[281] Other artists of significance to Nine Inch Nails include acts such as Depeche Mode,[283] Queen, King Crimson, Devo,[284] The Cure, Joy Division, U2, Bauhaus,[285] Adam Ant,[281] Coil,[286] and Soft Cell. [40] In the liner notes, Reznor credited the 1991 Nine Inch Nails touring band as an influence on the EP's sound. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards. It's all here. [274] These techniques are all used in the song "Hurt", which contains a highly dissonant tritone played on guitar during the verses, a B5#11, emphasized when Reznor sings the eleventh note on the word "I" every time the B/E# dyad is played. [256], Songs such as "Wish" and "The Day the World Went Away" exhibit terraced dynamics. [241], On May 6, 2021, Nine Inch Nails released a new track, "Isn't Everyone"[242] in collaboration with noise rock group HEALTH, who had previously been an opening act on their Lights In The Sky and Wave Goodbye tours. The original clips compiled with live shots appear on, Unreleased, Snippet appeared on shynola.com, "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" (Live At Rehearsals). Time magazine named Reznor one of its most influential people in 1997, while Spin magazine has described him as "the most vital artist in music". I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. Jimmy Iovine got involved with Interscope, and we kind of got slave-traded. Duke and Steve worked with me on the remix, in the very early days of Garbage. We're In This Together. Reznor went on to say that he hated Interscope, and in later years the "climate" of record labels may have an increasingly ambivalent impact on consumers who buy music. Also, its point is clear: Humans are debased creatures and mere machines of flesh, mired in filth and damnation. The original version of the "Down in It" video ended with the implication that Reznor's character had fallen off a building and died in the street. 14.4m members in the creepy community. [105], Nine Inch Nails launched a North American arena tour in Autumn 2005, supported by Queens of the Stone Age, Autolux and Death from Above 1979. [49] The only track that was left off the final version of the release is the remix of "Last", produced by Butch Vig (the outro of the "Last" remix is heard in "Throw This Away", which also includes Reznor's remix of "Suck"). [92] After seeing the music video, which later won a Grammy,[93] Reznor himself became a fan of the rendition: I pop the video in, and wow Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps Wow. [80], Before the album's release, the song "Starfuckers, Inc." provoked media speculation about whom Reznor had intended its acerbic lyrics to satirize. In another post on his website, Reznor again openly criticized Universal Music Group for preventing him from launching an official interactive fan remix website. There was no context provided, no Wiki page to reference And when I unveiled it with my friends on my bedroom VHS player, it was worth every penny: Scary and gross and awesome.". Even though anyone with an internet connection can watch the film now, it remained underground and almost impossible to find over most of its life. [67] In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it 200 among "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". [4] In 2006, Nine Inch Nails went on tour with Bauhaus, on their Summer Amphitheatre Tour. FF2 Something went wrong. Writing on his blog, Sheridan noted, "I found this video at the bootleg VHS stand at a local comic book convention, sitting between duped Red Dwarf compilations and home video of early Nirvana shows. In 2020, Nine Inch Nails simultaneously released two further instalments in the Ghosts series: Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts. JavaScript please! The government is a Christian fundamentalist theocracy, maintaining control of the populace through institutions like the Bureau of Morality and the First Evangelical Church of Plano. [123], Reznor planned a film adaption of the album[124] and noted Year Zero as "part of a bigger picture of a number of things I'm working on. [111], The story takes place in the United States in 2022, which has been termed "Year 0", by the government, being the year America was reborn. Not like [2018s Cold Black Infinite tour] era Its over.[247], Nine Inch Nails has been described as incorporating alternative rock,[248][249][250] industrial rock,[251][252][253][254] industrial dance,[4] industrial,[4][255][256] electro-industrial,[257] industrial metal,[258][259][260] electronic rock,[261][262][263] and alternative metal. [118][119], The album's first single, "Survivalism", and other tracks from Year Zero were released as multitrack audio files for fans to remix. [131][132] The album was created improvisationally over a 10-week period and contributors included Atticus Ross, Alan Moulder, Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew, and Brian Viglione.[133]. It was later nominated for the Best Alternative Music Album award at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. Despite an apology from producer Kenneth Ehrlich, Reznor later heavily criticized the situation. With Teeth. [53] Reznor elaborated the album's themes into lyrics. On May 7, they announced they would be playing two shows in Cleveland (September 21 and 23, 2021) with the Pixies to commemorate their inauguration into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which, according to the band, would be "the only NIN headline shows in 2021". From the get-go, the intention was to create something nauseating and revolting. In November of 2020, Nine Inch Nails was finally, fittingly inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the year after NIN legend Trent Reznor inducted fellow black-clad musical iconsThe Cure into the same halls. [13] Ultimately, Nine Inch Nails entered into a joint venture with Interscope Records in which Reznor forfeited a portion of his publishing rights to TVT Music in exchange for the freedom of having his own Nothing Records imprint. "[325], The music of Nine Inch Nails has reportedly been used by the U.S. military as music torture to break down the resolve of detainees. Following a hiatus, Nine Inch Nails resumed touring in 2005 and released the album With Teeth (2005). It featured songs from his "My Beautiful Dark Twisted . Also in 1994, the band released the promotional single "Burn", which Reznor produced, on the soundtrack of Oliver Stone film Natural Born Killers. [203] However, they once again did not get inducted. 