query: What is "Nine Inch Nails"?

title: Nine Inch Nails

text: 1992 and "Happiness in Slavery" in 1995: Nine Inch Nails Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN (stylized as NIИ), is an American industrial rock band from Cleveland, Ohio, founded in 1988. The band consists of producer and multi-instrumentalist Trent Reznor, as well as English musician Atticus Ross. Over the course of their nearly three-decade existence, the band has signed with several major labels, the most current being Capitol Records, under the name The Null Corporation. The origins of the band date back to 1988, while Reznor was employed as a janitor at a studio in Cleveland. Utilizing off-hour sessions,

title: Nine Inch Nails

text: Nine Inch Nails Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN (stylized as NIИ), is an American industrial rock band from Cleveland, Ohio, founded in 1988. The band consists of producer and multi-instrumentalist Trent Reznor, as well as English musician Atticus Ross. Over the course of their nearly three-decade existence, the band has signed with several major labels, the most current being Capitol Records, under the name The Null Corporation. The origins of the band date back to 1988, while Reznor was employed as a janitor at a studio in Cleveland. Utilizing off-hour sessions, Reznor recorded and released the band's debut

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text: a world made better by computers and online connectivity has failed us in many ways, particularly when it comes to ticketing. Everything about the process sucks and everyone loses except the reseller. We’ve decided to try something different that will also likely suck, but in a different way.” There are several music genres Nine Inch Nails has been described as, including alternative rock, industrial rock, industrial dance, industrial, electro-industrial, industrial metal, and electronic rock. AllMusic's Steve Huey states that "Nine Inch Nails were the most popular industrial group ever and were largely responsible for bringing the music to a mass

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text: Inch Nails will return in 2016". In October 2016, in response to a fan's question about the lack of new Nine Inch Nails music, Reznor responded with "2016 is not over yet". In December 2016, Reznor commented on his statement regarding Nine Inch Nails' return by the end of the year: "Those words did come out of my mouth, didn't they? [...] Just wait and see what happens." Three days later, Reznor announced an EP titled "Not the Actual Events", along with reissues of "Broken", "The Downward Spiral", and "The Fragile," with subsequent reissues of "With Teeth", "Year Zero", and

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text: and Roll Hall of Fame. However, they once again did not get inducted. In June 2015, Nine Inch Nails released instrumental versions of "The Fragile" and "With Teeth" to stream exclusively on Apple Music, a service of which Reznor is chief creative director. In an interview promoting the service, Reznor mentioned he has started "messing around with some things" in regards to a new Nine Inch Nails album, stating "It's not a record I'm trying to finish in a month. It's more just feeling around in the dark and seeing what sounds interesting". In December 2015, Reznor reported that "Nine

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text: Dr. Dre and Beats Electronics was announced that Reznor wrote was "probably not what you're expecting [from me]". The project was named "Daisy"; a digital music service was announced in January 2013. It was until January 2014 that the service was fully launched, with Reznor serving as chief creative officer. In an interview with BBC Radio 1, Reznor indicated that he would be writing for the majority of 2012 with Nine Inch Nails "in mind". Reznor eventually confirmed that he was working on new Nine Inch Nails material and might be performing live again. In February 2013, Reznor announced the

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text: Nine Inch Nails discography American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails have released nine studio albums, one live album, three remix albums, one box set, six extended plays, 20 singles, nine promotional singles, four video albums and 31 music videos. Nine Inch Nails has also contributed to numerous film soundtracks as well as the soundtrack to the video game "Quake". Initial ambitions for Nine Inch Nails in 1988 were to release one 12-inch single on a small European label. With the addition of future singles "Head Like a Hole" and "Sin", many of these demo tracks would later appear in

title: Only (Nine Inch Nails song)

text: Only (Nine Inch Nails song) "Only" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. It was released as the second single from Nine Inch Nails' fourth album, "With Teeth". "Only" reached number one on the "Billboard" Modern Rock chart, where it stayed for seven weeks. It is the second successful release that Nine Inch Nails has had in the UK, peaking at number 20. The song is regarded as a fan favorite and has been a staple of Nine Inch Nails live performances for several years, placed by setlist.fm as their 20th most played song live. "Only"

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text: the use of USB drives, was sanctioned by Nine Inch Nails' record label. The source that broke the story was quoted as saying, "These fucking idiots are going after a campaign that the label signed off on." 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. 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

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text: Nine Inch Nails. However, Reznor typically forms a backing group of musicians to perform the songs in a live setting. This live band, also known as Nine Inch Nails, rearranges the band's studio catalog and creates a different sound than that of Reznor's studio recordings. Band members have occasionally been invited to participate in the recording process, but creative control within the studio has always been exclusively with Reznor. The Tapeworm project was created in 1995 as a Nine Inch Nails side-project between Reznor and various live-band members as a more "democratic" creative environment. The band initially included live band

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text: disco-style beats and synthesizers drawn from Numan's persuasion. Other artists of significance to Nine Inch Nails encompass late 70s and 80s acts such as Queen, Devo, Joy Division, Adam Ant, and Soft Cell. Reznor has toured with some of his influences, including a brief tour opening for Skinny Puppy in 1988. In 1995, Nine Inch Nails went on tour with David Bowie, who, along with Pink Floyd, had been a significant influence on "The Downward Spiral". Nine Inch Nails has influenced many newer artists, which according to Reznor range from "generic imitations" dating from his initial success to younger bands

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text: Talpas, and first appeared on the music video for Nine Inch Nails' debut single, "Down in It", and was inspired by Tibor Kalman's typography on the Talking Heads album "Remain in Light". Talpas, a native of Cleveland, would continue to design Nine Inch Nails packaging art until 1997. Written, arranged, and performed by Reznor, Nine Inch Nails' first album "Pretty Hate Machine" debuted in 1989. It marked his first collaboration with Adrian Sherwood (who produced the lead single "Down in It" in London without meeting Reznor face-to-face) and Mark "Flood" Ellis. Reznor asked Sean Beavan to mix the demos of

