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. Probably do not watch it at all. 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. "I was coming out of a weird relationship," he told Spin in 1996. [1]:42[4] The band used it to record Broken, an extended play (EP) that was the first Nine Inch Nails release distributed by Interscope Records[39] and reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200. Broken (informally known as The Broken Movie) is a 1993 horror musical short film and long-form music video filmed and directed by Peter Christopherson. 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. [14] The English letters "NIN" are also noted[by whom?] 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". 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! In 2002, Johnny Cash covered the Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" for his album, American IV: The Man Comes Around, to critical acclaim. [300] In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine placed The Downward Spiral at No. Even its makers remained uncertain of the project's merits. [160] Reznor and Ross again collaborated with Fincher for the official score the American adaptation of the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, released in December 2011, and then again on Fincher's 2014 film Gone Girl [161], In July 2012 Reznor teamed up with video game developer Treyarch to compose the theme music for Call of Duty: Black Ops II. 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. [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. [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. [187], In July the Twenty Thirteen Tour was underway, beginning with a slew of festival appearances that included the Fuji Rock Festival, and the Pukkelpop, Hockenheim, Germany's Rock'n'Heim and the Reading and Leeds festivals in August. With Teeth. "[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. Everything from Seven's jagged opening credits to the post9/11 torture porn of Saw owes a debt to Broken's jarring visual disharmony. Listen to The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails on Apple Music. "And I did it without regard for MTV and what was showable and not showable, because that's what he asked me to do.". [217], In June 2017, in an email that was issued out to customers waiting on delayed vinyl orders, Reznor confirmed that Not the Actual Events would actually make up the first part of a trilogy of EPs, with the second installment Add Violence being released on July 21[218] and the third and final EP of the trilogy to follow in 2018. ", Using that as his marching orders, Christopherson started work, while Reznor began recording what would become The Downward Spiral. The disturbing video, along with the fact that he was now cognizant of the terrible history of the house where he was recording The Downward Spiral, made him wonder if he wanted this art project out in the world. 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. Standard Videos. 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. [38] "March of the Pigs" and "Closer" were singles. The tour debuted the band's grungy, messy image as the members appeared in ragged attire slathered in corn starch. [130] The album is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike licence. 14.4m members in the creepy community. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. In 2004, Rolling Stone placed Nine Inch Nails at No. [235][236], Due to the pandemic, the live induction ceremony for the 2020 Hall of Fame Induction was cancelled on July 15, 2020, and simultaneously, an induction special was announced to be broadcast and available for streaming through HBO and HBO Max, respectively, on November 7, 2020. In the same post, the band also announced their 2017 touring lineup, which included Reznor and Ross joined by the band's 2014 touring lineup, Robin Finck, Alessandro Cortini, and Ilan Rubin. 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. [3] At the time, Reznor was employed as an assistant engineer and janitor at Right Track Studios. [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). [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. 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. It's more just feeling around in the dark and seeing what sounds interesting". Christopherson started working on the film while Reznor recorded 1994's stellarThe Downward Spiral,and Christopherson went about his work in a very matter-of-fact way, stating, "I did it without regard for MTV and what was showable and not showable, because that's what he asked me to do." Talpas, a native of Cleveland, continued to design Nine Inch Nails packaging until 1997. A live recording of "Wish" was also filmed, and both videos appeared in Closure. [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. [64], The music video for "Closer", directed by Mark Romanek, was in MTV's frequent rotation, although the network, deeming it too graphic, heavily censored the original. [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. [1]:41 The overall sound on Purest Feeling is lighter than that of Pretty Hate Machine; several songs contain more live drumming and guitar, as well as a heavier use of film samples. The music video features Trent Reznor singing under a spotlight at a concert while archival video clips are projected on a screen behind him. He also revealed that the new lineup of the band would include Eric Avery of Jane's Addiction, Adrian Belew of King Crimson, and Josh Eustis of Telefon Tel Aviv, as well as returning members Alessandro Cortini and Ilan Rubin. 