1. [147] Nine Inch Nails art director and webmaster Rob Sheridan noted on the band's official website: This is yet another example of a devoted fanbase and a policy of openness combining to fill in blanks left by old media barriers. So unfortunately a lot of people, especially kids, started to believe that it was a real snuff movie. Percussion looms large, distorted, organic, looped, screwed, spindled and broken. It was ranked No. The 23-day journey extended throughout the continental US, with experimental hip-hop group Death Grips scheduled to open most of the shows. In 2009, Apple rejected an update to Nine Inch Nails' iPhone application, NIN: Access, because it found The Downward Spiral to contain "offensive or obscene content", referring to the lyrical content. "They signed us under the misconception of what they thought we were going to be versus what we really were," Reznor said in a 1992 interview. April 2, 2020. When touring, Reznor typically assembles a live band to perform with him under the Nine Inch Nails name. David Fincher directed a video for "Only" with primarily computer-generated imagery. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [77] Around this time, Reznor's studio perfectionism,[78] struggles with addiction, and bouts of writer's block prolonged the production of The Fragile. [185] The second single, "Copy of A", was released on August 12 free of charge to US and UK Amazon.com account holders. Reznor's singing follows a similar pattern, frequently moving from whispers to screams. Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Trent Reznor was the only permanent member of the band until his frequent collaborator, Atticus Ross, joined in 2016. While living in Cleveland in 1987, Trent Reznor played keyboards in the Exotic Birds, a synthpop band managed by John Malm Jr.[1]:38 Reznor became friends with Malm,[2] who informally became his manager when he left to work on his own music. But it went from being the best to the worst. But behind the scenes, Reznor was miserable, and that misery would fuel the dark EP that would arrive in Pretty Hate Machine's wake: 1992's Broken. That's a hard thing to watch. [279], Nine Inch Nails' earliest influence was the punk rock band The Clash; Reznor stated that he started out trying to directly imitate them, only to abandon that direction due to his lack of a political message. Songs are often rearranged to fit any given performance, and melodies or lyrics of songs that are not scheduled to be performed are sometimes assimilated into other songs. Eventually, NIN would sign with Interscope a smart move and during this transitionBrokenand its snuff film were produced. It was your own dark, little secret, which made it all the more powerful. I guess it's interesting that it's achieved a certain notoriety. [4] Studio owner Bart Koster granted Reznor free access to the studio between bookings to record demos,[5][6] commenting that it cost him nothing more than "a little wear on [his] tape heads". Several songs from the album became regulars on alternative rock radio stations, however the album dropped to number 16 and slipped out of the Billboard Top 10 only a week after its release, resulting in the band setting a record for the biggest drop from number one, which has since been broken. . Many of their videos have either been banned from being shown on TV (the clip for "Happiness In Slavery") or have been . "March Of The Pigs" music video. [114] Three Nine Inch Nails albums are concept albums: The Downward Spiral, The Fragile, and Year Zero. [114] There are several underground rebel groups, mainly operating online, most notably Art is Resistance and Solutions Backwards Initiative. Graphic designer P.R. But Broken's shorter running time was also a byproduct of Reznor's desire to escape that particularly jaundiced headspace. The first collection of Nine Inch Nails Definitive Edition Tees. It contained contributions from Coil with Danny Hyde, electronic musician Aphex Twin, producer Rick Rubin, and Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, among others. Universal declined to host the site just days before its scheduled launch, citing the potential "accusation", in Reznor's words, "that they are sponsoring the same technical violation of copyright they are suing [other media companies] for". [322], In 2006, after being alerted by a fan website, Reznor issued a cease and desist to Fox News Channel for using three songs from The Fragile on air without permission. Nine Inch Nails is a rock band that is known for their dark and edgy lyrics. The nine-minute short film for M.I.A.'s "Born Free" was banned by YouTube, despite positive critical reception. The disturbing video, along with the fact that he was now cognizant of the terrible history of the house where he was recording The Downward Spiral, made him wonder if he wanted this art project out in the world. https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Nine_Inch_Nails_music_videos&oldid=58035, A clip from the video shoot appears on the, "We're In This Together" (Mark Pellington extended edit), Unreleased. Create and promote branded videos, host live events and webinars, and more. Within hours of