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Nine Inch Nails
Artist Biography For Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails Commonly Abbreviated As NIN Stylized As NIИ Is An American Industrial Rock Band Formed In 1988 In Cleveland Ohio. 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. Reznor Chose 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 First Appeared On The Music Video For Their Debut Single "Down In It". Reznor And Gary Talpas Designed The Logo Inspired By Tibor Kalman's Typography On The Talking Heads Album Remain In Light. The Logo Features The Band's Initials With The Second N Mirrored. Talpas A Native Of Cleveland Continued To Design Nine Inch Nails Packaging Until 1997. The Band's Debut Album Pretty Hate Machine 1989 Was Released Via TVT Records. After Disagreeing With TVT About How To Promote The Album The Band Signed With Interscope Records And Released The EP Broken 1992 . The Following Albums The Downward Spiral 1994 And The Fragile 1999 Were Released To Critical Acclaim And Commercial Success. Following A Hiatus Nine Inch Nails Resumed Touring In 2005 And Released The Album With Teeth 2005 . Following The Release Of The Album Year Zero 2007 The Band Left Interscope After A Feud. Nine Inch Nails Continued Touring And Independently Released Ghosts I–IV 2008 And The Slip 2008 Before A Second Hiatus. 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 . In 2020 Nine Inch Nails Simultaneously Released Two Further Installments In The Ghosts Series Ghosts V Together And Ghosts VI Locusts. When Touring Reznor Typically Assembles A Live Band To Perform With Him Under The Nine Inch Nails Name. 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. The Band's Concerts Are Noted For Their Extensive Use Of Thematic Visual Elements Complex Special Effects And Elaborate Lighting. 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.
Nine Inch Nails As A Live Band Is Generally Understood To Be A Separate Entity From Its Recording Studio-Based Component. Occasionally Past Band Members Are Invited To Participate In The Process When Not Directly Involved With Recording New Material Nine Inch Nails' Lineup Tends To Change Drastically Between Major Tours. Aside From Trent Reznor Remaining On Lead Vocals Nothing About The Live Band Has Remained Constant Since Its Inception. Reznor Cited The Long Gestation Period Between Studio Albums As Part Of The Reason For These Frequent Personnel Changes. Nine Inch Nails Have Sold Over 20 Million Records And Been Nominated For 13 Grammy Awards Winning For The Songs "Wish" In 1992 And "Happiness In Slavery" In 1996. Time Magazine Named Reznor One Of Its Most Influential People In 1997 While Spin Magazine Has Described Him As "the Most Vital Artist In Music". In 2004 Rolling Stone Placed Nine Inch Nails At No. 94 On Its List Of The 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time. 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. Music And Lyrics Nine Inch Nails Has Been Described As Incorporating Alternative Rock Industrial Rock Industrial Dance Industrial Electro-Industrial Industrial Metal Electronic Rock And Alternative Metal. AllMusic's Steve Huey States That "Nine Inch Nails Were The Most Popular Industrial Group Ever And Were Largely Responsible For Bringing The Music To A Mass Audience". 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. 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. 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. 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." Ambient Music Has Been Featured In Some Of Nine Inch Nails' Music Including On Ghosts I–IV Which Is Specifically Dark Ambient Hesitation Marks The Downward Spiral The Slip And The Fragile. Songs Such As "Wish" And "The Day The World Went Away" Exhibit Terraced Dynamics. Reznor's Singing Follows A Similar Pattern Frequently Moving From Whispers To Screams. He Also Has Used Software To Alter His Voice In Several Songs As Evident In "Starfuckers Inc." And "Burn". The Band's Music Also Occasionally Contains Complex Time Signatures Notably In "The Collector" From With Teeth And Concert Favorite "March Of The Pigs". Reznor Uses Noise And Distortion In His Song Arrangements And Incorporates Dissonance With Chromatic Melody And/or Harmony. These Techniques Are All Used In The Song "Hurt" Which Contains A Highly Dissonant Tritone Played On Guitar During The Verses A B5#11 Emphasized When Reznor Sings The Eleventh Note On The Word "I" Every Time The B/E# Dyad Is Played. "Closer" Concludes With A Chromatic Piano Motif The Melody Is Debuted During The Second Verse Of "Piggy" On Organ Then Reappears In Power Chords At Drop D Tuning Throughout The Chorus Of "Heresy" While An Inverted Ascending Version Is Used Throughout "A Warm Place" And Then Recurs In Its Original State For The Final Time On "The Downward Spiral". 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. 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". AllMusic's Review Described The Album's Laptop-Mixed Sound "Guitars Squall Against Glitches Beeps Pops And Blotches Of Blurry Sonic Attacks. Percussion Looms Large Distorted Organic Looped Screwed Spindled And Broken." 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. Occasionally The Lyrics Depart From Their Introspective Nature To Deal With A Topic Like Politics Which Is The Focus Of Year Zero. Three Nine Inch Nails Albums Are Concept Albums The Downward Spiral The Fragile And Year Zero. 