[31], In 1990, Nine Inch Nails began the Pretty Hate Machine Tour Series, in which it toured North America as an opening act for alternative rock artists such as Peter Murphy and The Jesus and Mary Chain. It wasn't my doing. "It felt like we'd crossed over into territory that was perhapstoo far," he recalls. It was ranked No. [108] The home video release debuted at number one on both the Billboard Top Music Videos and Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos charts in the United States. [320] Despite these obstacles, the remix website was launched in November 2007. While living in Cleveland in 1987, Trent Reznor played keyboards in the Exotic Birds, a synthpop band managed by John Malm Jr.[1]:38 Reznor became friends with Malm,[2] who informally became his manager when he left to work on his own music. [66] A radio edit that partially mutes the song's explicit lyrics also received extensive airtime. [36] In response, Reznor secretly began recording under various pseudonyms to avoid record company interference. [1]:42, In 1992, Nine Inch Nails relocated to 10050 Cielo Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles (renamed "Le Pig" by Reznor), the site of the Tate murders, when Charles Manson's "family" murdered Sharon Tate,[38] wife of noted film director Roman Polanski, and four of her friends. Reznor and his co-producers expanded upon the Right Track Studio demos by adding singles "Head Like a Hole" and "Sin". [118][119], The album's first single, "Survivalism", and other tracks from Year Zero were released as multitrack audio files for fans to remix. The disturbing video, along with the fact that he was now cognizant of the terrible history of the house where he was recording The Downward Spiral, made him wonder if he wanted this art project out in the world. 2005. [21] He mixed sound during Nine Inch Nails' live concerts for several years,[22] eventually becoming an unofficial member of the live band and singing live backup vocals from his place at the mixing console. [29] This footage attracted the attention of the FBI. When it was finished, Trent thought the front part of the mix didn't fit the EP, so he just used the ending. [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". Soon afterwards, Reznor wrote on his official website: "Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me. We're In This Together. Christopherson succeeded brilliantly but also horrifically. The song's music video was banned by many networks for its graphic images. Reznor objected to the label's attempted interference with his intellectual property. "[44] Against touring of the brand new material, Reznor began living and recording full-time at Le Pig, working on a follow-up free of restrictions from his record label. Nine Inch Nails ' video for Closer, directed by Mark Romanek, is one of those ones that feels like it earns capital letters, an ambitious piece of complex, controversial art that frequently. What if it felt real? Nine Inch Nails. The video was too raw and real for MTV to handle and they did not want to put that heavy burden on their viewers, especially with the original video being 15 minutes long. "[152] Reznor since clarified that he "isn't done creating music under the moniker, but that Nine Inch Nails is done touring for the foreseeable future. "[126] Since first announcing his plans for a television series, progress slowed, reportedly due to the 20072008 Writer's Guild strike, but it nevertheless continued. #10: "Terrible Lie" [229] In October 2019, Nine Inch Nails was again nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. [49] This footage was never officially released, but instead appeared covertly among tape trading circles. [160] Reznor and Ross again collaborated with Fincher for the official score the American adaptation of the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, released in December 2011, and then again on Fincher's 2014 film Gone Girl [161], In July 2012 Reznor teamed up with video game developer Treyarch to compose the theme music for Call of Duty: Black Ops II. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards. "[81] Canadian rock producer Bob Ezrin was consulted on the album's track listing; the liner notes state that he "provided final continuity and flow. [204] 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. [323] A post appeared on Reznor's blog, which read: "Thanks for the Fox News heads-up. [88] Cinesexuality critic Patricia MacCormack interprets the song as a "scathing attack on the alternative music scene," particularly Reznor's former friend and protg Marilyn Manson. Nine Inch Nails: Hurt: Directed by Simon Maxwell. So unfortunately a lot of people, especially kids, started to believe that it was a real snuff movie. "I was coming out of a weird relationship," he told Spin in 1996. It's Free", "NINE INCH NAILS Mainman On New CD: 'I Wrote The Soundtrack To A Movie That Doesn't Exist', "Weird web trail: conspiracy theoryor marketing for nine inch nails LP? 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. MTV aired the videos for "Down in It" and "Head Like a Hole", but an explicit video for "Sin" was only released in partial form for Closure. [79], Five years elapsed between The Downward Spiral and Nine Inch Nails' next studio album, The Fragile, which arrived as a double album in September 1999. Reznor released the source files for it in GarageBand format a month later, allowing fans to remix the song. This installment in the Tap Tap video game franchise was themed after Nine Inch Nails, and included tracks from Ghosts IIV and The Slip. April 26, 2016 bernard. [231] However, due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the induction ceremony was postponed indefinitely. Just wait and see what happens. Yeah, NIN was the breakthrough. Reznor posted on his Discord after the show, When/If we tour again, it will be different. [192], In 2014 the band extended its tour worldwide as a four-piece. Icon in 2006, honoring the band's overall contributions since 1988 and long-standing influence on rock music. 