Halos numbers
Halo numbers are a system which orders official Nine Inch Nails releases. They correspond to the sequence in which the releases were made, and are named by the word halo which precedes the number on the release. For example, the fifth NIN release, Broken, is adorned with the phrase Halo Five. Halo numbers are sometimes modified for alternate versions of a release. Promotional-only releases do not have their own halo numbers, although the promotional singles for "Piggy" and "Hurt" were labeled as "Halo Ten," a title later officially used for Further Down the Spiral.

Purest Feeling: No Halo

Purest Feeling is a bootleg of the original demo version of Nine Inch Nails' debut album, Pretty Hate Machine, that was recorded at the Right Track Studio in November 1988 by Trent Reznor, whilst he was still working as a cleaner there. It was released as a CD in 1994 by Hawk Records.


Pretty Hate Machine: Halo_02 (Major Release)

NIN's first album Pretty Hate Machine debuted in 1989. It marked Reznor's first collaboration with Adrian Sherwood (who produced the lead single "Down in It" in London, England without having met Reznor face-to-face) and Mark "Flood" Ellis. Flood's production would appear on each major Nine Inch Nails release until 1994, and Sherwood has done remixes for the band as recently as 2000. Reznor and his co-producers expanded upon the Purest Feeling demos, and added future singles "Head Like a Hole" and "Sin". Rolling Stone's Michael Azerrad described the album as "industrial-strength noise over a pop framework" and "harrowing but catchy music"; Reznor proclaimed this combination "a sincere statement" of "what was in [his] head at the time". After spending 113 weeks on the Billboard 200, Pretty Hate Machine became one of the first independently released records to attain platinum certification. MTV aired videos for "Down in It" and "Head Like a Hole", but an explicit video for "Sin" was only released on the 1997 home video Closure.

Down In It single: Halo_01

"Down in It" is the first official Nine Inch Nails release and is a single from the album Pretty Hate Machine. Initially released only on vinyl, a CD version was later created after the success of the album. The first track on this single, "Down in It (skin)," is the mix that is found on Pretty Hate Machine. The cover art is very similar to Joy Division's first album, Unknown Pleasures. Joy Division has always been cited as an influence to Trent and he covered their song, "Dead Souls" on the soundtrack to The Crow.

Head Like a Hole: Halo_03

A music video was made for the "Clay" remix of this song. It was directed by Eric Zimmerman, released in March 1990 and later in 1997 on the Closure VHS. The video became popular on MTV and helped fuel NIN's early success. A slightly different edit of the video was also released for Flood's remix of the song. The video features band members Trent Reznor, Richard Patrick and Chris Vrenna along with guest drummer Martin Atkins performing in a cage.

Sin: Halo_04

"Sin" is the fourth official Nine Inch Nails release and the final single for the album Pretty Hate Machine. It contains three remixes of "Sin" from Pretty Hate Machine and Nine Inch Nails' first cover song. Even though the front has a stylized graphic that simply says "Sin" and it is generally referred to as "Sin" (including on the official NIN website), the spine of the US version refers to the album as "Sin Long, Dub & Short".


Broken: Halo_05 (Major Release)

Broken (also known as Halo 5) is an EP by Nine Inch Nails released in 1992. Broken is the fifth official Nine Inch Nails release. Although it is an EP, it is usually considered to be the band's second major release after Pretty Hate Machine since it consists entirely of new material. It was followed later in 1992 by Fixed, a companion EP of remixes of the songs on Broken.

The controversial Broken movie was made for the first 6 tracks (minus "Last"). It features the "Happiness in Slavery" music video, as well as the videos for "Pinion", "Wish", "Help Me I Am In Hell". There is also an alternate and more gruesome version of "Gave Up" at the very end, depicting a man being flogged, blowtorched, castrated with a razor and cut up with a chainsaw. The camera work in this video is similar to that of a snuff film, and it is widely regarded as drastically more violent than even the "Happiness in Slavery" music video. (Can be found in Media section)

Fixed: Halo_06

Fixed (also known as Halo 6) is a remix EP by Nine Inch Nails released in 1992. Fixed is the sixth official Nine Inch Nails release and is the companion remix disc to Broken.

