[103] He similarly released files for the album's second single "Only" in a wider range of formats, including Pro Tools and ACID Pro. "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. [240] Reznor thanked the fans, his family, and all of his many Nine Inch Nails collaborators in his acceptance speech, recorded from his home in Beverly Hills, CA. 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. [36] In response, Reznor secretly began recording under various pseudonyms to avoid record company interference. [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. "[327], Aside from disagreements over the usage of Nine Inch Nails material, some corporations have dismissed content due to perceived obscenity. [96] 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. Even more infamously, though, it would inform the deeply disturbing, still legendary promotional video he'd make in connection to that EP. [27] After spending 113 weeks on the Billboard 200,[28] Pretty Hate Machine became one of the first independently released records to attain platinum certification. 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]. [1]:42 Reznor asked Sean Beavan to mix the demos of Pretty Hate Machine, which had received multiple offers for record deals. [98], Critical reception of the album was mostly positive:[99] Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield described the album as "vintage Nine Inch Nails". With Trent Reznor. [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. In the 1990s, discovering Broken was personal and individual. A tour of the United Kingdom was announced shortly afterwards. [281] 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". Nine Inch Nails was responsible for trend-setting an entire, distinct audio-visual experience starting with their 1989 debut Pretty Hate Machine. Its first release, a six-track self-titled EP, was made available for free download in June 2010. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards. Originally, only Trent Reznor was to be inducted as the sole full-time member of the group for most of its history. [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. [172][173][174] In February 2013, Reznor announced the return of Nine Inch Nails and revealed the Twenty Thirteen Tour. 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. [12] Despite the disparity between those artists initially operating under the term "industrial" and Nine Inch Nails, it has become common in journalistic descriptions of Reznor's body of work to describe it as such. To that end, Reznor recruited scatological performance artist Peter Christopherson,whom he admired, as the film's director. Later, while holed up in Los Angeles in the house where Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's followers a fact Reznor didn't know until after he'd selected the place Reznor got a call from Christopherson, who had finished the assignment but was nervous about the results. [308] Their relationship was formally severed in a New York courtroom, with damages awarded to Reznor in excess of $3 million. [4] The Beside You in Time tour documentary was released in February 2007 via three formats: DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc. [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. Stream songs including "Somewhat Damaged", "The Day the World Went Away" and more. 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Nine Inch Nails performs in the music video "Hurt" from the album "The Downward Spiral" recorded for Nothing and Interscope Records. [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"). Essentially, I wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist. However, Reznor typically forms a backing group of musicians to perform the songs in a live setting. It's all here. [29] This footage attracted the attention of the FBI. [313] Reznor's post, specifically his criticism of the recording industry at large, elicited considerable media attention. Build a site and generate income from purchases, subscriptions, and courses. Another ceremony incident had occurred at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in 2014. [4] The album's liner notes also paid tribute to Public Enemy and Prince. But it's the sacrilegious and sexually-charged "Closer" that was censored on the radio andon TV. 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. [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. . [1]:42, Peter Christopherson of the bands Coil and Throbbing Gristle directed a performance video for "Wish",[45] but the EP's most controversial video accompanied "Happiness in Slavery". View cart for details. [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. (Remember it came out in the VHS era.) 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. It was also a bit of a knee-jerk, 'I'm not a pussy,' 'I'm not a sellout' attitude. Few bands are as deserving of a video collection as Nine Inch Nails is. But the dream wasn't penthouses. [149][150] Portions of the album Ghosts I-IV were also used in making of the soundtrack for the documentary Citizenfour.[151]. Shocking long-form music video was both ahead of its time and compellingly of its time. The song's music video was banned by many networks for its graphic images. Nine Inch Nails has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards and has won awards on two occasionsfor "Wish" in 1992 and "Happiness in Slavery" in 1995: its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time, 10050 Cielo Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, among the best-selling remix albums of all time, Recording Industry Association of America. 