Biography
Trent Reznor formed the band Nine Inch Nails in 1988. Since that, Reznor is the only official member of this industrial command in fact and is solely responsible for its musical development. Inspired by the example of Prince, he usually records albums himself, except for the drums, and hires musicians for tours and life performances. The Nine Inch Nails' shows are famous for the spectacular effects and crushing the instruments. Before Nine Inch Nails, Reznor played in the Exotic Birds, and his former colleague from that band, John Malm Jr., became Reznor’s prodigy manager. The first concert appearances by Nine Inch Nails took place the same year as it was formed as the act before Skinny Puppy collective. In 1989, the first disc by the band, Pretty Hate Machine, saw light. Three powerful industrial hits - Down At It, Head Like A Hole and Sin - immediately switched the attention of the public on the new group.
The video on these discs conforms to DVD standards but it has been upscaled from another resolution (possibly QVGA) to 480p. Fans speculate that Reznor may have been the source of this supposed leak along with the supposed Broken DVD leak, based on a post on his official blog: '12/21/06: Happy Holidays! This one is a guilt-free download. : Welcome to the Nine Inch Nails Live Archive: Welcome to the small corner of the internet that pertains to everything Nine Inch Nails' live! From here, you can browse and download almost 1,100 different audio recordings from 642 concerts, as well as over 310.
- The band's new offering, Ghosts V - VI, is 23 tracks in all, divided between two albums, and available now for free download. 'Anybody out there?' NIN mastermind Trent Reznor asked on Twitter. 'New Nine Inch Nails out now. Hours and hours of music. Some of it kind of happy, some not so much.'
- Download Closer To God. Buy mp3 Closer To God album of Nine Inch Nails.
- Listen free to Nine Inch Nails – Closure (Introduction, Terrible Lie and more). 35 tracks (139:21). Closure (also known as Halo 12) is a double VHS video set originally released on November 25, 1997. The first tape is a documentary of the Self-Destruct Tour with backstage footage and raw live performances, while the second tape compiled NIN's music videos from 1989 to 1997.
However, the things were not that easy. After the success of Nine Inch Nails as the supporting act for several alternative rockers during their US tours, the band was a total disappointment in Europe, where they performed before Guns N’Roses. In 1994, one of considerably best albums by Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral - saw light. Written under the impression of creativity by David Bowie and Pink Floyd, the disc spawned three piercing rock hits - March Of The Pigs, which became the regular number at the band's concerts, Closer and Hurt. The next double edition The Fragile was released only five years later and was presented by the aggressive composition Starfuckers, Inc. In 2005, With Teeth album emerged with the singles The Hand That Feeds, Only and Every Day Is Exactly The Same. Nine Inch Nails gave concerts to support the full-length with such stars as Queens Of The Stone Age, Autolux, Peaches and TV On The Radio.
The conceptual album Year Zero saw light in 2007. On this hard industrial long-play, Reznor criticized the acts of the American Government and pictured the world of the future as he saw it in result of today's world decisions, using all the possible dark colors. The apocryphal track The Beginning Of The End is a good demonstration of the mood of the album. The same year, the phenomenal remix collection under the title above remembering Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D. Reznor left the full freedom of creativity for the disc authors - as the result, Nine Inch Nails were presented on the disc in the new light. In 2008, the new child of dark Reznor's imagination, titled Ghosts I–IV, was released. The ambient composition Ghosts III was the lead single of the disc. The same year, Nine Inch Nails received the independent status as Reznor got tired of the conflicts with recording labels. Next album, The Slip, saw the light in summer 2008. The same year, the group presented their, probably, most cryptic and experimental album. This was a collection of ambient-based instrumental compositions, each having the word Ghost in its name and different from the others only by the number standing after it. That is the reason why the title of this work, Ghost I-IV, looks quite logical.
Studio Albums
Ghosts I-IV
Year Zero
Singles
EP
Lives
Remixes
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Soundtracks
The Slip (also known as Halo 27) is the eighth studio album from Nine Inch Nails. It was released as a free download on May 5, 2008, a CD/DVD package on July 22, 2008 and a vinyl on August 4th, 2008.
