VIVISectVI
by Skinny Puppy
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Skinny Puppy bestography
VIVISectVI is ranked 2nd best out of 26 albums by Skinny Puppy on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Skinny Puppy is Too Dark Park which is ranked number 4648 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 308.
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VIVISectVI track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
VIVISectVI rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  ERadio | Top 45 Music Albums of 1988 | 44/45 | 0 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 49/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | CripplingAutism | Top 71 Music Albums of the 1980s | 28/71 | 12 |
| 2026 |  btener11 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 55/100 | 9 |
| 2026 |  deadhouse | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 71/100 | 29 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 83 Music Albums of 1988 | 77/83 | 0 |
| 2025 | PapaShiz86 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1988 | 49/50 | 0 |
| 2025 |  TheDarkOrb | Top 83 Music Albums of the 1980s | 56/83 | 7 |
| 2025 | TheDarkOrb | Top 11 Music Albums of 1988 | 9/11 | 1 |
| 2024 |  fastcore | Top 50 Greatest Music Albums | 5/50 | 73 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 38 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 272 | |||
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VIVISectVI ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/19/2026 20:40 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,782 | 70/100 |
| ! | 08/31/2024 16:46 |  nmte | 332 | 56/100 |
| ! | 01/13/2024 19:50 | btener11 | 3,912 | 80/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.2/100, a mean average of 72.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.2.
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VIVISectVI forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/02/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5361): By deadhouse imacgill 01/15/2026 02:48 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
NoisyBeast 01/08/2017 02:22 in What album are you listening to right now?VIVISectVI comments
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The output is both surreal and nightmarish, fueled by angst, doubt, fear, rage, uncertainty and unrelenting introspection. Imagine being inside a world designed by Edvard Munch and Salvadore Dali while a horror movie is projected on the wall and a radio turned up too loud spits out war coverage news. The sound often intentionally lacks cohesion allowing the music and lyrics to wildly ramble along to some bizarre stream of consciousness. Chopped phrases are parsed together to form a sort of dark poetic montage as opposed to even attepting sentence structure. The music follows a similar process whereby spoken samples, noises, electronic stabs and harsh, often reverse sounding, beats come together forming a wicked, evil brew. To the neophyte listener the sound is imposing ans scary barely bordering on "music". However it really does start to make sense with time. I think that is the true brilliance of this album; after hundreds of listens the hidden beauty is not only apparent, it's glaringly obvious. My friends are always amazed that I can clearly hear every word and discern each melody. Somehow this album that at first seems like a wall of noise and chaos seeps into your soul and becomes as clean to you personally as though it were a single violin.
If you find that the album is just too dense and impenetrable then focus on the first half which is slightly more direct. The singles "Who's Laughing Now?" and "Testure" have fairly accessible beats. Another favorite from the first half, "Harsh Stone White", is very creepy but there is also clarity. Industrial heads revere this album as one of the all-time greats; it has always been a Puppy fan favorite probably 2nd only to 'Too Dark Park'. The album, and the band in general, will be difficult for newcomers, requiring a conscious effort to fight through the madness. This isn't easy listening, but nothing that matters is easy.
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/28/2013 19:50 | #82620 | TOP COMMENT
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If you can get through the bleak tone and jarring noise, this album has a pretty scathing message about animal rights. The sound and lyrics together are hard to ignore.
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