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. Influences Nine Inch Nails' Earliest Influence Was The Punk Rock Band The Clash Reznor Stated That He Started Out Trying To Directly Imitate Them Only To Abandon That Direction Due To His Lack Of A Political Message. Other Early Influences Include Ministry And Skinny Puppy Which Helped Shape 1989's Pretty Hate Machine. The Album's Liner Notes Also Paid Tribute To Public Enemy And Prince. Another Large Influence On The Band's Sound Is Gary Numan Which Is Evident As Reznor Once Said That "after Hearing 'Cars' I Knew I Wanted To Make Music With Synthesizers". The 2005 Single "Only" Exemplifies The Disco-Style Beats And Synthesizers Drawn From Numan's Persuasion. Other Artists Of Significance To Nine Inch Nails Include Acts Such As Depeche Mode Queen King Crimson Devo The Cure Joy Division U2 Bauhaus Adam Ant Coil And Soft Cell. Reznor Has Toured With Some Of His Influences Including A Brief Tour Opening For Skinny Puppy In 1988. In 1995 Nine Inch Nails Went On Tour With David Bowie Who Along With Pink Floyd Had Been A Significant Influence On The Downward Spiral. In 2006 Nine Inch Nails Went On Tour With Bauhaus On Their Summer Amphitheatre Tour. Legacy 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". Following The Release Of The Downward Spiral Mainstream Artists Began To Take Notice Of Nine Inch Nails' Influence David Bowie Compared Reznor's Impact To That Of The Velvet Underground. 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. 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. Nine Inch Nails Has Been Credited By Music Journalists For Popularizing Industrial Music Despite Ambivalence From Reznor. The Act Has Received Four Awards From 25 Nominations Including Two Grammy Awards For The Songs "Wish" And "Happiness In Slavery" In 1993 And 1996 Respectively. Nine Inch Nails Have Received Two Kerrang! Awards One Of Them Being The Kerrang! Icon In 2006 Honoring The Band's Overall Contributions Since 1988 And Long-Standing Influence On Rock Music. The Band Has Also Received Nine Nominations From The MTV Video Music Awards For Several Of Its Videos Including Two Nominations For The "Closer" Music Video And Five Nominations For "The Perfect Drug" Music Video Including Video Of The Year. In 1997 Reznor Appeared In Time Magazine's List Of The Year's Most Influential People And Spin Described Him As "the Most Vital Artist In Music". The Recording Industry Association Of America Certified Sales For 10.5 Million Units Of The Band's Albums In The United States Which Accounted For Roughly Half Of The Band's Reported Sales Worldwide At That Time. In 2003 Rolling Stone Magazine Placed The Downward Spiral At No. 200 In A 2003 List Of The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time And By The Following Year Ranked Nine Inch Nails At No. 94 In Their The 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time List. In 2019 Reznor And Ross Received Songwriting And Production Credits For The Number-One Single "Old Town Road" By Lil Nas X Which Sampled Their Track "34 Ghosts IV" From Ghosts I–IV. "Old Town Road" Broke The Record For Most Consecutive Weeks At Number One On The Billboard Hot 100. As Producers For The Song Reznor And Ross Won A CMA Award For The 'Musical Event Of The Year' Along With Lil Nas X Featured Artist Billy Ray Cyrus And Producer YoungKio. In January 2020 After Previous Nominations In 2014 And 2015 Nine Inch Nails Alessandro Cortini Robin Finck Danny Lohner Trent Reznor Atticus Ross Ilan Rubin And Chris Vrenna Were Named As Inductees Of The 2020 Class Of The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Official Members Official Members
Trent Reznor – Lead And Backing Vocals Guitars Bass Keyboards Synthesizers Saxophone Piano Programming Drums Percussion 1988–present Atticus Ross – Keyboards Synthesizers Programming Bass Backing Vocals 2016–present Additional Touring Lineup
Robin Finck – Guitars Synthesizers Keyboards Lap Steel Violin Backing Vocals 1994–1996 1999–2000 2008–2009 2013–present Alessandro Cortini – Bass Keyboards Synthesizers Guitars Backing Vocals 2005–2008 2013–present Ilan Rubin – Drums Percussion Bass Guitars Cello Keyboards Backing Vocals 2008–2009 2013–present Key Former Members
Chris Vrenna – Drums Percussion Keyboards Samplers 1988–1990 1992–1997 Richard Patrick – Guitars Backing Vocals 1989–1993 Jeff Ward – Drums 1990–1991 Died 1993 James Woolley – Keyboards Synthesizers Programming Backing Vocals 1991–1994 Died 2016 Danny Lohner – Bass Guitars Synthesizers Backing Vocals 1993–2003 Charlie Clouser – Keyboards Synthesizers Theremin Percussion Programming Backing Vocals 1994–2001 Jerome Dillon – Drums Guitars 1999–2005 Jeordie White A.K.A. Twiggy Ramirez – Bass Guitars Backing Vocals 2005–2007 Aaron North – Guitars Backing Vocals 2005–2007 Josh Freese – Drums Marimba 2005 2005–2008 Justin Meldal-Johnsen – Bass Backing Vocals 2008–2009
Frogtoon Music - Song Info: Ringfinger
Nine-Inch-Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
"Ringfinger" Is The Tenth And Final Track On The 1989 Release Pretty Hate Machine. The Demo Version Of This Song Was Called "Twist " Which Remains Musically Almost Identical But Uses Alternate Lyrics. Opening With A Thumping Beat And A Synth Melody Reznor's Reverberating Vocals Dominate The Verses. A Different Beat Is Introduced During The Second Verse While Vocal Harmonies And A Synth Pad Enter During The Choruses. During The Break There Is A Short Distorted Guitar Riff Before The Final Verse And Choruses. The End Of The Track Comes In After The Final Chorus With A Funky Guitar Riff Playing Over A Panned Drum Beat. This Is Followed By A Scream Sampled From The Beginning Of Jane's Addiction's "Had A Dad " Which Leads Into An Entirely Different Beat Sampled From "Alphabet St." By Prince. This Is Accompanied By A Synth That Sounds Very Similar To The One Used In "That's What I Get" And Vinyl Scratching.