The album is available for download in a variety of formats, including MP3, lossless FLAC and high-quality WAV files. When playing the MP3 files in an MP3 player a different piece of artwork is displayed for each song, as was the case withGhosts I–IV.
While Trent Reznor is known for laboring over his music for years at a time, The Slip was written and recorded in just three weeks.[1] The album was originally intended to be an EP, but quickly grew to album length.[2]
- 1Track Listing
- 1.1CD/DVD
- 2Formats
- 2.2Physical Product
Track Listing
CD/DVD
CD
- '999,999' - 1:25
- '1,000,000' - 3:56
- 'Letting You' - 3:49
- 'Discipline' - 4:19
- 'Echoplex' - 4:45
- 'Head Down' - 4:55
- 'Lights In The Sky' - 3:29
- 'Corona Radiata' - 7:33
- 'The Four Of Us Are Dying' - 4:37
- 'Demon Seed' - 4:59
DVD
- '1,000,000' (Live Rehearsal) - 4:12
- 'Letting You' (Live Rehearsal) - 3:57
- 'Discipline' (Live Rehearsal) - 4:12
- 'Echoplex' (Live Rehearsal) - 4:51
- 'Head Down' (Live Rehearsal) - 4:04
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12' Vinyl
A1 '999,999' - 1:25
A2 '1,000,000' - 3:56
A3 'Letting You' - 3:49
A4 'Discipline' - 4:19
A5 'Echoplex' - 4:45
B1 'Head Down' - 4:55
B2 'Lights In The Sky' - 3:29
B3 'Corona Radiata' - 7:33
B4 'The Four Of Us Are Dying' - 4:37
B5 'Demon Seed' - 4:59
Formats
Downloads
- High-quality MP3s (87 mb), encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged.
- FLAC lossless (259 mb)
- FLAC high definition 24/96 (942 mb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio
- M4A Apple Lossless (263 mb)
- High definition WAVE 24/96 (1.2 gb), better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio
The FLAC, M4A and WAVE formats are distributed via torrents through tracker.nin.com. All formats include a PDF file with artwork and credits, all songs include individual track art and lyrics embedded. All files are 100% DRM-free.
Nine Inch Nails Closer Dvd Download
Physical Product
The Slip is available as a physical product in CD and vinyl formats. The 6 panel digipak is limited to 250,000 pieces worldwide, each individually numbered, and includes a DVD of NIN performing five live tracks from The Slip at rehearsals, a 24-page booklet, and an exclusive sticker pack. It was released on July 22, 2008 in the US and Canada, and on July 21, 2008 in the UK and Europe.
Originally, the physical product was intended to be released in the US, Canada, and Japan as a numbered CD/DVD package limited to 250,000 units, with unnumbered editions to be released in the UK, Europe, and Australia with the same content as the North American and Japanese editions. It is not known at this time why the decision was made for the numbers produced to be reduced to 250,000 overall.
The double gatefold vinyl release contains one 180-gram LP and a 24-page booklet. Unlike the CD release, the vinyl is not numbered. It was released in the US and Canada on august 5th, 2008, and in the UK and Europe on August 4th, 2008.
The physical product also comes with three 4' x 4' stickers, each representing one of 9 illustrations to album songs (printed in booklet or individually embedded in distributed media files), with the difference that none of the stickers have the red lines. The stickers appear in consistent order, which allowed community to dub them 1st, 2nd and 3rd sticker packs and create The Slip Owners Database [3].
Third Disc & 11th Track
There was some confusion about the physical release, mostly due to information on Amazon.com (US) and other online retailers. The product description indicated the release included three discs which were rumored to include an unreleased or “hidden disc” of unreleased studio tracks entitled “The Take Over”. Later on, the track listing on the site was updated to show 11 tracks. The 11th track was entitled “Slip”.