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text: rearranged to fit a live setting. In addition to sales of over 20 million records worldwide, Nine Inch Nails have been nominated for thirteen Grammy Awards, winning twice for the songs "Wish" and "Happiness in Slavery" in 1992 and 1996, respectively. In 1997, Reznor appeared in "Time" magazine's list of the year's most influential people, and "Spin" magazine has described him as "the most vital artist in music". In 2004, "Rolling Stone" placed Nine Inch Nails at 94 on the magazine's list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. Nine Inch Nails was named as a nominee for induction

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text: "Pretty Hate Machine"; several songs contain more live drumming and guitar work throughout, as well as a heavier use of samples from films. Reznor coined the name "Nine Inch Nails" because it "abbreviated easily", rather than for "any literal meaning". Other rumored explanations have circulated, alleging that Reznor chose to reference Jesus' crucifixion with nine-inch spikes, or Freddy Krueger's nine-inch fingernails. The English letters NIN are also noted for their resemblance to the modern Hebrew characters of the Tetragrammaton. The Nine Inch Nails' logo, which consists of the letters [NIИ] set inside a border, was designed by Reznor and Gary

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text: the "Things Falling Apart" remix album. "Broken", the unreleased short film directed by Peter Christopherson, contains the videos for "Pinion", "Wish", and "Happiness in Slavery" as well as a video for "Help Me I am in Hell" and a different video for "Gave Up" than the one on "Closure". The short film contains graphic depictions of a seemingly helpless victim being tortured and forced to watch Nine Inch Nails videos. Nine Inch Nails discography American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails have released nine studio albums, one live album, three remix albums, one box set, six extended plays, 20 singles,

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text: Nine Inch Nails songs: Nine Inch Nails live performances Nine Inch Nails, an industrial rock band fronted by Trent Reznor, did various live performances throughout the world, including tours in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. While Reznor controls the creative and musical direction of Nine Inch Nails in-studio, the touring band performs different arrangements of the songs in live settings. In addition to regular concerts, the band has performed in both supporting and headlining roles at festivals such as Woodstock '94, Lollapalooza 1991 and 2008, as well as many other one-off performances including the MTV Video Music

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text: in the United States. Five years elapsed before Nine Inch Nails' next major album, "The Fragile", a double album that debuted at number one on the "Billboard" 200, selling 228,000 copies in its first week, but dropped from the top 10 afterward. Another six years elapsed before Nine Inch Nails' next studio album, "With Teeth", which also debuted at the top of the "Billboard" 200. In 2007, the band released "Year Zero" alongside an accompanying alternate reality game. Reznor announced in late 2007 that Nine Inch Nails had fulfilled its contractual obligations with Interscope Records, and would distribute its next

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text: revised form on "Pretty Hate Machine" in 1989, an album co-produced by Adrian Sherwood and Mark "Flood" Ellis which peaked at number 75 in 1990. In response to pressures from TVT Records for a follow-up to Nine Inch Nails' commercially successful debut, Reznor began recording the "Broken" extended play in secret. The EP was released in 1992 and reached the top 10 on the "Billboard" 200. Nine Inch Nails' second studio album, "The Downward Spiral", entered the "Billboard" 200 in 1994 at number two, sold over four million copies in the US and remains the highest-selling Nine Inch Nails release

title: Discipline (Nine Inch Nails song)

text: Tracks chart and number 24 on "Billboard"s Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, becoming Nine Inch Nails' sixth consecutive top-10 song on the former. Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor announced in 2007 that the band had completed its contractual obligations to its record label, Interscope Records, and would no longer be working with the company. Reznor also revealed that Nine Inch Nails would likely distribute music independently. Since the announcement, Nine Inch Nails released the 36-track instrumental album "Ghosts I–IV" in March 2008 on Reznor's independent label The Null Corporation. After the release of "Ghosts I–IV", Reznor began writing

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text: karaoke versions rather than instrumentals that can stand on their own. The result is a listening experience that outstays its welcome on a song-by-song basis, let alone over the course of its massive 150-minute running time." Credits adapted from AllMusic, and "The Fragile" liner notes. Nine Inch Nails Technical personnel Additional musicians and production personnel Choirs The Fragile (Nine Inch Nails album) The Fragile is the third studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as a double album on September 21, 1999 by Nothing and Interscope Records. It was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent

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text: the reason for these frequent personnel changes, as well as his desire for fresh interpretations of his music. Reznor is an outspoken critic of the music industry, particularly the influence that music businesses have exerted upon his creative freedom. Nine Inch Nails has clashed with several music industry corporations, culminating in Reznor's decision to proceed as an independent artist who does not employ the financial backing of the music industry to fund his creative output. In the early 1990s, Nine Inch Nails was involved in a much-publicized feud with TVT Records, the first record label to sign the band. Reznor

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text: Steve Cooper noted that the album juxtaposes widely varied genres, such as solo piano in "The Frail" and drum and bass elements in "Starfuckers, Inc." Ambient music has been featured in some of Nine Inch Nails' music, including on "Ghosts I–IV" (which is specifically dark ambient), "Hesitation Marks", "The Downward Spiral", "The Slip", and "The Fragile". Certain techniques and styles can be found throughout Nine Inch Nails' catalog. Songs such as "Wish", and "The Day the World Went Away" exhibit terraced dynamics. Reznor's singing follows a similar pattern, frequently moving from whispers to screams. He also has used software to

title: Deep (Nine Inch Nails song)

text: Deep (Nine Inch Nails song) "Deep" is a song recorded by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails for the to the film "" (2001). Because this is a promotional single, it has never been featured with its own official halo and the song "Deep" has never been released on any Nine Inch Nails album, or on any halo-numbered release, although it has its own video directed by Enda McCallion. Despite its only release on the soundtrack for "", the music video for "Deep" is completely unrelated to the film. The video features Trent Reznor as a bank robber who,

title: Closer (Nine Inch Nails song)

text: Closer (Nine Inch Nails song) "Closer" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their second studio album, "The Downward Spiral" (1994). It was released on May 30, 1994 as the album's second single. Most versions of the single are titled "Closer to God", a rare example in music of a single's title differing from the title of its A-side. ("Closer to God" is also the title of an alternate version of "Closer" featured on the single.) Labeled "Halo 9", the single is the ninth official Nine Inch Nails release. A promotional single provided by the

