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Nine Inch Nails (colloquially known as NIИ) are a critically and commercially successful American band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1988 by Trent Reznor.
Etymology
Axcess magazine interviewed Reznor after the release of The Downward Spiral in 1994. They asked him how he came up with the name Nine Inch Nails and this was his reply:
- "I don't know if you've ever tried to think of band names, but usually you think you have a great one and you look at it the next day and it's stupid. I had about 200 of those. Nine Inch Nails lasted the two week test, looked great in print, and could be abbreviated easily. It really doesn't have any literal meaning. It seemed kind of frightening. [In his best he-man voice] Tough and manly! It's a curse trying to come up with band names." [1]
The Nine Inch Nails logo (which consists of the letters "NIN" with the second "N" reversed, which looks similar to "NIИ") was designed so that Trent Reznor could have a design that in his own words "looked cool on my leather jacket." According to Reznor, the logo was inspired by the typography of the album cover for Talking Heads' album Remain in Light ¹.
Genre
NIN's sound has variously been described as alternative, electronica, heavy metal, rock, synth pop, or, most commonly, industrial or industrial rock. Regarding his music being categorized as industrial, Reznor had this to say in a 1994 Axcess magazine interview:
- "What was originally called industrial music was about 20 years ago Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept. We have very little to do with it other than there is noise in my music and there is noise in theirs. I'm working in the context of a pop song structure whereas those bands didn't. And because someone didn't come up with a new name that separates those two somewhat unrelated genres, it tends to irritate all the old school fans waving their flags of alternativeness and obscurity. So, I'd say I've borrowed from certain styles and bands like that." [2]
NIN's songs cover a range of genres; as a body of work, they cannot be pigeonholed. "The Perfect Drug" has the flavor of drum and bass, vocals and drum machine beats in "Down in It" seem influenced by early rap & hip-hop, "Happiness in Slavery" is in the vein of Skinny Puppy and Ministry, "The Frail" is a melancholy minimalist piano piece, and most of Pretty Hate Machine could be considered dark synth pop.
Albums
Pretty Hate Machine
NIN's debut album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), largely consists of studio versions of demo recordings (released later unofficially as Purest Feeling.) This was also NIN's first collaboration with producer Mark 'Flood' Ellis. It went triple platinum in the US and produced the singles "Head Like a Hole," "Down in It" and "Sin". Music videos were made for all three tracks, but the one for "Sin" was not released to the public until 1997, with the release of Closure. "Something I Can Never Have" also appeared in an edited form on the Natural Born Killers soundtrack.
Trent Reznor is planning to release a re-mastered version of Pretty Hate Machine but due to certain mishaps, fans might have to wait for it a little longer. As of August 19 2005, the ownership rights to Pretty Hate Machine were put up for auction by TVT Records, compliments of Prudential Securities Financial Services. Pretty Hate Machine is part of an overall biddable package that also includes the rights to the Television's Greatest Hits compilations and the Mortal Kombat movie soundtracks. In addition, the highest bidder will be able to collect a percentage on future sales of Nine Inch Nails' other TVT-related releases, including Broken, Fixed, The Downward Spiral and Further Down the Spiral.
Broken
NIN's second major release was Broken (1992), an EP of six tracks plus two bonus tracks. It was originally released in a fold-out format, containing the first six tracks on a regular CD and an additional three-inch minidisc with the remaining bonus tracks. It was later released as one CD, with the bonus songs as "hidden" tracks 98 and 99. The song "Wish", aided by the video directed by Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson of Coil, won a Grammy in the "metal" category. Jon Reiss directed a music video for "Happiness in Slavery," which was almost universally banned due to its graphic content. The video depicts performance artist Bob Flanagan strapping himself to a machine that subsequently pleasures, tortures and kills him. A video for "Pinion" aired twice on MTV before being banned for its objectionable content, although images from it did become a fixture in the opening title sequence of the MTV show Alternative Nation. A full length video informally called The Broken Movie was also made by Sleazy, but has not seen an official release. The Broken movie, as of 2005, can only be found on bootleg. Broken was followed by the remix EP Fixed.
