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Inspired by the music of Nocturnal Emissions, Portion Control, and The Legendary Pink Dots, music which had been accessible to the band primarily via tape exchange, Skinny Puppy experiments with analog and digital recording techniques, composing multi-layered music with synthesizers, drum machines, acoustic percussion, tape-splices, found sounds, distortion, samplers, and conventional rock music instruments. They also incorporate samples from films and radio broadcasts into their songs, and apply liberal amounts of distortion and other effects to Ogre's vocals, which are often delivered in the stream of consciousness style. Lyrical themes include animal rights, politics, religion, horror, drug abuse, disease, and environmental degradation; these themes are often lyrically and conceptually intertwined. Skinny Puppy's often informal, improvisational approach to musical composition is indicated by use of the term brap, coined by them and defined as a verb meaning “to get together, hook up electronic instruments, get high, and record“. Skinny Puppy is noted for theatrical and controversial live performances that blend performance art with music, especially in an ambitious period that spanned their Head Trauma (1988), VIVIsectVI (1988), Too Dark Park (1990), and Last Rights (1992) tours. Live performances involve periods of musical improvisation, film projections, and elaborate stage props and machines. On-stage theatrics including Ogre being suspended from racks and cables, play with a hangman's noose, Key cutting steel with an angle grinder, and mock executions. :: Inquisition :: blatant manner speak parting bonding cement no longer holds parting bigots too young to grow old addicted romance love tested ailing from substance abuse wicked resenting never faced in itself torturer taints animal waste no environment torturer loving righteous read real-time intrusion fear's filtered for reasons unknown cancer attack bleaching dessert so sweet leaves bitter taste in her mouth forever tortured taints animal waste coroners creeping fear tasting force fed lies of the wicked acting out fears false truths turned around wicked torture wicked heed the wicked words of the torturer abusing and controlling anyone that's useful to him wicked waiting of the torturer wicked waits the torturer reads history truth seething believed poison eaten swallows turning away torturer taints animal with fate enlightenment turned away no change the wicked not facing himself controls turning away wicked torturer force fed torment animal torture torturer turning away wicked torturer turning away wicked not facing himself wicked turning away wicked turning away .. tortures the animal
