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The Industrial outfit Nine Inch Nails isn't really a group but is a creation of the multi-instrumentalist + vocalist Trent Reznor. Born 17 May 1965, in Mercer, Pennsylvania USA, Reznor began his music career working in a Cleveland recording studio and playing in local bands.

During 1989, he signed a deal with TVT Records, teamed up with guitarist Richard Patrick and drummer Chris Vrenna to record Nine Inch Nails' debut full-lenght album, "Pretty Hate Machine", which was issued in November; the record reached the #75 slot on The Billboard Top 200 chart spawning "Down In It", which peaked at #16 on The Modern Rock Tracks chart and the top 30 hit, "Head Like A Hole"; one more single, "Sin", cracked the top 10 of the Billboard Magazine's Hot Dance chart.
In 1991 the NIN frontman enlisted the help of keyboardist James Woolley and supported the band's debut album by appearing on the Lollapalooza tour; "Pretty Hate Machine", eventually was certified platinum for sales of one million copies two years after its release.

After Reznor signed with Interscope, that helped him set up his own record label, Nothing Records, in September of 1992 returning with a shortened line-up, Nine Inch Nails released an 8-song EP entitled "Broken", the record rose to #8 on The Billboard 200 chart and generated "Happiness In Slavery" which peaked at #13 on The Modern Rock Tracks chart; the second single, "Wish", was another Modern Rock top 30 hit and won Reznor a Grammy for Best Metal Performance.

Two years later, after Richard Patrick left the band to form Filter, a re-energized Nine Inch Nails: Reznor, new guitarist Robin Finck, bass player Danny Lohneer, Woolley and Vrenna, released the band's second full-length album, "The Downward Spiral"; the record shot to #2 on The Billboard Top 200 and cracked the top 10 on the U.K. Albums charts; the first single off the CD, "Closer", peaked at #11 on The Modern Rock chart and "Piggy" hit the top 20; the band scored huge club success with "March Of The Pigs" and the final single, "Hurt", rose to #8 on The Modern Rock chart.

During 1995 Trent Reznor built an incredible studio in New Orleans, afterwards he released the U.S. only remix album "Further Down The Spiral", reaching the #23 position on Billboard's Top 200 and produced Marilyn Manson's "Antichrist Superstar" which was released on Nothing Records; he also found time to create a soundtrack for Oliver Stone's cult teen movie "Natural Born Killers"; eventually Nine Inch Nails, at the 38th Annual Grammy ceremony, walked away with Best Metal Performance for "Happiness In Slavery".
Two years later Vrenna left the band to be replaced by drummer Jerome Dillon and Reznor worked with David Lynch, producing the soundtrack for "Lost Highway", this album included "The Perfect Drug", which reached #11 on The Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Nine Inch Nails returned in autumn 1999 with the acclaimed double-CD, "The Fragile"; the set debuted at #1 in U.S. and at #2 on the Top Canadian Albums charts spawning three Billboard's Modern Rock top 40 single cuts: "Into The Void", "We're In This Together" and "Starfuckers, Inc.", plus "The Day The World Went Away" which was a massive hit, reaching #1 on The Canadian Singles chart and #17 on The Billboard Hot 100 Stateside.
The next year, the group went on to release another remix full-length disc, which barely broke the top 60 on the U.S. Albums chart.
The soundtrack to the motion picture "Tomb Raider", released in mid-2001, included Nine Inch Nails' "Deep", the track climbed into the top 20 of Modern Rock chart; the next year the band released the live album "And All That Could Have Been", reaching #26 on The Billboard Top 200 list.

Trent Reznor with the band released in early May 2005 the monster hit album "With Teeth"; the record which also featured guest drummer Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters, shot to #1 on The Billboard 200 and peaked at #2 on Top Canadian Albums charts; the powerful first single track, "The Hand That Feeds", stormed the Modern and Mainstream Rock charts peaking at #1 and #2, respectively; both of the follow-up singles, "Only" and "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" went to #1 on The Modern Rock chart.

In April 2007 Nine Inch Nails unleashed the apocalyptic concept album, "Year Zero", the album reflects Reznor's pessimistic predictions of the world 15 years into the future where the U.S. has turned into a police state. The disc debuted at #2 on The Billboard 200 while the first single, "Survivalism", shot to #1 on The Hot Modern Rock list; it was followed into the same chart by the second single, "Capital G", which peaked at #6.
On October 8, the band had severed all ties with its longtime label, Interscope Records, a month later Nine Inch Nails dropped the remix album "Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D"; the set features a diversity of remixers, from New Order's Stephen Morris to Hip-Hop poet Saul Williams and an unknown fan who submitted a remix via the Internet. This was the final album released under Interscope and it reached #77 on The Billboard 200 chart.

To celebrate his freedom, in March 2008, Reznor released the NIN's collection of 36 untitled instrumental tracks "Ghosts I-IV"; it was conceived as an experiment, following the conclusion of "Year Zero", Trent Reznor enlisted Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder with help from guitarist Adrian Belew, keyboardist Alessandro Cortini and The Dresden Dolls' drummer Brian Viglione to create spontaneous, impulsive soundtracks to daydreams with no agenda or release date, only a self-imposed 10-week time limit. The end result was a wildly varied body of work released in its entirety with no label-imposed limitations–musical, physical or otherwise. "Ghosts I-IV" arrived in five differently priced formats, from free download to a $300 ultra-deluxe limited edition, peaking at #14 in U.S. and at #3 in Canada.
Two months later Nine Inch Nails churned out a full-fledged vocal album "The Slip" which debuted at #13 on The Billboard 200 and its first single, "Discipline", " quickly ascended into the top 10 of The Hot Modern Rock chart.

