official Covenant Forum

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Download successfully merged the sonic depth of IDM with the aggression and intensity that had been Skinny Puppy's trademark. With its basis in collective improvisation, Furnace eschewed the freeze-dried clichés of EBM, industrial dance, and by-the-numbers techno. As confrontational as it was trippy, it was an electronic music that was alive and breathing, at once archaic and futuristic-ritual music from space. While they shared some of the same DNA, this band and Skinny Puppy were entirely different animals