"I do think people can be harmed seeing things, especially unexpectedly, that put them in the position of empathizing with someone being tortured and murdered. Nine Inch Nails: Hurt: Directed by Simon Maxwell. [4][288] 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. But it went from being the best to the worst. In the early 1990s, Trent Reznor should have been on top of the world. [295], In 1997, Reznor appeared in Time magazine's list of the year's most influential people, and Spin described him as "the most vital artist in music". [38] "March of the Pigs" and "Closer" were singles. "broken" is an infamous nine inch nails pseudo-snuff video that it's not as shocking as it's reputed to be.in fact "despair" by spk easily tops it with its authentic footage of autopsies and corpse abuse.basically a psychotic man picks up a teenager.the kid is trussed up in the killer's cellar.then the murderer,who wears plastic mask like the It's essentially an extreme snuff film. 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. 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. [201] While they were not inducted that year, the band placed second in the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Fan Vote. 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. "I came back haunted" I banned for a good min, Tiktok relieved me from time-out #mrzfrazier #PerfectPrideMovement #rhonduhbudz #rhonduhfraz #zooted #goodvibes #StJudeDadPhotos #icamebackhaunted". "[277] 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, and nihilism. In 2005, Spin ranked it 25th among the "100 Greatest Albums, 19852005". Reznor had been a fan of Peter Christopherson, a musician and visual artist who had been part of the pioneering industrial groups Throbbing Gristle and Coil. Everything from Seven's jagged opening credits to the post9/11 torture porn of Saw owes a debt to Broken's jarring visual disharmony. [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. Nine Inch Nails music videos are distinctive in their variety. [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. [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. From the get-go, the intention was to create something nauseating and revolting. Performances were violent and chaotic, band members often injuring themselves by attacking each other, diving into the crowd, and destroying their instruments to close. 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". For this list we've chosen our entries based on a combination of the artist's fan favorites and their most commercially successful songs. [16][17] The logo features the band's initials, with the second N mirrored. Lesser known is Reznor's 1993 longform, 20-minute music video meant to accompany NIN's 1992 EP Broken. To this day, most of the Broken cast has not been identified, and while individual segments' directors are known, the grubby anonymity and mixed-format presentation keeps the Broken movie from feeling like a respectable artistic endeavor. ", "Multitracks for 3 YZ songs posted on nin.com", "Nine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D Album Review", "Nine Inch Nails Announce Remix Album Details", "Kerrang discusses movie possibility with Trent Reznor", "Nine Inch Nails Ready Apocalyptic Year Zero TV Show", "Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor approaches the future a free man", "Trent Reznor and HBO moving forward with 'Year Zero' sci-fi series", "Trent Reznor Tells Fans "Year Zero" Is In A Holding State", "Reznor makes $750,000 even when the music is free", "Nine Inch Nails releases Ghosts I-IV under a Creative Commons license", "New Nine Inch Nails Single Possibly From 'Year Zero 2'? [180][181][182] Released September 3, Hesitation Marks incorporated rhythms reminiscent of earlier releases, but was more expansive and theatrical. Nine Inch Nails Closer Nine Inch Nails made their big splash with. [125] [197] Two weeks prior to the tour, Death Grips announced its breakup and cancelled all subsequent live shows. Following the release of the album Year Zero (2007), the band left Interscope after a feud. [4], Three music videos were created in promotion of the album. [127] In 2010, the resultant miniseries, also named Year Zero, was reported to be in development with HBO and BBC Worldwide Productions, with the screenplay and script written by Reznor and Carnivle writer Daniel Knauf,[128] but at the end of 2012 Reznor said that the project was "in a holding state". [337][338] However, after 9 years of studio sessions, no material was ever officially released from the group, and it was confirmed to be no longer active in 2005. [239] Then on November 7, Nine Inch Nails was formally inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Class of 2020, by punk icon Iggy Pop. Also, its point is clear: Humans are debased creatures and mere machines of flesh, mired in filth and damnation. [8] He has continued to play most parts on Nine Inch Nails recordings ever since. 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. The stage set-up featured dirty curtains, rising and lowering for visuals shown during songs such as "Hurt". [116] 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. Nine Inch Nails Pulls Out of 2005 MTV Movie Awards. [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". Reznor posted on his Discord after the show, When/If we tour again, it will be different. [232], On March 26, 2020, Nine Inch Nails released Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts, their tenth and eleventh studio albums and the sequels to their 2008 instrumental album Ghosts IIV. [114] Three Nine Inch Nails albums are concept albums: The Downward Spiral, The Fragile, and Year Zero. Reznor and Gary Talpas designed the logo, inspired by Tibor Kalman's typography on the Talking Heads album Remain in Light. [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. The video for the album's lead single, "Head Like a Hole," is trashy, twisted, and demented. [104] All three singles topped the Billboard Alternative Songs chart. [195] The tour closed in Europe with supporting synth-pop act Cold Cave. Listen to The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails on Apple Music. [172][173][174] In February 2013, Reznor announced the return of Nine Inch Nails and revealed the Twenty Thirteen Tour. [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. Everything about the process sucks and everyone loses except the reseller. [113] The government corporation Cedocore distributes the drug Parepin through the water supply, making Americans who drink water apathetic and carefree. [122] The remix album was accompanied by an interactive remix site with multitrack downloads and the ability to post remixes. At some gigs leading up to the election, the face of Bush slowly morphed during the song into the face of John McCain. 