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text: Nine Inch Nails is done touring for the foreseeable future." The "Wave Goodbye" tour concluded on September 10, 2009, at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. Reznor subsequently released two tracks under the Nine Inch Nails moniker: the theme song for the film "", and a cover of U2's "Zoo Station", included in the "Achtung Baby" tribute album "AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered". In 2009 Reznor married Mariqueen Maandig, and formed a project with Maandig and Atticus Ross dubbed How to Destroy Angels. Its first release, a six-track self-titled EP, was made available for free download in June 2010. Reznor's next collaboration

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text: 2013 tour, the band played 938 gigs. Nine Inch Nails' live performances contrast with its in-studio counterpart. Reznor writes and performs nearly all Nine Inch Nails studio material, with occasional instrumental and vocal contributions from others artists. However, Reznor has typically assembled groups of backing musicians to interpret songs for tours and other live performances. Keyboardist Alessandro Cortini said that "if you see the show and you're used to the CDs it's pretty clear that the studio entity is different from the live entity". The only constant member of the live band is Reznor. Live Nine Inch Nails performances are

title: Discipline (Nine Inch Nails song)

text: Discipline (Nine Inch Nails song) "Discipline" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their seventh studio album, "The Slip" (2008). It was released on April 22, 2008 as a single from the album. It is the band's first single since severing its ties with Interscope Records and publishing music independently. The MP3 download contains an embedded album art image, full lyrics, and the comment: "Go to www.nin.com May 5". Subsequently, on May 5, 2008 a new Nine Inch Nails album, "The Slip", was revealed for download. "Discipline" reached number six on "Billboard"s Hot Modern Rock

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text: April 2007, Nine Inch Nails fans received in-game telephone-calls in which they were invited to a "resistance meeting" in Los Angeles. At the meeting, fans attended a fictional Art Is Resistance meeting, and were later rewarded by an unannounced performance by Nine Inch Nails. The concert was cut short as the meeting was raided by a fictional SWAT team and the audience was rushed out of the building. Later that year, the "Honolulu Star-Bulletin" reported that the September 18 show in Honolulu would be the last performance of the current incarnation of the Nine Inch Nails live band. Reznor told

title: Burn (Nine Inch Nails song)

text: a montage of stock footage and footage from the "Natural Born Killers" film. The stock footage and rear-projection techniques used in the video are similar to the ones employed in much of the film. Csaba Toth contributed a detailed reading of the video in his article "Like Cancer in the System: Industrial Gothic, Nine Inch Nails, and Videotape": Burn (Nine Inch Nails song) "Burn" is a song recorded by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails for the soundtrack to the 1994 film "Natural Born Killers". It was released as a promotional single from the soundtrack. The song was included

title: Everything (Nine Inch Nails song)

text: Everything (Nine Inch Nails song) "Everything" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their eighth studio album, "Hesitation Marks" (2013). It debuted on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 program on August 19, 2013, as was released digitally the following day as the album's third and final single. The song was recorded during the recording sessions for the Nine Inch Nails greatest hits album, along with another song, "Satellite". These sessions gave way to more songs and ended up yielding an entire album. From an interview with "The Sun", Trent Reznor said the following about the

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text: application, "NIN: Access", because it found "The Downward Spiral" to contain "offensive or obscene content", referring to the lyrical content. Reznor criticized their decision, citing the audio was also available through the iTunes application. A similar incident involving digital content distribution occurred in 2013 when Nine Inch Nails re-released the original 1993 film "Broken" on Vimeo. 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". Nine Inch Nails has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards and has won awards on two occasions—for "Wish" in

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text: discovering music you've put your heart and soul into creating has been used for purposes of torture. If there are any legal options that can be realistically taken they will be aggressively pursued, with any potential monetary gains donated to human rights charities. Thank GOD this country has appeared to side with reason and we can put the Bush administration's reign of power, greed, lawlessness and madness behind us." Aside from disagreements over the usage of Nine Inch Nails material, some corporations have dismissed content due to perceived obscenity. In 2009, Apple rejected an update to Nine Inch Nails' iPhone

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text: Spiral". They were influenced by Reznor and liked the idea, but did not want to pay him for the album and the idea was scrapped. In May 2007, Reznor made a post on the official Nine Inch Nails website skeptical of Universal Music Group (parent company of Nine Inch Nails' record label, Interscope Records) for its pricing and distribution plans for "Year Zero." He labeled the company's retail pricing of "Year Zero" in Australia as "ABSURD", concluding that "as a reward for being a 'true fan' you get ripped off". Reznor went on to say that he hated Interscope, and

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text: echoing his style in a "truer, less imitative way". Following the release of "The Downward Spiral", mainstream artists began to take notice of Nine Inch Nails' influence: David Bowie compared Reznor's impact to that of The Velvet Underground. Bob Ezrin, producer for Pink Floyd, Kiss, Alice Cooper, and Peter Gabriel, described Reznor in 2007 as a "true visionary" and advised aspiring artists to take note of his no-compromise attitude. Nine Inch Nails has been credited by music journalists for popularizing industrial music, despite ambivalence from Reznor. The act has received four awards from 25 nominations, including two Grammy Awards for

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text: the shows. Two weeks into the tour, Death Grips announced its breakup and cancelled all subsequent live shows. Oneohtrix Point Never, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Cold Cave each replaced Death Grips separately for the remainder of the tour. In 2014, its first year of eligibility, Nine Inch Nails was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with 14 other candidates. While they were not inducted that year, the band placed second in the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Fan Vote. In 2015, Nine Inch Nails was once again nominated for the Rock

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text: return of Nine Inch Nails and revealed the Twenty Thirteen Tour. He also revealed that the new lineup of the band would include Eric Avery of Jane's Addiction, Adrian Belew of King Crimson, and Josh Eustis of Telefon Tel Aviv, as well as returning members Alessandro Cortini and Ilan Rubin. However, both Avery and Belew would quit the touring band before performances commenced, with former member Robin Finck returning in their place. By May 28 a new Nine Inch Nails album was complete. Released September 3, "Hesitation Marks" incorporated rhythms reminiscent of earlier releases, but was more expansive and theatrical.

