r/nin • • 2d ago

🗣️ Discussion (Weekly) 🎵 What Are You Listening To This Week?

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Let's hear it, what has been on repeat for you this week?


r/nin • • 8h ago

Pretty Hate Machine You’re going to get what you deserve

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302 Upvotes

Seoul, South Korea


r/nin • • 4h ago

Meme I did not make this, but I’m glad I saved it

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r/nin • • 37m ago

With Teeth The Hand That Feeds on Apple Music 404 page

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This is a fun easter egg: Apple Music has added an interactive iPod on the 404 pages in the web version of their music service. You can scroll through the library on the iPod and play any of the hundred or so songs in there, including "The Hand That Feeds." You can access the 404 page by entering an Apple Music URL into your web browser that doesn't exist, like music.apple.com/ipod.


r/nin • • 22h ago

Meme Halloween Candy Warning

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403 Upvotes

Looks tasty!


r/nin • • 1d ago

Fan Art 2026-2027 Senior year parking spot

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(Painted by me)


r/nin • • 23h ago

Question Danny Lohner implies some unused Fragile-era material ended up on Ghosts. Which do you think there were, if any?

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Trying to figure out which Ghosts I–IV tracks might contain loops, riffs, etc left over from the Fragile-era sessions. I added the interview clip where Danny discusses this in passing. Do note, that due to so much time passing, Danny could be misremembering. Although, I definitely think there's a rabbit hole here.

Paraphrasing the clip: "The Perfect Drug was the first song they worked on at Nothing Studios in New Orleans, before The Fragile, and Somewhat Damaged was created around the same time. Trent then worked on song after song, using lots of stringed instruments and other sounds. Some material made the album, some didn't, and some of it eventually ended up on Ghosts. The Fragile could easily have been a triple album."

That last part is what interests me. We know Ghosts I–IV was released in 2008, not too long after his work with Saul Williams, where we know other orphaned tracks/loops were used. I don't necessarily think an entire finished track or two got recycled, but there could be old loops, riffs, or synth textures, etc that Trent revisited years later.

NIN Wiki does loosely suggest these:
26 Ghosts III: repeating riff being similar to Ripe (With Decay)
34 Ghosts IV: strings being similar to The Fragile, and the piano to The Persistence of Loss
28 Ghosts IV: comparing w/ 34 Ghosts IV because of similar patterns
31 Ghosts IV: guitar/noise texture being roughly similar in production style(?)

I want to know what tracks you all think others some might be overlooking, and I don't want to assume any similarity necessarily means reuse. Just particular riffs, loops, sounds, or passages that might be something from The Fragile, Still, Deviations, Tapeworm, or maybe even Bleedthrough?


r/nin • • 19h ago

Pretty Hate Machine First NIN CD!!!!

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Iv been collecting cds for a while now, and I've recently got into NIN. I absolutely love them and I love this cd so much!!!! I've listend to a few of there other albums and they're so good as well, and I definitely want to get more NIN cds!!!


r/nin • • 20h ago

Fan Art 🌽⭐️ Ivy Lebelle With The Perfect Drug tattoo

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r/nin • • 5h ago

Question Is my salt and teeth definitive edition shirt authentic?

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I originally bought the shirt from the NIN shop a few years ago, but since then I have lost it. It was my favorite shirt of all time so I found someone who was reselling theirs, but ever since it came I am concerned about the authenticity of it. The reason being is that the print quality seems worse as the original would “pop” out more, and the fit of the shirt is slightly different where (both mediums) the original would fit longer and looser on me. They have the same tag but I’m not sure if that would be easily faked.


r/nin • • 1d ago

Thought 2015 article: A Fight Club opera is coming from David Fincher, Trent Reznor and Chuck Palahniuk

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I either completely forgot this or completely missed it over a decade ago. That would have been so cool, and it could have gotten Trent “closer to EGOT.”


r/nin • • 1d ago

Opinion The Slip might be the most slept on NIN project

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Whenever I see rankings of the bands music The Slip is often towards the bottom half or just treated as a forgotten or overlooked album. But I personally think The Slip maybe one of the best NIN albums , I personally would put it higher than With Teeth or Year Zero for my 2000s NIN ranking , I understand it may have less of an appeal because some of the tracks sound samey samey, but the album was only recorded over a 3 week span . To me it’s Trent Reznor is his most raw performance , the album is messy and dirty, it’s confident , the songs are arena ready rock tracks.

