what makes him horrible now and thats the one album that was overrated, YZ was nothing that wasnt done before both in theme and music and the lyrics were god aweful compared to the rest of his works. plus there are people saying its as good as or better then The Fragile or TDS, which is obviously complete BS and shows how the NIN fanbase is completely overwhelmed by trent no matter how shitty hes become.

  • @Hellchild65: The NIN fanbase is just fine, leave well enough alone. I'll acknowledge that we're on an SP video, but your comment is just too stupid to ignore.

    What you said is true - there will NEVER be another Fragile, or Downward Spiral, but Year Zero was great in both sonic and physical form. YZ beat the SHIT out of With Teeth. But before you jump on the NIN Sucks! bandwagon - I must ask: have you even HEARD Ghosts I-IV? And I'm saying that with all seriousness. Like...a solid listen.

  • and how exactly is my comment stupid? because NIN is overrated in this decade and most of its fans dont see it? Please, the majority of the NIN fanbase is just as ignorant and obsessed with there artist as the slayer fanbase nowdays.

    could care less comparing WT to YZ, but YZ isnt anything special like so many NIN fans think. the lyrics, like i said, are pretty shitty and most song off the record were shitty as well IMO, and i know quite a few who agree with me that newer NIN isnt that good.

  • I assume you mentioned slayer for my class project. Nice one trying to pull my tastes into this but it's irrelevant.

    I say your comment is stupid because you're basing NIN of the current era, finished as it may be, with the NIN of TDS. Do you really think every album a band makes is going to top their older work?

    I'll be the first to agree with you that YZ, WT, & Slip all suck in comparison to TDS. But TDS isn't all that NIN is.

    Even Skinny Puppy had a few not-so-great-in-retrospect albums

  • i havent even looked at your channel, nor would i have any reason too unless you were my friend or the like, im just speaking from personal experiance with slayer fans a few years back being dumb asses. aside from that you should note the "IMO". and i know DS isnt all that NIN is or was, i think overall those albums are bad, but i do like a few tracks off them, i mean im a NIN fan so im not going to hate the whole damn record.

  • my point was is just that trent is overrated in this decade as an artist is all.

  • I concede that much. Trent has gone over the hill musically, but I myself am still not going to give up on NIN yet. He's been the best spokesman the music fan has ever had from the buisiness side of the CD's that we buy.

    He's a dick. And he often contradicts himself - but goddamnit, I respect him for the balls he has. I hate it when Puppy fans go ape shit over the mere mention of Reznor. Didn't mean to jump on you - and it was my bad on the slayer thing. Its the most recent upload I had.

  • NIN is still good live i wont deny that, i still saw them live twice even after i disliked YZ and the slip, ghosts had a few good tracks, but nothing almighty like most people think.

  • @hellchild65

    I disagree for the most part. This is like all of the old GNR fans who just bashed chinese democracy, when in fact, it's one of (if not their best) albums. NIN Is great, and so is year zero, and so is the slip. Music changes as it grows, it's not always going to stay the same. Just because YZ or The Slip doesn't sound like WT, or The Fragile, or TDS, it doesn't make them bad albums. Though a bit different - still excellent music.

  • NIN was a good band even though trent true direct inspiration for down in it from this song. Ghosts was awesome and year zero had a really cool concept to it but I think SP and throbbing grissle should have both gotten more credit for industrial. On a side note they all helped pave the way for the new stage like psyclon nines aggrotech feel which makes me happy.

  • haha. Thanks for mentioning P9.

    I'm in the process of writing a ten pager on Industrial Metal...Cant believe i didn't mention P9 yet...though if it makes the NIN bashers feel any better, I devoted the whole of two paragraphs to them while collectively, SP and Gristle take four pages...Ministry and KMFDM getting another two. Haha....

  • Sounds like how it should be. The true creators of industrial should get the most credit and those who made it into something fresh again like P9 should as well lol.

  • Well - thats the historical truth of it. I wont blindside anyone - Puppy and Gristle (Puppy Gristle, lol) had a lot more to offer to the scene. My own personal taste still puts NIN way ahead of any other band, with KMFDM and SP coming close.

    Call me tasteless in industrial, but theres a lot of Gristle (particularily the extremely old and the extremely "new" stuff.) I just can't listen to for more than a song or so.

  • Well gristle did have a lot of really weird almost psychedelic type music in their day. So I can't say I blame you. Once skold left KMFDM I couldn't listen anymore he was my favorite lol.

  • For your paper, you need to understand that Industrial and Metal only met together a long while after Industrial was in. Skinny Puppy was the second wave, when Industrial was linked with techno pop, a probable influence of synth pop, itself coming from Kraftwerk. The 70's were the true Industrial, and Cabaret Voltaire had a greater influence on the more techno-pop-oriented like Skinny Puppy than Throbbin Gristle, which influenced experimental noise bands (Einsturzende, Coil, and others).