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. Reznor's next collaboration with Ross was co-writing and producing the official score for David Fincher's 2010 film, The Social Network. Everything from Seven's jagged opening credits to the post9/11 torture porn of Saw owes a debt to Broken's jarring visual disharmony. [329], A similar incident involving digital content distribution occurred in 2013 when Nine Inch Nails re-released the original 1993 film Broken on Vimeo. As Reznor put it, "I thought, 'Enough. [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". This installment in the Tap Tap video game franchise was themed after Nine Inch Nails, and included tracks from Ghosts IIV and The Slip. Duke and Steve worked with me on the remix, in the very early days of Garbage. "[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. Nine Inch Nails Banned almost everywhere upon its release, this video was inspired by the novel "The Torture Garden". [125] [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". [244] Also in 2021, Reznor and Ross produced Halsey's album If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power. Into the Void. Brown fakes his way into Manson's heart, Painter Don Brautigam pulls the strings on band's first multiplatinum masterpiece, Director said cut wasn't "aggressive and ugly" enough, Korn frontman show off his "Toy Story 3" and "Attack on Titan" skills, "We were living the dream. [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. So I felt like, well, I've finally got this thing going but it's dead. [33] Nine Inch Nails then embarked on a world tour that continued through the first Lollapalooza festival in 1991. 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. [319] Reznor wrote in response that he was "challenged at the last second to find a way of bringing this idea to life without getting splashed by the urine as these media companies piss all over each other's feet". Pretty Hate Machine (Remastered) All of these films share with Broken a love of the dank underside of polite society, tapping into our fear and delight in uncovering what should not see the light of day. Much to their surprise, they were booked on the show, and made an appearance. 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. After seeing the film, he freaked out because it was so disturbing, even to him. [166] Reznor contributed vocals and drum programing to the song "Kalopsia" and vocals on "Fairweather Friends" along with Elton John on piano and vocals. [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. [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". [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. [197] Two weeks prior to the tour, Death Grips announced its breakup and cancelled all subsequent live shows. Yeah, NIN was the breakthrough. [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. Vig later spoke about his remix while answering questions on a music production forum, saying "I started recording a lot of new parts, and took it in a much different direction. [85][86] Nine Inch Nails released three commercial singles from the album in different territories: "The Day the World Went Away" in North America; "We're in This Together" in the EU and Japan (on three separate discs); and "Into the Void" in Australia. [56][57], Nine Inch Nails' second studio album, The Downward Spiral, entered the Billboard 200 at number two,[58] and is the band's highest seller in the US, over four million copies, among five million worldwide. So we shelved it. 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. Reznor wrote the music for the video andBrokenwith a very big chip on his shoulders. The new lineup included previous collaborators, Ilan Rubin, Alessandro Cortini, and Robin Finck. "[324], As part of the alternate reality game which accompanied the release of Year Zero, three tracks from the album were intentionally "leaked" prior to their official release at a number of Nine Inch Nails concerts on USB flash drives. "I wanted it to sound that way and I didn't want to bog down a whole record of that sound. But Broken's shorter running time was also a byproduct of Reznor's desire to escape that particularly jaundiced headspace. [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. [73][74] Enjoying mainstream success thereafter, Nine Inch Nails then performed amid greater production values, adding theatrical visual elements. 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". The controversial promotional video for Nine Inch Nails' 1994 single "Closer." [16][17] The logo features the band's initials, with the second N mirrored. [165] This led to further collaboration with Reznor and Homme on the 2013 album from Queens of the Stone Age titled Like Clockwork. The album was the band's second record to top the Billboard album charts and the band was set to perform on June 4, 2005 at the MTV Movie Awards to promote the album's first single, "The Hand That Feeds" when suddenly the band pulled out of the show. [4] Reznor has never referred to his own work as industrial music, but admits to borrowing techniques from such early industrial bands as Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept. It featured songs from his "My Beautiful Dark Twisted . Thanks! Nine Inch Nails Pulls Out of 2005 MTV Movie Awards. "[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. Let's take a look at the 7 biggest rock and metal videos that got banned or heavily censored at different times. [9] Soon after, following their live support of Skinny Puppy, Reznor aimed to release one 12-inch single on a small European label. 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. I'm glad it's on his website. It wasn't my doing. 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. Director: F. Gary Gray. . Nine Inch Nails - Even Deeper#shorts #music #sing #singer #band #guitar #bass #viral #viralvideo #dubai #europe #world #china #yt #video [114] Three Nine Inch Nails albums are concept albums: The Downward Spiral, The Fragile, and Year Zero. Over the course of the performance, all the other six inductees, as well as former members Richard Patrick and Charlie Clouser, joined Reznor on stage and even covered Patrick's Filter hit, "Hey Man Nice Shot". So when I delivered [Pretty Hate Machine] they hated it because it wasn't as radio friendly as they would have hoped. [80] The Fragile was conceived by making "songwriting and arranging and production and sound design the same thing. Nine Inch Nails music videos are distinctive in their variety. "Basically the video was what I intended to be a comment on the existence of snuff movies and people's obsession with them," Christopherson, who died in 2010, recalled. 