All of this was clarified as rumor and error when the official release information was posted on July 21, 2008 at theslip.nin.com/physical
Album Credits
- Written by Trent Reznor
- Performed by Trent Reznor, Josh Freese, Robin Finck and Alessandro Cortini
- Produced by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder
- Mixed by Alan Moulder
- Programmed by Atticus Ross
- Engineered by Michael Tuller, Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder
- Mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California
- Room tuning: Steve “Coco” Brandon
- Art direction: Rob Sheridan and Trent Reznor
- Cover styling: Amy Hall
- Hair: Cori Bardo
- Project coordination: Brett Bachemin
- Assistance: Alynn Dotson
- Management: Rebel Waltz
- Business management: William Harper and Michael Walsh for Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman
- Legal: Gary Stiffelman and David Byrnes
- World wide booking: Marc Geiger for William Morris Agency
- Press [us]: Steve Martin (Nasty Little Man)
- Press [uk]: Frances McCahon (RMP)
- The Null Corporation Europe: Didi Parlevliet
- Published by: Form And Texture (ASCAP)
- Label: The Null Corporation
© 2008 NIN
- Thank you: Bob Morelli, Alan Becker, Danny Buch and everyone at Red; Digidesign; Elena Dickstein and Preferred Travel; Jeffrey Ehrenberg and Vintage King; Jeffrey Horton and Native Instruments; Paul J. Cox Studio Systems; Phillip Scholes and SSL; Rockit Cargo; Roger Cordell and Big City Music; Ross Garfield and Drum Doctors; Shawn Cleary and Analogue Haven; Shivaun O’Brien and Sound City Studios; Sudjam; Topspin Media Inc.; West L.A. Music
- Thank you (continued): Bruno Bondanelli, Candy Soo, Chris Whitemyer, Christina Lum, Craig Johnston, David Phillips, Irina Volodarsky, Jeff Davis, Jeff Masud, Jessica Trento, John Coleman, Josh Smith, June Munsinger, Karen Ciccone, Kelly Jao, Marie Lewis, Rich Fownes, Ross Rosen, Shamal Ranasinghe, Sherri Durrell, Tamar Levine, Zia Modabber
This album is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license.
More information: www.creativecommons.org
Video Content:
- nine inch nails live: Alessandro Cortini, Robin Finck, Josh Freese, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Trent Reznor
- Produced by Michael Angelos
- Directed and edited by Rob Sheridan
- 'Letting You', 'Head Down', and 'Discipline' mixed by Blumpy
- '1,000,000' and 'Echoplex' mixed by Ken Andrews at Red Swan Studios
- Production Manager: Mark Demarais
- Director of Photography: Simon Thirlaway
- Camera Operators: Simon Thirlaway, Rob Sheridan, Hilton Goring, Dan Bombell, Ethan McDonald
- Mastered by Tom Baker at Precision Mastering, Hollywood, CA
- DVD media services by Broadness, NYC.
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Release
Prior to the album's release, a message was posted on nin.com, simply stating '2 weeks!'. The previous time the same message had been posted on the site had been to forbear the release of Ghosts I-IV. Two tracks, 'Discipline' and 'Echoplex', were also released through radio and the internet respectively, both containing the message 'go to www.nin.com May 5' in their ID3 tags.
On May 5th, nin.com was updated with the title Halo 27 and a link to theslip.nin.com with the message: [4]
(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me)
The album site requires a password to be submitted where the link to the download page can be sent to. The site itself states:
as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.
we encourage you to remix it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your podcast, give it to strangers, etc.
According to a Rolling Stone article, the album was finished May 4th and sent to Sudjam, the company that manages nin.com, at 9:30 p.m. for a midnight release.
In a nin.com update on June 26th, 2008, it was reported that since the album's release on May 5th, 2008, over 1,400,000 people had downloaded The Slip from theslip.nin.com. That number represents individual people, and excludes multiple downloads from the same order.
Artwork
Of the artwork, Rob Sheridan went on to state: 'For Nine Inch Nails' album, we created logos representing each song, and embedded them in the MP3s to give each song its own visual identity when played digitally. Each logo played upon the meaning or title of the song, sometimes overtly, sometimes very abstractly. A scribbled red line crossed into most of the images, struggling to find harmony with the shapes, but ultimately failing.' In a Patreon Q&A session[5], Sheridan was asked about the art for 'Demon Seed' and he explained that it was 'the end of the journey of the red line that moved through the artwork of that record, trying to make sense of the rigid forms, sometimes fighting them, before finally overtaking them. It was Trent's idea to have the line take over 'Demon Seed' so completely/aggressively. It tied in to the meaning behind the music, which isn't my place to discuss as TR tends to keep that stuff close to his chest.'