33 Likes, TikTok video from Rhonduh Fraz (@rhonduhbudz): "Hey my peeps!! What if it felt real? [282] The 2005 single "Only" exemplifies the disco-style beats and synthesizers drawn from Numan's persuasion. 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. 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. [80] Spin hailed The Fragile as the "album of the year", whereas Pitchfork Media panned its "melodramatic" lyrics. Few bands are as deserving of a video collection as Nine Inch Nails is. [223], The band released their ninth studio album, Bad Witch,[224] on June 22, 2018. [15][failed verification] The Nine Inch Nails logo first appeared on the music video for their debut single, "Down in It". But the dream wasn't penthouses. Reznor released the source files for it in GarageBand format a month later, allowing fans to remix the song. In hindsight, Reznor talks about that time with a little more mellowed wisdom, saying, "I had this snotty, elitist mentality you're not cool enough to like my band, don't buy my records. [207] 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? [162] Later that year Reznor again worked with Atticus Ross along with Alessandro Cortini on a remix of the song "Destroyer" by Telepathe. April 26, 2016 bernard. Nine Inch Nails. [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. [243] Those shows were cancelled on August 19, 2021, due to rising COVID-19 cases in the United States. "Happiness in Slavery" is a song that is about a person being tortured by a machine. [185] The second single, "Copy of A", was released on August 12 free of charge to US and UK Amazon.com account holders. I don't know that I need this kind of thing.' Reznor basically wanted to build a film around the music forBroken,saying, "What if we built a framework around these songs, what if we took an approach where it really was scary, instead of a cop-out horror movie nod to the camera? [334], 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. Known for: Friday (1995), Straight Outta Compton (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017) F. Gary Gray's career as a film director is nearly entirely owed to his career as . [97] The entire album was made available in streaming audio on the band's official MySpace page in advance of its release date. It was ranked No. ", Bones Brigade legend, Mega Ramp maniac's creative bond defies age, Meet the man behind visuals for Slayer, Black Sabbath, Cattle Decapitation and more. [4] Nine demos, recorded live in November 1988 and collectively known as Purest Feeling, were released in revised form on the first studio album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989). [229] In October 2019, Nine Inch Nails was again nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. A cease and desist has been issued. 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. Creepy Nine Inch Nails Ambience Audio- Unreleased DOOM Content W/Tweaks Visual-NIN In DOOM & Quake NIN's Everything Music Video ), But Broken's brilliance was also a product of its time something that couldn't be duplicated today. The video for the album's lead single, "Head Like a Hole," is trashy, twisted, and demented. The band (or Trent Reznor, to be precise) has always issued challenging and uncommon videos, more short films than music videos. The film features plenty of nudity, mutilation, someone getting his teeth yanked out with pliers, machine arms and mechanized parts aside writhing worms, organs ground up into lunch meat and that's not even the worst stuff. [171] Reznor eventually confirmed that he was working on new Nine Inch Nails material and might be performing live again. [41] He characterized Broken as a guitar-based "blast of destruction", and as "a lot harder than Pretty Hate Machine". [216] On March 21, the band announced on their official Facebook page that it would be headlining Day 3 of FYF Fest in Los Angeles on July 23. Nine Inch Nails is a rock band that is known for their dark and edgy lyrics. FUCK Fox Fucking News. Year Video Album including the song Reznor announced on October 8, 2007, that Nine Inch Nails had fulfilled its contractual commitments to Interscope Records and was now free to proceed as a "totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label". Similar to the announcement that ultimately led to the release of Ghosts IIV, a post on the band's website in April 2008 read "2 weeks! [47] A third video for "Pinion", partially incorporated into MTV's Alternative Nation opening sequence, showed a toilet that apparently flushes into the mouth of a person in bondage. Essentially, I wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist. Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Trent Reznor was the only permanent member of the band until the official addition of English musician Atticus Ross in 2016. [217], In June 2017, in an email that was issued out to customers waiting on delayed vinyl orders, Reznor confirmed that Not the Actual Events would actually make up the first part of a trilogy of EPs, with the second installment Add Violence being released on July 21[218] and the third and final EP of the trilogy to follow in 2018. "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. [226][227] 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. [210] Also announced was The Fragile: Deviations 1, which comprised 37 instrumental, alternate and unreleased tracks, many of which have never been heard before anywhere. [13] The inspiration for the harder sound came from the way the live band played during concerts such as Lollapalooza. [237] In the interim, a special display was created to represent Nine Inch Nails' presence in the Hall of Fame that celebrated their popular, muddy performance at Woodstock '94; opened on the 26th anniversary of the concert. To that end, Reznor recruited scatological performance artist Peter Christopherson,whom he admired, as the film's director. "It felt like we'd crossed over into territory that was perhapstoo far," he recalls. Almost 25 years after it was unleashed upon the world, the Broken film remains the most graphic and unsetting piece of art Nine Inch Nails have ever produced. In another post on his website, Reznor again openly criticized Universal Music Group for preventing him from launching an official interactive fan remix website. [1]:35[266][267] Reviewing The Fragile, critic 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."[268] Ambient music has been featured in some of Nine Inch Nails' music, including on Ghosts IIV (which is specifically dark ambient),[269] Hesitation Marks,[270] The Downward Spiral,[271] The Slip,[272] and The Fragile. [10] Several labels responded favorably to the demo material and Reznor signed with TVT Records. [170], 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". 3. [289], Nine Inch Nails has influenced many newer artists, which according to Reznor range from "generic imitations" dating from his initial success to younger bands echoing his style in a "truer, less imitative way". "[327], Aside from disagreements over the usage of Nine Inch Nails material, some corporations have dismissed content due to perceived obscenity. Director: F. Gary Gray. "[153][154] The "Wave Goodbye" tour concluded on September 10, 2009, at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. [4] The album's liner notes also paid tribute to Public Enemy and Prince. Reznor recorded the band's debut album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), while . [42] Songs from Broken earned Nine Inch Nails two Grammy Awards: a performance of the EP's first single "Happiness in Slavery" from Woodstock '94,[43] and the second single "Wish". So unfortunately a lot of people, especially kids, started to believe that it was a real snuff movie. However, the band's performance of the song at Woodstock '94 was well-received and won them a . Finding this tape was the reason for me picking up guitar, drums, music production & audio engineering and everything else related to music. Originally, only Trent Reznor was to be inducted as the sole full-time member of the group for most of its history. 200 in a 2003 list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,[301] and by the following year ranked Nine Inch Nails at No. [313] Reznor's post, specifically his criticism of the recording industry at large, elicited considerable media attention. The Japanese horror film Ringu (which was remade as The Ring in the States) weaponized the individual, viral nature of bootleg VHS videos, while The Blair Witch Project became a sensation by making audiences wonder if what they were watching was real. A curated selection of classic NIN T-shirts that have been painstakingly recreated and approved by Trent Reznor, Mariqueen Maandig Reznor, and NIN Art Director John Crawford. [211][212] Not the Actual Events was released on December 23, 2016, with fans who pre-ordered it receiving their download links one day earlier. Nine Inch Nails was scheduled to perform at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards, but withdrew 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". [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. #10: "Terrible Lie" 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. That's a hard thing to watch. [4][294], The act has received four awards from 25 nominations, including two Grammy Awards for the songs "Wish" and "Happiness in Slavery" in 1993 and 1996 respectively. [107] 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. Reznor cited the long gestation period between studio albums as part of the reason for these frequent personnel changes,[340] as well as his desire for fresh interpretations of his music.[341]. [60] Flood co-produced several tracks, while Alan Moulder mixed most,[61] and later found more extensive production duties on future albums. [48] Reznor and Christopherson compiled the three clips along with footage for "Help Me I Am in Hell" and "Gave Up" into a longform music video titled Broken. 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. [114] There are several underground rebel groups, mainly operating online, most notably Art is Resistance and Solutions Backwards Initiative. [186] "Everything" was the third and final single, recorded during sessions for the Nine Inch Nails greatest hits album. 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[117] 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. [206], 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". Subscription from 10.83/month . Thanks! [304][305], In January 2020, after previous nominations in 2014 and 2015, Nine Inch Nails (Alessandro Cortini, Robin Finck, Danny Lohner, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Ilan Rubin and Chris Vrenna) were named as inductees of the 2020 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After seeing the film, he freaked out because it was so disturbing, even to him. [20] It marked his first collaboration with Adrian Sherwood (who produced the lead single "Down in It" in London without meeting Reznor face-to-face)[10] and Mark "Flood" Ellis. 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