The Downward Spiral
NIN's second full album and third major release was The Downward Spiral (1994). This was NIN's second collaboration with Mark Ellis (Flood). It went quadruple platinum and is often considered by critics to be NIN's best work. Two singles, "March of the Pigs" and "Closer", were released, and two additional tracks, "Hurt" and "Piggy", were sent to radio without a single release. Music videos were made for "March of the Pigs", "Closer", live footage of "Eraser" (which would never receive airtime), and "Hurt". The edited MTV version of "Closer" became very successful. The video for "Closer" (directed by Mark Romanek), in many ways, set a standard for Nine Inch Nails videos with its eerie images of pigs' heads and S&M paraphenalia. The album's final track, "Hurt", would enjoy success once again when it was covered, with slight alterations to the lyrics, by Johnny Cash in 2003.
The Downward Spiral was followed by the remix EP Further Down the Spiral. A remastered version of The Downward Spiral was released on November 23, 2004, with an accompanying CD of B-sides and rarities. The remastered recording was also released as a two-sided DualDisc. The Deluxe Edition of the remaster features multichannel and stereo SACD versions of the album as well as a remastered standard CD layer on the first disc, and stereo SACD and standard CD layers on the second. The DualDisc contains a remastered CD-Audio on one side and features a DVD-Audio format side containing High Resolution Stereo and 5.1 Surround mixes of the entire album with expanded album art, a discography, and Music Videos "Closer" (stereo and surround), "March of the Pigs", and "Hurt (Live)".
The Fragile
NIN's fourth major release was the two-disc album The Fragile (1999). It produced three singles, one released in the US ("The Day the World Went Away"), one in the UK ("We're In This Together") released as a 3 part single, and one in Japan and Australia ("Into The Void"). Music videos for "We're In This Together", "Into the Void", and "Starfuckers Inc." (retitled as "Starsuckers, Inc.") were aired in the US.
"Starfuckers, Inc." was a vicious mockery of Reznor's former friend, Marilyn Manson. Several vocal takes were chopped up and spliced together as a not-so-subtle jab at Manson's usual inability to sing well in a single take. The lyrics satirized Manson as being vain and insincere. The recording ended with a clip from a KISS concert -- Manson repeatedly professed to be "the KISS of the Nineties." Some of the lyrics in the song (You’re so vain/I’ll bet you think this song is about you/Don’t you? don’t you?) come from the Carly Simon song "You're So Vain." While NIN was on tour, Reznor would snidely introduce the song as being "about a friend of mine." During one such performance in New York, Reznor subtly changed the lyrics of one part of the song ("How did you think we'd get by without you?" became "How did we ever get by without you?"), then put the song on hold halfway through as he was joined on stage by a surprise guest -- Manson himself. The two duetted the rest of the song, with Manson putting his arm around Reznor at one point, then they finished the show with Manson's hit "The Beautiful People." This event (featured as an easter egg on the And All That Could Have Been DVD) marked the end of their feud. Manson then appeared in the "Starsuckers, Inc." video.
In interviews prior to the album's completion, Reznor said he was considering organizing the tracks such that one disc would have all instrumentals and the other would have lyrics. These plans changed when Bob Ezrin (producer of Pink Floyd's The Wall, a two-disc album often seen as a predecessor of The Fragile) suggested an arrangement of tracks that would strengthen the "four corners of the album," namely the beginnings and ends of each of the two discs. Ezrin is credited in the liner notes as having "provided final continuity and flow."
The Fragile was followed by the remix album Things Falling Apart. The Fragility Tour was recorded and released on CD and DVD as And All That Could Have Been. There was also a companion disc called Still, featuring remakes of songs from across NIN's career along with some new recordings. Three videos for Still were released on NIN's official website.
With Teeth
NIN's fifth major release, With Teeth (2005), was written and recorded following Reznor's painful battle with alcohol substance abuse. The music video for the first single, "The Hand that Feeds" premiered on the official NIN website rather than on the traditional music video channel. The album was leaked before its official release. It was officially released on May 3, 2005 in a DualDisc format as well as CD. Though the package for the album lacks the typical liner notes, nin.com/with_teeth features access to download a digital PDF poster full of stylized artwork and lyrics. "The Hand that Feeds" was also released as a Garageband multitrack file so that it could be remixed by anyone with access to the program. The band also allowed the entire album to be listened to in streaming audio at MySpace beginning April 27, 2005. MySpace NIN album streaming audio
Nine Inch Nails dropped out of the 2005 MTV Movie Awards show because of a disagreement with MTV over the use of an unaltered image of George W. Bush as a backdrop to the band's performance of "The Hand That Feeds," which includes such lyrics as:
- What if this whole crusade's a charade
- And behind it all there's a price to be paid
- For the blood on which we dine
- Justified in the name of the holy and the divine
"Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me," Trent Reznor said. They were replaced on the show by the Foo Fighters.