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text: the company announced the development of the game). This installment in the "Tap Tap" video game franchise was themed after Nine Inch Nails, and included tracks from "Ghosts I–IV" and "The Slip". Portions of the album "Ghosts I-IV" were also used in making of the soundtrack for the documentary "Citizenfour." In February 2009, Reznor posted his thoughts about the future of Nine Inch Nails on his official website, stating that "I've been thinking for some time now it's time to make NIN disappear for a while." Reznor since clarified that he "isn't done creating music under the moniker, but that

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text: Autumn 2005, supported by Queens of the Stone Age, Autolux and Death from Above 1979. Another opening act on the tour, hip-hop artist Saul Williams, performed on stage with Nine Inch Nails at the Voodoo Music Experience festival during a headlining appearance in hurricane-stricken New Orleans, Reznor's former home. The Nine Inch Nails live band completed a tour of North American amphitheaters in the summer of 2006, joined by Bauhaus, TV on the Radio, and Peaches. The "Beside You in Time" tour documentary was released in February 2007 via three formats: DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc. The home video

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text: isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure. A further six years elapsed before Nine Inch Nails' fourth full-length album. "With Teeth" was released in May 2005, though it was leaked prior to its official release date. The album was written and recorded throughout 2004 following Reznor's battle with alcoholism and substance abuse and legal issues with his former manager, John Malm Jr. "With Teeth" debuted on top of the "Billboard" 200, Nine Inch Nails' second reign at

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text: recorded and released on CD, DVD, and VHS in 2002 as "And All That Could Have Been". A deluxe edition of the live CD came with the companion disc "Still", containing stripped-down versions of songs from the Nine Inch Nails catalog along with several new pieces of music. During the "Fragility 2.0" tour, Reznor suffered a heroin overdose in London in June 2000, forcing a gig which was to be played that night to be cancelled. The incident pushed Reznor into entering rehab, putting Nine Inch Nails on hold while he attempted to become sober. In 2002, Johnny Cash covered

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text: for and moved to 10050 Cielo Drive, renting it for $11,000 per month from July 4, 1992, marking the beginning of the making of both "Broken" and "The Downward Spiral". This was against his initial choice to record the album in New Orleans. Nine Inch Nails' second studio album, "The Downward Spiral", entered the "Billboard" 200 at number two, and remains the highest-selling Nine Inch Nails release in the United States for shipments of over four million copies, in addition to selling five million copies worldwide. Influenced by late-1970s works by Pink Floyd and David Bowie, "The Downward Spiral" includes

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text: 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, wife of noted film director Roman Polanski, and four of her friends. It was used for the band to record "Broken", an extended play (EP) that was the first Nine Inch Nails release distributed by Interscope Records and reached the top 10 on the "Billboard" 200. In the liner notes, Reznor credited the 1991 Nine Inch Nails touring band as an influence on the EP's sound. He characterized "Broken" as a guitar-based "blast of destruction", and

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text: "Pretty Hate Machine", which had received multiple offers for record deals. He mixed sound during Nine Inch Nails' live concerts for several years, eventually becoming an unofficial member of the live band and singing live backup vocals from his place at the mixing console. Flood's production would appear on each major Nine Inch Nails release until 1994, and Sherwood has made remixes for the band as recently as 2000. Reznor and his co-producers expanded upon the Right Track Studio demos by adding singles "Head Like a Hole" and "Sin". "Rolling Stone"'s Michael Azerrad described the album as "industrial-strength noise over

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text: major album independently. The last Interscope release from Nine Inch Nails was a remix album based on material from "Year Zero". The first Nine Inch Nails album released independently was the instrumental "Ghosts I–IV" in 2008, followed two months later by "The Slip". "Hesitation Marks" was released through Columbia Records on August 30, 2013. After teasing a release in early 2016, Reznor began releasing a trilogy of new releases: the EPs "Not the Actual Events" on December 23, 2016 and "Add Violence" on July 21, 2017, followed by the LP "Bad Witch" on June 22, 2018. Each official Nine Inch

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text: entire second half of the three-minute long "The Great Destroyer". Allmusic's review described the album's laptop-mixed sound: "guitars squall against glitches, beeps, pops, and blotches of blurry sonic attacks. Percussion looms large, distorted, organic, looped, screwed, spindled and broken." Lyrical themes found in Nine Inch Nails songs are largely concerned with dark explorations of the self ranging from religion, greed, fame, lust, addiction, self-deception, aging, regret, nihilism, and occasionally politics, with the latter topic often being scrutinized in "Year Zero". Three of Nine Inch Nails' recordings are concept albums: "The Downward Spiral", follow-up "The Fragile", and the aforementioned "Year Zero".

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text: line-up. Nine Inch Nails begin the tour by performing at the Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield, California on July 19. Visual elements employed during Nine Inch Nails concerts have often included numerous lighting, stage and projection effects employed to accompany and augment presentation. Prior to the Fragility tour in 2000, Reznor reflected that "I’ve adopted a philosophy of the way to present Nine Inch Nails live that incorporates a theatrical element. I want it to be drama. I want my rock stars to be larger than life, you know? The Kurt Cobains of the world, I’m sick of that shit. I

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text: Nine Inch Nails website blog that Josh Freese would be leaving the band following the completion of the current tour. Shortly after, it was announced that Alessandro Cortini would also be leaving the band. On November 15, 2008, Reznor announced via the official Nine Inch Nails website that Ilan Rubin of Lostprophets would be replacing Freese after his departure at the end of 2008. No replacement was announced for Cortini, and the band subsequently toured as a 4-piece without a full-time keyboard player. In 2008, Reznor decided to put Nine Inch Nails on indefinite hiatus. He later clarified that "NIN

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text: A Place to Bury Strangers, and White Williams. In early June, a tour EP was released for free on the Nine Inch Nails website featuring four songs from the supporting artists and one from Nine Inch Nails. The files are DRM-free MP3s that are fully tagged, and included with the download are desktop wallpapers and a printable tour poster. The band headlined the 2008 Lollapalooza festival, the 2008 Virgin Festival, and the first Pemberton Music Festival. In May 2008, Nine Inch Nails announced that premium seating for all the upcoming 2008 tour shows would be offered in a pre-sale for

