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Concert Fri Nov 14 2008
America is killing ohGr with bacon
Normally, you wouldn't find me listening to a pop-industrial album. It's just a segment of music that I don't appreciate all too often. I may have just changed my mind about that, though & it's all thanks to Skinny Puppy's Nick Ogre and his new album. His group, ohGr, have been going strong for quite a while now and the music has really evolved. Nowadays, it's a superb mix of metal, industrial, pop, electronic, and something very close to being considered spoken word. If you're scratching your head and asking yourself how this could possibly be something that you'd want to listen to, then you're not alone. A couple of trips through the Devils in my Details, though, you'll be wondering why you never listened to this stuff before. The album, simply, rocks. The most interesting and endearing bits of the album, for me, are the brief poetry-laden interludes, such as one gem titled "Feelin' Chicken." The kicker of that particular track is the hook: "You're killing me with bacon, America!" which Ogre manages to punch in just the requisite manner.
Nick Ogre will be bringin the ohGr sound to the Double Door Sunday Nov. 30, tickets are $20. Chris Connelly will be opening up. If you can't make the show, there's another way to get your dose of Ogre; he's in the incredibly hyped, Paris Hilton featuring, goth musical, REPO! The Genetic Opera.
tmi / November 17, 2008 12:15 AM
Actually it's "Nivek", not "Nick."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivek_Ogre