"March Of The Pigs" music video. [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. [1]:42 Despite initially choosing to record the album in New Orleans,[54] Reznor searched for and moved to 10050 Cielo Drive, in Los Angeles (known as The Manson Murder House)[55] renting it for $11,000 per month from July 4, 1992, the start of the making of both Broken and The Downward Spiral. [281] Other artists of significance to Nine Inch Nails include acts such as Depeche Mode,[283] Queen, King Crimson, Devo,[284] The Cure, Joy Division, U2, Bauhaus,[285] Adam Ant,[281] Coil,[286] and Soft Cell. [104] All three singles topped the Billboard Alternative Songs chart. It was good, after I put my raving lunatic act on. But it went from being the best to the worst. 94 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. [65] The video shows events in a laboratory dealing with religion, sexuality, animal cruelty, politics, and terror; controversial imagery included a nude bald woman with a crucifix mask, a monkey tied to a cross, a pig's head spinning on some type of machine, a diagram of a vulva, Reznor wearing an S&M mask while swinging in shackles, and of him wearing a ball gag. [162] Later that year Reznor again worked with Atticus Ross along with Alessandro Cortini on a remix of the song "Destroyer" by Telepathe. 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? [215], In early 2017, the band announced three headlining festival dates in North America. Shocking long-form music video was both ahead of its time and compellingly of its time. Gremlin - "Whiskey Over Ice" [Official Music Video] Purple rain Prince may have been a strange little, alien of a man, but GHA'T DAMNEDtalk about a Guitargasm. 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.[95] With Teeth debuted on top of the Billboard 200, Nine Inch Nails' second reign at number one with an album. [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. 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! [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". "And I did it without regard for MTV and what was showable and not showable, because that's what he asked me to do.". for their resemblance to the modern Hebrew characters of the Tetragrammaton. 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. Everything about the process sucks and everyone loses except the reseller. [3] At the time, Reznor was employed as an assistant engineer and janitor at Right Track Studios. 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. Donotwatch this lightly. Subscription from 10.83/month . ", Well, not entirely. [73][74] Enjoying mainstream success thereafter, Nine Inch Nails then performed amid greater production values, adding theatrical visual elements. Ghosts IIV was made available in a number of different formats and forms, ranging from a free download of the first volume, to a $300 Ultra-Deluxe limited edition package. [196] After a month-long break, Nine Inch Nails again hit the road on a joint tour with Soundgarden. [186] "Everything" was the third and final single, recorded during sessions for the Nine Inch Nails greatest hits album. Nine Inch Nails Pulls Out of 2005 MTV Movie Awards. "Runaway" by Kanye West (2010) West's "Runaway" music video was part of an extended musical short film directed by the rapper. Essentially, I wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist. [38] "March of the Pigs" and "Closer" were singles. Not like [2018s Cold Black Infinite tour] era Its over.[247], Nine Inch Nails has been described as incorporating alternative rock,[248][249][250] industrial rock,[251][252][253][254] industrial dance,[4] industrial,[4][255][256] electro-industrial,[257] industrial metal,[258][259][260] electronic rock,[261][262][263] and alternative metal. [325] The source that broke the story was quoted as saying, "These fucking idiots are going after a campaign that the label signed off on. [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? "[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. It featured songs from his "My Beautiful Dark Twisted . The new lineup included previous collaborators, Ilan Rubin, Alessandro Cortini, and Robin Finck. [168] The project was named "Daisy"; a digital music service was announced in January 2013. [114] Three Nine Inch Nails albums are concept albums: The Downward Spiral, The Fragile, and Year Zero. This installment in the Tap Tap video game franchise was themed after Nine Inch Nails, and included tracks from Ghosts IIV and The Slip. [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". The band (or Trent Reznor, to be precise) has always issued challenging and uncommon videos, more short films than music videos. 33 Likes, TikTok video from Rhonduh Fraz (@rhonduhbudz): "Hey my peeps!! . The first collection of Nine Inch Nails Definitive Edition Tees. As Reznor put it, "I thought, 'Enough. Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and composer. Press J to jump to the feed. There isn't any of that left in mainstream rock anymore.". The release of Nine Inch Nails' debut, Pretty Hate Machine, in 1989, had produced two alternative-rock hits in "Down in It" and "Head Like a Hole," cementing the multi-instrumentalist frontman's position at the forefront of industrial metal and earning him a spot on the bill for the very first Lollapalooza. I'm glad it's on his website. A year before his death, Christopherson expressed regret about Broken. 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. Stream songs including "Somewhat Damaged", "The Day the World Went Away" and more. Soon afterwards, Reznor wrote on his official website: "Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me. [322], In 2006, after being alerted by a fan website, Reznor issued a cease and desist to Fox News Channel for using three songs from The Fragile on air without permission. Originally, only Trent Reznor was to be inducted as the sole full-time member of the group for most of its history. 