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text: the concert to its technical difficulties. The main leg of the tour featured Marilyn Manson as the supporting act, who Reznor had recently signed to his Nothing Records label. At the time, Marilyn Manson featured bassist Jeordie White (then playing under the pseudonym "Twiggy Ramirez"), who would later play bass with Nine Inch Nails from 2005 to 2007. After another tour leg supporting the remix album "Further Down the Spiral", Nine Inch Nails contributed to the Alternative Nation Festival in Australia and subsequently embarked on the Dissonance Tour, which included 26 separate performances with co-headliner David Bowie. Nine Inch Nails

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text: Nine Inch Nails live performances Nine Inch Nails, an industrial rock band fronted by Trent Reznor, did various live performances throughout the world, including tours in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. While Reznor controls the creative and musical direction of Nine Inch Nails in-studio, the touring band performs different arrangements of the songs in live settings. In addition to regular concerts, the band has performed in both supporting and headlining roles at festivals such as Woodstock '94, Lollapalooza 1991 and 2008, as well as many other one-off performances including the MTV Video Music Awards. Prior to their

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text: Inch Nails official website in March 2005. Reznor released the source files for it in GarageBand format a month later, allowing fans to remix the song. He similarly released files for the album's second single "Only" in a wider range of formats, including Pro Tools and ACID Pro. David Fincher directed a video for "Only" with primarily computer-generated imagery. The planned music video for its third single, "Every Day Is Exactly the Same", was directed by Francis Lawrence but reportedly scrapped in the post-production stage. All three singles topped the "Billboard" Alternative Songs chart. Nine Inch Nails launched a in

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text: The Fragile (Nine Inch Nails album) The Fragile is the third studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as a double album on September 21, 1999 by Nothing and Interscope Records. It was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and longtime collaborator Alan Moulder. "The Fragile" peaked at number one on the US "Billboard" 200 in its debut week before dropping to number 16 the following week. It was later certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on January 4, 2000, denoting shipments of over 898,000 copies in the United

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text: "With Teeth" (under the working title "Bleedthrough") was 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' earliest influences include Ministry and Skinny Puppy, which helped shape what became 1989's "Pretty Hate Machine". The album's liner notes also paid tribute to the hip-hop group Public Enemy and Prince. Another large influence on the band's sound is Gary Numan, which is evident as Reznor once said that "after hearing 'Cars' I knew I wanted to make music with synthesizers". The 2005 single "Only" exemplifies the

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text: Ohio on October 21, 1988 as part of the Pretty Hate Machine Tour Series. In 1988, after playing its first shows supporting Skinny Puppy, Reznor's ambition for Nine Inch Nails was to release one 12-inch single on a small European label. Several labels responded favorably to the demo material and Reznor signed with TVT Records. Nine selections from the Right Track demos recorded live in November 1988, collectively known as "Purest Feeling", were later released in revised form on the band's first full-length studio release, "Pretty Hate Machine" (1989). The overall sound on "Purest Feeling" is lighter than that of

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text: "Broken" under a different band name, because if TVT found out we were recording, they could confiscate all our shit and release it. Jimmy Iovine got involved with Interscope, and we kind of got slave-traded. It wasn't my doing. I didn't know anything about Interscope. And I was real pissed off at him at first because it was going from one bad situation to potentially another one. But Interscope went into it like they really wanted to know what I wanted. It was good, after I put my raving lunatic act on. In 1992, Nine Inch Nails relocated to 10050

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text: had these weird outfits on, and they thought it was some kind of gang slaying. In 1989, while doing promotion for the album, the band members were asked what shows they would like to appear on. They jokingly replied (possibly while intoxicated) that they would like to appear on "Dance Party USA", since it was the most absurd option they could think of at the time. Much to their surprise, they were booked on the show, and made an appearance. In 1990, Nine Inch Nails began the "Pretty Hate Machine Tour Series", in which it toured North America as an

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text: episode of "Beavis & Butthead". While most music videos are typically made fun of, the animated duo ultimately approved of "Wish". The song is used and heard on the debut trailer of the first-person shooter by Electronic Arts and People Can Fly, "Bulletstorm". The song is featured as a playable track in "", although incorrectly listed with a 2002 release date. Wish (Nine Inch Nails song) "Wish" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their debut extended play (EP), "Broken" (1992). It was released in 1992 as a promotional single from the EP. The track

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text: Reznor wrote on the official Nine Inch Nails website: "apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me". MTV replied by saying they respected Reznor's point of view, but were "uncomfortable" with the performance being "built around partisan political statements". A performance by the Foo Fighters replaced Nine Inch Nails' time slot on the show. During the first arena performance in 2005, Dillon was forced to stop midway through the show and was subsequently hospitalized. His condition was later diagnosed as a non-life-threatening cardiac disorder, a consequence of his thyroid medication. Dillon later

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text: Hurt (Nine Inch Nails song) "Hurt" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their second studio album, "The Downward Spiral" (1994), written by band leader Trent Reznor. It was released on April 17, 1995 as a promotional single from the album. The song received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Song in 1996, but ultimately lost to Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know". In 2003, "Hurt" was covered by Johnny Cash to commercial and critical acclaim; it was one of Cash's final hits released before his death, and the related music video is considered one

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text: and we'll see what happens." Since first announcing his plans for a television series, progress slowed, reportedly due to the 2007–2008 Writer's Guild strike, but it nevertheless continued. the resultant miniseries, also named "Year Zero", was in development with HBO and BBC Worldwide Productions, with the screenplay and script written by Reznor and "Carnivàle" writer Daniel Knauf. In February 2008, Reznor posted a news update on the Nine Inch Nails website entitled "2 weeks." On March 2, "Ghosts I–IV" (the first release on The Null Corporation label), a 36-track instrumental album, became available via the band's official website. "Ghosts I–IV"

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text: The only context I've worked with them in so far is, 'Here are the songs, here are your parts, learn them.' " Between major tours, live band members have on occasion contributed instrumental performances to official Nine Inch Nails releases, though creative control and direction has always been the responsibility of Reznor. Live-band members who have contributed to major Nine Inch Nails studio releases are denoted by a "#" below. Most members provide backing vocals during live performances. Through the years, Reznor has invited many prominent musicians on stage with his band to perform material outside the usual range of

