roman numerals for 666 coupled with the word "sect". It is pronounced "vivisect six". Composition and content Musically, VIVIsectVI is an electronic industrial album that is characterized by chaos, repetitive loops, and layers. The music, described as "manic" and "dense", presents a sonic wall that is difficult to penetrate upon initial listening. The band emphasizes programmed drum machine loops and rhythms which are augmented by the production to sound overpoweringly mechanical. On the liner notes, a message reads, "Play this music loud or not at all". Ogre's vocals range from low, indiscernible moans to screams and shrieks. AllMusic writer Bradley Torreano noted that Ogre was one of the few vocalists in the industrial genre whose voice "sounded poetic amongst the noise and beats". VIVIsectVI is characterized by its profusion of sounds and noises, often perceived as conflicting or cacophonous, but, as Torreano writes, it never becomes overbearing. Along with all the intensely overwhelming washes of noise, the album incorporates grooves and dance music moments. VIVIsectVI begins with "Dogshit", a song that would go on to become one of the album's two 12-inch singles under the title "Censor". Alongside Ogre's shouted, enigmatic vocals and the loud industrial sounds, a fretless bass leads the song's groove and eventually gives way to one of the band's rare early instances of electric guitar. Following that is "VX Gas Attack", which starts with a protracted newscast punctuated by stilted drum machine beats and occasional samples. The rest of the song continues to criticize the employment of chemical weapons and is built around a repeating percussion loop broken up with further news sound bites and occasional bass. The album's third track, "Harsh Stone White", is slow and "brooding". It focuses on drug addiction, which would be the cause of Goettel's death in 1995. Despite the song's gloomy atmosphere and topic, the synthesized electronics are bright and comparatively optimistic. This contrast between traditionally upbeat, occasionally beautiful sounds and an oppressively industrial tone is an ongoing motif in Skinny Puppy's music, further heightened by the variety in Ogre's vocals, which go from agonized to manic often in the same song. The album's fourth track, "Human Disease (S.K.U.M.M.)", is another song built around and dominated by artificial percussion. Halfway through, the song undergoes a drastic shift from breakneck drum loops to a greater emphasis on electronics and samples. Extremely distorted guitars are employed in the latter section. The track