Dead Inside was another stylistic turnaround

Dead Inside (1996) was another stylistic turnaround for the Palominos, and their last proper album. This record had a deathly, industrial sound, with the line-up consisting only of Fier, multi-instrumentalist Knox Chandler (who before joining the Palominos, was also in a band with Lori Carson), Nicky Skopelitis, and poet Nicole Blackman . Blackman’s dark and deliberate lyrics (tellingly, Blackman had also recently worked with the industrial German band KMFDM ) made Dead Inside a challenging record; its sound and tone stand out as decidedly unlike any of the others. The album’s opener is a brutal, spoken-word track, “Victim”, which details a woman’s thoughts as she is abducted and eventually murdered by her kidnapper.