In fall 2005, the group will go on tour in North America supported by Queens of the Stone Age, as well as Autolux the first half of the tour followed by Death from Above 1979 the second half.
The second single for this album, released in mid-July, was "Only." A video for "Only" was completed around May. It was created using primarily computer-generated imagery, and directed by David Fincher. It debuted on July 11th on FuseTV and can been seen on the band's official website.
Trent Reznor released the source files for "The Hand That Feeds" and "Only" to allow his fans to remix his songs in something of a contest. They are in various file formats, including Garageband and ACID formats. The files can be found on nin.com.
Official NIN releases
Each Nine Inch Nails release is given a sequential number, with the word "Halo" preceding it (eg. The Downward Spiral is also known as Halo 8). Many independent and new wave records follow similar numbering schemes. Official halos are as follows (colors denote main album eras):
Many of these releases are now out of print. Halo 1, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4 are out of print due to Reznor's conflict with his former label TVT Records. Halo 13, Halo 15 are also out of print. When any of these will be back in print is unknown.
Still from Halo 17 is now re-available Nine Inch Nails's online merchandise store. The fans rejoiced at this announcement.
In Australia, a single for Into the Void was released as Halo 16. This single was released about ten months before the release of the Halo 16 remix album Things Falling Apart, most people do not consider the Into the Void single an "official halo". It is also not mentioned on the nin.com: body of work section.
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | |||
| US Hot 100 | US Modern Rock | US Mainstream Rock | UK | |||
| 1989 | "Down in It" | - | #16 | - | - | Pretty Hate Machine |
| 1990 | "Head Like a Hole" | - | #28 | - | #45 | Pretty Hate Machine |
| 1990 | "Sin" | - | - | - | #35 | Pretty Hate Machine |
| 1994 | "March of the Pigs" | #59 | - | - | #45 | The Downward Spiral |
| 1994 | "Closer" | #41 | #11 | #35 | #25 | The Downward Spiral |
| 1999 | "The Day the World Went Away" | #17 | - | - | - | The Fragile |
| 1999 | "We're in This Together" | - | #11 | #21 | #39 | The Fragile |
| 1999 | "Starfuckers, Inc." | - | #39 | - | - | The Fragile |
| 2000 | "Into the Void" | - | - | #27 | - | The Fragile |
| 2005 | "The Hand That Feeds" | #31 | #1 (5 weeks) | #2 | #7 | With Teeth |
| 2005 | "Only" | - | #4 | #35 | #20 | With Teeth |
Music videos
| Song | Director | Released | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Down in It" | Eric Zimmerman & Benjamin Stokes | September 1989 | The birth of Nine Inch Nails' logo can be seen in the jacket that Trent Reznor is wearing |
| "Head Like a Hole" | Eric Zimmerman | March 1990 | the audio for this video is not the album version and in fact from the remix titled Head Like A Hole (Clay), found on the US Head Like A Hole single |
| "Sin" | Brett Turnbull | November 24, 1997 | never aired (an edited version appears on Halo 12, though the original video only became available through TVT's website and has yet to be officially released) |
| "Pinion" | Eric Goode & Serge Becker | February 1992 | The video of '"Pinion," though not the audio, was used for the introduction of MTV's Kennedy-hosted Alternative Nation. |
| "Wish" | Peter Christopherson | February 1992 | |
| "Help Me I Am In Hell" | Eric Goode & Serge Becker | November 24, 1997 | never aired (on Halo 12) |
| "Happiness in Slavery" | Jon Reiss | November 24, 1997 | never aired (on Halo 12) |
| "Gave Up" | Jon Reiss | November 24, 1997 | never aired (on Halo 12) |
| "Wish (live)" | Simon Maxwell | November 24, 1997 | aired on 120 minutes (also on Halo 12) |
| "March of the Pigs" | Peter Christopherson | March, 1994 | The released video was second attempt, after a more complex concept was abandoned. [3]. There is speculation that clips from the original shoot appear in Closure. |
| "Closer" | Mark Romanek | May 12, 1994 | two versions of video released (Original Version / Nothing Version) |