March of the Pigs: Halo_07

"March of the Pigs" has one of the most unusual metres of any song to enjoy popular radio play, alternating three bars of 7/8 time with one bar of 4/4 time (in effect, a 29/8 time signature). The song has a BPM rate of 269.

A music video was made for this song, directed by Peter Christopherson and released in March 1994. The video features the band performing the song live in front of a white wall backdrop. This video was the last video to be played on MTV2's Increase the Beat, on Memorial Day weekend 2002. At 269 BPM, it had the fastest tempo of the 400+ videos that were played that weekend.

The Downward Spiral: Halo_08 (Major Release)

(also known as Halo 8) is an LP by Nine Inch Nails (NIN), released in 1994. It is the eighth official Nine Inch Nails halo release and the band's third major release.

The album's success propelled NIN into the public consciousness, especially after the release of its popular second single, "Closer", which was accompanied by a controversial video directed by Mark Romanek. Some critics have stated that this album demonstrates a maturation of Trent Reznor's pop music sensibility, and credit his ability to blend it with taboo themes (as seen in the catchy "Closer"). The album served as basis for a remix album entitled Further Down the Spiral, released in 1995. It was ranked 25 in Spin's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005". It was ranked #488 in the book 'The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time' by Martin Popoff. In 2001 Q magazine named The Downward Spiral as one of the 50 Heaviest Albums Of All Time.[1] In 2003, the album was ranked number 200 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Closer to God: Halo_09

"Closer to God" (also known as Halo 9) is a single by Nine Inch Nails released in 1994 for the song "Closer" from the album The Downward Spiral.

The Song:"Closer" is arguably Nine Inch Nails' most well-known song. The chorus features the line "I wanna fuck you like an animal," with the profanity censored for radio airplay despite its prominent placement in the song.

The song exemplifies Trent Reznor's affinity for dissonance, with a four-note synthesizer riff featuring an augmented interval after the first chorus. It ends with a heavily chromatic piano motif, the same that recurs in the climax of the title track, suggesting that the lyrics should be interpreted beyond their literal meaning.

QUAKE Soundtrack: No Halo

This is based on the PC version of the game. The soundtrack was written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.

There are in fact no official names to these tracks. They are usually referred to either by the level they are initially played to, or by one of two fan created track listings. They can also be referred to by their track number, however, the first audio track being placed on the CD's second track (the first being reserved for the actual game data), this usually leads to confusion.

The sound effects and music for the game were composed by Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails (within the game, the ammo box for the nailgun has the Nine Inch Nails logo on it in reference to this).

Further Down The Spiral: Halo_10

Further Down the Spiral (US version also known as Halo 10 and UK version also known as Halo 10v2) is an EP by Nine Inch Nails released in 1995. Further Down the Spiral is the tenth official Nine Inch Nails release and is the companion remix disc to The Downward Spiral.

It has become one of the most popular remix discs ever released by Nine Inch Nails and was certified gold, June 26th, 1996, for sales in excess of 500,000 copies in the US alone. It showed a more varied and experimental point of view to the original and boasted many high profile contributors/remixers including Aphex Twin, J. G. Thirlwell, Dave Navarro, and Coil.

The Perfect Drug (Versions): Halo_11

"The Perfect Drug" is a 1997 song by Nine Inch Nails. It was written for the David Lynch film Lost Highway and originally appeared on the Lost Highway soundtrack. Remixes of the song were released in an EP, "The Perfect Drug" Versions (also known as Halo 11).

Though "The Perfect Drug" Versions acts as a single for the titular song, the original version of the song only appears on the European, Australian and Japanese releases of the single. "The Perfect Drug" has also been included on the later singles "We're in This Together" and "Into the Void", although the only audio release of it in North America has been on the Lost Highway soundtrack

Closure DVD/VHS: Halo_12

Closure (also known as Halo 12) is a double VHS set by Nine Inch Nails released in 1997. Closure is the twelfth official Nine Inch Nails release. It consists of one tape of live concert and behind-the-scenes footage from the "Self Destruct" tour and one tape of music videos.

In August 2004, Trent Reznor announced a DVD version of Closure, long requested and anticipated by fans, which was to be released in late 2004. It contains over 90 minutes of additional footage compared to the prior VHS release. A teaser trailer shown on the NIN website included new footage from the 1989 tour, Lollapalooza, Woodstock '94, clips from the making of the "Closer" and "The Perfect Drug" videos, and the unreleased, original versions of the "March of the Pigs" and "Hurt" videos. The deluxe two-disc DVD set, though finished and ready for authoring and release, has been indefinitely postponed by Interscope Records.