launch, the video was removed due to a terms of service violation on material that "harass, incite hatred or depict excessive violence". [137] The Slip has since been released on CD as a limited edition set of 250,000. What added to the shock and mystery was that, with each new dubbing of the video, the film looked grubbier and more degenerate and illicit something terrible that had gotten out into the world that you weren't supposed to be seeing. [122] The remix album was accompanied by an interactive remix site with multitrack downloads and the ability to post remixes. [4] The Beside You in Time tour documentary was released in February 2007 via three formats: DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc. So I felt like, well, I've finally got this thing going but it's dead. He did, however, pass along a couple copies to friends, and bit by bit the video became a bootleg legend, viral before things went internet viral. In 2014, its first year of eligibility,[200] Nine Inch Nails was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with 14 other candidates. The fact that it's still so hard to find only adds to its notorious reputation. [50], Broken was followed by the companion remix EP Fixed in late 1992. Just wait and see what happens. [59] Influenced by Pink Floyd and by David Bowie of the 1970s,[4] The Downward Spiral's diverse textures and moods depict a protagonist's mental progress. So we shelved it. [318] Reznor later released the first nine tracks of Ghosts IIV and the entirety of The Slip in 2008 for free download. More By Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral. [94], A further six years elapsed before Nine Inch Nails' fourth full-length album. Gremlin - "Whiskey Over Ice" [Official Music Video] Purple rain Prince may have been a strange little, alien of a man, but GHA'T DAMNEDtalk about a Guitargasm. [276] Many of the songs on Year Zero contain an extended instrumental ending, which encompasses the entire second half of the three-minute long "The Great Destroyer". [1]:42, In 1992, Nine Inch Nails relocated to 10050 Cielo Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles (renamed "Le Pig" by Reznor), the site of the Tate murders, when Charles Manson's "family" murdered Sharon Tate,[38] wife of noted film director Roman Polanski, and four of her friends. [72] The widest mainstream audience was a mud-soaked performance at Woodstock '94, and seen by Pay-Per-View in up to 24million homes. [43] In reference to receiving the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for "Wish", Reznor joked that "Wish" became "the only song to ever win a Grammy that says 'fist fuck' in the lyrics. All things Creepy! [1]:42 Despite initially choosing to record the album in New Orleans,[54] Reznor searched for and moved to 10050 Cielo Drive, in Los Angeles (known as The Manson Murder House)[55] renting it for $11,000 per month from July 4, 1992, the start of the making of both Broken and The Downward Spiral. Standard Videos. [198] Oneohtrix Point Never, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Cold Cave each replaced Death Grips separately for the tour.[199]. [12] Other rumored explanations have circulated, alleging that Reznor chose to reference Jesus' crucifixion with nine-inch spikes,[13]:57 or Freddy Krueger's nine-inch fingernails. [79], Five years elapsed between The Downward Spiral and Nine Inch Nails' next studio album, The Fragile, which arrived as a double album in September 1999. [309], At the behest of Prudential Securities bankruptcy proceedings, TVT put the rights to Reznor's recordings for the label on auction in 2005. In the 1990s, discovering Broken was personal and individual. 94 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. To that end, Reznor recruited scatological performance artist Peter Christopherson,whom he admired, as the film's director. [175] However, both Avery and Belew would quit the touring band before performances commenced,[176][177] with former member Robin Finck returning in their place. [229] In October 2019, Nine Inch Nails was again nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. for their resemblance to the modern Hebrew characters of the Tetragrammaton. [155] Reznor subsequently released two tracks under the Nine Inch Nails moniker: the theme song for the film Tetsuo: The Bullet Man,[156] and a cover of U2's "Zoo Station", included in the Achtung Baby tribute album AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered. A cease and desist has been issued. [89] The two artists put aside their differences when Manson appeared in the song's music video, retitled "Starsuckers, Inc." and performed on stage with Nine Inch Nails at Madison Square Garden in 2000. [162] Later that year Reznor again worked with Atticus Ross along with Alessandro Cortini on a remix of the song "Destroyer" by Telepathe. Essentially, I wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist. [339], The lineup of the live band had a tendency to change drastically between major tours: aside from Reznor remaining on lead vocals, keyboards and guitar, no member of the live band have remained constant since its formation. "[81] Canadian rock producer Bob Ezrin was consulted on the album's track listing; the liner notes state that he "provided final continuity and flow. However, the band's performance of the song at Woodstock '94 was well-received and won them a . All of these films share with Broken a love of the dank underside of polite society, tapping into our fear and delight in uncovering what should not see the light of day. [190][191] This leg of the tour was documented and released in the spring as Nine Inch Nails Tension 2013. 