| "Burn" | Hank Corwin & Trent Reznor | August 24, 1994 | for Natural Born Killers |
| "Hurt (live)" | Simon Maxwell | March, 1995 | |
| "The Perfect Drug" | Mark Romanek | January 18, 1997 | for Lost Highway |
| "Eraser (live)" | Simon Maxwell | November 24, 1997 | never aired (on Halo 12) |
| "We're In This Together" | Mark Pellington | August 27, 1999 | two versions of video released (Short / Long) |
| "The Day The World Went Away" | Unknown | 1999 | never completed (original clips compiled with live video on Halo 17) |
| "Into the Void" | Walter Stern & Jeff Richter | January 14, 2000 | |
| "Starsuckers, Inc." | Robert Hales & Marilyn Manson | May 2, 2000 | edit of "Starfuckers, Inc." |
| "Deep" | Enda McCallion | August, 2001 | for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider |
| "The Hand That Feeds" | Rob Sheridan | March 17, 2005 | released on nin.com |
| "Only" | David Fincher | July 12, 2005 | 90-95% CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery) |
Broken, the unreleased short film directed by Peter Christopherson, contains the videos for "Pinion", "Wish" and "Happiness in Slavery". It also features the song "Help Me I Am in Hell", set to a black screen, and the song "Gave Up", set to scenes within the film. In colloquial usage it is commonly referred to as, "the Broken Movie."
Other NIN works
Woodstock '94
NIN's mud-soaked performance at Woodstock '94 is one of their most famous moments. The band earned a Grammy for "Best Metal Performance" for their live performance of Happiness in Slavery when it was included on the 1996 Woodstock '94 double CD set. The performance was also released as a bootleg album known as When The Whip Comes Down.
Quake
NIN created the ambient music for id Software's computer game Quake in 1996. As a tribute to this, the developers of the game included a nail gun as a weapon, whose ammo boxes bore the NIN logo. This music was available as audio tracks on the Quake CD.
Doom 3
Chris Vrenna, formerly the drummer of NIN, created the intro for the popular video game for id Software. John Carmack, the lead programmer for id Software, wanted to work with Reznor for additional in-game music, but due to management problems courtesy of John Malm (Reznor's former manager), he was unable to allot time for studio work for the new ambient soundtrack. Trent Reznor's sounds for Doom 3 are available for download[4].
Remixes
- "Light (Fat Back Dub)" for KMFDM, appears on Light (1994)
- "I'm Afraid of Americans V1" for David Bowie, appears on I'm Afraid of Americans (1997)
- "I'm Afraid of Americans V2" for David Bowie, appears on I'm Afraid of Americans (1997)
- "I'm Afraid of Americans V3" for David Bowie, appears on I'm Afraid of Americans (1997)
- "I'm Afraid of Americans V4" for David Bowie, appears on I'm Afraid of Americans (1997)
- "I'm Afraid of Americans V6" for David Bowie, appears on I'm Afraid of Americans (1997)
- "Victory (Nine Inch Nails Remix)" for Puff Daddy & The Family, appears on Victory: Remixes (1998)
- "Democracy (NIN Remix)" for Killing Joke, appears on Wardance: The Remixes (1998)
For remixes credited to Trent Reznor, see the "Remixes" section of the Trent Reznor article.
Songs for film soundtracks
- "Dead Souls," NIN's cover of the Joy Division song, appears on the soundtrack for The Crow (1994).
- "Burn," "Something I Can Never Have" and "A Warm Place" appear on the soundtrack for Natural Born Killers (1994), which Reznor also produced.
- "Closer (Precursor)," is played during the opening sequence of Se7en (1995), and is the first song on the soundtrack.
- "The Perfect Drug" appears on the soundtrack for Lost Highway (1997), which Reznor also produced. The soundtrack also contains two songs credited only to Trent Reznor.
- "Into the void" appears briefly in Final Destination (2000) and is the third song on the soundtrack.
- "Deep" appears on the soundtrack for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).
Reznor's other works
More information on Reznor's work outside of Nine Inch Nails can be found in the Trent Reznor entry.