Helping the thread.

Halo Numbers cont.

The Day The World Went Away: Halo_13

The Day the World Went Away" (also known as Halo 13) is a single by Nine Inch Nails for the song of the same name released in 1999. It is the thirteenth official Nine Inch Nails release and was a teaser single for the album The Fragile.

"The Day the World Went Away" consists of a droning background noise overlapped with layers of distorted guitars, a middle section with lyrics sung over the droning and a mandolin at the end, and then a return to the harsh guitars with a chanting chorus. The song is distinctive in the band's history due to its lack of any drums or percussion.

The Fragile: Halo_14 (Major Release)

The Fragile (also known as Halo Fourteen) is a double album by Nine Inch Nails released in 1999. The Fragile is the fourteenth official Nine Inch Nails release and the band's fourth major release. It was preceded by The Downward Spiral and is followed by With Teeth. It is the first album to feature the NIN logo on the cover.

Reznor described The Fragile in a 1999 interview:
“ "There's a general theme to the album of systems failing and things sort of falling apart. In keeping with the idea of making everything sound a little broken, I chose stringed instruments because they're imperfect by nature. Although it may not sound like it, most of the album is actually guitar - and that includes the orchestral sounds and weird melodic lines. When it came to instruments that I didn't really know how to play - like the ukulele or the slide guitar - we were able to get some really interesting sounds by making the studio the main instrument." ”

Narratively speaking, the album is an unofficial continuation of The Downward Spiral. Here, Reznor compares the lyrical content of the two albums:
“ “I wanted this album to sound like there was something inherently flawed in the situation, like someone struggling to put the pieces together. Downward Spiral was about peeling off layers and arriving at a naked, ugly end. This album starts at the end, then attempts to create order from chaos, but never reaches the goal. It’s probably a bleaker album because it arrives back where it starts—[with] the same emotion.” The album begins “Somewhat Damaged” and ends “Ripe [With Decay].

We're In This Together: Halo_15

"We're in This Together" (also known as Halo 15) is a 3-disc single by Nine Inch Nails for the song of the same name released in 1999. It is the fifteenth official Nine Inch Nails release and is a single for the album The Fragile.

The lyrics are inspired by David Bowie's song "Heroes", such as with the line "You're the queen and I'm the king", describing two people trying to make it against an ominous and seemingly unstoppable force. David Bowie is given a special thanks credit in the liner notes of The Fragile.

The song was never played live until the Year Zero tour. It debuted on February 11, 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal, and was played on three other concerts during the European Tour.

Things Falling Apart: Halo_16

Things Falling Apart (also known as Halo 16) is an album by Nine Inch Nails released in 2000. Things Falling Apart is the sixteenth official Nine Inch Nails release and is the companion remix disc to The Fragile. The unofficial U.S. promo CD for Into the Void is also labeled as Halo 16.

Live: And All That Could Have Been: Halo_17 (Major Release)

And All That Could Have Been (also known as Halo 17) is a live album set and double DVD released by Nine Inch Nails in 2002. And All That Could Have Been is the seventeenth official Nine Inch Nails release. The live album contains music recorded during the Fragility 2.0 US tour in 2000; a limited edition set added a second disc titled Still containing "deconstructed" versions of previous NIN songs and some new material. The double DVD set, sold separately, has video recordings of the songs performed on the CD, as well as additional song performances and footage from the Fragility 2.0 tour.

Still: No Halo Number

Still is the companion CD to And All That Could Have Been. Still consists of Private Live recordings of various songs and some previously unreleased songs. Still is available for purchase via NIN merchandise website or on iTunes.

The Hand That Feeds: Halo_18

"The Hand That Feeds" (also known as Halo 18) is a single by Nine Inch Nails for the song of the same name. "The Hand That Feeds"' is the eighteenth official Nine Inch Nails release and was a teaser single for the album With Teeth. It is the highest charting song by Nine Inch Nails on all charts except for U.S. Modern Rock Tracks, because the single that followed, "Only", stayed at number one for three more weeks.