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. [190][191] This leg of the tour was documented and released in the spring as Nine Inch Nails Tension 2013. [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. Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN (stylized as NI), is an American industrial rock band formed in 1988 in Cleveland, Ohio. The tour debuted the band's grungy, messy image as the members appeared in ragged attire slathered in corn starch. 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. [18], Written, arranged, and performed by Reznor,[19] Nine Inch Nails' first album Pretty Hate Machine debuted in 1989. "[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. 1. 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. #10: "Terrible Lie" 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. We've decided to try something different that will also likely suck, but in a different way. [178][179], By May 28 a new Nine Inch Nails album was complete. [323] A post appeared on Reznor's blog, which read: "Thanks for the Fox News heads-up. [135] The album was made available for download free of charge with a message from Reznor, "this one's on me,"[136] protected under the same Creative Commons licence as Ghosts, and has seen individual downloads surpassing 1.4million. [7] Unable to find a band that could articulate the material as he desired, Reznor was inspired by Prince to play all instruments himself except drums, which he programmed electronically. [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. The sessions gave way to more songs that ended up yielding the entire album. [112] It had suffered several major terrorist attacks, apparently by Islamic fundamentalists, including attacks on Los Angeles and Seattle, and in response, the government seized absolute control of the country. [309], At the behest of Prudential Securities bankruptcy proceedings, TVT put the rights to Reznor's recordings for the label on auction in 2005. The video was split into segments such as "Happiness in Slavery," which featured Bob Flanagan, the aforementioned mutilated character. 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. [183], The album produced three singles, all released prior to that of the album itself. [231] However, due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the induction ceremony was postponed indefinitely. Directed by Peter Christopherson. For "Happiness in Slavery," Reznor tapped Jon Reiss, who made documentaries about punk bands, to direct the segment. "It felt like we'd crossed over into territory that was perhapstoo far," he recalls. No wonder the video was banned, right? Sheridan spoke to the difference between the early 1990s and now on his blog, writing, "Kids today can't possibly appreciate the feeling of tracking down a rare video artifact, because everything now is a mere Google search away [Broken] was never meant for searchable, on-demand access, never meant for the soft-hearted masses who put no effort into seeking it out.". Right out of the gate, even before later videos like 1994's "Closer" pushed NIN's performance artistry even further, this initial foray into the relationship between music and the visual arts captured their quintessence, and presaged their future work. [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. "[134] On May 5, Nine Inch Nails released The Slip via its website without any advertisement or promotion. [245], In February 2022, Nine Inch Nails announced a short tour of the United States for 2022, the group's first performances in nearly four years. [113] The government corporation Cedocore distributes the drug Parepin through the water supply, making Americans who drink water apathetic and carefree. But it went from being the best to the worst. [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. [10] Several labels responded favorably to the demo material and Reznor signed with TVT Records. [118][119], The album's first single, "Survivalism", and other tracks from Year Zero were released as multitrack audio files for fans to remix. They were influenced by Reznor and liked the idea, but did not want to pay him for the album and the idea was scrapped. [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. It was later nominated for the Best Alternative Music Album award at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. Came Back Haunted - Nine Inch Nails. #3 - Nine Inch Nails: "Closer" (1994) The explicit mixture of pleasure, pain and torture depicted in "Happiness in Slavery" almost guaranteed it wouldn't be seen on TV in its entirety. The band appeared in Part 8 of the third season of Twin Peaks, performing their song, "She's Gone Away". It was skating for a living. 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. [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. So why did it go out of sight for decades? The first Nine Inch Nails album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), was a . "I really fell in love with someone and we lived together for six or eight months. "[Broken] was hard to make and it was an unpleasant experience throughout the whole thing," he later explained. [310] Ryko also reissued the "Head Like a Hole" CD and a vinyl edition of Pretty Hate Machine in 2006. Despite an apology from producer Kenneth Ehrlich, Reznor later heavily criticized the situation. "Happiness in Slavery" is a song that is about a person being tortured by a machine. 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