1. Nivek Ogre has been involved with several other musicians including the Al Jourgensen bands Ministry and Revolting Cocks, Pigface and Rx with Martin Atkins, and KMFDM.
56 Facts About Nivek Ogre
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Nivek Ogre has on several occasions worked as an actor in low-budget horror films.
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Nivek Ogre was born on December 5,1962, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Nivek Ogre was interested in magic and had attempted to become a magician, joining the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
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Nivek Ogre entertained his parents with magic shows, during which his tricks would often fail humorously.
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Nivek Ogre would write several pages at a time and then play around with what he had written.
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Nivek Ogre has cited the Cure's Pornography, David Bowie's Scary Monsters, and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's Organisation as pivotal records during his youth.
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Nivek Ogre said that Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures introduced him to "the dark side of music"; he soon found himself gravitating towards musicians such as Throbbing Gristle, Portion Control, and Front 242.
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Nivek Ogre left Calgary for Vancouver, British Columbia at the age of twenty.
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Nivek Ogre was further troubled by the death of his father and a divorce from his wife.
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Nivek Ogre was roommates with Images in Vogue member Gary Blair Smith when he met cEvin Key, the drummer for Smith's band, at a party.
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Nivek Ogre met future collaborator Steven Gilmore, whom he learned had attended Ernest Manning High School in Calgary.
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Key asked Nivek Ogre to join his project, Skinny Puppy, an invitation he accepted.
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Nivek Ogre described the Too Dark Park tour as his career high point, during which he ran off what he called "car-crash energy".
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Key and Goettel returned to Vancouver with the tapes while Nivek Ogre decided to stay in Los Angeles.
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Nivek Ogre quit Skinny Puppy in June 1995, two months before Goettel died from a heroin overdose.
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Nivek Ogre joined the Banff Centre as an artist-in-residence in spring 2000 before reuniting with Key to perform at the Doomsday Festival in Dresden as Skinny Puppy.
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Nivek Ogre was kept on the label for three years, unable to do anything with the recordings.
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Nivek Ogre and Walk landed a deal with Spitfire Records, but were unable to retrieve their original master recordings from American.
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The tour was the first time in 25 years Nivek Ogre performed in his hometown of Calgary.
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Nivek Ogre had been unresponsive with regards to when the band would be paid, which had forced them to release the album digitally and tour without merchandise to sell.
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Nivek Ogre asked Jourgensen if he would produce the 1989 Skinny Puppy album Rabies, a job he accepted.
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Nivek Ogre next worked with Jourgensen on the Ministry album The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste, receiving credit as a writer on the song "Thieves".
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Nivek Ogre introduced Jourgensen to Toronto native Angelina Lukacin whose voice was recorded for the album closer "Dream Song".
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Nivek Ogre joined Ministry on tour contributing guitars, keyboards, and vocals.
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Nivek Ogre had worked with Jourgensen in the industrial group Revolting Cocks, originally as a touring member.
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Nivek Ogre mentioned that he "had a gas" while on tour, referring to it as an initiation; "My brain was rotating about four feet above my head".
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Nivek Ogre continued to work with the group by providing vocals for their 1990 effort Beers, Steers, and Queers.
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When Nivek Ogre was again invited to tour with the band, he declined, explaining that his friendship with Jourgensen had become strained.
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Nivek Ogre became involved with Pigface, an industrial music collective formed by Martin Atkins, on their 1990 debut Gub.
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Nivek Ogre sang on the song "Tapeworm" and was featured on the 1991 live album Welcome to Mexico.
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Nivek Ogre contributed to the studio albums Fook and Notes from Thee Underground, and the live album Truth Will Out as a guitarist.
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Nivek Ogre again teamed up with Atkins to form the band Ritalin, later renamed Rx.
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The duo's only release, 1998's Bedside Toxicology, provided a showcase for Nivek Ogre's singing, something which he had worked on while spending time in Seattle.
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Nivek Ogre made several contributions to KMFDM, providing vocals for the song "Torture" on their 1997 album Symbols.
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Nivek Ogre joined the band as a guest musician for their Symbols tour.
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Nivek Ogre said of his experience: "There was a really great vibe on that tour and I really got along with all the people and it gave me a chance to laugh maniacally".
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Nivek Ogre worked with KMFDM again in 1999, singing on the songs "That's All" and "Full Worm Garden" for the album Adios.
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Nivek Ogre appeared on The Final Cut's 1991 debut album, Consumed, alongside Chris Connelly, and provided Monster Voodoo Machine a remix of the song "Copper Theft" on their 1994 album Defense Mechanism.
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Nivek Ogre worked with Mark Walk on several tracks for the 1996 video game Descent II and later on a remix of "Smothered Hope" for the album Remix dystemper in 1998.
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Nivek Ogre covered the song "Borderline" by Madonna for the album Virgin Vocies 2000: A Tribute to Madonna and appeared on cEvin Key's 2001 solo album, The Ghost of Each Room.
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Nivek Ogre supplied a remix of the track "Wraith" for John Carpenter's 2014 album Lost Themes and contributed to the 2015 Demons remix album.
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Nivek Ogre started off his career as a "non-singer", with his vocals often heavily treated with effects.
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Nivek Ogre later said that singing without treated vocals allowed him to express himself in ways he'd never been able to with Skinny Puppy.
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Nivek Ogre continued this method with Bedside Toxicology, during the production of which he said he learned that not only could he compose music, but he could harmonize with his voice.
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Nivek Ogre considered the Too Dark Park tour to be a career high point and one of his favorites, and included several large set pieces, one of which, the stilt-man, involved Ogre walking on stilts while operating a pair of hydraulic crutches as he lurched towards the audience.
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Nivek Ogre toned down the use of props for his performances with ohGr, wanting the shows to instead focus on music.
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Nivek Ogre told the San Francisco Examiner that he had disliked his early work with Skinny Puppy, saying that he thought of himself as a "ham-fisted hack".
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However, Nivek Ogre nixed the idea as he felt the song sounded too "techno-y"; he later regretted this decision when he found out the film's star Brandon Lee liked the song.
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Nivek Ogre later appeared as Harper Alexander in the Tim Sullivan film 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, replacing Giuseppe Andrew who had played the character in the film's 2005 predecessor.
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Nivek Ogre reunited with Bousman for the 2012 horror musical short The Devil's Carnival and its accompanying road tour as The Twin.
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Nivek Ogre appeared in the 2014 film Queen of Blood, the spiritual successor to director Chris Alexander's debut film.
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Nivek Ogre was featured in the 2016 documentary Diary of a Dead Beat, which follows the career of filmmaker Jim Van Bebber.
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Nivek Ogre is known for being a staunch supporter of animal rights, often condemning animal testing as being "pointless".
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Nivek Ogre has more specifically explained his grievances with cases such as monkeys faces being crushed in laboratories to test car crash physics models or vivisections performed on dogs.
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Nivek Ogre was admitted into hospital while touring with Pigface in Sweden.