"The Greater Wrong of the Right" by Skinny Puppy is one of my favorite albums of 2004. Here's an summery of Skinny Puppy's writing philosophy from an article in href="http://remixmag.com/artists/remix_dark_arts/">Remix magazine that I think says it all...
“We never sit down to write anything commercial, to write anything that really caters to any trend in music or any particular direction,” Key concludes. “We let ourselves be ourselves and just go back and try and discover why we make music to begin with. So in the end, I think there is a vibe that comes when you're not trying to fit in with a certain genre. We're not hip-hop. We're not house. We're not jungle. We're not a certain type of labeled vibe. People would like to call us industrial. But I think that's maybe a term that has come since. We just continue to do what we do because of the big question mark in the sky.”