94 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. [98], Critical reception of the album was mostly positive:[99] Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield described the album as "vintage Nine Inch Nails". Reznor wrote the music for the video andBrokenwith a very big chip on his shoulders. "The darkness and the scatology really chimed with me So I figured that if I hired [Christopherson] as a director then I could at least meet him and hang out for a bit. The music video features Trent Reznor singing under a spotlight at a concert while archival video clips are projected on a screen behind him. Music video by Nine Inch Nails performing Even Deeper (VEVO Presents). "[208] Three days later, Reznor announced an EP titled Not the Actual Events,[209] along with reissues of Broken, The Downward Spiral, and The Fragile, with subsequent reissues of With Teeth, Year Zero, and The Slip to be released later in 2017, these plans however fell through. The band (or Trent Reznor, to be precise) has always issued challenging and uncommon videos, more short films than music videos. However, the band's performance of the song at Woodstock '94 was well-received and won them a . That paved the way for the "Happiness" video, an increasingly painful and gut-churning experience, which was banned on MTV and elsewhere, but helped raise the profile of the masochistic performance artist. With Teeth was released in May 2005, though it was leaked prior to its official release date. [51] The unedited version appeared on the internet as an 8-bit mono 11kHz file, "NIN_LAST.AIFF", available by FTP from cyberden.com in 1993; it has been removed from the website, but can still be found on p2p networks (Reznor subsequently made it available in higher quality (256kbit/s mp3) at remix.nin.com). Songs are often rearranged to fit any given performance, and melodies or lyrics of songs that are not scheduled to be performed are sometimes assimilated into other songs. [311], 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. The sessions gave way to more songs that ended up yielding the entire album. [314] In September 2007, Reznor continued his attack on UMG at a concert in Australia, urging fans there to "steal" his music online instead of purchasing it legally. [183], The album produced three singles, all released prior to that of the album itself. After disagreeing with TVT about how to promote the album, the band signed with Interscope Records and released the EP Broken (1992). But the dream wasn't penthouses. Create and promote branded videos, host live events and webinars, and more. Reznor acknowledged in Spin magazine that "Down in It" was influenced by early Skinny Puppy, particularly the band's song "Dig It"; other songs from Pretty Hate Machine and With Teeth have been described as synth-pop. After holding discussions with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Reznor announced that former live band members Chris Vrenna and Danny Lohner, as well as current members Alessandro Cortini, Ilan Rubin (the youngest person ever inducted into the Hall of Fame), longtime guitarist Robin Finck, and the only other full time member of the band, Atticus Ross, would all be inducted as members of Nine Inch Nails. Flood and I had to record Broken under a different band name, because if TVT found out we were recording, they could confiscate all our shit and release it. [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. The environment that produced Broken both Reznor's tortured mental state and an age before the ubiquity of the web may no longer exist, but the film's grisly, unfiltered menace continues to echo through the culture. [328][329] Reznor criticized their decision, citing the audio was also available through the iTunes application. ", Well, not entirely. I guess it's interesting that it's achieved a certain notoriety. 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. [49] The only track that was left off the final version of the release is the remix of "Last", produced by Butch Vig (the outro of the "Last" remix is heard in "Throw This Away", which also includes Reznor's remix of "Suck"). [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? However, Reznor typically forms a backing group of musicians to perform the songs in a live setting. [198] Oneohtrix Point Never, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Cold Cave each replaced Death Grips separately for the tour.