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[335][336] The band initially included live band members Danny Lohner and Charlie Clouser, but eventually expanded to include other frequent Nine Inch Nails contributors Josh Freese, Atticus Ross, and Alan Moulder. "[228], Nine Inch Nails was among hundreds of artists whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. After disagreeing with TVT about how to promote the album, the band signed with Interscope Records and released the EP Broken (1992). I didn't know anything about Interscope. It is based on an idea by Trent Reznor, founder of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, and is a companion piece to the 1992 Nine Inch Nails EP Broken . I wanted to make a 'f*** you' record.". [88] Cinesexuality critic Patricia MacCormack interprets the song as a "scathing attack on the alternative music scene," particularly Reznor's former friend and protg Marilyn Manson. [1] After contributing to remixes of Nine Inch Nails songs, such as "Closer", Beavan mixed and co-produced Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar in 1996. [24] Rolling Stone's Michael Azerrad described the album as "industrial-strength noise over a pop framework" and "harrowing but catchy music";[25] Reznor proclaimed this combination "a sincere statement" of "what was in [his] head at the time". [62] The Downward Spiral, alike Broken, was recorded at Le Pig Studios. [130] The album is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike licence. Reiss thought of Flanagan as Flanagan's wife Sheree Rose later explained, "[Reiss] attended the 'Nailed' performance in Los Angeles in 1989, where he witnessed Bob in a torture chair being 'attacked' by clothespins attached to his genitals." In 2013, Reznor tried putting the video on Vimeo, which quickly spiked it for violating the platform's content guidelines. With Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor. They were influenced by Reznor and liked the idea, but did not want to pay him for the album and the idea was scrapped. [1]:42 Reznor asked Sean Beavan to mix the demos of Pretty Hate Machine, which had received multiple offers for record deals. The frontman decided to make an art project around the EP, using the film as an opportunity to spend time with a personal hero. I wanted to make a 'fuck you' record. "[126] Since first announcing his plans for a television series, progress slowed, reportedly due to the 20072008 Writer's Guild strike, but it nevertheless continued. For instance, "The Hand That Feeds" video is simply the band playing the song in a studio, while the video for "Closer" has sexual fetish images, as well as a very artful taste. [121] The remix album was Nine Inch Nails' final release on a major record label for over five years, as the act had completed its contractual obligation to Interscope Records and did not renew its contract. But they made it pretty clear they weren't ready to sell. The Broken film, which is about 20 minutes long, is structured to look like a discarded found object. [219][220][221] The single "Less Than" was released a week prior to the second EP's release. [26] In fact, the song "Down in It" spent over two months on Billboard's club-play dance chart. Subscription from 10.83/month . [1]:41 The overall sound on Purest Feeling is lighter than that of Pretty Hate Machine; several songs contain more live drumming and guitar, as well as a heavier use of film samples. TEARS FOR FEARS - Advice For The Young At Heart, Catherine Wheel - I Want To Touch You HD official video, Nine Inch Nails- Happiness In Slavery (Uncensored) (1992). Reznor's next collaboration with Ross was co-writing and producing the official score for David Fincher's 2010 film, The Social Network. Nine Inch Nails: Happiness In Slavery (Uncensored) (1992) from Nine Inch Nails on Vimeo. (His life was later chronicled in the 1997 documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist. Reznor and his co-producers expanded upon the Right Track Studio demos by adding singles "Head Like a Hole" and "Sin". ", Using that as his marching orders, Christopherson started work, while Reznor began recording what would become The Downward Spiral. Awards; one of them being the Kerrang! Like earlier exploitation videos such as Faces of Death, Broken and its series of WTF horrors including scenes of a rotting corpses, decapitated heads, a lunatic wielding a chainsaw and a man eating a meal covered in flies elicit thrills that didn't just come from absorbing the images but from being lucky enough to have even stumbled upon them in the first place. Their score, which was released on September 15, 2017, included original compositions, and it also includes reworked pieces from other Nine Inch Nails songs and their award-winning scores forThe Social NetworkandThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. ", Without running it by his new label, Reznor envisioned a short film that pushed the boundaries of good taste. [326] Reznor objected to the use of his music in this way with the following message on the front page of the Nine Inch Nails website: "It's difficult for me to imagine anything more profoundly insulting, demeaning and enraging than discovering music you've put your heart and soul into creating has been used for purposes of torture. The song's music video was banned by many networks for its graphic images. [97] The entire album was made available in streaming audio on the band's official MySpace page in advance of its release date. The album With Teeth was originally set to be a concept album about an endless dream occurring in reality, but Reznor eventually took this idea out of the record. Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN (stylized as NI), is an American industrial rock band formed in 1988 in Cleveland, Ohio. Year Video Album including the song Probably do not watch it at all. [222], Also in 2017, the pair were tasked to score the upcoming Ken Burns series The Vietnam War, and provide both original music and a compilation soundtrack of popular songs.