Nivek Ogre

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Nivek Ogre

Nivek Ogre (real name Kevin Graham Ogilvie) born December 5, 1962 is the vocalist best known for his work in the industrial

Industrial music

Industrial music comprises many styles of experimental music, including many forms of electronic music. The term was coined in the mid-1970s to describe Industrial Records artists....
band Skinny Puppy

Skinny Puppy

Skinny Puppy is a Canada band, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1982 in music. Initially envisioned as an experimental side project by cEvin Key while he was in the new wave band , Nivek Ogre soon joined as vocalist and Skinny Puppy evolved into a full-time project....
. Since that band featured another Kevin (Crompton, aka cEvin Key

CEvin Key

cEvin Key is the pseudonym of Kevin William Crompton , who was a founding member of the industrial music band Skinny Puppy, along with Nivek Ogre....
) and was produced by another Ogilvie (Dave, aka Rave

Dave Ogilvie

Dave "Rave" Ogilvie is a Canada record producer and musician. He is a producer of industrial music, and has been associated with bands such as Skinny Puppy , Marilyn Manson , Jakalope , Killing Joke, Alexz Johnson, Fake Shark - Real Zombie! and Johnny Hollow....
), Ogre's alias was practical as well as theatrical.

Ogre is the driving force behind Skinny Puppy's live shows which feature performance art, horror makeup and elaborate special effects.

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Nivek Ogre (real name Kevin Graham Ogilvie) born December 5, 1962 is the vocalist best known for his work in the industrial

Industrial music

Skinny Puppy

CEvin Key

Dave Ogilvie

Animal rights

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and the legalization of marijuana

Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as Marijuana or marihuana, or ganja , is a psychoactive drug extracted from the plant Cannabis sativa, or more often, Cannabis sativa subsp....
.

In the 1990s, the musical press reported on Ogre's heroin

Heroin

Heroin is a opioid synthesized from morphine, a derivative of the opium poppy. It is the 3,6-acetate ester of morphine . The white crystalline form is commonly the hydrochloride salt diacetylmorphine hydrochloride, however heroin Freebase may also appear as a white powder....
addiction, speculating that it was the source of band discord that might lead to Skinny Puppy's dissolution. Bandmate Dwayne Goettel

Dwayne Goettel

Dwayne Rudolph Goettel was a member of the industrial music band Skinny Puppy. He played keyboards for an early incarnation of the Canadian Gothic rock/synthpop band Psyche , as well as a band called Water, who opened for Skinny Puppy in 1985....
died from a heroin overdose in 1995

1995 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995....
. Ogre eventually recovered. He briefly downplayed his horror associations in the late 1990s, remarking that Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson (person)

Brian Hugh Warner , better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson, is an United Statesn musician and artist, known for his controversial stage persona and image as the lead singer of the Marilyn Manson ....
had co-opted and popularized his image. While working on the Rx

Rx (band)

? or Rx was a one-off side project by Skinny Puppy band member Nivek Ogre, in collaboration with Invisible Records founder Martin Atkins. The project was originally called Ritalin, but the name was changed for legal reasons....
project with Martin Atkins

Martin Atkins

Martin Clive Atkins , is a drummer and session musician best known for his work in post-punk and Industrial music groups including Public Image Ltd., Ministry , Pigface, and Killing Joke....
he told an interviewer that he preferred to be known as Kevin Ogilvie rather than as Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy, though since Skinny Puppy's comeback, he has gone back to N.Ogre.

Ogre has been involved with many industrial music

Industrial music

KMFDM

KMFDM is a Germany industrial rock/industrial metal band led by founding member Sascha Konietzko. They have sold over 2 million records worldwide....
, Rx

Rx (band)

Pigface

Pigface is an industrial rock supergroup formed in 1990 by Martin Atkins and William Rieflin.Pigface was formed from Ministry 's The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste tour, which produced the In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up live album and video....
, PTP

PTP (band)

The industrial music band PTP was a short-lived side project of Ministry 's Alain Jourgensen. The band's total recorded legacy consists of three songs....
, the Tear Garden

The Tear Garden

The Tear Garden is a psychedelic music/gothic rock/electronic music band, formed by Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy in 1985 after Key served Ka-Spel on tour in Canada as a sound engineer....
, the Revolting Cocks

Revolting Cocks

Revolting Cocks, also known as RevCo, is an United States Industrial rock band that began as a musical side-project for Richard 23 of Front 242, Luc Van Acker, and Al Jourgensen of Ministry ....
, Ministry

Ministry (band)

Ministry was an United States industrial metal band founded by frontman Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s....
, and his side project ohGr

OhGr

ohGr is a band formed by Nivek Ogre, of Skinny Puppy, and musician/engineer Mark Walk. Although the pedigree of the group's members might suggest otherwise, ohGr is not strictly an Industrial music group, as it draws heavily from elements of electro-pop and Heavy metal music....
. He also composed two music tracks for the computer game Descent II

Descent II

Descent II is a 3D computer graphics first-person shooter video game noted for popularizing the use of true 3D rendering technology and providing the player with six full degrees of freedom to move and to look around....
. His current projects include the reformed Skinny Puppy

Skinny Puppy

Skinny Puppy is a Canada band, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1982 in music. Initially envisioned as an experimental side project by cEvin Key while he was in the new wave band , Nivek Ogre soon joined as vocalist and Skinny Puppy evolved into a full-time project....
. Also, Nivek Ogre appears as Pavi Largo for the rock opera

Rock opera

A rock opera is a musical work that presents a storyline told over multiple parts, songs or sections. A rock opera differs from a conventional rock album, which usually includes songs that are unrelated to each other in terms of storyline....
film Repo! The Genetic Opera
Repo! The Genetic Opera

Repo! The Genetic Opera is a 2008 in film Cinema of the United States rock opera-musical film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. The film is based on a play written and composed by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich....
released in November 2008.

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