With_Teeth: Halo_19 (Major Release)

With Teeth (also known as Halo 19, also printed as [With_Teeth]) is an album by Nine Inch Nails released on May 3, 2005. With Teeth is the nineteenth official Nine Inch Nails halo release and the band's fifth major album. It is preceded by the 1999 double album The Fragile and is followed by Year Zero. With Teeth was released as a standard CD, double vinyl, a DualDisc and a CD/DVD combo. In addition to 5.1 surround and stereo mixes of the songs, the DualDisc (and DVD) contain the video for "The Hand That Feeds", an interactive discography and a slide show of album artwork.

Only Single: Halo_20

Halo 20) is a single by Nine Inch Nails released on July 25, 2005. Only is the twentieth official Nine Inch Nails release and is the second single for the album With Teeth. It peaked at number one on the Billboard Modern Rock chart, where it stayed for seven weeks. It's the second successful release that Nine Inch Nails have had in the UK.

Every Day Is Exactly the Same: Halo_21

"Every Day Is Exactly the Same" (also known as Halo 21) is the third single by the American rock band Nine Inch Nails from the album With Teeth. It is the twenty-first official Nine Inch Nails release. The commercial single was released on April 4, 2006 as an EP. It was also billed as the companion remix disc to With Teeth.

Beside You In Time DVD: Halo_22

Beside You in Time (also known as Halo 22) is a live video release by Nine Inch Nails, issued in Europe on February 26, 2007, and the US on February 27, 2007. "Beside You in Time" is also the title of a track on the NIN album With Teeth. The video documents NIN's 2006 "Live: With Teeth" tour, and is available on DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray formats (with no official CD release). An edited version of the video aired on DirecTV's "The 101" in March 2007.

Beside You In Time: Halo_22b

Not released by NIN but I'm just adding it, I ripped it from the DVD and created a RAR of it. You can download it from the free media section.

Survivalism Single: Halo_23

"Survivalism" (also known as Halo 23) is the first single by Nine Inch Nails from their 2007 album Year Zero. The song is the third track on the album. The single was released digitally on the iTunes Store on March 13, 2007, and the CD and vinyl singles were released internationally on April 2, 2007.[1]

On February 14, 2007, a clip of the chorus to "Survivalism" was first heard by fans calling the telephone number 1-310-295-1040, which was found by joining discolored numerals on the back of a tour t-shirt.[2] FMQB reported that "Survivalism" would arrive at radio stations on February 27 with an add date of March 6,[3] but 102.1 The Edge in Toronto, Canada debuted the song on February 15, and on the next day, it was officially played on radio stations across the United States. It was later made available on Nine Inch Nails' MySpace page.

Year Zero: Halo_24 (Major Release)

Year Zero (also known as Halo 24) is the sixth Nine Inch Nails studio album, released on April 16, 2007 in Europe, April 17 in the United States, and April 25, 2007 in Japan.[1] Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor produced it with engineer Atticus Ross; longtime collaborator Alan Moulder mixed the album (both worked in a similar capacity on NIN's previous major studio album, With Teeth) and Brian Gardner mastered it.[3]

Year Zero is a concept album criticizing the United States government's policies as of 2007,[4] projecting a dystopian vision of its impact on the state of events in 2022. Reznor indicated that this required a completely different approach from his usual style of lyric writing. Reznor has also said that Year Zero is "part of a bigger picture of a number of things [he is] working on". This includes a remix album, an alternate reality game, and a television series that is currently being negotiated with television networks.

The Limitless Potential: Fan Remix Compilation, No Halo

After months of deliberation of nearly 200 fan submitted remixes, "The Limitless Potential" open source remix collection is finally available. This 21 track collection of the very best Nine Inch Nails remixes can be downloaded absolutely free from Painful Convictions. Thanks to Trent Reznor for providing the Multitrack files to the public to do with as they will, and the many talented artists who remixed the tracks. It's available in the free media section as a Torrent. I'll seed.

Several judges took countless hours to review each of the 200 mixes and came up with a list of 21 "best of the best" remixes to be featured on the site. Taking home the 1st place Hot Topic prize package is Dirty Scarab for his version of My Violent Heart (Prevention; Rejection). The 2nd place runner-up Faction package goes to the version of Vessel (Losing Control Remix) by Pushing Reality. Congratulations to both prize package winners for creating exceptional remixes and also to the 19 other winners that are featured here today for creating quality remixes.

