for their resemblance to the modern Hebrew characters of the Tetragrammaton. 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. Simple as that. FUCK Fox Fucking News. Working with his production collaborator Flood, Reznor had to record in secret quickly because he didn't want TVT to know that he was finalizing a new deal with Interscope. 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[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. [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. [4] In 2006, Nine Inch Nails went on tour with Bauhaus, on their Summer Amphitheatre Tour. [280] Other early influences include Ministry and Skinny Puppy, which helped shape 1989's Pretty Hate Machine. Their eighth album, Hesitation Marks (2013), was followed by a trilogy which consisted of the EPs Not the Actual Events (2016) and Add Violence (2017) and their ninth album Bad Witch (2018). [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. It featured songs from his "My Beautiful Dark Twisted . Listen to The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails on Apple Music. Nine Inch Nails have sold over 20 million records and been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning for the songs "Wish" in 1992 and "Happiness in Slavery" in 1996. [23] 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. Duke and Steve worked with me on the remix, in the very early days of Garbage. But Interscope went into it like they really wanted to know what I wanted. The music video features Trent Reznor singing under a spotlight at a concert while archival video clips are projected on a screen behind him. [139] Freese and Cortini left the live band, but it became a quartet with the addition of Ilan Rubin on drums.[140][141]. [317] 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. When Reznor returned to the studio after the Pretty Hate Machine tour, he was beset by personal and professional woes. In 2001 Q named The Downward Spiral as one of the 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time;[69] in 2010 the album was ranked No. [66] A radio edit that partially mutes the song's explicit lyrics also received extensive airtime. 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. [197] Two weeks prior to the tour, Death Grips announced its breakup and cancelled all subsequent live shows. The 23-day journey extended throughout the continental US, with experimental hip-hop group Death Grips scheduled to open most of the shows. [233][234] The albums were released for free as a show of solidarity with the band's fans during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2005, Spin ranked it 25th among the "100 Greatest Albums, 19852005". 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. [329], A similar incident involving digital content distribution occurred in 2013 when Nine Inch Nails re-released the original 1993 film Broken on Vimeo. [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. This form needs Javascript to display, which your browser doesn't support. [223], The band released their ninth studio album, Bad Witch,[224] on June 22, 2018. To date, the group and the project has received significant attention from media outlets such as USA Today,[144] Rolling Stone,[145] Techdirt and Pitchfork TV,[146] and holds the support of both Reznor and the fan community with theatrical screenings being held all over the world. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . Nine Inch Nails. [11], Reznor chose the name "Nine Inch Nails" because it "abbreviated easily" rather than for "any literal meaning". 2005. [246], On September 24, 2022, Nine Inch Nails performed in their native Cleveland for the first time since 2013 after a "Nine Inch Nails Fan Day" at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame the previous day. It was also a bit of a knee-jerk, 'I'm not a pussy,' 'I'm not a sellout' attitude. 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. The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! [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. Directed by Peter Christopherson. [298] The Recording Industry Association of America certified sales for 10.5 million units of the band's albums in the United States,[299] which accounted for roughly half of the band's reported sales worldwide at that time. In 1993 Nine Inch Nails released the 20 minutes short film "Broken" (often referred to as "The Broken Movie") featuring 4 music videos from the "Broken" EP. [203] However, they once again did not get inducted. [49] It depicts the murder of a young man who is kidnapped and tortured while forced to watch the videos. [166] Reznor contributed vocals and drum programing to the song "Kalopsia" and vocals on "Fairweather Friends" along with Elton John on piano and vocals. "It felt like we'd crossed over into territory that was perhapstoo far," he recalls. [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). [287], Reznor has toured with some of his influences, including a brief tour opening for Skinny Puppy in 1988. 94 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. [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. "March Of The Pigs" music video. [101], On The Fragile, Reznor revisits the technique of repeating a motif multiple times throughout different songs, either on a different musical instrument with a transposed harmony or in an altered tempo. Also in 1994, the band released the promotional single "Burn", which Reznor produced, on the soundtrack of Oliver Stone film Natural Born Killers. 