[199]. In January 2017, the band announced that it would be performing at the Panorama Music Festival in New York on July 30. Everything about the process sucks and everyone loses except the reseller. [13] Ultimately, Nine Inch Nails entered into a joint venture with Interscope Records in which Reznor forfeited a portion of his publishing rights to TVT Music in exchange for the freedom of having his own Nothing Records imprint. But beware:when you get to the flies, the gimp, and the bloody steak, you're only halfway done. In the modern age, Broken has found its way to the web through BitTorrent and the Internet Archive, but has never been released commercially. [70] After The Downward Spiral's release, Reznor produced an accompanying remix album entitled Further Down the Spiral, the only non-major Nine Inch Nails release to be certified gold in the United States[59] and among the best-selling remix albums of all time. [10] Several labels responded favorably to the demo material and Reznor signed with TVT Records. After a poor European reception opening for Guns N' Roses,[34] the band returned to America amid pressure from TVT to produce a follow-up to Pretty Hate Machine. ", Bones Brigade legend, Mega Ramp maniac's creative bond defies age, Meet the man behind visuals for Slayer, Black Sabbath, Cattle Decapitation and more. They were influenced by Reznor and liked the idea, but did not want to pay him for the album and the idea was scrapped. [110] In response to the increasing oppression of the government, several corporate, government, and subversive websites were transported back in time to the present by a group of scientists working clandestinely against the authorities. It's all here. Directed by Peter Christopherson. [103] He similarly released files for the album's second single "Only" in a wider range of formats, including Pro Tools and ACID Pro. [205] In December 2015, Reznor reported that "Nine Inch Nails will return in 2016". He did not, in any way, want to be branded as approachable pop, and the band members were actively antagonistic toward their record label, TVT. Director: F. Gary Gray. 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. 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 . I'm glad it's on his website. His solo skills were SHREDICULOUS! [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 2020, Nine Inch Nails simultaneously released two further instalments in the Ghosts series: Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts. And don't forget enfant terrible Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers, which was made to look like an amateur VHS video that had been copied and passed around for years, depicting the bizarre behavior of a group of guys dressed in old-man masks. The government is a Christian fundamentalist theocracy, maintaining control of the populace through institutions like the Bureau of Morality and the First Evangelical Church of Plano. 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". [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". [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. [100] PopMatters condemned the album, claiming Reznor "ran out of ideas."[101]. Finding this tape was the reason for me picking up guitar, drums, music production & audio engineering and everything else related to music. [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. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaningdifferent, but every bit as pure. Not many fans would likely be able to peg this Fragile single which wasn't a radio hit, and never even saw its music video officially released as Nine Inch Nails' highest-charting. And leak it did: The video started being sold as a bootleg. Like a lot of radio stations, MTV really didn't know what to do with Nine Inch Nails when the band's sonic wave hit in 1989 with the release of Pretty Hate Machine. [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. 33 Likes, TikTok video from Rhonduh Fraz (@rhonduhbudz): "Hey my peeps!! [2], The first Nine Inch Nails performance took place at the Phantasy Theater in Lakewood, Ohio, on October 21, 1988. Everything from Seven's jagged opening credits to the post9/11 torture porn of Saw owes a debt to Broken's jarring visual disharmony. For this list we've chosen our entries based on a combination of the artist's fan favorites and their most commercially successful songs. That's a hard thing to watch. The video was split into segments such as "Happiness in Slavery," which featured Bob Flanagan, the aforementioned mutilated character. In 2004, Rolling Stone placed Nine Inch Nails at No. "And it's a label that has no idea of what integrity means and they thought we were a nice pop band. 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. FF2 Reznor and Ross received two awards for the score, a 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for a Motion Picture,[159] and a 2010 Oscar for Best Original Score. Several songs from the album became regulars on alternative rock radio stations, however the album dropped to number 16 and slipped out of the Billboard Top 10 only a week after its release, resulting in the band setting a record for the biggest drop from number one, which has since been broken. To that end, Reznor recruited scatological performance artist Peter Christopherson,whom he admired, as the film's director. [223], The band released their ninth studio album, Bad Witch,[224] on June 22, 2018. 1. [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. A cease and desist has been issued. The songs "La Mer", "The Great Below", and "The Mark Has Been Made" appeared in an episode of War Stories with Oliver North detailing the battle of Iwo Jima. Many of their videos have either been banned from being shown on TV (the clip for "Happiness In Slavery") or have been . "[Broken] was hard to make and it was an unpleasant experience throughout the whole thing," he later explained. [14] The English letters "NIN" are also noted[by whom?] "Happiness in Slavery" is a song that is about a person being tortured by a machine. "[228], Nine Inch Nails was among hundreds of artists whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. 