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. It wasn't my doing. [167] In October a project with Dr. Dre and Beats Electronics was announced that Reznor wrote was "probably not what you're expecting [from me]". [197] Two weeks prior to the tour, Death Grips announced its breakup and cancelled all subsequent live shows. [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. [155] Reznor subsequently released two tracks under the Nine Inch Nails moniker: the theme song for the film Tetsuo: The Bullet Man,[156] and a cover of U2's "Zoo Station", included in the Achtung Baby tribute album AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered. [139] Freese and Cortini left the live band, but it became a quartet with the addition of Ilan Rubin on drums.[140][141]. #10: "Terrible Lie" [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. So unfortunately a lot of people, especially kids, started to believe that it was a real snuff movie. [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. [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. [233][234] The albums were released for free as a show of solidarity with the band's fans during the COVID-19 pandemic. [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. [180][181][182] Released September 3, Hesitation Marks incorporated rhythms reminiscent of earlier releases, but was more expansive and theatrical. [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. [328][329] Reznor criticized their decision, citing the audio was also available through the iTunes application. https://www.nin.wiki/index.php?title=Nine_Inch_Nails_music_videos&oldid=58035, A clip from the video shoot appears on the, "We're In This Together" (Mark Pellington extended edit), Unreleased. 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. It's also part of the reason why Reznor, also an accomplished producer, along with fellow composer Atticus Ross, has been responsible for so many film scores: The Social Network (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Gone Girl (2014), Bird Box (2018), and funny enough, Pixar's Soul (2020). [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. The following albums, The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999), were released to critical acclaim and commercial success. Like earlier exploitation videos such as Faces of Death, Broken and its series of WTF horrors including scenes of a rotting corpses, decapitated heads, a lunatic wielding a chainsaw and a man eating a meal covered in flies elicit thrills that didn't just come from absorbing the images but from being lucky enough to have even stumbled upon them in the first place. The band's concerts are noted for their extensive use of thematic visual elements, complex special effects, and elaborate lighting. A new music service with official albums, singles, videos, remixes, live performances and more for Android, iOS and desktop. "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. A cease and desist has been issued. [62] The Downward Spiral, alike Broken, was recorded at Le Pig Studios. [306], 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. Nine Inch Nails was responsible for trend-setting an entire, distinct audio-visual experience starting with their 1989 debut Pretty Hate Machine. The band appeared in Part 8 of the third season of Twin Peaks, performing their song, "She's Gone Away". The video was split into segments such as "Happiness in Slavery," which featured Bob Flanagan, the aforementioned mutilated character. Nine inch nails banned music video (might be repost) : creepy 37 votes, 15 comments. So go forth and enable it. Nine Inch Nails: Closer: Directed by Mark Romanek. At some gigs leading up to the election, the face of Bush slowly morphed during the song into the face of John McCain. 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. Nine Inch Nails Banned almost everywhere upon its release, this video was inspired by the novel "The Torture Garden". [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. Lesser known is Reznor's 1993 longform, 20-minute music video meant to accompany NIN's 1992 EP Broken. 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]. Copyright 2023 by Project M Group LLC. It was your own dark, little secret, which made it all the more powerful. Listen to Nine Inch Nails in unlimited on Qobuz and buy the albums in Hi-Res 24-Bit for an unequalled sound quality. [171] Reznor eventually confirmed that he was working on new Nine Inch Nails material and might be performing live again. [185] The second single, "Copy of A", was released on August 12 free of charge to US and UK Amazon.com account holders. Icon in 2006, honoring the band's overall contributions since 1988 and long-standing influence on rock music. Nine Inch Nails: Hurt: Directed by Simon Maxwell. 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. Reznor and Gary Talpas designed the logo, inspired by Tibor Kalman's typography on the Talking Heads album Remain in Light. 2005. ", "[It] was never my intention to bring harm to people," Christopherson added. It's more just feeling around in the dark and seeing what sounds interesting". [244] Also in 2021, Reznor and Ross produced Halsey's album If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power. With the house it felt too stunty, and Peter agreed. [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. [80] The Fragile was conceived by making "songwriting and arranging and production and sound design the same thing. A live recording of "Wish" was also filmed, and both videos appeared in Closure. But they made it pretty clear they weren't ready to sell. [63] as well as a cover of the Joy Division song "Dead Souls" on the soundtrack to the film The Crow, which went to number 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. [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". 