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. [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". [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. In the 1990s, discovering Broken was personal and individual. When Reznor saw the film, he freaked out: "It felt like we'd crossed over into territory that was perhaps too far." Lesser known is Reznor's 1993 longform, 20-minute music video meant to accompany NIN's 1992 EP Broken. They were influenced by Reznor and liked the idea, but did not want to pay him for the album and the idea was scrapped. Despite an apology from producer Kenneth Ehrlich, Reznor later heavily criticized the situation. It's all here. 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. It was skating for a living. [165] This led to further collaboration with Reznor and Homme on the 2013 album from Queens of the Stone Age titled Like Clockwork. [77] Around this time, Reznor's studio perfectionism,[78] struggles with addiction, and bouts of writer's block prolonged the production of The Fragile. When something goes viral in 2017, there's an immediacy to the sensation that makes the experience a little less special. Creepy Nine Inch Nails Ambience Audio- Unreleased DOOM Content W/Tweaks Visual-NIN In DOOM & Quake NIN's Everything Music Video [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". It's essentially an extreme snuff film. [143] 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. 73K views 2 months ago The story of Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nail's Banned Snuff Film SIGN UP for 10 of the Craziest Stories in Rock N' Roll [Secret Playlist]: https://bit.ly/3vV Show more. "Runaway" by Kanye West (2010) West's "Runaway" music video was part of an extended musical short film directed by the rapper. [103] He similarly released files for the album's second single "Only" in a wider range of formats, including Pro Tools and ACID Pro. Icon in 2006, honoring the band's overall contributions since 1988 and long-standing influence on rock music. [190][191] This leg of the tour was documented and released in the spring as Nine Inch Nails Tension 2013. [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. This installment in the Tap Tap video game franchise was themed after Nine Inch Nails, and included tracks from Ghosts IIV and The Slip. [49] This footage was never officially released, but instead appeared covertly among tape trading circles. (Remember it came out in the VHS era.) Nine Inch Nails were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020, after being nominated in 2014 (their first year of eligibility) and again in 2015. [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. [113] The government corporation Cedocore distributes the drug Parepin through the water supply, making Americans who drink water apathetic and carefree. [328][329] Reznor criticized their decision, citing the audio was also available through the iTunes application. They wanted a very commercial, easily digestible, disposable product that would sell a lot, make them a lot of money right away and then who cares if they're around in a couple of years. [64], The music video for "Closer", directed by Mark Romanek, was in MTV's frequent rotation, although the network, deeming it too graphic, heavily censored the original. Following the release of the album Year Zero (2007), the band left Interscope after a feud. 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. [109], Nine Inch Nails' fifth studio album, Year Zero, was released on April 17, 2007, only two years after With Teeth, a marked change in the slow pace from the release of previous albums. Ironically enough, it was Reznor himself who canned the project. [238] On November 6, 2020, Trent Reznor and the other to-be-inducted members of Nine Inch Nails were interviewed by journalist David Farrier about the history of the band and their feelings on being inducted. [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. [332][333] Band members have occasionally been invited to participate in the recording process, but creative control within the studio has always been exclusively with Reznor. [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. [129], In February 2008, Reznor posted a news update on the Nine Inch Nails website entitled "2 weeks". [120] A remix album titled Year Zero Remixed was later released, containing remixes from Year Zero by other artists. 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". [142] In an immediate response, a fan organization known as This One Is On Us quickly downloaded the data and had begun to assemble the footage alongside its own video recordings to create a professional 3-part digital film, followed by a physical release created "by fans for fans". [4], Three music videos were created in promotion of the album. [264][265] 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 audience". [235][236], Due to the pandemic, the live induction ceremony for the 2020 Hall of Fame Induction was cancelled on July 15, 2020, and simultaneously, an induction special was announced to be broadcast and available for streaming through HBO and HBO Max, respectively, on November 7, 2020. [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. [62] The Downward Spiral, alike Broken, was recorded at Le Pig Studios. A brief tour opening for Skinny Puppy in 1988 covertly among tape trading circles tour! Reznor posted a news update on the Nine Inch Nails Tension 2013 's an to. 129 ], Reznor later heavily criticized the situation 's explicit lyrics received... 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