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. [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. Performances were violent and chaotic, band members often injuring themselves by attacking each other, diving into the crowd, and destroying their instruments to close. In 2002, Johnny Cash covered the Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" for his album, American IV: The Man Comes Around, to critical acclaim. Nine Inch Nails continued touring and independently released Ghosts IIV (2008) and The Slip (2008) before a second hiatus. Listen to The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails on Apple Music. Broken doesn't get any less nerve-racking from there, featuring images of a person being drowned, Reznor and Nine Inch Nailsperforming in a cage surrounded by lunatic fans trying to attack them, and a sequence scored to "Happiness in Slavery" involving performance artist Bob Flanagan as he's strapped naked into a torture machine while his body parts are prodded, pulled, stabbed and grinded into meat. The FBI investigated the alleged murder of Trent Reznor Prior to the release of the first. [197] Two weeks prior to the tour, Death Grips announced its breakup and cancelled all subsequent live shows. But to me, because truth has always been pretty important to me, I think that the way Hollywood presents horror actually encourages kids to go, 'Yeah, that was fucking awesome, man, you could see their eyes popping out. [180][181][182] Released September 3, Hesitation Marks incorporated rhythms reminiscent of earlier releases, but was more expansive and theatrical. Also, its point is clear: Humans are debased creatures and mere machines of flesh, mired in filth and damnation. Reznor and Gary Talpas designed the logo, inspired by Tibor Kalman's typography on the Talking Heads album Remain in Light. Writing on his blog, Sheridan noted, "I found this video at the bootleg VHS stand at a local comic book convention, sitting between duped Red Dwarf compilations and home video of early Nirvana shows. Both mediums . On March 2, Ghosts IIV (the first release on The Null Corporation label), a 36-track instrumental album, became available via the band's official website. Even more infamously, though, it would inform the deeply disturbing, still legendary promotional video he'd make in connection to that EP. [4] Studio owner Bart Koster granted Reznor free access to the studio between bookings to record demos,[5][6] commenting that it cost him nothing more than "a little wear on [his] tape heads". [35] After finding out they were hindering control of his project, Reznor criticized the labeling of Nine Inch Nails as a commercially oriented band and demanded his label terminate his contract, but they ignored his plea. 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. Also in 1994, the band released the promotional single "Burn", which Reznor produced, on the soundtrack of Oliver Stone film Natural Born Killers. Another ceremony incident had occurred at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in 2014. [97] The entire album was made available in streaming audio on the band's official MySpace page in advance of its release date. Trent Reznor, Salt Lake Tribune interview (2005)[102], A music video for the song "The Hand That Feeds" premiered on the Nine Inch Nails official website in March 2005. [291], In 2019, Reznor and Ross received songwriting and production credits for the number-one single "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X, which sampled their track "34 Ghosts IV" from Ghosts IIV. 1994. It featured songs from his "My Beautiful Dark Twisted . Reznor's next collaboration with Ross was co-writing and producing the official score for David Fincher's 2010 film, The Social Network. [1]:96, Contemporary critics generally praised The Downward Spiral, now classed among the most important albums of the 1990s. Music Videos. On May 7, they announced they would be playing two shows in Cleveland (September 21 and 23, 2021) with the Pixies to commemorate their inauguration into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which, according to the band, would be "the only NIN headline shows in 2021". The tour debuted the band's grungy, messy image as the members appeared in ragged attire slathered in corn starch. 102 on their 250 Best Albums of Q's Lifetime (19862011) list. [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". He serves as the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and principal songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, which he founded in 1988 and of which he was the sole official member until 2016. 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? [309], At the behest of Prudential Securities bankruptcy proceedings, TVT put the rights to Reznor's recordings for the label on auction in 2005. [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. 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. Reznor enhanced his reputation as a provocateur with a widely banned music video for "Happiness in Slavery," which depicted S&M performance artist Bob Flanagan being torn apart by a machine . [137] The Slip has since been released on CD as a limited edition set of 250,000. [43] In reference to receiving the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for "Wish", Reznor joked that "Wish" became "the only song to ever win a Grammy that says 'fist fuck' in the lyrics. It contained contributions from Coil with Danny Hyde, electronic musician Aphex Twin, producer Rick Rubin, and Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, among others. 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. 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. 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