The first Nine Inch Nails album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), was a . [29] This footage attracted the attention of the FBI. Press J to jump to the feed. [130] The album is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike licence. 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". Nine Inch Nails was responsible for trend-setting an entire, distinct audio-visual experience starting with their 1989 debut Pretty Hate Machine. Nine inch nails banned music video (might be repost) : creepy 37 votes, 15 comments. "[325], The music of Nine Inch Nails has reportedly been used by the U.S. military as music torture to break down the resolve of detainees. It was also a bit of a knee-jerk, 'I'm not a pussy,' 'I'm not a sellout' attitude. 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. It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. [89] The two artists put aside their differences when Manson appeared in the song's music video, retitled "Starsuckers, Inc." and performed on stage with Nine Inch Nails at Madison Square Garden in 2000. Their score, which was released on September 15, 2017, included original compositions, and it also includes reworked pieces from other Nine Inch Nails songs and their award-winning scores forThe Social NetworkandThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. 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[103] He similarly released files for the album's second single "Only" in a wider range of formats, including Pro Tools and ACID Pro. 94 in their The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list. [225] The band also announced the "Cold and Black and Infinite 2018 North America Tour", where it toured with The Jesus and Mary Chain. [185] The second single, "Copy of A", was released on August 12 free of charge to US and UK Amazon.com account holders. This form needs Javascript to display, which your browser doesn't support. [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. [196] After a month-long break, Nine Inch Nails again hit the road on a joint tour with Soundgarden. The Smashing Pumpkins music video (view on YouTube) follows a heroin-addicted couple and the gritty and saddening journey they go on in order to get their hands on more drugs. [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. [75] Released in 1997, the Closure video documented highlights from the tour, including full live videos of "Eraser", "Hurt" and a one-take "March of the Pigs" clip directed by Peter Christoperson. [71], After The Downward Spiral's 1994 release, the live band supported it by embarking on the Self Destruct Tour. ", Bones Brigade legend, Mega Ramp maniac's creative bond defies age, Meet the man behind visuals for Slayer, Black Sabbath, Cattle Decapitation and more. [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. [230], On January 15, 2020, Nine Inch Nails were officially named as members of the Class of 2020 for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. "[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. Listen to The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails on Apple Music. [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. The following albums, The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999), were released to critical acclaim and commercial success. Reznor released the source files for it in GarageBand format a month later, allowing fans to remix the song. But it went from being the best to the worst. [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. A new music service with official albums, singles, videos, remixes, live performances and more for Android, iOS and desktop. In January 2017, the band announced that it would be performing at the Panorama Music Festival in New York on July 30. Nine Inch Nails: Closer: Directed by Mark Romanek. Nine Inch Nails: Happiness In Slavery (Uncensored) (1992) from Nine Inch Nails on Vimeo. [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. [205] In December 2015, Reznor reported that "Nine Inch Nails will return in 2016". [8] He has continued to play most parts on Nine Inch Nails recordings ever since. [4], Three music videos were created in promotion of the album. "March Of The Pigs" music video. 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. [104] All three singles topped the Billboard Alternative Songs chart. But Broken's shorter running time was also a byproduct of Reznor's desire to escape that particularly jaundiced headspace. "It felt like we'd crossed over into territory that was perhapstoo far," he recalls. Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN and stylized as NI, is an American industrial rock band formed in Cleveland in 1988. 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. [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. [53] Reznor elaborated the album's themes into lyrics. In 2002, Johnny Cash covered the Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" for his album, American IV: The Man Comes Around, to critical acclaim. Both mediums . The new lineup included previous collaborators, Ilan Rubin, Alessandro Cortini, and Robin Finck. ", Well, not entirely. 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's singing follows a similar pattern, frequently moving from whispers to screams. [244] Also in 2021, Reznor and Ross produced Halsey's album If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power. 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. Directed by Peter Christopherson. The band (or Trent Reznor, to be precise) has always issued challenging and uncommon videos, more short films than music videos. [163] Reznor also appeared in a documentary called "Sound City" directed by Dave Grohl,[164] in addition to co-writing and performing the song "Mantra" with Grohl and Josh Homme. From the get-go, the intention was to create something nauseating and revolting. What if it felt real? The websites-from-the-future were sent to the year 2007 to warn American people of the impending dystopian future and to prevent it from ever forming in the first place. That's a hard thing to watch. Listen to Nine Inch Nails in unlimited on Qobuz and buy the albums in Hi-Res 24-Bit for an unequalled sound quality. But Broken has lost none of its power to shock in the last two decades it still feels legitimately gruesome and evil. [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]". I don't know that I need this kind of thing.' "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. Rob Sheridan, an art director who has worked with Reznor since Nine Inch Nails' 2000 remix album Things Falling Apart, was one of the people who stumbled upon the fiendish curiosity in his youth. 