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. [169] It was until January 2014 that the service was fully launched, with Reznor serving as chief creative officer. "[113] The project moved into the television medium because of high costs for Year Zero as a film, then Reznor found American film producer Lawrence Bender and met with writers. [137] The Slip has since been released on CD as a limited edition set of 250,000. [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". What if it felt real?" Within hours of launch, the video was removed due to a terms of service violation on material that "harass, incite hatred or depict excessive violence". "It felt like we'd crossed over into territory that was perhapstoo far," he recalls. [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". [298] The Recording Industry Association of America certified sales for 10.5 million units of the band's albums in the United States,[299] which accounted for roughly half of the band's reported sales worldwide at that time. It's all here. [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. [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. "Runaway" by Kanye West (2010) West's "Runaway" music video was part of an extended musical short film directed by the rapper. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaningdifferent, but every bit as pure. 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". [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. Nine Inch Nails- Happiness In Slavery (Uncensored) (1992) on Vimeo Nine Inch Nails- Happiness In Slavery (Uncensored) (1992) Not Yet Rated 5 years ago rogerspy Upload, livestream, and create your own videos, all in HD. In the early 1990s, Trent Reznor should have been on top of the world. After seeing the film, he freaked out because it was so disturbing, even to him. [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. Watch this Music video, Top 20 Greatest Rock Bands, on Fanpop and browse other Music videos. [241], On May 6, 2021, Nine Inch Nails released a new track, "Isn't Everyone"[242] in collaboration with noise rock group HEALTH, who had previously been an opening act on their Lights In The Sky and Wave Goodbye tours. [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. Its first release, a six-track self-titled EP, was made available for free download in June 2010. His solo skills were SHREDICULOUS! 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. 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. Clues hidden on tour merchandise initially led fans to discover a network of fictitious, in-game websites that describe an "Orwellian picture of the United States circa the year 2022". Donotwatch this lightly. The band's concerts are noted for their extensive use of thematic visual elements, complex special effects, and elaborate lighting. The following albums, The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999), were released to critical acclaim and commercial success. 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. Reiss thought of Flanagan as Flanagan's wife Sheree Rose later explained, "[Reiss] attended the 'Nailed' performance in Los Angeles in 1989, where he witnessed Bob in a torture chair being 'attacked' by clothespins attached to his genitals." Into the Void. [1]:35[266][267] Reviewing The Fragile, critic Steve Cooper noted that the album juxtaposes widely varied genres, such as solo piano in "The Frail" and drum and bass elements in "Starfuckers, Inc."[268] Ambient music has been featured in some of Nine Inch Nails' music, including on Ghosts IIV (which is specifically dark ambient),[269] Hesitation Marks,[270] The Downward Spiral,[271] The Slip,[272] and The Fragile. [190][191] This leg of the tour was documented and released in the spring as Nine Inch Nails Tension 2013. [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". [24] Rolling Stone's Michael Azerrad described the album as "industrial-strength noise over a pop framework" and "harrowing but catchy music";[25] Reznor proclaimed this combination "a sincere statement" of "what was in [his] head at the time". "Came Back Haunted" was released on June 6,[184] with an accompanying music video bearing an epileptic seizure warning. [233][234] The albums were released for free as a show of solidarity with the band's fans during the COVID-19 pandemic. [37] Involved in a feud with TVT, he signed a record deal with Interscope Records and created Nothing Records: We made it very clear we were not doing another record for TVT. [171] Reznor eventually confirmed that he was working on new Nine Inch Nails material and might be performing live again. [313] Reznor's post, specifically his criticism of the recording industry at large, elicited considerable media attention. [278] Occasionally, the lyrics depart from their introspective nature to deal with a topic like politics, which is the focus of Year Zero. Reznor's next collaboration with Ross was co-writing and producing the official score for David Fincher's 2010 film, The Social Network. So why did it go out of sight for decades? Build a site and generate income from purchases, subscriptions, and courses. [131][132] The album was created improvisationally over a 10-week period and contributors included Atticus Ross, Alan Moulder, Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew, and Brian Viglione.[133]. 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Known for: Friday (1995), Straight Outta Compton (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017) F. Gary Gray's career as a film director is nearly entirely owed to his career as . 