Year Zero Remixed (Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D): Halo_25

Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D (pronounced as Year Zero Remixed; also known as Halo 25) is the title of a release by Nine Inch Nails. It was leaked to P2P and torrent sites on November 14, 2007, and released in the US as a digital download and a CD/DVD-ROM on November 20, 2007, in the UK on November 26, 2007, and as a 3-disc vinyl set. The album contains remixes from artists that Trent Reznor contacted and asked to do remixes, as well as a fan remix. "My Violent Heart: Pirate Robot Midget" is a fan remix that initially appeared at ninremixes.com, but Reznor was so impressed by it that he asked for permission to add it to Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D.

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

As of November 20, the album is not available on iTunes UK.

Capital G: No Halo Number

Nine Inch Nails, the second from their 2007 album Year Zero. It is the seventh track on the album. A promo CD was released on April 2, 2007, and What Records stated the single and was released on June 11 on vinyl. As of May 2007, Trent Reznor has no plans of releasing the single in CD format.

The song was first played on radio on April 4, 2007. As of April 27, 2007, "Capital G" is listed on the Mediabase Jump! and Taking Off charts, which record the track's increase in radio airplay over 7 days. "Capital G" officially became available for airplay on May 14-15, although it received the most adds in the alternative category during the week of April 27, according to Radio & Records.

Ghosts I-IV: Halo_26 (Major Release)

Ghosts I–IV (also known as Halo 26) is the seventh studio album by Nine Inch Nails and was released on March 2, 2008. The album contains 36 instrumental tracks and was recorded in ten weeks of autumn 2007. It is the first album from Nine Inch Nails following its announcement to sever its ties with its Interscope Records and release material independently. Initially intended to be a five-track EP, the album is presented in the form of four nine-track instrumental EPs. The tracks do not have names, and are only identified by their track listing, position, and album art. The team behind the project included Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Alan Moulder, with instrumental contributions from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew, and Brian Viglione.

The album was released under a Creative Commons license, and in a variety of different packages at different price points, including a US $300 "Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition". The album was initially released digitally on the Nine Inch Nails official website, without any prior advertisement or promotion. Via the official Nine Inch Nails YouTube profile, a user-generated "film festival" was announced, where fans were invited to visually interpret the album and post the results.

The Slip: Halo_27 (Major Release)

Before the release, a single, "Discipline" was released freely on the official Nine Inch Nails site, and another song, "Echoplex", was released for free download from iLike . The ID3 tags of these MP3 files indicated that fans should visit the Nine Inch Nails website on May 5, 2008, where a free direct download link to the album in MP3 format, as well as torrents for lossless audio formats were posted. A message posted on the Nine Inch Nails website read:

"thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one's on me"

The Slip was released online on May 5, 2008 on the official Nine Inch Nails website. Like the previous Nine Inch Nails studio album Ghosts I–IV, The Slip is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial share alike license, in effect allowing anyone to use or rework the material for any non-commercial purpose, as long as credit is provided and the resulting work is released under an identical license. The website further expands

"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."

Subsequently, social news aggregation websites, such as Digg featured news of the album's release as a front page story. As with Ghosts I–IV and Year Zero, multi-track audio source files of the album were also made available at remix.nin.com

Again, helping the thread.

Seeds 1-5
Collected: Seed_01

Collected is a promotional DVD that was freely distributed by Nine Inch Nails via nin.com in 2005. It contains 23-minute collection of video clips from various NIN music videos, live footage, interview clips, and the complete video for "The Hand That Feeds", in addition to an interactive "body of work" section that also appears on various releases from the same time period. The DVD is censored, except for the "body of work" section. The card sleeve and the disc itself both contain the sub-title SEED 1, which refers to NIN's promotional material, much like "halos" refer to NIN's commercial releases.

The Definitive NIN - The Singles: Seed_02

Back Cover

The Definitive NIN - The Singles is the first part of a three-disc collection of Nine Inch Nails' greatest hits. It was released via BitTorrent.

The artwork contained in the torrent features artwork from The Downward Spiral, made especially for the 2004 deluxe edition.

The collection contains this info:

A compilation album featuring 20 of NIN's singles spanning their entire 18 year history. A good way for new fans or those unfamiliar with NIN to get acquainted with some of the highlights from the band's large body of work. Two more releases in this series will feature other aspects of NIN, creating a three-piece "Best Of" collection.

