Industrial pioneers Skinny Puppy will be resurrected for a one-off show at the Doomsday Festival in Dresden, Germany, this weekend, and although fans won't be treated to any more such performances in the foreseeable future, they will be able to relive the event on record.

The band's cEvin Key told MTV News that the August 20 performance is being recorded for a release on the Nettwerk label with a working title of "Back And Forth Volume 5: Live Doomsday," a follow-up to four previous volumes of live Skinny Puppy material.

Audiophiles, however, will be missing half the show without the visual component, which will also be made available to fans. The performance is being filmed in 35mm format and will be issued on DVD.

Past band appearances have been considered performance art as much as concerts, and the always inventive Puppy is pulling out all the stops for the festival appearance. Sources report visual effects companies in Vancouver and Germany have been working hard on the project for the past three months or more, and film director/visual artist Jörg Buttgereit ("Nekromantik," "Der Todesking") is reportedly playing a major role in the production.

"We will be keeping it as as true to the Skippy Puppy form as possible," Key said, confirming that the production will feature a tribute to keyboardist Dwayne "Duck" Goettel, who succumbed to a drug overdose in 1995. Goettel will not be replaced onstage.

Also missing will be the band's unofficial fourth member, producer/programmer/live sound engineer Dave "The Rave" Ogilvie, these days much in demand with production credits including Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, and Ministry. According to Key, the estranged Ogilvie declined an invitation to take part in the production. His place is being taken by Greg Reely.

Skinny Puppy, considered a forerunner to groups such as NIN and Manson, formed in Vancouver and first recorded in 1983 with frontman Nivek Ogre (Kevin Ogilvie) and keyboardist/programmer Key (Kevin Crompton). They gelled with the addition of Goettel in 1986 and they last performed live together in Chicago in July 1992.

The band imploded during the recording of its final album, "The Process," which was started in 1993 and eventually released in 1996. Ogre went on to form W.E.L.T., while Key and Goettel formed Download, which also included Philth (Phil Western), Mark Spybey, and later Anthony Valcic.

Download, which now features just Key and Philth (with help from Dutchman Bill Van Rooy), also has a new release on deck. That album, recorded in Los Angeles and titled "Effector," is due out October 24, also on Nettwerk.

Also scheduled for release in the near future on the Nettwerk/Subconscious label is an album called "Crystal Mass" by Tear Garden, a band anchored by Key and Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots. A Key solo album titled "The Ghost Of Each Room" will likely be issued next spring on Metropolis.

Tear Garden will launch a short tour of Europe on September 1 before touring North America with yet another Key act, Plateau (which also features Western), November 5 through December 12. Also on that bill is Download, which puts Key onstage with all three bands.

Meanwhile, Ogre will finally release an album with collaborator Mark Walk under the project name OHGR. The album, titled "W.E.L.T.," should be out in October on the Spitfire label.

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Some Skinny Puppy fans were in for a bit of a shock when they bought the band's new remix album, "Remix Dys Temper." Instead of the godless goth rock of the defunct industrial veterans, they heard songs by a very godly gospel group.

Nettwerk's Kim Hardy confirmed reports that a screw up at the EMD pressing plant in Jacksonville resulted in 6,000 copies of the Puppy product being shipped with Puppy packaging intact including the label copy, but with a different band's music. The CD actually featured tracks from an album called "Worship Song" by a Christian duo with the moniker Weeding of the Lamb.

Hardy added that the same problem once happened to Puppy's Nettwerk rostermate Sarah McLachlan when some fans buying copies of her ethereal "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" actually heard the decidedly non-ethereal Ozzy Osbourne.

"Dys Temper" was released last week. (see "Deftones, KMFDM, Ogre Added To Skinny Puppy Mix"). Buyers receiving an erroneous CD can return it, keep it as collectors' item or use it as a party prank.

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The much anticipated remix album from industrial legends Skinny Puppy finally has a release date. A spokesperson for Nettwerk Records confirms the record should be out October 20.

The latest notables to be added to mix include the Deftones, KMFDM and Puppy vocalist Nivek Ogre. Orge's appearance will be in tandem with his WELT mate Mark Walk.