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Biography - Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails Commonly Abbreviated As NIN Stylized As NIИ Is An American Industrial Rock Band Formed In 1988 In Cleveland Ohio. 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. Reznor Chose 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 First Appeared On The Music Video For Their Debut Single "Down In It". Reznor And Gary Talpas Designed The Logo Inspired By Tibor Kalman's Typography On The Talking Heads Album Remain In Light. The Logo Features The Band's Initials With The Second N Mirrored. Talpas A Native Of Cleveland Continued To Design Nine Inch Nails Packaging Until 1997. The Band's Debut Album Pretty Hate Machine 1989 Was Released Via TVT Records. After Disagreeing With TVT About How To Promote The Album The Band Signed With Interscope Records And Released The EP Broken 1992 . The Following Albums The Downward Spiral 1994 And The Fragile 1999 Were Released To Critical Acclaim And Commercial Success. Following A Hiatus Nine Inch Nails Resumed Touring In 2005 And Released The Album With Teeth 2005 . Following The Release Of The Album Year Zero 2007 The Band Left Interscope After A Feud. Nine Inch Nails Continued Touring And Independently Released Ghosts I–IV 2008 And The Slip 2008 Before A Second Hiatus. 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 . In 2020 Nine Inch Nails Simultaneously Released Two Further Installments In The Ghosts Series Ghosts V Together And Ghosts VI Locusts. When Touring Reznor Typically Assembles A Live Band To Perform With Him Under The Nine Inch Nails Name. 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. The Band's Concerts Are Noted For Their Extensive Use Of Thematic Visual Elements Complex Special Effects And Elaborate Lighting. 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.
Nine Inch Nails As A Live Band Is Generally Understood To Be A Separate Entity From Its Recording Studio-Based Component. Occasionally Past Band Members Are Invited To Participate In The Process When Not Directly Involved With Recording New Material Nine Inch Nails' Lineup Tends To Change Drastically Between Major Tours. Aside From Trent Reznor Remaining On Lead Vocals Nothing About The Live Band Has Remained Constant Since Its Inception. Reznor Cited The Long Gestation Period Between Studio Albums As Part Of The Reason For These Frequent Personnel Changes. Nine Inch Nails Have Sold Over 20 Million Records And Been Nominated For 13 Grammy Awards Winning For The Songs "Wish" In 1992 And "Happiness In Slavery" In 1996. Time Magazine Named Reznor One Of Its Most Influential People In 1997 While Spin Magazine Has Described Him As "the Most Vital Artist In Music". In 2004 Rolling Stone Placed Nine Inch Nails At No. 94 On Its List Of The 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time. 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. Music And Lyrics Nine Inch Nails Has Been Described As Incorporating Alternative Rock Industrial Rock Industrial Dance Industrial Electro-Industrial Industrial Metal Electronic Rock And Alternative Metal. AllMusic's Steve Huey States That "Nine Inch Nails Were The Most Popular Industrial Group Ever And Were Largely Responsible For Bringing The Music To A Mass Audience". 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. 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. 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. 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." Ambient Music Has Been Featured In Some Of Nine Inch Nails' Music Including On Ghosts I–IV Which Is Specifically Dark Ambient Hesitation Marks The Downward Spiral The Slip And The Fragile. Songs Such As "Wish" And "The Day The World Went Away" Exhibit Terraced Dynamics. Reznor's Singing Follows A Similar Pattern Frequently Moving From Whispers To Screams. He Also Has Used Software To Alter His Voice In Several Songs As Evident In "Starfuckers Inc." And "Burn". The Band's Music Also Occasionally Contains Complex Time Signatures Notably In "The Collector" From With Teeth And Concert Favorite "March Of The Pigs". Reznor Uses Noise And Distortion In His Song Arrangements And Incorporates Dissonance With Chromatic Melody And/or Harmony. These Techniques Are All Used In The Song "Hurt" Which Contains A Highly Dissonant Tritone Played On Guitar During The Verses A B5#11 Emphasized When Reznor Sings The Eleventh Note On The Word "I" Every Time The B/E# Dyad Is Played. "Closer" Concludes With A Chromatic Piano Motif The Melody Is Debuted During The Second Verse Of "Piggy" On Organ Then Reappears In Power Chords At Drop D Tuning Throughout The Chorus Of "Heresy" While An Inverted Ascending Version Is Used Throughout "A Warm Place" And Then Recurs In Its Original State For The Final Time On "The Downward Spiral". 