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. "I came back haunted" I banned for a good min, Tiktok relieved me from time-out #mrzfrazier #PerfectPrideMovement #rhonduhbudz #rhonduhfraz #zooted #goodvibes #StJudeDadPhotos #icamebackhaunted". No wonder the video was banned, right? I didn't know anything about Interscope. [49] This footage was never officially released, but instead appeared covertly among tape trading circles. Originally, only Trent Reznor was to be inducted as the sole full-time member of the group for most of its history. So I felt like, well, I've finally got this thing going but it's dead. ", "Multitracks for 3 YZ songs posted on nin.com", "Nine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D Album Review", "Nine Inch Nails Announce Remix Album Details", "Kerrang discusses movie possibility with Trent Reznor", "Nine Inch Nails Ready Apocalyptic Year Zero TV Show", "Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor approaches the future a free man", "Trent Reznor and HBO moving forward with 'Year Zero' sci-fi series", "Trent Reznor Tells Fans "Year Zero" Is In A Holding State", "Reznor makes $750,000 even when the music is free", "Nine Inch Nails releases Ghosts I-IV under a Creative Commons license", "New Nine Inch Nails Single Possibly From 'Year Zero 2'? [68] Blender named it the 80th Greatest American Album. [104] All three singles topped the Billboard Alternative Songs chart. "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. (Remember it came out in the VHS era.) [183], The album produced three singles, all released prior to that of the album itself. For "Happiness in Slavery," Reznor tapped Jon Reiss, who made documentaries about punk bands, to direct the segment. [337][338] However, after 9 years of studio sessions, no material was ever officially released from the group, and it was confirmed to be no longer active in 2005. It wasn't my doing. He serves as the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and principal songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, which he founded in 1988 and of which he was the sole official member until 2016. [114] There are several underground rebel groups, mainly operating online, most notably Art is Resistance and Solutions Backwards Initiative. On May 7, they announced they would be playing two shows in Cleveland (September 21 and 23, 2021) with the Pixies to commemorate their inauguration into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which, according to the band, would be "the only NIN headline shows in 2021". [308] Their relationship was formally severed in a New York courtroom, with damages awarded to Reznor in excess of $3 million. 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. 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. [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. The album With Teeth was originally set to be a concept album about an endless dream occurring in reality, but Reznor eventually took this idea out of the record. From the get-go, the intention was to create something nauseating and revolting. I wanted to make a 'f*** you' record.". 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. [149][150] Portions of the album Ghosts I-IV were also used in making of the soundtrack for the documentary Citizenfour.[151]. ", 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. [192], In 2014 the band extended its tour worldwide as a four-piece. [98], Critical reception of the album was mostly positive:[99] Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield described the album as "vintage Nine Inch Nails". [18], Written, arranged, and performed by Reznor,[19] Nine Inch Nails' first album Pretty Hate Machine debuted in 1989. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards. Nine Inch Nails: Hurt: Directed by Simon Maxwell. When touring, Reznor typically assembles a live band to perform with him under the Nine Inch Nails name. [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. This installment in the Tap Tap video game franchise was themed after Nine Inch Nails, and included tracks from Ghosts IIV and The Slip. 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. Eventually, NIN would sign with Interscope a smart move and during this transitionBrokenand its snuff film were produced. Let's take a look at the 7 biggest rock and metal videos that got banned or heavily censored at different times. "[228], Nine Inch Nails was among hundreds of artists whose material was destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. April 26, 2016 bernard. [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. JavaScript please! So go forth and enable it. [62] The Downward Spiral, alike Broken, was recorded at Le Pig Studios. "And it's a label that has no idea of what integrity means and they thought we were a nice pop band. "And that was what rock music was about in the [Nineties]: It was danger and dirt and hate and anger and pissing people off. "[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. However, the band's performance of the song at Woodstock '94 was well-received and won them a . Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Nine Inch Nails NIN VHS Rare X Files Uncut Music Videos Gore Horror Sleave SOV at the best online prices at eBay! Fill out our google form!https://bit.ly/3stnXlN-----CONNECT ON SOCIAL----- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rocknrolltruestoriesFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/RNRTrueStoriesTwitter: https://twitter.com/rocktruestoriesBlog: www.rockandrolltruestories.com**[[[HASHTAGS]]]**I cite my sources and they may differ than other people's accounts, so I don't guarantee the actual accuracy of my videos. It contained contributions from Coil with Danny Hyde, electronic musician Aphex Twin, producer Rick Rubin, and Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, among others. Nine inch nails banned music video (might be repost) : creepy 37 votes, 15 comments. Another ceremony incident had occurred at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in 2014. [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.
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