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18 unusual facts about Nine Inch Nails


Caught a Lite Sneeze

It references Nine Inch Nails's album Pretty Hate Machine in the following lyric: "Caught a lite sneeze / Dreamed a little dream / Made my own pretty hate machine."

Chipperfield's Circus

Chipperfield is now living in Berlin and is a successful DJ playing clubs across Europe and has worked with artists as diverse as Peaches, Robots In Disguise, IAMX, Angie Reed, Stereo Total, Planning To Rock, Bruce LaBruce, Heidi Mortenson, MEN, Kids On TV, Milenasong, The Fall, Damon Albarn, Stephen Malkmus and producers Alan Moulder (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins), Flood (PJ Harvey, U2) and Bruce Lampcov (David Bowie, Suede).

Effects of Hurricane Wilma in Florida

Furthermore, a concert by the industrial rock band, Nine Inch Nails, expected to have taken place Monday, October 24, was postponed and later canceled.

Finck

Robin Finck (born 1971), American rock guitarist (worked with Guns N' Roses and Nine Inch Nails)

Hurricane Wilma

A concert by the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, expected to have taken place Monday, October 24, was postponed and later cancelled.

IOS app approvals

In May 2009, Trent Reznor of the rock band Nine Inch Nails announced, via his Twitter account, that Apple had rejected an update to the Nine Inch Nails application due to "objectionable content".

Nothing Records

Nothing Records is most famous for its two original signings, Trent Reznor's own band Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

Option 30

The band managed to record one demo (see below) before Reznor left for The Innocent then onto Exotic Birds and finally, forming his own band, Nine Inch Nails.

Riseley, Bedfordshire

The story also goes that six inch nails were placed into the door to prevent it opening in the night but in the morning the door was somehow opened and the nails were still in place.

Sad Kermit

The video first appeared on YouTube in March 2007, showing a store-bought Kermit puppet performing a version of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt" in a style similar to Johnny Cash's version.

In addition to the video, audio parodies of "Creep" by Radiohead, "Twilight" and "Needle in the Hay" by Elliott Smith, "The Rainbow Connection" (referred to as "The Rainbow Disconnection"), "Something I Can Never Have" by Nine Inch Nails and "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen as covered by Jeff Buckley are also available, together with the audio only version of "Hurt".

Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

Sick also features Flanagan's home movies, performance videos, and video diaries, as well as an excerpt of Flanagan's performance in the music video for "Happiness in Slavery" by Nine Inch Nails.

Street of Crocodiles

The "unofficial" DVD version of the Nine Inch Nails video Closure contains a clip in which Mark Romanek, the director of the video for Closer, explains that the video was heavily influenced by this animation.

Subterraneans

This version was performed alongside the co-headliners, Nine Inch Nails.

Tetsuo: The Bullet Man

The closing credits of the film feature an original track by industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails entitled Theme for Tetsuo: The Bullet Man.

UltraStar

UltraStar comes preloaded with a short sample from Nine Inch Nails hit Discipline from The Slip album.

Vacancy 2: The First Cut

64 minutes of music was written, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jerome Dillon (Nearly, Nine Inch Nails) with engineer Ryan Kull, in his home studio for the soundtrack.

When the Whip Comes Down

When the Whip Comes Down is also the name of a 16-track Nine Inch Nails bootleg album taken from their performance at the Woodstock '94 music festival.


26 Mixes for Cash

The other two were previously available only on Further Down the Spiral, the remix album by US industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails: "The Beauty of Being Numb Section B" and an edited version of "At the Heart of It All".

3kStatic

3kStatic has also recently completed remixes for Army of the Universe and Ku-Ling Bros, a project of Cabaret Voltaire founding member Stephen Mallinder, and is currently also remixing tracks from former Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson drummer Chris Vrenna.

Anthems for the Damned

The album features collaborators such as guitarist/songwriter John 5, Limp Bizkit/Black Light Burns guitarist Wes Borland, and Nine Inch Nails live drummer Josh Freese.

Beijing Pop Festival

Among the notable artists featured in the 2007 festival were Nine Inch Nails, Marky Ramone, New York Dolls, Public Enemy, Cui Jian, Brain Failure, Ra:IN and Wan Xiaoli.

Blindoldfreak

Blindoldfreak (Officially: blindoldfreak) is the Electronic-Alternative solo project of Alessandro Cortini (part of the Nine Inch Nails lineup from 2005 to 2008 and a member of Modwheelmood).