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. 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". AllMusic's Review Described The Album's Laptop-Mixed Sound "Guitars Squall Against Glitches Beeps Pops And Blotches Of Blurry Sonic Attacks. Percussion Looms Large Distorted Organic Looped Screwed Spindled And Broken." 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. Occasionally The Lyrics Depart From Their Introspective Nature To Deal With A Topic Like Politics Which Is The Focus Of Year Zero. Three Nine Inch Nails Albums Are Concept Albums The Downward Spiral The Fragile And Year Zero. 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. Influences Nine Inch Nails' Earliest Influence Was The Punk Rock Band The Clash Reznor Stated That He Started Out Trying To Directly Imitate Them Only To Abandon That Direction Due To His Lack Of A Political Message. Other Early Influences Include Ministry And Skinny Puppy Which Helped Shape 1989's Pretty Hate Machine. The Album's Liner Notes Also Paid Tribute To Public Enemy And Prince. Another Large Influence On The Band's Sound Is Gary Numan Which Is Evident As Reznor Once Said That "after Hearing 'Cars' I Knew I Wanted To Make Music With Synthesizers". The 2005 Single "Only" Exemplifies The Disco-Style Beats And Synthesizers Drawn From Numan's Persuasion. Other Artists Of Significance To Nine Inch Nails Include Acts Such As Depeche Mode Queen King Crimson Devo The Cure Joy Division U2 Bauhaus Adam Ant Coil And Soft Cell. Reznor Has Toured With Some Of His Influences Including A Brief Tour Opening For Skinny Puppy In 1988. In 1995 Nine Inch Nails Went On Tour With David Bowie Who Along With Pink Floyd Had Been A Significant Influence On The Downward Spiral. In 2006 Nine Inch Nails Went On Tour With Bauhaus On Their Summer Amphitheatre Tour. Legacy 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". Following The Release Of The Downward Spiral Mainstream Artists Began To Take Notice Of Nine Inch Nails' Influence David Bowie Compared Reznor's Impact To That Of The Velvet Underground. 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. 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. Nine Inch Nails Has Been Credited By Music Journalists For Popularizing Industrial Music Despite Ambivalence From Reznor. The Act Has Received Four Awards From 25 Nominations Including Two Grammy Awards For The Songs "Wish" And "Happiness In Slavery" In 1993 And 1996 Respectively. Nine Inch Nails Have Received Two Kerrang! Awards One Of Them Being The Kerrang! Icon In 2006 Honoring The Band's Overall Contributions Since 1988 And Long-Standing Influence On Rock Music. The Band Has Also Received Nine Nominations From The MTV Video Music Awards For Several Of Its Videos Including Two Nominations For The "Closer" Music Video And Five Nominations For "The Perfect Drug" Music Video Including Video Of The Year. In 1997 Reznor Appeared In Time Magazine's List Of The Year's Most Influential People And Spin Described Him As "the Most Vital Artist In Music". The Recording Industry Association Of America Certified Sales For 10.5 Million Units Of The Band's Albums In The United States Which Accounted For Roughly Half Of The Band's Reported Sales Worldwide At That Time. In 2003 Rolling Stone Magazine Placed The Downward Spiral At No. 200 In A 2003 List Of The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time And By The Following Year Ranked Nine Inch Nails At No. 94 In Their The 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time List. In 2019 Reznor And Ross Received Songwriting And Production Credits For The Number-One Single "Old Town Road" By Lil Nas X Which Sampled Their Track "34 Ghosts IV" From Ghosts I–IV. "Old Town Road" Broke The Record For Most Consecutive Weeks At Number One On The Billboard Hot 100. As Producers For The Song Reznor And Ross Won A CMA Award For The 'Musical Event Of The Year' Along With Lil Nas X Featured Artist Billy Ray Cyrus And Producer YoungKio. In January 2020 After Previous Nominations In 2014 And 2015 Nine Inch Nails Alessandro Cortini Robin Finck Danny Lohner Trent Reznor Atticus Ross Ilan Rubin And Chris Vrenna Were Named As Inductees Of The 2020 Class Of The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Official Members Official Members