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text: remarked that when he was ready to return he encountered "complete apathy and no sympathy" from Reznor and Nine Inch Nails' management. Reznor in turn wrote that Dillon's "recollection of the events leading to his departure from the band is once again inaccurate". Josh Freese initially replaced Dillon for two shows before Alex Carapetis joined the band for the remainder of the arena tour. Freese eventually replaced Carapetis and joined the band on a permanent basis. Having taken a break from touring to complete work on "Year Zero", Nine Inch Nails began a world tour in 2007, including their first

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text: Burn (Nine Inch Nails song) "Burn" is a song recorded by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails for the soundtrack to the 1994 film "Natural Born Killers". It was released as a promotional single from the soundtrack. The song was included as a bonus track on the 10th anniversary deluxe edition of "The Downward Spiral" in 2004. Live performances of the song are featured on "KROQ Christmas 2005" and the concert film "Beside You in Time". The music video was co-directed by Hank Corwin and Trent Reznor. The video features Reznor performing in front of a projection screen displaying

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text: Wish (Nine Inch Nails song) "Wish" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their debut extended play (EP), "Broken" (1992). It was released in 1992 as a promotional single from the EP. The track features a drumming work performed by Martin Atkins. "Wish" was remixed twice for the companion disc to the EP, "Fixed", as "Wish (Remix)" and "Fist Fuck". Both remixes were produced by J. G. Thirlwell. "Wish" won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1993. Referencing a lyric from the song, Trent Reznor later joked that his epitaph should read: "REZNOR:

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text: a fire on April 10, 2007. ! scope="row"| United States (RIAA) ! scope="row"| United States (RIAA) ! scope="row"| United States (RIAA) ! scope="row"| Total available sales: Hurt (Nine Inch Nails song) "Hurt" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their second studio album, "The Downward Spiral" (1994), written by band leader Trent Reznor. It was released on April 17, 1995 as a promotional single from the album. The song received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Song in 1996, but ultimately lost to Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know". In 2003, "Hurt" was covered by

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text: keyboard solo played as a guitar solo and a breakdown incorporating a portion of "The Only Time," a track from "Pretty Hate Machine". Two performances of this version of the song appear on "Beside You in Time". Closer (Nine Inch Nails song) "Closer" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their second studio album, "The Downward Spiral" (1994). It was released on May 30, 1994 as the album's second single. Most versions of the single are titled "Closer to God", a rare example in music of a single's title differing from the title of its

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text: seeing as Trent Reznor's involved it's hardly all sunshine and rainbows." Alex Hudson of "Exclaim!" described the song as uncharacteristically buoyant, while noting the pop influences and the vocal harmonies in the second verse. Nevertheless, he also noted plenty of noisy and dissonant elements. Everything (Nine Inch Nails song) "Everything" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their eighth studio album, "Hesitation Marks" (2013). It debuted on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 program on August 19, 2013, as was released digitally the following day as the album's third and final single. The song was recorded

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text: was broken into two major legs, Fragility 1.0 and Fragility 2.0 respectively. Destinations included Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and North America. Before the first Fragility performance date in Spain, Nine Inch Nails opened their final rehearsal in London to 100 fans. Kick-starting the tour was a performance of the title track from "The Fragile" at the MTV Video Music Awards. Atari Teenage Riot opened for Nine Inch Nails during Fragility 1.0, and A Perfect Circle for Fragility 2.0. At the time, A Perfect Circle featured Josh Freese on drums, who would later replace Dillon and play drums for Nine

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text: material. On the second of the three nights, Richard Patrick was briefly reunited with the band and contributed guitar to a performance of "Head Like a Hole". After the Self Destruct tour, Chris Vrenna, member of the live band since 1988 and frequent contributor to Nine Inch Nails studio recordings, left the act permanently to pursue a career in producing and to form Tweaker. In support of Nine Inch Nails' third full-length studio album, "The Fragile", the live-band reformed for the Fragility tour. The lineup remained largely the same from the Self-Destruct tour, featuring Finck, Clouser, and Lohner. To replace

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text: was the opening act for the tour, and its set transitioned into Bowie's set with joint performances of both bands' songs. However, the crowds reportedly did not respond positively to the pairing due to their creative differences. The tour concluded with "Nights of Nothing", a three-night showcase of performances from Nothing Records bands Marilyn Manson, Prick, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Pop Will Eat Itself, which ended with an 80-minute set from Nine Inch Nails. "Kerrang!" described the Nine Inch Nails set during the Nights of Nothing showcase as "tight, brash and dramatic", but was disappointed at the lack of new

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text: Nails Tension 2013". In 2014 the band extended its tour worldwide as a four-piece. The new lineup included previous collaborators, Ilan Rubin, Alessandro Cortini, and Robin Finck. The band was joined by Queens of the Stone Age for the Australia and New Zealand tour, during which a nightly coin toss determined who opened. The tour closed in Europe with supporting synth-pop act Cold Cave. After a month-long break, Nine Inch Nails again hit the road on a joint tour with Soundgarden. The 23-day journey extended throughout the continental US, with experimental hip-hop group Death Grips scheduled to open most of

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text: Nails release is chronologically ordered with a sequential number prefixed by the word "Halo". For example, the fifth Nine Inch Nails release, "Broken", is identified with the phrase "Halo Five". These numbers are sometimes modified for alternate versions of a release, such as the multiple releases of "The Downward Spiral". Promotional-only releases do not have their own numbers, although the promotional singles for "Piggy" and "Hurt" were both labeled as "Halo Ten", a title later officially used for "Further Down the Spiral". A US promo for "Into the Void" is mislabeled as Halo 16 because this number actually belongs to

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text: contractual commitments to Interscope Records and was now free to proceed as a "totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label". Reznor also speculated that he would release the next Nine Inch Nails album online in a similar fashion to "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!", which he produced. Reznor later released the first nine tracks of "Ghosts I–IV" and the entirety of "The Slip" in 2008 for free download. In another post on his website, Reznor again openly criticized Universal Music Group for preventing him from launching an official interactive fan remix website. Universal declined

