that the album "marks a pinnacle in the band's career, at which they weren't merely peaking as musicians but also as friends," and that it was their "most focused recording". Writing for LA Weekly in 2017, Brett Callwood agreed with Harper by calling the album "genre-defining" and said, "The early Puppy albums are fantastic and important, but by the fourth, 1988’s VIVIsectVI, the group had really hit their stride." Callwood continued, praising the album's percussion effects as genuinely and frighteningly mechanical. In 2012, Chris Morgan of Treble labeled VIVIsectVI as one of the essential industrial albums, saying that the album "is not just mean and abrasive, but vile and scabrous, giving new meaning to the term 'infectious,' when it comes to electronic music." In 2021, Polish writer Jacek Szafranowicz described Skinny Puppy as at its best on VIVIsectVI. Accolades Track listing Personnel All credits adapted from VIVIsectVI liner notes Skinny Puppy Nivek Ogre – vocals cEvin Key – synthesizers, guitars, bass guitars, drums Dwayne Goettel – synthesizers, sampling Dave Ogilvie – production, engineering Additional personnel Steven R. Gilmore – design, photography, typography Greg Sykes – typesetting Kevin Westenberg – photography Charts References External links Ohio news report on Skinny Puppy's arrest in Cincinnati, released through cEvin Key's YouTube channel 1988 albums Skinny Puppy albums Nettwerk Records albums