This torrent includes high-res artwork and an html file with information about NIN and this release. All files are MP3 192kbps and include artwork and lyrics.

I'm hosting this as a Torrent on DEMON0ID since it's been leaked and is no longer available. PM me if you have an account and I'll send you the download.

The Definitive NIN - Deep Cuts: Seed_03


The Definitive NIN - Deep Cuts is the second part of a three-disc collection of Nine Inch Nails' greatest hits. It was released via BitTorrent.

The collection contains this info:

A compilation album featuring 19 standout deep album tracks spanning NIN's 18 year history. A good way for new fans or those unfamiliar with NIN to get acquainted with some of the highlights from the band's large body of work. This is the second release in a three-piece "Best Of" collection.

This torrent includes high-res artwork and an html file with information about NIN and this release. All files are MP3 192kbps and include artwork and lyrics.

I'm hosting this as a Torrent on DEMON0ID since it's been leaked and is no longer available. PM me if you have an account and I'll send you the download.

The Definitive NIN - Quiet Tracks: Seed_04

Back Cover

The Definitive NIN - Quiet Tracks, also known as The Definitive NIN - Quiet, is the third part of a three-disc collection of Nine Inch Nails' greatest hits. It was released via BitTorrent.

The collection contains this info:

A compilation album featuring 19 of NIN's quieter songs and instrumentals. A good way to get acquainted with a side of the band many people are unfamiliar with. This is the third release in a three-piece "Best Of" collection.

This torrent includes high-res artwork and an html file with information about NIN and this release. All files are MP3 192kbps and include artwork and lyrics.

I'm hosting this as a Torrent on DEMON0ID since it's been leaked and is no longer available. PM me if you have an account and I'll send you the download.

Lights In The Sky: Seed_05

Back Cover

Lights In The Sky is a free tour EP promoting Nine Inch Nails' 2008 American tour of the same name, featuring a track from each supporting artist, plus one track from The Slip. The album was released for free from lightsinthesky.nin.com on the 5th of June 2008 as a high quality mp3 download, encoded with LAME at V0 and fully tagged, accompanied with album art, web graphics, wallpapers and a printable tour poster. It is labeled Seed 5, continuing the sister system to the Halo numbers for promotional material.

Still available to download off of www.nin.com

Awesome fucking thread. I love Trent.

And you.

Free NIN Media :D

Ghosts I
First nine songs off of Ghosts I-IV. Just click on "Free Download" and enter your email, they'll send you a code and you can download it.

The Slip Halo_27 FULL
The Slip Full CD. Same prosess as Ghosts I.

Home - Exclusive song from the Vinyl and Live versions of With_Teeth
Thanks to Backfiggen for this. Home .mp3 You have to right click and Save As... It will work as a .mp3.

Various NIN Remixes
You can get March of the Pigs, Fixed, The Perfect Drug (Versions), Things Falling Apart, Further Down The Spiral, Closer to God, and Instrumental versions of The Downward Spiral (Partial) and Year Zero. Remix.nin.com You have to make an account though. Their under Trent's profile.

Rehersal '08
Thanks to Adam Savage for Mp3 versions of the videos found on the Digipack version of The Slip.

Right click and save as. It will work as a Mp3.

http://dump.no/files/18e534ee72c9/1,000,000_(Live).mp3
http://dump.no/files/18e534ee72c9/Echoplex_(live).mp3
http://dump.no/files/18e534ee72c9/Le...You_(live).mp3

The Limitless Potential
21 Free Year Zero Remixes chosen by Trent himself in a contest. The Limitless Potential Torrent Direct Download

Ghosts I-IV PDF. 40 Images, Plus Backgrounds, and Banners\
Requires a Unzipping program such as WinRar

Beside You In Time Audio
First of all, it's not Warez It is unreleased and the real part of owning the DVD is the visuals. So this is just if you really liked the DVD. Beside You In Time: Audio (DVD RIP)

"broken" Movie
A gory film for the release of "broken". Never was released for purchase but it was distributed through Trent Reznor to various friends. Isn't Warez since it's hosted by the creator. PS. This is a Image file and will require a program to mount the image file to a blank DVD to view it. I recommend Nero8. You will have to download this at a bay for people commonly afflicted with scurvy