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text: the songs "Wish" and "Happiness in Slavery" in 1993 and 1996 respectively. Nine Inch Nails have received two "Kerrang!" Awards; one of them being the "Kerrang!" Icon in 2006, honoring the band's overall contributions since 1988 and long-standing influence on rock music. The band has also received nine nominations from the MTV Video Music Awards for several of its videos, including two nominations for the "Closer" music video and five nominations for "The Perfect Drug" music video, including Video of the Year. In 1997, Reznor appeared in "Time" magazine's list of the year's most influential people, and "Spin" described him

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text: number one with an album. The album's package lacks typical liner notes; instead it simply lists the names of songs and co-producers, and the URL for an online PDF poster with lyrics and full credits. The entire album was made available in streaming audio on the band's official MySpace page in advance of its release date. Critical reception of the album was mostly positive: "Rolling Stone"'s Rob Sheffield described the album as "vintage Nine Inch Nails". PopMatters condemned the album, claiming Reznor "ran out of ideas." A music video for the song "The Hand That Feeds" premiered on the Nine

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text: the biggest drop from number one at the time. On January 4, 2000, the album was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and by May 2005, it had sold 898,000 copies in the United States. Steven Hyden of "The A.V. Club" writes that Reznor developed Nine Inch Nails from its role as a prominent rock act and by the time he finished recording "The Fragile", alternative rock's overall popularity declined with several of Nine Inch Nails' contemporaries being disestablished or displaced by newer bands. Hyden also attributes the album's commercial performance to the rise of

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text: for people who pre-ordered. "The Fragile" was produced by Trent Reznor and Alan Moulder at Nothing Studios in New Orleans. There were some personnel changes within Nine Inch Nails after the Self-Destruct tour, which saw drummer Chris Vrenna replaced by Bill Rieflin and Jerome Dillon, the latter of whom would become Nine Inch Nails' full-time drummer until late 2005. Charlie Clouser and Danny Lohner contributed occasional instrumentation and composition to several tracks although the album was predominantly written and performed by Reznor alone. "The Fragile" was mixed by Alan Moulder and mastered by Tom Baker. The packaging was created by

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text: Inch Nails completed a tour of North American amphitheaters in the summer of 2006, joined by Bauhaus, TV on the Radio, and Peaches. The 2007 release "Beside You in Time" features performances from the North American arena tour, the North American amphitheater tour, and a number of studio rehearsals. Nine Inch Nails were scheduled to perform at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards, but dropped themselves from the show due to a disagreement with the network over the use of an unaltered image of George W. Bush as a backdrop to the band's performance of "The Hand that Feeds". Soon afterwards,

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text: Cunningham. Into the Void (Nine Inch Nails song) "Into the Void" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their third studio album, "The Fragile", released in 1999. It is the album's third single and saw release early 2000. A music video was directed by Walter Stern and Jeff Richter. "Into the Void" has been covered by Eric Gorfain, Skorbut, Kalte Farben and Wormhole. The song was featured in the 2000 film "Final Destination", being played on the radio in Carter Horton's '71 Chevy Nova, before one of the characters is killed. Even though the song

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text: Into the Void (Nine Inch Nails song) "Into the Void" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their third studio album, "The Fragile", released in 1999. It is the album's third single and saw release early 2000. A music video was directed by Walter Stern and Jeff Richter. "Into the Void" has been covered by Eric Gorfain, Skorbut, Kalte Farben and Wormhole. The song was featured in the 2000 film "Final Destination", being played on the radio in Carter Horton's '71 Chevy Nova, before one of the characters is killed. Even though the song was

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text: show due to a disagreement with the network over the use of an unaltered image of George W. Bush as a backdrop to the band's performance of "The Hand That Feeds". Soon afterwards, Reznor wrote on his official website: "Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me." MTV replied that it respected Reznor's point of view, but was "uncomfortable" with the performance being "built around partisan political statements". A performance by Foo Fighters replaced Nine Inch Nails' time slot on the show. During the "Lights in the Sky" tour in 2008, some

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text: 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. The entire NIN camp is absolutely thrilled that treating our fans with respect and nurturing their creativity has led to such an overwhelming outpour of incredible content, and that we now have such a high quality souvenir from our most ambitious tour ever. "Nine Inch Nails Revenge", an iPhone/iPod touch-exclusive rhythm game developed by Tapulous, was released on March 8, 2009 (five months after

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text: release debuted at number one on both the "Billboard" Top Music Videos and "Billboard" Comprehensive Music Videos charts in the United States. Nine Inch Nails' fifth studio album, "Year Zero", was released only two years after "With Teeth", a marked change in the slow pace from the release of previous albums. With lyrics written from the perspective of multiple fictitious characters, "Year Zero" is a concept album criticizing the United States government's policies and their impact on the world 15 years in the future. Critical response to the album was generally favorable, with an average rating of 76% on Metacritic.

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text: the Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" for his album, "", to critical acclaim. After seeing the music video, which later won a Grammy, Reznor himself became a fan of the rendition: I pop the video in, and wow ... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps ... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore ... It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. 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

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text: only constant member and creative force of the band, acting as its founder, lead singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. In December 2016, English musician Atticus Ross, a frequent collaborator with Reznor, was introduced as a permanent member of Nine Inch Nails. Furthermore, Reznor typically assembles a live band to perform with him onstage. The touring band has comprised several lineups over the course of three decades, the current of which is composed of Robin Finck, Alessandro Cortini, and Ilan Rubin. Their tours often employ thematic visual elements to accompany on-stage performances, which frequently include elaborate light shows, and songs are often

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text: and recording what would become the next full-length album, "The Slip". During recording sessions for "The Slip", Reznor sent the track "Discipline" to radio stations himself on April 22. The track was sent before the remainder of the album was completed, and less than 24 hours after the track had been mastered by Alan Moulder. On the same day, the track was also made available for download at the official Nine Inch Nails website for free, as well as multitrack files of the song for remixing. Reznor reflected on the quick turnaround by saying, "That was fun [...] you never

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text: other Nine Inch Nails songs and their award-winning scores for "The Social Network" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". In May 2018, the band revealed its ninth studio album, entitled "Bad Witch", which was released on June 22, 2018. The band also announced the "Cold and Black and Infinite North America 2018 Tour", where it will be touring with The Jesus and Mary Chain. To prevent ticket scalping, the band took the unusual step of only selling physical tickets that had to be purchased at the venue prior to the shows. Reznor stated of the decision "The promise of