94 in their The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list. [72] The widest mainstream audience was a mud-soaked performance at Woodstock '94, and seen by Pay-Per-View in up to 24million homes. [113] The government corporation Cedocore distributes the drug Parepin through the water supply, making Americans who drink water apathetic and carefree. Music Videos. [169] It was until January 2014 that the service was fully launched, with Reznor serving as chief creative officer. [326] 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 discovering music you've put your heart and soul into creating has been used for purposes of torture. Cortini and Josh Freese returned as members from the previous tour, while Robin Finck rejoined the band and Justin Meldal-Johnsen was added on bass guitar. He did, however, pass along a couple copies to friends, and bit by bit the video became a bootleg legend, viral before things went internet viral. Many of their videos have either been banned from being shown on TV (the clip for "Happiness In Slavery") or have been . [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". [291] Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose was influenced heavily by Nine Inch Nails in changing his band's sound to an industrial style in the mid-90's. [118][119], The album's first single, "Survivalism", and other tracks from Year Zero were released as multitrack audio files for fans to remix. 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. We've decided to try something different that will also likely suck, but in a different way. [125] [97] The entire album was made available in streaming audio on the band's official MySpace page in advance of its release date. We're In This Together. 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. from Lauren Minnerath. Rykodisc, which did not win the auction but was able to license the rights from Prudential, reissued the out-of-print Pretty Hate Machine CD on November 22, 2005. Some of the inspirations came from the artists involved. 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. ", Without running it by his new label, Reznor envisioned a short film that pushed the boundaries of good taste. 1. Sign up to get the latest from Revolver, straight to your inbox. Simple as that. from Jonathan Djob Nkondo, Clare [49] It depicts the murder of a young man who is kidnapped and tortured while forced to watch the videos. "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. [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. [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). [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. [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. [122] The remix album was accompanied by an interactive remix site with multitrack downloads and the ability to post remixes. So, he decided to stow it away. 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. [321] During the Lights in the Sky tour in 2008, some performances of "The Hand that Feeds" had the image of Bush on a video screen behind the band. Since the release of Ghosts IIV and The Slip, a 25-date tour titled Lights in the Sky, was announced in several North American cities,[138] and was later expanded to include several more North American dates as well as dates in South America. [256], Songs such as "Wish" and "The Day the World Went Away" exhibit terraced dynamics. 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). Both mediums . 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. Nine Inch Nails music videos are distinctive in their variety. "[327], Aside from disagreements over the usage of Nine Inch Nails material, some corporations have dismissed content due to perceived obscenity. Following the release of the album Year Zero (2007), the band left Interscope after a feud. Universal declined to host the site just days before its scheduled launch, citing the potential "accusation", in Reznor's words, "that they are sponsoring the same technical violation of copyright they are suing [other media companies] for". 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. 1994. [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. For "Happiness in Slavery," Reznor tapped Jon Reiss, who made documentaries about punk bands, to direct the segment. [313] Reznor's post, specifically his criticism of the recording industry at large, elicited considerable media attention. (Remember it came out in the VHS era.) Awards; one of them being the Kerrang! Few bands are as deserving of a video collection as Nine Inch Nails is. "[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. 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"And that was what rock music was about in the [Nineties]: It was danger and dirt and hate and anger and pissing people off. [90], 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 recorded and released on CD, DVD, and VHS in 2002 as And All That Could Have Been. It's quick-fix. [110] Critical response to the album was generally favorable, with an average rating of 76% on Metacritic. In the 1990s, discovering Broken was personal and individual. 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. [106] 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. Talpas, a native of Cleveland, continued to design Nine Inch Nails packaging until 1997. [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. I wanted to make a 'fuck you' record. [1]:96, Contemporary critics generally praised The Downward Spiral, now classed among the most important albums of the 1990s. 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