  • Thats a wholeeeee nother paper entirely. Kraftwerk is the shit though. My professor made a point of that himself. Lol.

    Definately will try to expand some of that earlier shit before I turn it in tomorrow - thanks for the tip dude. =]

  • i would love to see that paper haha

  • how r we talking bout nin wen wer listening sp gdmit lemme gues it started with down in it cpopying this song yes we all no trent copied this song he admitted to it every1 just stfu and listen to the song

  • No, you idiot. Just read through some of the comments and you will know. Assumptions are not good, yo.

  • @hellchild65 I have not even listened to NIN since Teeth, but I had to miss my chance to see them on 06-06-06, which sucked, but got to see Skinny Puppy Tuesday, and they have a good stage performance, not as good as it used to be, though, so I have been told.

  • i am seeing them tonight in Toronto. Should be interesting. A bunch of old people in the mosh pit...breaking bones. Ill post how it went

    lol

  • is that mike patton at 0:12?

  • "I was up above it..."

  • NIN were obviously influenced by many industrial dance bands.  You cant reduce them to a skinny puppy rip off. that would be an insult to both bands...

  • Smartest comment yet, despite the fact that I'm a Puppy fan and don't really listen to NIN. This point, I think, is valid.

  • stop fighting guys..we're above this..WE WERE UP ABOVE IT

    mauyaaahahhahahaa

  • I was down in it

  • @monster5o

    Well, NOW you are, anyway.

  • rain rain go away....

  • If it wasn't for this song, NIN wouldn't of even existed you know...

  • good artists borrow, great artists (ie. Trent Reznor) steal.

  • cut the down in it shit... anyone whom consider's themselves a fan of either band knows the hoopla surrounding the issue. stop freaking out like fanboys and arguing about it 21 years later

  • Trent Reznor himself said "Down In It" was a total ripoff of this song. I only agree with the beat, though.

    Still, there are many songs that share the same beat, so why would that be considered a ripoff?

  • seeing them at the troc soon

  • i saw Skinny Puppy in 1988 (or was it 87?) in Pittsburgh and NIN opened for them, well, a very embryonic version of NIN. I'm sure Trent was hugely influenced beat wise, but Down In It is a very different song. By then SP had moved much further away from anything danceable.

  • Dig it kicks the shit out of Down in it

  • Not only does it kick the shit out of it, It also mounts that lame wannabe and "Dig's It' "Down In It" and BREAKS IT ALL IN THAT ASS!!!!

  • Fucking awesome... Ohgr's voice sounds funny :D but freakin cold :D

  • All you BEACHES' gett off Utube and go out and go see da SkINNY pUPPY live and then come back and post your comments, "K" !!!!

  • why do people keep complaining about down in it and this song. They're not that similar. they have their similar aspects, but not really. Trent really doesn't seem like somebody who would intentionally copy somebody else's music.

  • Trenty Reznor was listening to this song when he wrote it :D

    I do agree they're not that similar... just the beat.

  • In December 2009:

    Texas welcomes SKINNY PUPPY!!!!

  • Thats Real EBM Oldschool !!!! LOVE IT ;) !!!

  • This song influenced Trent to write Down In It.

  • Down in it ripped this off!

  • Yeah not only did he rip it off but he completely ruined it with fucking terrible lyrics.

  • dig it > down in it

  • What do you think the video means?

  • Does it really matter?

  • Life's a Game

  • i'm seeing skinny puppy in november can't fucking wait

  • Me to in Georgia.

  • Nasty song....but true,,

  • your wear your influences on your sleeve. explore.

  • Some on your skin

  • You know, Trent himself said in an interview that Down In It was kind of a knock off of this. Not dissing anyone, just saying. It kind of is. No ones better though.

  • It's funny to hear all the Trent defenders trashing S.P. (my band is NIN, has been for years) since the man himself goes out of his way to salute anybody doing things like him: totally boosting Marilyn Manson onto the scene, getting Peter Murphy and Gary Numan into his last concerts, giving people somewhere else to look since he's not going to be making music for a while, promoting new bands.

  • Why do people always argue about who's better? There's no point. NIN are great, Ministry are great, Skinny Puppy are great. Stop moaning and enjoy some decent tunes

  • Skinny Puppy's website just released the tour dates of their "IN SOLVENT SEE" tour which begins in october 30th 2009!!

  • DIG IT. DIG IT.

    Freedom... as an offering!!!!!

  • Skinny Puppy is a Canadian band, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1982.

    thank you.