Future NIN releases
Reznor is not planning to release any remix albums for With Teeth. [5] (see: Fixed, Further Down the Spiral or Things Falling Apart)
A DVD version of Closure is forthcoming, pending the resolution of some legal troubles.
In a response to a question on the official NIN website, Reznor indicated that he would like to release surround sound versions of Pretty Hate Machine and The Fragile, similar to what was done for the 10th anniversary editions of The Downward Spiral. More than likely, Reznor will need to finish the tour for With Teeth before he can find time to work on this project.
Awards
RIAA Gold albums
- Pretty Hate Machine certified gold (March, 1992)
- Broken certified gold (November or December, 1992)
- The Downward Spiral certified gold (April, 1994)
- The Downward Spiral certified platinum (October, 1994)
- Pretty Hate Machine certified platinum (March, 1995)
- Pretty Hate Machine certified double platinum (July, 1995)
- The Downward Spiral certified double platinum (September, 1995)
- Further Down the Spiral certified gold (June, 1996)
- The Downward Spiral certified quadruple platinum (October, 1998)
- The Fragile certified platinum (October, 1999)
- The Fragile certified double platinum (January, 2000)
- Pretty Hate Machine certified triple platinum (May 12, 2003)
- With Teeth certified gold (July, 2005)
American Music Awards
- Nine Inch Nails nominated for "Favorite Alternative Artist" (January 30, 1995)
- Nine Inch Nails nominated for "Favorite Alternative Artist" (January 29, 1996)
Billboard Music Awards
- The video for "Starsuckers, Inc." was nominated for a Billboard Music Video Award for Best Modern Rock Clip of the Year. (December 5, 2000)
Grammy Awards
- "Wish" from Broken wins for "Best Metal Performance with Vocal" (February 24, 1993)
- The Downward Spiral nominated for "Best Alternative Music Performance" (March 1, 1995)
- "Happiness in Slavery" from Woodstock '94 wins for "Best Metal Performance" (February 28, 1996)
- "Hurt" from The Downward Spiral nominated for "Best Rock Song" (February 28, 1996)
- "The Perfect Drug" from Lost Highway nominated for "Best Hard Rock Performance" (February 25, 1998)
- The Fragile nominated for "Best Alternative Music Performance" (February 23, 2000)
- "Starsuckers, Inc." from The Fragile nominated for "Best Metal Performance" (February 23, 2000)
- "Into the Void" from The Fragile nominated for "Best Male Rock Vocal Performance" (February 21, 2001)
MTV Video Music Awards
- "Wish" from Broken nominated for "Best Metal/Hard Rock Video" (September 3, 1993)
- "Closer" from The Downward Spiral nominated for "Breakthrough Video" and "Best Art Direction" (September 8, 1994)
- "The Perfect Drug" from Lost Highway nominated for "Best Video of the Year", "Best Alternative Video", "Best Direction", "Best Art Direction" and "Best Cinematography" (September 4, 1997)
- "Into the Void" from The Fragile nominated for "Breakthrough Video" (September 7, 2000)
Members
Trent Reznor is the only official member of the band. He assembles different producers, engineers and musicians to assist him in creating new songs, though Reznor writes all of the lyrics himself and is in sole control of the direction of the band. Similarly, Reznor assembles a live backing band for each NIN tour.
Live band members
Hate '90 Tour (1990)
- Richard Patrick - Guitar
- Jeff Ward - Drums (beginning of tour)
- Chris Vrenna - Drums (remainder of tour)
- James Woolley - Keyboard
Self Destruct Tours (1994 - 1995)
- Robin Finck - Guitar, Keyboard
- Danny Lohner - Bass, Guitar, Keyboard
- Chris Vrenna - Drums
- James Woolley - Keyboard (1994)
- Charlie Clouser - Keyboard (1995)
Outside Tour with David Bowie (September - October, 1995)
- Robin Finck - Guitar, Keyboard
- Danny Lohner - Bass, Guitar, Keyboard
- Chris Vrenna - Drums
- Charlie Clouser - Keyboards, Drums
Fragility Tours (1999 - 2000)
- Robin Finck - Guitar, Keyboard
- Danny Lohner - Bass, Guitar, Keyboard
- Jerome Dillon - Drums
- Charlie Clouser - Keyboard, Theremin
With Teeth Tour (2005 - 2005)
- Aaron North - Guitar
- Jeordie White - Bass, Guitar
- Jerome Dillon - Drums
- Alessandro Cortini - Keyboard, Guitar, Bass
Trivia
In their early days, NIN used Phantasy as a practice space and it was home for several of their first concerts.
