Neither 'Right' nor 'Wrong,' just bad

It should be enough to just say that the new Skinny Puppy album is industrial, one of those genres that was really cool and edgy for a few months in the mid-'90s, but like other popular-for-an-instant musical gimmicks (ska, for example), it never went anywhere; its highest achievement was somewhere between Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral and KMFDM's Money. The fact that both of those acts have effectively vanished should give some hint about the genre's viability.\nHonestly, there is nothing on this CD that hasn't been done before, and most bands that already did it have done it better. The first song starts off with cringe-inducing nu-metal guitars and then segues into, you guessed it, vaguely chilling-sounding dance music. Some tracks like "Empte," "Use Less" and "Past Present" are upbeat and relatively interesting, whereas others like "Neuwerld" are grating and mind-numbing -- the latter features a long segment of a droning bassline with a distorted voice moaning "neeew woooooorld ooooorder" over and over again -- yes, this album is only a few silver jumpsuits away from finishing Psychotica's job of validating every negative stereotype industrial music ever created.\nAt its highest level of achievement, The Greater Wrong of the Right sounds like a bargain bin imitation of Ibiza hack Robert Miles -- this album is so bad that I'm starting to think it's a parody of itself. It's about as endearing as a 90 minute loop of the "Macarena" (and slightly less inventive); your $14 would be better saved towards a gun for suicide.