Trent Reznor – Lead And Backing Vocals Guitars Bass Keyboards Synthesizers Saxophone Piano Programming Drums Percussion 1988–present Atticus Ross – Keyboards Synthesizers Programming Bass Backing Vocals 2016–present Additional Touring Lineup
Robin Finck – Guitars Synthesizers Keyboards Lap Steel Violin Backing Vocals 1994–1996 1999–2000 2008–2009 2013–present Alessandro Cortini – Bass Keyboards Synthesizers Guitars Backing Vocals 2005–2008 2013–present Ilan Rubin – Drums Percussion Bass Guitars Cello Keyboards Backing Vocals 2008–2009 2013–present Key Former Members
Chris Vrenna – Drums Percussion Keyboards Samplers 1988–1990 1992–1997 Richard Patrick – Guitars Backing Vocals 1989–1993 Jeff Ward – Drums 1990–1991 Died 1993 James Woolley – Keyboards Synthesizers Programming Backing Vocals 1991–1994 Died 2016 Danny Lohner – Bass Guitars Synthesizers Backing Vocals 1993–2003 Charlie Clouser – Keyboards Synthesizers Theremin Percussion Programming Backing Vocals 1994–2001 Jerome Dillon – Drums Guitars 1999–2005 Jeordie White A.K.A. Twiggy Ramirez – Bass Guitars Backing Vocals 2005–2007 Aaron North – Guitars Backing Vocals 2005–2007 Josh Freese – Drums Marimba 2005 2005–2008 Justin Meldal-Johnsen – Bass Backing Vocals 2008–2009 read less
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Nine Inch Nails As A Live Band Is Generally Understood To Be A Separate Entity From Its Recording Studio-Based Component. Occasionally Past Band Members Are Invited To Participate In The Process When Not Directly Involved With Recording New Material Nine Inch Nails' Lineup Tends To Change Drastically Between Major Tours. Aside From Trent Reznor Remaining On Lead Vocals Nothing About The Live Band Has Remained Constant Since Its Inception. Reznor Cited The Long Gestation Period Between Studio Albums As Part Of The Reason For These Frequent Personnel Changes. Nine Inch Nails Have Sold Over 20 Million Records And Been Nominated For 13 Grammy Awards Winning For The Songs "Wish" In 1992 And "Happiness In Slavery" In 1996. Time Magazine Named Reznor One Of Its Most Influential People In 1997 While Spin Magazine Has Described Him As "the Most Vital Artist In Music". In 2004 Rolling Stone Placed Nine Inch Nails At No. 94 On Its List Of The 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time. 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. Music And Lyrics Nine Inch Nails Has Been Described As Incorporating Alternative Rock Industrial Rock Industrial Dance Industrial Electro-Industrial Industrial Metal Electronic Rock And Alternative Metal. AllMusic's Steve Huey States That "Nine Inch Nails Were The Most Popular Industrial Group Ever And Were Largely Responsible For Bringing The Music To A Mass Audience". 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. 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. 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. 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." Ambient Music Has Been Featured In Some Of Nine Inch Nails' Music Including On Ghosts I–IV Which Is Specifically Dark Ambient Hesitation Marks The Downward Spiral The Slip And The Fragile. Songs Such As "Wish" And "The Day The World Went Away" Exhibit Terraced Dynamics. Reznor's Singing Follows A Similar Pattern Frequently Moving From Whispers To Screams. He Also Has Used Software To Alter His Voice In Several Songs As Evident In "Starfuckers Inc." And "Burn". The Band's Music Also Occasionally Contains Complex Time Signatures Notably In "The Collector" From With Teeth And Concert Favorite "March Of The Pigs". Reznor Uses Noise And Distortion In His Song Arrangements And Incorporates Dissonance With Chromatic Melody And/or Harmony. These Techniques Are All Used In The Song "Hurt" Which Contains A Highly Dissonant Tritone Played On Guitar During The Verses A B5#11 Emphasized When Reznor Sings The Eleventh Note On The Word "I" Every Time The B/E# Dyad Is Played. "Closer" Concludes With A Chromatic Piano Motif The Melody Is Debuted During The Second Verse Of "Piggy" On Organ Then Reappears In Power Chords At Drop D Tuning Throughout The Chorus Of "Heresy" While An Inverted Ascending Version Is Used Throughout "A Warm Place" And Then Recurs In Its Original State For The Final Time On "The Downward Spiral". 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. 