Year Zero Wallpapers
Wallpapers for Year Zero.
2400x1800
2560x1600

Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D Wallpapers
2400x1800
2560x1600

The Downward Spiral Wallpapers
Sorry only 2560x1600...
2560x1600

With_Teeth Wallpapers
2560x1600

Beside You In Time Wallpapers
2560x1600

Lights In The Sky Over North America Wallpapers/Banners
A bunch of stuff for the sampler of LITSONA album. Also, the teaser thing isn't worth a download, only Echoplex is on there and it isn't live. The rest of the songs are crappy bands in my opinion. Standard Size & Widescreen.

Year Zero iPhone Wallpapers
Yes I even have these...
I don't know a iPhone's Res.

My favorite band ever.

They're good, and I listen to them. I happen to think they're pretty overrated though.

hiss

also nin is awesome.

Agreed, half of Facepunch has a collective hard-on over Trent most the time.

The Kovenant are a similar (I think better) alternative to Nine Inch Nials; really awesome Norweigan industrial metal band.

All of the content in this post was by Teh_Shane!!!



Track List:
• Hyperpower!
• The Good Soldier
• Vessel
• Me I'm Not
• Capitol G
• My Violent Heart
• The Warning
• God Given
• Meet Your Master
• The Greater Good
• The Great Destroyer
• Another Version Of The Truth
• In This Twighlight
• Zero Sum


Year Zero is NIN's 5th album. Prior to it's release, NIN decided to mix it up a bit by launching a viral marketing campaign.
I'm going to be talking about the Alternate Reality/Viral Marketing as I find this to be the most interesting way that NIN have campaigned so far.
The campaign started on February 12th 2007 with 3 events.
These events were;
• Another Version Of The Truth
• I Am Trying To Believe
(And a combination of these events and more created)
• The Numbers



At a NIN concert in Portugal, a USB drive was found in the womens toilets.
On this USB drive was a single .mp3 titled "My Violent Heart".
In the ID3 tags of this file featured the following website;
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com

It can also be noted that on the "Another Version Of The Truth" page of the Year Zero liner notes, the figures "HTTP://" can be made out through the

over-typed effect of the text in the booklet, hinting at the website.

I was originally going to post pictures of the website etc.
Instead though, I'll let y'all browse through it yourselves!

As you can see, the dates of the posts etc. are all "0000", aka, Year Zero.
The thing that strikes as odd, is that the 0's for the month of each date are wider than the rest, as well as a date mismatch between the text and the

background image, as if to hint that it's been altered.

What the forums seem to be about;
Year Zero Calendar

In Year Zero, the calendar has been altered from the traditional BCE-AD structure. The years following Year Zero are denotated as "0000". When referring to

the past, the years are subtracted from the date of the calendrical reconstruction. Example: Thirteen years prior to 0000 is listed as "-13 BA," or "Born

Again". It is now proven that Year Zero itself is actually the year 2022, as indicated by the image located here Thus the year 2008 is actually -14 BA.

Revisionism
http://www.anotherversionofthetruth.com/revisionism.htm

One of the more interesting pages featured here, working out the puzzle allows you to read about the bleak future that America has caused for the rest of the

world.


0 Pages
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/

Another little game, this one forces you to work out how to get to the next page.
Every few pages there are instructions on how to make a bomb out of a computer.
I'll get you started so that you's understand how this one works.
See how 'work' is blue, and so is the clue down the bottom?
What is the opposite of work?
play.

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After the NIN tour in Portugal, fans noticed a particular Tour T-Shirt, unlike the rest of the shirts, this one had highlighted letters.



Upon piecing together the letters, you're presented with the message;
"I Am Trying To Believe"

Now, if you go to;
http://iamtryingtobelieve.com

You're presented with a website talking about 'Parepin'.
This is when it becomes clear in regards to the relation of the 2 events.
Upon reading this site, you learn that 'Parepin' is a drug that America released into it's drinking water supplies.
It's said that it was to strengthen immune systems as we've entered an era of Biological Warfare. The true intentions however, remain to be seen. What it

has done however, has affected peoples state of mind - causing people to see "The Presence", states of paranoia etc.