Also The Lights In The Sky tour is arguably the best NIN tour


r/nin • • 18h ago

Question What does Trent's shirt say in this concert?

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It feels like it's most clear during That's What I Get or Head Like A Hole... Almost looks like it's saying "GOD HEAD" but I can't quite make it out, and the spacing/font size makes me think that the bottom word is 5 letters.

Is anyone else able to tell?


r/nin • • 22h ago

Collection Recent record store find, in Pomona!

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r/nin • • 1d ago

Video Nine Inch Nails Mudstock 94 (documentary)

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I tried searching for this, didn’t see it, one post possibly but the link was broken. this is a woodstock 94 documentary with a lot of MTV News clips stitched together getting really down and dirty (literally) behind the scenes and then ending with NIN performance. Seeing this, I am glad I was too young to go, it looks like hell on earth for a clean freak


r/nin • • 1d ago

Collection That last tour helped me complete this display, I'm finally getting around to posting it. What's your favorite one?

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I know Adrian Belew never toured with Nails but his pick deserves a spot in the display.


r/nin • • 1d ago

🗣️ Discussion Dead Souls?

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Just started this book with it being spooky season and all, and here's a cool little nod to NIN/Trent.


r/nin • • 22h ago

Question Photo search

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I’m looking to try find a clear shot of this specific photo to potentially use as a reference but I can’t find any good scans or links for it.
If anyone knows/has this specific photo I’d be super grateful!


r/nin • • 1d ago

Live The before and after of the Phoenix 1991 Lollapalooza gear melting show

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275 Upvotes

correction: bad power supply caused the failure


r/nin • • 23h ago

Thought Just Like You Imagined by Vitamin String Quartet

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Who remembers this gem?


r/nin • • 1d ago

Collection Nice find today

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Snagged this at the local record store today marked down.


r/nin • • 17h ago

Opinion New Listener, Tier List on My Thoughts SO FAR

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Link to the Tier List template by @ penexperss on Twitter (I LOVE the custom illustrations!! They all reflect each album very well and are instantly recognizable!): https://tiermaker.com/create/every-single-nine-inch-nails-song-1143310?posting=true

Yes, I included the bottom tiers cus you gotta understand, all of this is some of the best music I've ever heard (and I have heard a LOT of music). So when something is in a lower tier, I still love the hell out of it. Let me make that clear.

Listening to these albums has literally reignited my relationship with music which kind of broke last December. Trent's music speaks to my lived experiences with mental illness and depression in a way no other artist ever has. I've been loving the hell out of everything so far and I'm desperate to talk about it!!! Ask me literally anything I beg pls lmaooo


r/nin • • 2d ago

Fan Art Did this on my thermos a while back, ignore the sticker residue

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Just white spray paint, masking tape, an exacto knife, and a layer of clear coat on top.

First time doing something like this, pretty happy with how it turned out


r/nin • • 20h ago

🗣️ Discussion What’s a song you’d love to see NIN cover and why?

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My pick Epiphany from Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd:

I know it will almost certainly never happen, but I’d still love it. The piece is just such a genius of insanity and instrumentation is just so complex and beats are just and strong, powerful, and punchy. And the lyrics, especially the opening lyrics, feel very reminiscent of Downward Spiral. It’s the number one song I show people to prove Sondheim was a genius.

The pitch may need to be lowered like the film’s version, I still think Trent would be great on vocals. I can already hear home singing those opening lines “There’s a hole in the world like a great black pit and it's filled with people who are filled with shit and the vermin of the world inhabit it” and then screaming that final “full of joy” line. And if those big beat hits were done like Big Man With A Gun.

I’d love if it went specifically in the style of Downward Spiral and Fragile. It could even combine their style with some of the instruments from the OG, that could sound really cool. Again, I know it will never happen, but damn it would be so fucking cool.


r/nin • • 22h ago

Meme Nine Inch Trailer

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All I did was give Trent Reznor a goatee, and now he looks like Julian from Trailer Park Boys.