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text: In addition to the recently departed Adrian Belew, Reznor employed bassist Pino Palladino along with Todd Rundgren and Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham to achieve various art-rock elements. The album produced three singles, all released prior to that of the album itself. "Came Back Haunted" was released on June 6, with an accompanying music video bearing an epileptic seizure warning. The second single, "Copy of A", was released on August 12 free of charge to US and UK Amazon.com account holders. "Everything" was the third and final single, recorded during sessions for the Nine Inch Nails greatest hits album. The sessions

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text: footage alongside its own video recordings to create a professional 3-part digital film, followed by a physical release created "by fans for fans". This tour documentary became collectively known as "Another Version of the Truth" and was released throughout late December 2009 to February 2010 via three formats: DVD, Blu-ray Disc and BitTorrent. To date, the group and the project has received significant attention from media outlets such as "USA Today", "Rolling Stone", Techdirt and Pitchfork TV, and holds the support of both Reznor and the fan community with theatrical screenings being held all over the world. Nine Inch Nails

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text: On May 5, Nine Inch Nails released "The Slip" via its website without any advertisement or promotion. The album was made available for download free of charge with a message from Reznor, "this one's on me," protected under the same Creative Commons licence as "Ghosts", and has seen individual downloads surpassing 1.4 million. "The Slip" has since been released on CD as a limited edition set of 250,000. Since the release of "Ghosts I–IV" and "The Slip", a 25-date tour titled "Lights in the Sky", was announced in several North American cities, and was later expanded to include several more

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text: "Survivalism", and other tracks from "Year Zero" were released as multitrack audio files for fans to remix. A remix album titled "Year Zero Remixed" was later released, containing remixes from "Year Zero" by other artists. 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. The remix album was accompanied by an interactive remix site with multitrack downloads and the ability to post remixes. Reznor planned a film adaption of the album and noted "Year

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text: led fans to discover a network of fictitious, in-game websites that describe an "Orwellian picture of the United States circa the year 2022". Before "Year Zero"'s release, unreleased songs from the album were found on USB drives hidden at Nine Inch Nails concert venues in Lisbon and Barcelona, as part of the alternate reality game. Fan participation in the alternate reality game caught the attention of media outlets such as "USA Today" and "Billboard", who have cited fan-site The NIN Hotline, forum Echoing the Sound, fan club The Spiral, and NinWiki as sources for new discoveries. The album's first single,

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text: "Starfuckers, Inc." provoked media speculation about whom Reznor had intended its acerbic lyrics to satirize. Cinesexuality critic Patricia MacCormack interprets the song as a "scathing attack on the alternative music scene," particularly Reznor's former friend and protégé Marilyn Manson. 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. Reznor followed "The Fragile" with another remix album, "Things Falling Apart", released in November 2000 to poor reviews, a few months after the 2000 "Fragility" tour which itself was

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text: Canadian rock producer Bob Ezrin was consulted on the album's track listing; the liner notes state that he "provided final continuity and flow." On the heels of the band's previous successes, media anticipation surrounded "The Fragile" more than a year before its release, when it was already described as "oft-delayed". The album debuted at number one on the "Billboard" 200, selling 228,000 copies in its first week and receiving generally positive reviews. "Spin" hailed "The Fragile" as the "album of the year," whereas Pitchfork Media panned its "melodramatic" lyrics. Nine Inch Nails released three commercial singles from the album in

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text: and a one-take "March of the Pigs" clip directed by Peter Christoperson. Around this time, Reznor's studio perfectionism, struggles with addiction, and bouts of writer's block prolonged the production of "The Fragile". 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. "The Fragile" was conceived by making "songwriting and arranging and production and sound design ... the same thing. A song would start with a drum loop or a visual and eventually a song would emerge out of it and that was the song."

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text: a wide range of textures and moods to illustrate the mental progress of a central character. Flood co-produced several tracks on the album, while Alan Moulder mixed most of the album and subsequently took on more extensive production duties for future album releases. Reznor invited Sean Beavan to work on "The Downward Spiral". After contributing to remixes of Nine Inch Nails songs, such as "Closer", Beavan mixed and co-produced Marilyn Manson's "Antichrist Superstar" in 1996. As well as "Broken", "The Downward Spiral" was recorded at Le Pig Studios. "March of the Pigs" and "Closer" were released as singles. Two other

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text: as "a lot harder ... than "Pretty Hate Machine"". The inspiration for the harder sound came from the way the live band played during concerts such as Lollapalooza. Songs from "Broken" earned Nine Inch Nails two Grammy Awards: a performance of the EP's first single "Happiness in Slavery" from Woodstock '94, and the second single "Wish". 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." Against touring of the brand new material, Reznor began living and

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text: criticized the labeling of Nine Inch Nails as a commercially oriented band and demanded his label terminate his contract, but they ignored his plea. In response, Reznor secretly began recording under various pseudonyms to avoid record company interference. Involved in a feud with TVT, he signed a record deal with Interscope Records and created Nothing Records: We made it very clear we were not doing another record for TVT. But they made it pretty clear they weren't ready to sell. So I felt like, well, I've finally got this thing going but it's dead. Flood and I had to record

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text: opening act for alternative rock artists such as Peter Murphy and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Reznor began smashing his equipment while on stage; "Rockbeat" interviewer Mike Gitter attributed the live band's early success in front of rock oriented audiences to this aggressive attitude. Nine Inch Nails then embarked on a world tour that continued through the first Lollapalooza festival in 1991. After a poor European reception opening for Guns N' Roses, the band returned to America amid pressure from TVT to produce a follow-up to "Pretty Hate Machine". After finding out they were hindering control of his project, Reznor

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text: some demos of his own material for free during unused studio time. Koster agreed and allowed Reznor to use it whenever it was empty, commenting that it cost him "just a little wear on [his] tape heads". While completing the early recordings, Reznor was unable to find a band that could articulate the material as he desired. Instead, inspired by Prince, Reznor played all the instruments, except drums, himself. This role remains Reznor's on most of the band's studio recordings, though he has occasionally involved other musicians and assistants. Nine Inch Nails' debut was at the Phantasy Theater in Lakewood,