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Pretty Hate Machine

(1989)

1. Head Like A Hole
2. Terrible Lie
3. Down In It
4. Sanctified
5. Something I Can Never Have
6. Kinda I Want To
7. Sin
8. That's What I Get
9. The Only Time
10. Ringfinger

 

Broken
[EP]

(1992)

1. Pinion
2. Wish
3. Last
4. Help Me I Am In Hell
5. Happiness In Slavery
6. Gave Up
7.
8.
.
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98. Physical
99. Suck

 

The Downward Spiral

(1994)

1. Mr. Self Destruct
2. Piggy
3. Heresy
4. March Of The Pigs
5. Closer
6. Ruiner
7. The Becoming
8. I Do Not Want This
9. Big Man With A Gun
10. A Warm Place
11. Eraser
12. Reptile
13. The Downward Spiral
14. Hurt

 

Further Down The Spiral

(1995)

1. Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
2. The Art Of Self Destruction, Part One
3. The Art Of Self Destruction, Part Two
4. The Downward Spiral (The Bottom)
5. Hurt (Quiet)
6. Eraser (Denial, Realization)
7. At The Heart Of It All
8. Eraser (Polite)
9. Self Destruction, Final
10. The Beauty Of Being Numb
11. Erased, Over, Out

 

Lost Highway
[soundtrack]

(1997)

INCLUDES:

- The Perfect Drug

 

The Fragile

(1999)

DISC #1:
1. Somewhat Damaged
2. The Day The World Went Away
3. The Frail
4. The Wretched
5. We're In This Together
6. The Fragile
7. Just Like You Imagined
8. Even Deeper
9. Pilgrimage
10. No, You Don't
11. La Mer
12. The Great Below

DISC #2:
1. The Way Out Is Through
2. Into The Void
3. Where Is Everybody?
4. The Mark Has Been Made
5. Please
6. Starfuckers, Inc.
7. Complication
8. I'm Looking Forward To Joining You, Finally
9. The Big Come Down
10. Underneath It All
11. Ripe (With Decay)

 

Things Falling Apart

(2000)

1. Slipping Away [Trent Reznor - Alan Moulder mix]
2. The Great Collapse [Trent Reznor - Alan Moulder mix]
3. The Wretched [Keith Hillebrandt remix]
4. Starfuckers, Inc. [Adrian Sherwood remix]
5. The Frail [Benelli remix]
6. Starfuckers, Inc. [Dave Ogilvie remix]
7. Where Is Everybody? [Danny Lohner - Telefor Tel Aviv remix]
8. Metal [Trent Reznor - Alan Moulder mix]
9. 10 Miles High [Keith Hillebrandt remix]
10. Starfuckers, Inc. [Charlie Clouser remix]

 

Tomb Raider
[soundtrack]

(2001)

INCLUDES:

- Deep

 

And All That Could Have Been
[live]

(2002)

1. Terrible Lie
2. Sin
3. March Of The Pigs
4. Piggy
5. The Frail
6. The Wretched
7. Gave Up
8. The Great Below
9. The Mark Has Been Made
10. Wish
11. Suck
12. Closer
13. Head Like A Hole
14. The Day The World Went Away
15. Starfuckers, Inc.
16. Hurt

 

With Teeth

(2005)

1. All The Love In The World
2. You Know What You Are?
3. The Collector
4. The Hand That Feeds
5. Love Is Not Enough
6. Every Day Is Exactly The Same
7. With Teeth
8. Only
9. Getting Smaller
10. Sunspots
11. The Line Begins To Blur
12. Beside You In Time
13. Right Where It Belongs

 

Year Zero

(2007)

1. Hyperpower!
2. The Beginning Of The End
3. Survivalism
4. The Good Soldier
5. Vessel
6. Me, I'm Not
7. Capital G
8. My Violent Heart
9. The Warning
10. God Given
11. Meet Your Master
12. The Greater Good
13. The Great Destroyer
14. Another Version Of The Truth
15. In This Twilight
16. Zero Sum

 

Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D

(2007)

1. Gunshots By Computer [Saul Williams remix]
2. The Great Destroyer [Modwheelmood remix]
3. My Violent Heart [Pirate Robot Midget remix]
4. The Beginning Of The End [Ladytron remix]
5. Survivalism [Saul Williams remix]
6. Capital G [Epworth Phones remix]
7. Vessel [Bill Laswell remix]
8. The Warning [Tefan Goodchild feat. Doudou N'diaye Rose remix]
9. Meet Your Master [The Faint remix]
10. God Given [Stephen Morris & Gillian Gilbert remix]
11. Me, I'm Not [Olof Dreijer remix]
12. Another Version Of The Truth [Kronos & Enrique Gonzalez Müller remix]
13. In This Twilight [Fennesz remix]
14. Zero Sum [Stephen Morris & Gillian Gilbert remix]

 

The Slip

(2008)

1. 999,999
2. 1,000,000
3. Letting You
4. Discipline
5. Echoplex
6. Head Down
7. Lights In The Sky
8. Corona Radiata
9. The Four Of Us Are Dying
10. Demon Seed

 

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