Those of you waiting on Silent Hill: Ascension won’t have to wait much longer. Developer Genvid Entertainment has announced that the new interactive series will launch on October 31 at 9pm Et/6pm Pt on the mobile streaming app or at Ascension.com, with pre-installation now available. Fans can prepare for the world premiere by pre-installing the free streaming app from the App Store and Google Play. This all coincides with a new trailer for the series that reveals the premiere date.
First revealed a year ago during Konami’s Silent Hill Transmission stream, this latest entry into the Silent Hill universe follows an ensemble of new characters across never-before-explored locations, tormented by new and terrifying Silent Hill monsters. Silent Hill: Ascension puts the main character’s fate in the audience’s hands, ultimately determining who faces redemption, suffering or damnation.
The experience is all tied together with a score...
First revealed a year ago during Konami’s Silent Hill Transmission stream, this latest entry into the Silent Hill universe follows an ensemble of new characters across never-before-explored locations, tormented by new and terrifying Silent Hill monsters. Silent Hill: Ascension puts the main character’s fate in the audience’s hands, ultimately determining who faces redemption, suffering or damnation.
The experience is all tied together with a score...
- 10/6/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
Skinny Puppy founder cEvin Key — aka Kevin Compton — has announced a new album of previously unreleased archival material, bRap and fOrth, vol. 9, and shared the song “House Tried to Kill Me.”
bRap and fOrth, vol. 9 continues Key’s ongoing “Back and Forth” series, which culls demos and recordings from the industrial pioneer’s vast archive of unreleased material. For the ninth iteration, he exhumed old four-track tapes hailing from Skinny Puppy’s Bites era — some of his earliest work.
A dance-y four-minute instrumental, “House Tried to Kill Me” is certainly reminiscent of the sound on Bites — old-school drum machines, ’80s sound effects, and homespun production abound — making it required listening for hardcore Skinny Puppy fans.
“‘bRap And fOrth 9’ is a collection of some of my earliest recordings recently discovered on four-track tapes,” Key remarked via Bandcamp. “Most are from 1985 from the infamous ‘Bites’ apartment, a couple more from later but still made on a four-track.
bRap and fOrth, vol. 9 continues Key’s ongoing “Back and Forth” series, which culls demos and recordings from the industrial pioneer’s vast archive of unreleased material. For the ninth iteration, he exhumed old four-track tapes hailing from Skinny Puppy’s Bites era — some of his earliest work.
A dance-y four-minute instrumental, “House Tried to Kill Me” is certainly reminiscent of the sound on Bites — old-school drum machines, ’80s sound effects, and homespun production abound — making it required listening for hardcore Skinny Puppy fans.
“‘bRap And fOrth 9’ is a collection of some of my earliest recordings recently discovered on four-track tapes,” Key remarked via Bandcamp. “Most are from 1985 from the infamous ‘Bites’ apartment, a couple more from later but still made on a four-track.
- 8/7/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
With Silent Hill: Ascension due out later this year, the team has started to divulge more info on the game. IGN has snagged an inside look at the game’s development, including news that cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy fame has signed on to be the composer for Silent Hill: Ascension.
The clip begins with Genvid Entertainment’ Cco Stephen Bugaj explaining the concept of the interactive streaming series, and how it (along with Ascension) is the next evolution of interactive television that builds off of the fundamentals that were created for Telltale Games and Netflix’s “Bandersnatch”.
“All of the viewers will interact with our series simultaneously. They will be influencing a continuously unfolding story canon that they all experience together,” says Bugaj. “Everyone sees the same thing, everyone participates in the same decisions. And when those decisions are made, that’s canon for everyone.”
Of course, seeing as it’s Silent Hill,...
The clip begins with Genvid Entertainment’ Cco Stephen Bugaj explaining the concept of the interactive streaming series, and how it (along with Ascension) is the next evolution of interactive television that builds off of the fundamentals that were created for Telltale Games and Netflix’s “Bandersnatch”.
“All of the viewers will interact with our series simultaneously. They will be influencing a continuously unfolding story canon that they all experience together,” says Bugaj. “Everyone sees the same thing, everyone participates in the same decisions. And when those decisions are made, that’s canon for everyone.”
Of course, seeing as it’s Silent Hill,...