The Deftones have chosen the song "Spasmolytic," KMFDM is taking on "Addiction," and Ogre and Walk are bringing life back to "Smothered Hope."

As previously reported by MTV News, they join God Lives Underwater, Josh Wink, Chris Vrenna, Adrian Sherwood, Autechre, Rhys Fulber, Gang Starr and Ruby, among others.

Meanwhile, Ogre and Walk are also set to resurrect WELT, which never did see the light of day thanks to problems with the label, American Recordings. And Ogre has also recently teamed up with Martin Atkins to form a project they're calling "Ritalin." They've just released an album titled "Bedside Toxicology."

Skinny Puppy recorded eight albums including their full length debut in 1985, and 1996's "The Process," released after the band disintegrated.

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God Lives Underwater will be popping up on the pending Skinny Puppy remix album, and the band is also organizing what's turning into a major tribute to Depeche Mode.

Project manager Jeff Antebi confirms that GLU will be participating on the as yet unnamed Skinny Puppy record for the Nettwerk label, but adds that a specific song has yet to be chosen. GLU will be joining fellow Philadelphian Josh Wink (song TBA) along with Chris Vrenna ("Assimilate"), Adrian Sherwood ("Tin Omen"), Autechre (TBA), Rhys Fulber ("Worlock") and Ruby ("Smothered Hope").

Antebi says he's looking for artist-oriented remixes and expects to add another three to five tracks to the record. There's no release date or album title at this time.

Skinny Puppy were pioneers of the industrial goth genre and stood shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Ministry and Nine Inch Nails. They were first formed in 1982 and disintegrated in the early 1990s.

GLU will be squeezing the Puppy remix into a schedule that includes a current tour supporting their just released second album, "Life in the So-Called Space Age," and overseeing their pet project, a tribute record honoring Depeche Mode. California's BAM magazine reports that the tribute, called "For the Masses," is shrouded in secrecy, but will probably feature GLU ("Fly on the Windscreen"), the Cure ("World in My Eyes"), Trent Reznor ("Personal Jesus"), Smashing Pumpkins ("Never Let Me Down Again"), Failure ("Enjoy the Silence"), Meat Beat Manifesto ("Everything Counts"), Apollo Four Forty ("I Feel You"), Dishwalla ("Policy of Truth"), Deftones ("To Have and to Hold"), Monster Magnet ("Black Celebration"), Hooverphonic ("Shake the Disease"), Smashmouth ("People are People"), Foo Fighters ("Master & Servant"), and Self ("Shame"). The album is due in August.

The glue of GLU is the songwriting/programming/guitar team of David Reilly and Jeff Turzo. They're joined on the road by drummer Scott Garrett and guitarist Andrew McGee.

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June 26 [10:00 EDT] -- Nettwerk Records confirms there's an album of Skinny Puppy remixes in the works. The record won't appear until next spring the earliest, though. "There's a lot of work to be done," says Nettwerk's Ric Arboit.

Arboit says it's premature to say who'll will be contributing ("you'll know when I know," says Arboit) and offers up a specific 'no comment' on reports that the ubiquitous Trent Reznor will be in the mix. Reznor's rumored involvement is a natural progression given that Puppy's longtime production guru Dave 'The Rave' Ogilvie, considered to be the trio's fourth member, will likely to be the man of the hour on the remixes and that Ogilvie is firmly entrenched in the Reznor camp.

Ogilvie has production credits ranging from David Bowie to Ministry to Marilyn Manson, and most recently he engineered Nine Inch Nails' "The Perfect Drug" for Reznor. He's currently recording Rob Halford's band, now called Two, signed to Rezor's Nothing Records and is expected to work on the new NIN effort.

The trailblazing industrial Skinny Puppy was formed in Vancouver, Canada in 1983 and the final line-up of Nivek Ogre, Cevin Key and Dwayne Goettel gelled in 1986. The band disintegrated during the recording of their final album, Process, in 1995. Ogre went on to W.E.L.T. and other projects while Key and Goettel formed Download. Goettel died a short time later of a drug overdose.

Arboit adds that there will be a new Download record this year. He says to expect "Download III" to be released in the fall. The album includes Key, Phillith (Phil Western), Anthony Valcic and Joe Vizvary.

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