Dero Goi

Dero noted several bands and artists that he listens to in an interview with the website Deutschmusikland, including Frank Sinatra, Tool, Elvis Presley, Korn, and Nine Inch Nails.

Doudou N'Diaye Rose

He is also featured in the remix of "The Warning" by Nine Inch Nails, which was on the album "Year Zero Remixed".

Drugs and devices in the Year Zero alternate reality game

This is a comprehensive list of drugs, viruses, and body augmentations from the Year Zero alternate reality game by Nine Inch Nails and 42 Entertainment.

Exotic Birds

Shortly after that, Freer departed the band for the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and was replaced by Reznor's roommate, Chris Vrenna who would also later join Reznor in Nine Inch Nails.

Gerry Owens

Having worked with such names as Danny Saber (David Bowie, U2, Black Grape), Dave 'Rave' Ogilvie (Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, and Skinny Puppy), Adrian Sherwood (Ministry, Sinéad O'Connor) and Scott Humphries (Rob Zombie), Owens developed his creative and technical abilities extensively.

Gillian Gilbert

In 2007, Gilbert and Morris remixed two tracks for the Nine Inch Nails remixes album Year Zero Remixed.

Ivyrise

Since then, Ivyrise has worked with alternative rock producer Alan Moulder, famed for his work with The Killers, Nine Inch Nails and Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins, A lead singer Jason Perry, as well as French producers Yves Jaget and Mickael Laguierri.

Jamsil Arena

It has also been used to host various entertainment events, to include World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) events and concerts, by Iron Maiden, Alicia Keys, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Incubus, and Japanese band L'Arc-en-Ciel, among others.

Kingdom of Snakes

In spring 2004, the band went into Henson Studios to record a five-song EP with producer Bill Kennedy (Nine Inch Nails, Nothingface).

L'Aura

The producer was Enrique Gonzalez Muller, who had worked - as an assistant engineer - with Nine Inch Nails, Kronos Quartet, Jason Newsted, Dave Matthews Band, and Joe Satriani.

Mechanical Angel

According to the band website, the artists that were most influential to Mechanical Angel's music include primarily Nine Inch Nails, Akira Yamaoka, Depeche Mode, Graeme Revell and Massive Attack.

Mike Not

Mike Not (a.k.a. Mika Paju) is a creator of techno music from Tampere, Finland, though he has also produced industrial music (influenced by Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson et al.

Neuroticfish

Klein cited his musical inspirations as such bands as Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, and Depeche Mode, and began experimenting with music on his own in the early 90s.

Photek

Parkes also worked with Nine Inch Nails on the album With Teeth by providing additional programming on "All The Love In The World" and remixing the single "The Hand That Feeds."

Push Eject

In the early 2000s a version recorded from radio was available on many mp3 file sharing systems such as Napster identified as "Digital" by Nine Inch Nails from the forthcoming album The Fragile.

The Color of Silence

The Color of Silence is Tiffany's "alternative" album, even down to its cover art reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral.

The Heathens

Building momentum on the success and release of their first music video for the song "Stickin' Around," the video was accepted at the Los Angeles Film Fest in May 2006, where it played alongside the likes of other such notable artists as Beck, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes, Nine Inch Nails, Death Cab for Cutie, The Go! Team, The Shins, and Bright Eyes.

Veronica De La Cruz

Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor joined the cause and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Mr. De La Cruz as well as bringing much needed attention to the fight for proper health insurance.

Westlake Recording Studios

A number of well-known artists have recorded at the studio, including: Michael Jackson, Haley Reinhart, Slayer, Men at Work, Frank Ocean, Josh Groban, Quincy Jones, Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthews, Kelly Clarkson, Madonna, Shakira, Nas, Keyshia Cole, Rihanna, Aaliyah, Missy Elliott, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Nine Inch Nails and Justin Bieber.

Yamaha AN1x

The AN1x has been used by several artists, including Jean Michel Jarre, Psyclon Nine, History Of Guns, Velvet Acid Christ, Nine Inch Nails, Nitin Sawhney, Phish, Igor Khoroshev of YES, Spacehotel, Daniel Ruppar of Down In The Lab, and Jacob Thiele of The Faint.

Zoe Wiseman

In the summer of 2007 Zoe Wiseman married her longtime boyfriend Charlie Clouser, one time band member of Nine Inch Nails who wrote the score for the Saw (film series) franchise and others such as Death Sentence (2007 film) starring Kevin Bacon.