Director Tony Scott has used Nine Inch Nails music in two of his films to date. The Fan featured a clip from "The Art of Self Destruction, Part One" from Further Down the Spiral. Man on Fire featured clips from six Nine Inch Nails songs: "The Art of Self Destruction, Part One", "Self Destruction, Part Two", and "The Downward Spiral (the bottom)" from Further Down the Spiral; "The Mark Has Been Made" and "The Great Below" from The Fragile; and "The Wretched" from Things Falling Apart. Reznor himself received a "Music Consultant" credit on the film.
The credit sequence for the David Fincher film Seven uses the NIN song "Closer (precursor)". Surprisingly, this was done without seeking permission, though NIN is credited in the end credits for the song.
The entire 2005 U.S. Club tour sold out in under 10 minutes, with tickets selling on eBay and other sources for more than $200.
To date, Trent Reznor claims he has no tattoos of any kind. However, he had both of his ears pierced and had his septum pierced briefly. He stated "... it was a nightmare whenever I had a cold!"
While obviously not limiting himself to Apple Computers, Reznor does own a PC (mostly for gaming, among many other things), although he exclusively prefers an Apple. Reznor was relatively new to PC games: He's a die-hard Mac man. "I was never aware of what was going on in the PC world until someone showed me Castle Wolfenstein 3D," he admits. "I'd never gone near a PC; that's a bad word around the studio. We're all Mac people, since most of the music software is written for Mac. But when I saw Wolfenstein I went out and bought whatever it was at the time, 386, 486, and we got hooked. The sense of being immersed in the game really struck a chord with me. And when we were rehearsing for the downward spiral tour, Doom came out, and I was like, 'Oh my god.' So now every six months a major [PC] upgrade goes on around here." Trent is obsessed when it comes to video games. During tours the band would sometimes be deathmatching on Quake in a makeshift LAN or Trent would be playing anything he would get his hands on in a dressing room or bus, whether it was a Super Nintendo or a Sega Genesis. Trent also plays Counter-Strike: Source competitevely in CAL.
Trent Reznor is a sci-fi and horror fanatic, often sampling movie sound bytes for his music, including THX 1138 and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, among countless others. Among many books that he has read, The Lathe of Heaven is one of his personal favorites and is thought to be an indirect inspiration for some of the songs on With Teeth. The horror film classic The Exorcist has "...ruined my childhood", he says. "It was the ultimate scare thing because it couldn't easily be disproved." He also loved the tv show Six Million Dollar Man, "probably because I wasn't the biggest kid in the class and I wasn't the athletic superstar football player. I always thought he was cool. The day the Bionic Woman died on The Six Million Dollar Man, that was a tearful day in our household." He considers this. "When I think back, I had a degree of feeling mildly depressed; of melancholiness."
Tori Amos's song "Caught a Lite Sneeze" features the lyrics "made my own pretty hate machine," Precious Things includes the line "with their nine-inch nails...," and Professional Widow repeats the word, "Starfuckers," which Reznor proceeded to write a song about. Reznor also sings with Amos on the song "Past the Mission", from her album Under the Pink, and Amos sometimes performs the Nine Inch Nails track "Hurt" live in concert.
See also
External Links
Official NIN Resources
- nin.com - the official site
- Official NIN MySpace
Unofficial NIN Resources
News
General
- Burning Souls
- Painful Convictions
- 9InchNails
- The Fragile
- The Perfect Drug
- AMG artist page
- The Official NIN Halos (V1)
- The Official NIN Halos (V2)
Discussion
Creative
Archival
Other Fan Sites
- The NIN Collector - archive of official releases
- Seething Animosity - archive of bootleg & other releases
- The Art of Self Destruction - the largest online archive of NIN material
- Nine Inch Nails Collectors Forum - buy, sell & trade NIN collectibles
- nine inch nails lyrics - complete lyrics to official releases
- Discogs: Nine Inch Nails - listing of releases and appearances
- Forum Nine Inch Nails
- Screaming Slave
- NAiLEDONLiNE - NIN discussion forum
- NIN LJ Community - fan discussion
- NailedOnline
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