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. Closure [Video] Review. "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. 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. In the graphic video, directed by Romain Gavras, red-headed adolescents are. [172][173][174] In February 2013, Reznor announced the return of Nine Inch Nails and revealed the Twenty Thirteen Tour. [1]:96, Contemporary critics generally praised The Downward Spiral, now classed among the most important albums of the 1990s. [101][273] Reznor uses noise and distortion in his song arrangements and incorporates dissonance with chromatic melody and/or harmony. [38] "March of the Pigs" and "Closer" were singles. [310] Ryko also reissued the "Head Like a Hole" CD and a vinyl edition of Pretty Hate Machine in 2006. [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. [120] A remix album titled Year Zero Remixed was later released, containing remixes from Year Zero by other artists. Black Emperor and Explosions in the Sky as opening acts. 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. Talpas, a native of Cleveland, continued to design Nine Inch Nails packaging until 1997. After disagreeing with TVT about how to promote the album, the band signed with Interscope Records and released the EP Broken (1992). The entire NIN camp is absolutely thrilled that treating our fans with respect and nurturing their creativity has led to such an overwhelming outpour of incredible content, and that we now have such a high quality souvenir from our most ambitious tour ever. His solo skills were SHREDICULOUS! [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). But Interscope went into it like they really wanted to know what I wanted. To that end, Reznor recruited scatological performance artist Peter Christopherson,whom he admired, as the film's director. 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. Ironically enough, it was Reznor himself who canned the project. There was no context provided, no Wiki page to reference And when I unveiled it with my friends on my bedroom VHS player, it was worth every penny: Scary and gross and awesome.". #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. 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? [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. Subscription from 10.83/month . 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. 3. 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. 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. 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. [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. [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. 7 on the Billboard charts, further burnishing the band's reputation and commercial standing which was ironic since, as Reznor told Spin, "After Lollapalooza, I had this snotty, elitist mentality you're not cool enough to like my band, don't buy my records. For "Happiness in Slavery," Reznor tapped Jon Reiss, who made documentaries about punk bands, to direct the segment. 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". 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 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. 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. [113] The government corporation Cedocore distributes the drug Parepin through the water supply, making Americans who drink water apathetic and carefree. [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. (His life was later chronicled in the 1997 documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist. 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. [118][119], The album's first single, "Survivalism", and other tracks from Year Zero were released as multitrack audio files for fans to remix. 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. ", Using that as his marching orders, Christopherson started work, while Reznor began recording what would become The Downward Spiral. [222], Also in 2017, the pair were tasked to score the upcoming Ken Burns series The Vietnam War, and provide both original music and a compilation soundtrack of popular songs. [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. "[82], On the heels of the band's previous successes, media anticipation surrounded The Fragile more than a year before its release,[83] when it was already described as "oft-delayed". [139] Freese and Cortini left the live band, but it became a quartet with the addition of Ilan Rubin on drums.[140][141]. 14.4m members in the creepy community. [14] The English letters "NIN" are also noted[by whom?] [94], A further six years elapsed before Nine Inch Nails' fourth full-length album. The band's concerts are noted for their extensive use of thematic visual elements, complex special effects, and elaborate lighting. [147] Nine Inch Nails art director and webmaster Rob Sheridan noted on the band's official website: This is yet another example of a devoted fanbase and a policy of openness combining to fill in blanks left by old media barriers. from Jonathan Djob Nkondo, Clare [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. Nine Inch Nails music videos are distinctive in their variety. 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). [117] The high-quality audio files quickly circulated the internet, and owners of websites hosting the files soon received cease and desist orders from the Recording Industry Association of America, despite the fact that the viral campaign, and the use of USB drives, was sanctioned by Nine Inch Nails' record label. Year Video Album including the song [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. 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. Performances were violent and chaotic, band members often injuring themselves by attacking each other, diving into the crowd, and destroying their instruments to close. [1]:42. [68] Blender named it the 80th Greatest American Album. [62] The Downward Spiral, alike Broken, was recorded at Le Pig Studios. This live band has varied over the decades, with various members leaving and returning; the most recent lineup consists of Robin Finck (who initially joined in 1994), Alessandro Cortini (who initially joined in 2005), and Ilan Rubin (who initially joined in 2009) alongside Reznor and Ross. 