- 7/12/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
As natural as it may seem for electronic music pioneers like Skinny Puppy's cEvin Key to compose music for horror movies, it's amazing that a project like this didn't come along much sooner: seven years ago, Key (aka Kevin Crompton) joined forces with two of his frequent collaborators – industrial music icon Ken “Hiwatt” Marshall and videogame composer Traz Damji – to form the instrumental unit Scaremeister, partnering with the Groove Addicts music library (today the Non-Stop Music/Warner Chappell library) to release a volume of 31 “mini-scores” suitable for horror features, trailers, TV shows and games. cEvin Key (and friend) in the studio Within a week of that first volume's release, Scaremeister had already licensed three of the tracks to major film studios and a video game developer. Since then, multiple cues from this ultra-creepy collection have made their way into trailers for Inglourious Basterds, My Bloody Valentine, Halloween 2 and many more,...
- 1/30/2014
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Best known to electronic music fans as one-half of iconic band Skinny Puppy (who also just released Weapon, one of their best albums in years), cEvin Key, alias Kevin Crompton, has also maintained several unique side projects, the most notable of which being his long-running experimental outfit Download. Formed in 1994 by Key, Phil “Philth” Western and Skinny Puppy member Dwayne Goettel (who passed away shortly after the release of their debut Ep), the band has seen input from a wide range of industrial music talent, including Genesis P. Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV), Mark Spybey (Dead Voices On Air) and frequent Skinny Puppy collaborator Ken “Hiwatt” Marshall. The core unit of Key and Western remains to this day, and their latest full-length album Lingam upholds their core of complex beat-driven electronica as the foundation for surreal and hypnotic soundscapes, constructed from a wide spectrum of digital and analog sources. If...
- 6/12/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
If you're a frequent visitor to these pages (of course you are, right?), you've no doubt seen many thousands of words dedicated to the output of Skinny Puppy, one of the most revered teams in the history of dark electronic music, with a three-decade-spanning body of work that includes multiple landmarks in the industrial, dance and experimental genres. After a lengthy hiatus, the band's core members Ogre (aka Kevin Ogilvie) and cEvin Key (aka Kevin Crompton) reunited in 2003 and returned to the studio along with the talented Mark Walk for the acclaimed album The Greater Wrong of the Right, and with only a brief hitch due to label issues (you can learn all about that and more in our in-depth interview with Ogre here), that core trio has been serving up intense, chilling and ultra-heavy records ever since. Their latest full-length Weapon continues the band's post-millennial focus on troubling social and political issues,...
- 5/28/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
As far as your humble writer is concerned, every new album release from legendary electronic music duo Skinny Puppy is a historic moment. But one thing that even their finest studio work – including their amazing 2011 album Handover – can't quite capture is the nightmarish, chaotic beauty that is a Skinny Puppy live performance. While that album was mired for years in a buttload of corporate crap – mainly due to their former label's financial crisis – two dark dreamers known as Ogre (alias Kevin Ogilvie) and Cevin Key (aka Kevin Crompton) weren't sitting around lamenting the record's possible fate... hell no, they were busy blowing minds in clubs and arenas all around the world with their twisted...
- 6/13/2012
- FEARnet
2011 is a banner year for experimental music icons Skinny Puppy and their many fans... and that includes your humble author, who got hooked on their dark moods, complex beats and horror-movie samples over two decades ago. Since the band reunited in 2004, co-founders Ogre (aka Kevin Ogilvie) and cEvin Key (aka Kevin Crompton) embraced new music technology and, as always, twisted and morphed it into new shapes and patterns that no one had heard before. Their third post-reunion release Handover had been languishing in bureaucratic hell, but this month it's risen at last, revealing itself to be the band's best work in decades. Songwriter & frontman Ogre is a lifelong horror fan just like us, and he's transitioned...
- 10/17/2011
- FEARnet
After two years of major complications with their record label, dark electronic music pioneers Skinny Puppy may finally be ready to uncage their long-awaited new album. While there's not a lock on the street date yet, a recent item from Side-Line magazine suggests that the completed record (the band's third studio release since they reunited in 2004) may actually arrive early next year. We've got more details from that update on the other side, so read on... Frontman Ogre (aka Kevin Ogilvie) and instrumentalist cEvin Key (aka Kevin Crompton) stand tall among the old guard of experimental electronic music, and the name of Skinny Puppy has been carved into underground club culture since the...
- 10/15/2010
- FEARnet
Aside from a mysterious post a couple weeks ago from the legendary experimental electro duo Skinny Puppy – who aren't known for maintaining much of an online presence – all we know is that the groundbreaking team of Ogre and cEvin Key (aka Kevin Ogilvie and Kevin Crompton) have a new album and tour in the works, and Fear friends, that's damn good news down here in the Music Catacombs. Elusive to the bitter end, the two Kevins just dropped enough info to keep us intrigued, and we'd be remiss if we didn't share. Read on! "We have taken over this site," the band mysteriously announced late last month on the band's MySpace (which has been fairly low-key since its inception around the...
- 8/11/2009
- FEARnet
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