Me and Ogre Backstage at a Ministry Concert
Skinny Puppy Vocalist Nivek Ogre (real name Kevin Ogilvie) Turns 48 today! Happy Birthday, Ogre!
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Pandemonium Online Full Archives Now Available!
Back From The Dead and Bigger Than Ever
People do not return from the dead; but sometimes websites do. The long dead and buried Seattle-based rock and pop culture website, Pandemonium Online, aka Pando Mag Dot Com is now back online as a museum of 90s rock that you can waste literally days perusing. This is very exciting news for me an all of the other great writers who contributed passionately and faithfully to Pandemonium for years, only to have their brilliant work expunged from the web once the site went down in the late 90s. Continue reading Pandemonium Online Full Archives Now Available!
Throbbing Gristle in a Box
Still functioning Gristleizer Unit from 1977 (Image Source)
If you want to do your homework on which band or artist actually invented what we now euphemistically refer to as “Industrial” music, you’re going to have to dig past Trent Reznor and Skinny Puppy to get to the true pioneers of the genre, the ‘70s British quartet Throbbing Gristle.