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. I wanted to make a 'fuck you' record. We're In This Together. Standard Videos. 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. The incident pushed Reznor into entering rehab, putting Nine Inch Nails on hold while he attempted to become sober.[91]. The FBI investigated the alleged murder of Trent Reznor Prior to the release of the first. 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. 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. "I felt I had something truly rare and unique, possibly dangerous," Sheridan recalled. In 2004, Rolling Stone placed Nine Inch Nails at No. Reznor's next collaboration with Ross was co-writing and producing the official score for David Fincher's 2010 film, The Social Network. "[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. [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. Nine Inch Nails. It wasn't my doing. So when I delivered [Pretty Hate Machine] they hated it because it wasn't as radio friendly as they would have hoped. ", All that conflict and drama found its way into the Broken EP, a collection of eight songs stacked with hooks but also uglier in texture than Pretty Hate Machine. [188][189] The Tension 2013 North American leg of the tour ran from September to November and added Palladino, Lisa Fischer and Sharlotte Gibson to the lineup with Godspeed You! 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. ", If Reznor was worried about becoming a shiny, happy radio-friendly unit shifter, his next move would obliterate any such illusions. [122] The remix album was accompanied by an interactive remix site with multitrack downloads and the ability to post remixes. Donotwatch this lightly. A cease and desist has been issued. [41] He characterized Broken as a guitar-based "blast of destruction", and as "a lot harder than Pretty Hate Machine". 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. Music Videos. With Teeth. The nine-minute short film for M.I.A.'s "Born Free" was banned by YouTube, despite positive critical reception. [1]:42 Reznor asked Sean Beavan to mix the demos of Pretty Hate Machine, which had received multiple offers for record deals. Few bands are as deserving of a video collection as Nine Inch Nails is. With Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor. A performance by Foo Fighters replaced Nine Inch Nails' time slot on the show. [98], Critical reception of the album was mostly positive:[99] Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield described the album as "vintage Nine Inch Nails". [26] In fact, the song "Down in It" spent over two months on Billboard's club-play dance chart. The tour debuted the band's grungy, messy image as the members appeared in ragged attire slathered in corn starch. [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. Nine Inch Nails Banned almost everywhere upon its release, this video was inspired by the novel "The Torture Garden". When it was finished, Trent thought the front part of the mix didn't fit the EP, so he just used the ending. [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. 37 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 . [276] Many of the songs on Year Zero contain an extended instrumental ending, which encompasses the entire second half of the three-minute long "The Great Destroyer". So we shelved it. [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. With the house it felt too stunty, and Peter agreed. On January 7, 2009, Reznor uploaded unedited HD-quality footage from three shows as a download of over 400 GB via BitTorrent. View cart for details. [300] In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine placed The Downward Spiral at No. But they made it pretty clear they weren't ready to sell. "And I did it without regard for MTV and what was showable and not showable, because that's what he asked me to do.". [229] In October 2019, Nine Inch Nails was again nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. All things Creepy! 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). [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". 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. [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. His guiding principle was simple: "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? We've decided to try something different that will also likely suck, but in a different way. 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. Our mobile site works way better when you have JavaScript enabled. 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. [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". [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"). [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. [166] Reznor contributed vocals and drum programing to the song "Kalopsia" and vocals on "Fairweather Friends" along with Elton John on piano and vocals. For this list we've chosen our entries based on a combination of the artist's fan favorites and their most commercially successful songs. ), But Broken's brilliance was also a product of its time something that couldn't be duplicated today. [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. [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. [320] Despite these obstacles, the remix website was launched in November 2007. The band's music also occasionally contains complex time signatures, notably in "The Collector" from With Teeth and concert favorite "March of the Pigs". [292] Bob Ezrin, producer for Pink Floyd, Kiss, Alice Cooper, and Peter Gabriel, described Reznor in 2007 as a "true visionary" and advised aspiring artists to take note of his no-compromise attitude. [219][220][221] The single "Less Than" was released a week prior to the second EP's release. 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. With Teeth was released in May 2005, though it was leaked prior to its official release date. So I felt like, well, I've finally got this thing going but it's dead. It's all here. [100] PopMatters condemned the album, claiming Reznor "ran out of ideas."[101]. 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