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". AllMusic's Review Described The Album's Laptop-Mixed Sound "Guitars Squall Against Glitches Beeps Pops And Blotches Of Blurry Sonic Attacks. Percussion Looms Large Distorted Organic Looped Screwed Spindled And Broken." 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. Occasionally The Lyrics Depart From Their Introspective Nature To Deal With A Topic Like Politics Which Is The Focus Of Year Zero. Three Nine Inch Nails Albums Are Concept Albums The Downward Spiral The Fragile And Year Zero. 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. Influences Nine Inch Nails' Earliest Influence Was The Punk Rock Band The Clash Reznor Stated That He Started Out Trying To Directly Imitate Them Only To Abandon That Direction Due To His Lack Of A Political Message. Other Early Influences Include Ministry And Skinny Puppy Which Helped Shape 1989's Pretty Hate Machine. The Album's Liner Notes Also Paid Tribute To Public Enemy And Prince. Another Large Influence On The Band's Sound Is Gary Numan Which Is Evident As Reznor Once Said That "after Hearing 'Cars' I Knew I Wanted To Make Music With Synthesizers". The 2005 Single "Only" Exemplifies The Disco-Style Beats And Synthesizers Drawn From Numan's Persuasion. Other Artists Of Significance To Nine Inch Nails Include Acts Such As Depeche Mode Queen King Crimson Devo The Cure Joy Division U2 Bauhaus Adam Ant Coil And Soft Cell. Reznor Has Toured With Some Of His Influences Including A Brief Tour Opening For Skinny Puppy In 1988. In 1995 Nine Inch Nails Went On Tour With David Bowie Who Along With Pink Floyd Had Been A Significant Influence On The Downward Spiral. In 2006 Nine Inch Nails Went On Tour With Bauhaus On Their Summer Amphitheatre Tour. Legacy 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". Following The Release Of The Downward Spiral Mainstream Artists Began To Take Notice Of Nine Inch Nails' Influence David Bowie Compared Reznor's Impact To That Of The Velvet Underground. 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. 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. Nine Inch Nails Has Been Credited By Music Journalists For Popularizing Industrial Music Despite Ambivalence From Reznor. The Act Has Received Four Awards From 25 Nominations Including Two Grammy Awards For The Songs "Wish" And "Happiness In Slavery" In 1993 And 1996 Respectively. Nine Inch Nails Have Received Two Kerrang! Awards One Of Them Being The Kerrang! Icon In 2006 Honoring The Band's Overall Contributions Since 1988 And Long-Standing Influence On Rock Music. The Band Has Also Received Nine Nominations From The MTV Video Music Awards For Several Of Its Videos Including Two Nominations For The "Closer" Music Video And Five Nominations For "The Perfect Drug" Music Video Including Video Of The Year. In 1997 Reznor Appeared In Time Magazine's List Of The Year's Most Influential People And Spin Described Him As "the Most Vital Artist In Music". The Recording Industry Association Of America Certified Sales For 10.5 Million Units Of The Band's Albums In The United States Which Accounted For Roughly Half Of The Band's Reported Sales Worldwide At That Time. In 2003 Rolling Stone Magazine Placed The Downward Spiral At No. 200 In A 2003 List Of The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time And By The Following Year Ranked Nine Inch Nails At No. 94 In Their The 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time List. In 2019 Reznor And Ross Received Songwriting And Production Credits For The Number-One Single "Old Town Road" By Lil Nas X Which Sampled Their Track "34 Ghosts IV" From Ghosts I–IV. "Old Town Road" Broke The Record For Most Consecutive Weeks At Number One On The Billboard Hot 100. As Producers For The Song Reznor And Ross Won A CMA Award For The 'Musical Event Of The Year' Along With Lil Nas X Featured Artist Billy Ray Cyrus And Producer YoungKio. In January 2020 After Previous Nominations In 2014 And 2015 Nine Inch Nails Alessandro Cortini Robin Finck Danny Lohner Trent Reznor Atticus Ross Ilan Rubin And Chris Vrenna Were Named As Inductees Of The 2020 Class Of The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Official Members Official Members
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"Ringfinger" is the tenth and final track on the 1989 release Pretty Hate Machine. The demo version of this song was called "Twist," which remains musically almost identical but uses alternate lyrics.
