| Discography
HALO NUMBERS
Halo 1 - Down In It (1989) Halo 2 - Pretty Hate Machine (1989) Halo 3 - Head Like A Hole (1990) Halo 4 - Sin (1990) Halo 5 - Broken (1992) Halo 6 - Fixed (1992) Halo 7 - March Of The Pigs (1994) Halo 8 - The DOwnward Spiral (1994) Halo 9 - Closer To God (1994) Halo 10 - Further Down The Spiral (1995) Halo 11 - The Perfect Drug (1997) Halo 12 - Closure (1997) Halo 13 - The Day The World Went Away (1999) Halo 14 - The Fragile (1999) Halo 15 - We're In This Together (1999) Halo 16 - Things Falling Apart (2000) Halo 17 - And All That Could Have Been (2002) Halo 18 - The Hand That Feeds (2005) Halo 19 - With Teeth (2005) Halo 20 - Only (2005) Halo 21 - Every Day Is Exactly The Same (2006) Halo 22 - Beside You In Time (2007) Halo 23 - Survivalism (2007) Halo 24 - Year Zero (2007) Halo 25 - Year Zero Remixed (2007) Halo 26 - Ghosts I-IV (2008) Halo 27 - The Slip (2008)
SEED NUMBERS
Seed 1 - Collected DVD Seed 2 - Definitive NIN � The Singles Seed 3 - Definitive NIN � Deep Cuts Seed 4 - Definitive NIN � Quiet Tracks Seed 5 - Lights in the Sky: Over North America 2008 Tour Sampler EP Seed 6 - NINJA 2009 Tour Sampler EP
STUDIO RELEASES
Pretty Hate Machine Broken [EP] The Downward Spiral The Fragile With Teeth Year Zero Ghosts I-IV The Slip
REMIX ALBUMS
Fixed [EP] Further DOwn The Spiral Things Falling Apart Year Zero Remixed
LIVE RELEASES
Closure And All That Could Have Been Beside You In Time
SINGLES
Down In It Head Like A Hole Sin Physical (You're So) Wish Happiness In Slavery March Of The Pigs Closer Hurt Burn Piggy The Perfect Drug The Day The World Went Away We're In This Together Into The Void Starfuckers, Inc. Deep The Hand That Feeds Only Every Day Is Exactly The Same Survivalism Capital G Discipline
SOUND TRACKS
Dead Souls - The Crow Burn - Natural BOrn Killers Sound Effects and Ambient Music - Quake The Perfect Drug - Lost Highway Deep - Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
REMIXES
Light (Fat Back Dub) - KMFDM I'm Afraid Of Americans - David Bowie Victory - Puff Daddy and The Family Democracy - Killing Joke
| About The Band
Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction. NIN's music straddles a wide range of genres, while retaining a characteristic sound using electronic instruments and processing. After recording a new album, Reznor usually assembles a live band to perform with him. The touring band features a revolving lineup that often rearranges songs to fit a live setting. On stage, NIN often employs visual elements to accompany performances, which frequently include light shows.
Underground music audiences warmly received Nine Inch Nails in its early years. Reznor produced several highly influential records in the 1990s that achieved widespread popularity; many Nine Inch Nails songs became radio hits, two NIN recordings won Grammy Awards, and the band has sold over 20 million albums worldwide, with 10.5 million sales certified in the US alone. In 1997, Reznor appeared in Time magazine's list of the year's most influential people, and Spin magazine described him as "the most vital artist in music" In 2004, Rolling Stone placed Nine Inch Nails at 94 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. Despite this acclaim, the band has had several feuds with the corporate side of the recording industry. In 2007, these corporate entanglements resulted in Reznor announcing that Nine Inch Nails would split from its label and release future material independently.
Since 1989, Nine Inch Nails has made eight major studio releases. The most recent releases, Ghosts I�IV and The Slip, both released in 2008, were released under Creative Commons licenses. Both were initially released digitally, with physical releases coming later. The digital release of The Slip was made available completely free of charge. NIN has been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards and won twice for the songs "Wish" and "Happiness in Slavery", in 1992 and 1995 respectively.
In 1987, Trent Reznor played keyboards with a Cleveland band called the Exotic Birds, then managed by John Malm, Jr. Reznor and Malm became friends, and when Reznor left the Exotic Birds to work on music of his own, Malm informally became his manager. At the time Reznor was employed as an assistant engineer and janitor at Right Track Studios, and asked studio owner Bart Koster for permission to record some demos of his own material for free during unused studio time. Koster agreed, commenting that it cost him "just a little wear on [his] tape heads". While assembling these, the earliest Nine Inch Nails recordings, Reznor was unable to find a band that could articulate the material as he desired. Instead, inspired by Prince, Reznor played all the instruments except drums himself. This role remains Reznor's on most of the band's studio recordings, though he has occasionally involved other musicians and assistants. In 1988, after playing its first shows supporting Skinny Puppy, Reznor's ambitions for Nine Inch Nails were to release one 12-inch single on a small European label. Several labels responded favorably to the demo material, and Reznor signed with TVT Records. Ten selections from the Right Track demos were later released in revised form on the band's first full-length studio release, Pretty Hate Machine in 1989.
Reznor said in 1994 that he coined the name "Nine Inch Nails" because it "abbreviated easily", rather than for "any literal meaning". Other rumored explanations have circulated, alleging that Reznor chose to reference Jesus' crucifixion with nine-inch spikes, or Freddy Krueger's nine-inch fingernails. The Nine Inch Nails' logo, which consists of the letters [NI?] set inside a border, was designed by Reznor and Gary Talpas. The logo first appeared on the music video for NIN's debut, "Down in It", and was inspired by Tibor Kalman's typography on the Talking Heads album Remain in Light. Talpas, a native of Cleveland, would continue to design NIN packaging art until 1997.
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