According to a Japanese interview with modwheelmood, the hand on the cover of The Slip is that of Alessandro Cortini, while the shoulder is Reznor's. The cover of the booklet is a new piece of artwork that depicts several light gray lines on a dark background (the same color as the one for 1,000,000). Five lines, two on the ends and three in the middle, all travel straight downward from the top edge to the bottom. Two more lines, in between the three middle and two outside, on each side, start straight downward, then slant inward, then travel straight downward parallel to the other lines before they would intersect the ones in the middle. These lines combined form a variation on the NIN logo (second 'N' being backwards).
Multitracks
The multitracks for the single 'Discipline' were made available on remix.nin.com at the same time it was released as a free download. Multitracks for the remaining songs on The Slip were made available on May 5, 2008 as a free download from remix.nin.com.
Touring
For more information, see Lights In The Sky Tour
The album (as well as Ghosts I-IV, which was released the same year) was supported by a tour that visited North and South America. This tour was notable for having the most ambitious production of any NIN tour up to that point, using groundbreaking lighting and video technology. The middle portion of the set, referred to as the 'Ghosts' portion, utilized some of that album's unorthodox (for NIN) instrumentation such as marimba, banjo and small percussion.
Live
All songs from The Slip have been played live except 'The Four Of Us Are Dying' and 'Demon Seed', though the latter has been rehearsed.
Relation to Year Zero
Like Ghosts I–IV, the release of The Slip came as a surprise to most fans, who were expecting the next release to be a continuation of Year Zero. Reznor has indicated in interviews since the release that a Year Zero sequel was still in the works.
Aside from Art Is Resistance logo in the artwork for 'Letting You', there are no clear, direct references to characters or events in Year Zero. Some tracks share similar themes, such as abuse of power ('Letting You'), an avatar of destruction ('Demon Seed'), submission to authority ('Head Down'), imprisonment ('Echoplex') and the appearance of entities in the sky ('Lights In The Sky'). Other songs, however, like '1,000,000' and 'Discipline', seem completely unrelated and feature more 'traditional' NIN themes of personal turmoil. It remains unclear which portions, if any, of The Slip should be considered canon in the Year Zero storyline.
Miscellanea
The high quality wave download torrent includes a subdirectory named 'The Slip art', containing JPEG images. However, the file '02-1000000.jpg', has an incorrect file extension. This is actually an Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Macintosh version) file with a single layer and no significant meta information attached. The final page of the PDF gives credit to '(c) 2008 niin.' This appears to be a typographical error. There also seems to be a mistake in the wave files; The track 'The Four Of Us Are Dying' is mistitled 'Demon Seed' and vice versa.
Audiophile message board Hydrogen Audio noticed mastering errors on the 24/96 high-def WAVs, which was followed by posters 'ningineer' and 'treznor' who wrote that they had recontacted the mastering studio and released the WAVs in addition to high-def FLACs.[6] On May 15th the nin.com Halo 27 blog post was edited with the message: 'Some friends at hydrogenaudio pointed out an error with the high resolution WAVE files we didn't catch. The corrected files are now posted along with high resolution FLAC files as well. If you're interested in these, simply re-download the new files. Sorry for the hassle!'
A Google Earth KML file representing downloads of The Slip according to geographic region was made available from nin.com on June 26th, displaying over 1,400,000 downloads (not including multiple downloads) that had come from theslip.nin.com. On July 16, 2008, Reznor posted two images of the physical product on nin.com. The post was entitled 'The Beginning and the End'. The first image shows him holding two copies of the album, hiding his face behind them. The second image shows the backs of both CDs. The one in back reads 1/250,000 and the one in front reads 250,000/250,000.
External Links
- theslip.nin.com archived at Portrait of Decay
- Google Earth KML file to show worldwide download stats
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