Opening with a thumping beat and a synth melody, Reznor's reverberating vocals dominate the verses. A different beat is introduced during the second verse, while vocal harmonies and a synth pad enter during the choruses. During the break, there is a short distorted guitar riff before the final verse and choruses. The end of the track comes in after the final chorus with a funky guitar riff playing over a panned drum beat. This is followed by a scream sampled from the beginning of Jane's Addiction's "Had a Dad," which leads into an entirely different beat, sampled from "Alphabet St." by Prince. This is accompanied by a synth that sounds very similar to the one used in "That's What I Get" and vinyl scratching. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
After The Album Was Released The Aforementioned Demo Surfaced On A Bootleg Called Purest Feeling. It Contains The Original Demo Recordings Of Most Of The Tracks Found On The Album As Well As A Couple That Were Not Used "Purest Feeling" And "Maybe Just Once" . Pretty Hate Machine Was Recorded In Various Studios Around The World With Reznor Collaborating With Some Of His Most Idolized Producers - Flood At Syncro Sound In Boston Keith LeBlanc At Unique Recording Studios In New York Adrian Sherwood At Roundhouse Studios In London And John Fryer At Blackwing Studios In London. Flood Was Originally Supposed To Produce The Entire Album But Couldn't Because Of His Prior Commitment With Depeche Mode. After The Album Was Finished TVT Records Were Not Happy About The Direction The Album Had Taken From The Original Demos. This Would Lead To Friction Between Reznor And The Label. John Fryer Elaborated "We Were Trying To Make The Hardest Record We Could Make. It Was Very Strange Because We Made It We Thought It Sounded Brilliant We Had It On The Big Speakers Just Blowing Us Away. Then Someone From The Record Company Came In — And Because The Demos Were More Synthy And Not As Industrial As The Album He Listened To It And His Mouth Dropped Open And He Said "You've Ruined This Record." But Of Course It's Gone On To Be A Classic. It Was Done In 20 Days. I Think It Was A Good Thing That We Made Records So Quickly Back Then Because There's A Lot Of Energy In There And Mistakes Are Left In So It Sounds Human And It's Not Blanded Out Over Time." The Album Also Gained Popularity Through Word-Of-Mouth And Developed An Underground Following. Reznor Quickly Hired A Band For Touring With Skinny Puppy The Jesus And Mary Chain And Peter Murphy Including Guitarist And Future Filter/Army Of Anyone Frontman Richard Patrick. The Headlining Hate And Sin Tours Followed As Well As A Slot On The First Lollapalooza Tour. Nine Inch Nails' Live Set Was Notorious For Louder More Aggressive Versions Of The Studio Songs And Also For Destroying Their Instruments At The End Of Sets. Reznor Preferred Using The Heel Of His Boots To Strip The Keys From Keyboards. Taking Inspiration From The Photographer Who Did NIN's Early Press Shots The Band Would Douse Themselves In Cornstarch Before Taking The Stage. This Practice Would Continue Through The Fragility Tour. Pretty Hate Machine Went Out Of Print Through TVT Records But Was Reissued By Rykodisc Records On November 22 2005 With Slight Changes In The Packaging. Prudential Owned TVT's Nine Inch Nails Recordings But Rykodisc Leased The Rights. Reznor Had Expressed An Interest In Creating A "deluxe Edition" With Surround Sound Remastering And New/rare Remixes Similar To The Re-Release Of The Downward Spiral. Rykodisc Liked The Idea But Not Enough To Pay Reznor To Do So.
In April 2010 Bicycle Music Bought The Entirety Of TVT's Catalogue Including Pretty Hate Machine. They Confirmed That They Would Be Reissuing The Album Once More And There Was Speculation That They Would Be Willing To Release The Deluxe Edition Proposed By TVT In 2005.
"The Co-Publishing Rights To Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails Catalog Include The Songs From All Album Releases From Pretty Hate Machine Through Year Zero. As Well In Acquiring The Master Recording Rights To NIN’s Groundbreaking Debut Pretty Hate Machine Bicycle Will Be Responsible For Re-Releasing This Album Which Has Been Out Of Print And Unavailable Through Digital Distribution Outlets For Several Years. It Goes Without Saying How Important These Works Are To The Entire Landscape Of Alternative Rock. Our Team Sees Incredible Creative And Business Opportunities With This Catalog And We Look Forward To Working With Our New Partners And Artists " Said Steve Salm Partner At Bicycle. On October 22 Reznor Announced That The Reissue Was To Be A Remastered Edition Stating On Nin.Com "I'm Happy To Finally Announce The Re-Issue Of The First Nine Inch Nails Record "Pretty Hate Machine" Releasing Worldwide 11/22. UMe And Bicycle Music Group Managed To Locate The Original Mixes So I Went In The Studio With Tom Baker And Remastered It For A Greatly Improved Sonic Experience. In Addition Reinterpreted Gary Talpas' Original Cover To Make For A Fresh New Package.
It's Been An Interesting Trip Watching The Fate Of This Record Float From One Set Of Hands To Another A Long And Depressing Story But It's Finally Wound Up In Friendly Territory Allowing Us To Polish It Up A Bit And Present It To You Now. We Had Fun Revisiting This Old Friend Hope You Enjoy."
