The first thing that strikes you about this DVD is Steven R Gilmore’s sleeve design, which is on a par with the works of Dave McKean; one could study it for ages. The Greater Wrong Of The Right Live is a long overdue live release, whilst there have been other sought after Skinny Puppy DVDs, their videos are usually plagued by cheap effects and the live shows by murky lighting and incomprehensible vision. Whilst that has no doubt assisted Skinny Puppy’s image as inacessible industrial doom merchants, after 25 years in the business their audience is surely deserved of something of a little more clarity.

Therefore, The Greater Wrong Of The Right Live is a real treat for fans of the highly influential Canadian industrialists, consisting of Ogre (vocals), cEvin Key (synths, percussion), William Morrison (guitar, bass), and Justin Bennett (drums). The show was recorded from footage taken in Toronto and Montreal during 2004, complete with computer-animated effects that are not only shown via an on-stage screen, but are also occasionally integrated into the production as full-screen animations.

The performance opens with 3 tracks from Skinny Puppy’s latest album The Greater Wrong Of The Right, as Ogre ambles onto the stage practically mummified in bandages, and wearing a peculiar, beaked devil worshipper’s mask. The whole set is visually impressive, with plenty of access to the individual band members, and Ogre is his usual theatrical self – throwing plenty of oblique body shapes. The track Protest is an early highlight, with Ogre already dripping with self-applied stage blood, his celebrated stage act.

As the show continues, SP fans are treated to 16 tracks, plus 3 encores – as Ogre slowly unravels his stage costume to reveal his full self, ending up looking like a bloodied vietnam war veteran in his soaked bandana, vest and combats. Both he and the band blaze through back catalogue big hitters such as VX Gas Attack, Warlock, Hardsethead, Reclamation, Convulsion, Testure, and Smothered Hope. My only quibble concerns the recording itself, which seems somewhat detached from the performance, these days artists are all-too-ready to enhance the results of the soundboard/mixing desk in the studio, which often results in a sound that is very much detached from the performance. It looks live, but doesn’t sound it.

Meanwhile, Disc 2 offers a variety of extras including an Information Warfare documentary – in-keeping with SP’s political inclinations, archive live footage from their previous Last Rights and Too Dark Park tours, the excellent video for the single Protest, and best of all – a lengthy video documentary of the band during their live European Tour of 1988. This is very much a homemade video, compiled and edited by Ogre himself, which gives a great deal of insight into the band member’s personas, although only hinting at their drug-fuelled past, which eventually led to the death of band member Dwayne Goettel in 1995.

Overall, much of the contents of this double-DVD will be like the Holy Grail to Skinny Puppy fans, a lot of the footage on the bonus disc has never even been seen before. Therefore, The Greater Wrong Of The Right Live is easily the best visual representation of the band to date.