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Published: 02 Feb 2024, 14:11
Pretty Hate Machine Also Known As Halo 2 Is The First Studio Album By Nine Inch Nails. It Was Released On October 20 1989 By TVT Records In The US And On October 12 1991 In The UK And Was A Huge Success. The First Single Off Of The Album Down In It Was Released On September 27 1989. It Received Radio Airplay For The Aforementioned Single As Well As Subsequent Singles Head Like A Hole And Sin. The Former Also Serves As A Companion Remix Album Of Sorts To Pretty Hate Machine. Working Nights At Right Track Studio As A Handyman And Janitor Trent Reznor Used Studio "down Time" To Record And Develop His Own Music. Playing Most Of The Keyboards Drum Machines Guitars And Samplers Himself He Recorded A Demo. Teaming Up With Manager John A. Malm Jr. They Sent The Demo To Various Record Labels. Reznor Received Serious Offers From Many Of Them. He Signed A Deal With TVT Records Who Until Then Were Known Mainly For Releasing Novelty And Television Jingle Records.After The Album Was Released The Aforementioned Demo Surfaced On A Bootleg Called Purest Feeling. It Contains The Original Demo Recordings Of Most Of The Tracks Found On The Album As Well As A Couple That Were Not Used "Purest Feeling" And "Maybe Just Once" . Pretty Hate Machine Was Recorded In Various Studios Around The World With Reznor Collaborating With Some Of His Most Idolized Producers - Flood At Syncro Sound In Boston Keith LeBlanc At Unique Recording Studios In New York Adrian Sherwood At Roundhouse Studios In London And John Fryer At Blackwing Studios In London. Flood Was Originally Supposed To Produce The Entire Album But Couldn't Because Of His Prior Commitment With Depeche Mode. After The Album Was Finished TVT Records Were Not Happy About The Direction The Album Had Taken From The Original Demos. This Would Lead To Friction Between Reznor And The Label. John Fryer Elaborated "We Were Trying To Make The Hardest Record We Could Make. It Was Very Strange Because We Made It We Thought It Sounded Brilliant We Had It On The Big Speakers Just Blowing Us Away. Then Someone From The Record Company Came In — And Because The Demos Were More Synthy And Not As Industrial As The Album He Listened To It And His Mouth Dropped Open And He Said "You've Ruined This Record." But Of Course It's Gone On To Be A Classic. It Was Done In 20 Days. I Think It Was A Good Thing That We Made Records So Quickly Back Then Because There's A Lot Of Energy In There And Mistakes Are Left In So It Sounds Human And It's Not Blanded Out Over Time." The Album Also Gained Popularity Through Word-Of-Mouth And Developed An Underground Following. Reznor Quickly Hired A Band For Touring With Skinny Puppy The Jesus And Mary Chain And Peter Murphy Including Guitarist And Future Filter/Army Of Anyone Frontman Richard Patrick. The Headlining Hate And Sin Tours Followed As Well As A Slot On The First Lollapalooza Tour. Nine Inch Nails' Live Set Was Notorious For Louder More Aggressive Versions Of The Studio Songs And Also For Destroying Their Instruments At The End Of Sets. Reznor Preferred Using The Heel Of His Boots To Strip The Keys From Keyboards. Taking Inspiration From The Photographer Who Did NIN's Early Press Shots The Band Would Douse Themselves In Cornstarch Before Taking The Stage. This Practice Would Continue Through The Fragility Tour. Pretty Hate Machine Went Out Of Print Through TVT Records But Was Reissued By Rykodisc Records On November 22 2005 With Slight Changes In The Packaging. Prudential Owned TVT's Nine Inch Nails Recordings But Rykodisc Leased The Rights. Reznor Had Expressed An Interest In Creating A "deluxe Edition" With Surround Sound Remastering And New/rare Remixes Similar To The Re-Release Of The Downward Spiral. Rykodisc Liked The Idea But Not Enough To Pay Reznor To Do So.
In April 2010 Bicycle Music Bought The Entirety Of TVT's Catalogue Including Pretty Hate Machine. They Confirmed That They Would Be Reissuing The Album Once More And There Was Speculation That They Would Be Willing To Release The Deluxe Edition Proposed By TVT In 2005.
"The Co-Publishing Rights To Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails Catalog Include The Songs From All Album Releases From Pretty Hate Machine Through Year Zero. As Well In Acquiring The Master Recording Rights To NIN’s Groundbreaking Debut Pretty Hate Machine Bicycle Will Be Responsible For Re-Releasing This Album Which Has Been Out Of Print And Unavailable Through Digital Distribution Outlets For Several Years. It Goes Without Saying How Important These Works Are To The Entire Landscape Of Alternative Rock. Our Team Sees Incredible Creative And Business Opportunities With This Catalog And We Look Forward To Working With Our New Partners And Artists " Said Steve Salm Partner At Bicycle. On October 22 Reznor Announced That The Reissue Was To Be A Remastered Edition Stating On Nin.Com "I'm Happy To Finally Announce The Re-Issue Of The First Nine Inch Nails Record "Pretty Hate Machine" Releasing Worldwide 11/22. UMe And Bicycle Music Group Managed To Locate The Original Mixes So I Went In The Studio With Tom Baker And Remastered It For A Greatly Improved Sonic Experience. In Addition Reinterpreted Gary Talpas' Original Cover To Make For A Fresh New Package.
It's Been An Interesting Trip Watching The Fate Of This Record Float From One Set Of Hands To Another A Long And Depressing Story But It's Finally Wound Up In Friendly Territory Allowing Us To Polish It Up A Bit And Present It To You Now. We Had Fun Revisiting This Old Friend Hope You Enjoy."
The Nin.Com Subsite Phm.Nin.Com Was Set Up To Promote The Re-Release.