Below is a message from someone who stopped drinking the water;

[
The last page of this website shows an email address. Emailing this address presents you with an automatic reply of;

   1. ------------------------AUTO_RESPONSE--------------_--
   2.  
   3. Thank you for your interest. It is now clear to me that Parepin is a completely safe and effective agent developed to protect us from bio-terrorism. The
   4.  
   5. Administration is acting purely in the best interests of its citizens; to suggest otherwise was irresponsible and I deeply regret it.
   6.  
   7. I'm drinking the water. So should you.

From there, it's become apparent that whoever authored the website has now been compromised.

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The Presence is a figure resembling a hand coming down from the sky.
It's what is featured on the Album Cover of Year Zero, but it also shown throughout the alternate reality.
In the world of Year Zero, The Presence is a ghostly arm reaching down from the sky. It was initially thought to be drug-related hallucination, but this was

debunked by people who claim to have seen or been affected by The Presence, but who are not under the effects of Opal or Parepin. It has been suggested,

however, that use of Opal or Parepin may intensify or increase the frequency of these encounters. People who have been affected by The Presence have

described feelings of intense fear, insignificance, astonishment, and forgetfulness.

Gradiosity describes his interaction with The Presence:
[quote]A buddy and I were getting our asses kicked by a couple cops after they caught us tagging a wall. I remember hearing this crack like thunder right

overhead. Next thing I knew, we were all standing there, looking up like baby birds. One of the cops was crying. We were all shaking. It was like realizing

I’ve spent my whole life underwater and finally looking up and seeing *real* life on the other side of the surface. The cops just left us, just forgot about

us. But we didn’t notice because we’d forgotten about them.
The song "The Warning" seems to be speaking directly about "The Presence"
Some say it was a warning
Some say it's a sign
I was standing right there
When it came down from the sky
The way it spoke to us
You felt it from inside
Said it was up to us
Up to us to decide
"You've become a virus
Killing off his host
We been watching you with all of our eyes
And what you seem to value most
So much potential
Or so we used to say
Your greed, self-importance and your arrogance
You piss it all away
We heard her cry
We have come to intervene
You will change your ways and you will make amends
Or we will wipe this place clean"

Your time is ticking away

Another song that makes reference is "The Wretched", an older song that was on 'The Fragile' album.
The lyrics;
The clouds will part and the sky cracks open
And god himself will reach his fucking arm through
Just to push you down
Just to hold you down

Are said to relate to The Presence
Also, if you play the song "My Violent Heart" through a spectrometer, the following is seen at the end of the song;



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From certain parts of the websites above, numbers are formed.
The numbers follow a format of "24.x.y".
They apparently represent evidence that is to be used against a person known only as [CLASSIFIED].

The first few numbers can be seen at places we've already visited.

24.10.8: http://anotherversionofthetruth.com
Now that you're here again, press CTRL + A.

24.13.1: Upon reading through 'Another Version Of The Truth', you will come across the faction A.I.R (Art Is Resistance).
When you go to http://artisresistance.com, clicking any link will bring up a warning message, in this warning message are the numbers 24.13.1.

24.14.1: On the T-Shirt featured above for "I Am Trying To Believe", there the numbers 24.14.1 can be seen at the very bottom.

24.14.2: One of the more subtle numbers to be found.
Remember the message from "I Am Trying To Believe"?

  1. ------------------------AUTO_RESPONSE--------------_--
   2.  
   3. Thank you for your interest. It is now clear to me that Parepin is a completely safe and effective agent developed to protect us from bio-terrorism. The
   4.  
   5. Administration is acting purely in the best interests of its citizens; to suggest otherwise was irresponsible and I deeply regret it.
   6.  
   7. I'm drinking the water. So should you.

Note the dashes/underscore in the AUTO RESPONSE section.
It goes as follows;
24 dashes, then the AUTO_RESPONSE, then 14 dashes, underscore, 2 dashes.
24.14.2.

There are many more numbers, some have been found via Morse Code in NIN songs, .mp3's that have been featured on the various sites etc.
No one is sure what they mean yet, but it will all become clear.

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Now, I could continue for hours on end about this saga, as I've covered 3-4 of what ended up being ~30 parts to this Alternate Reality.
I will say this though - there is a lot more to the links I've shown than what I've explained.
Explore.

Nice thread, I downloaded the Wallpapers, and the Audio BYIT,

Edit:

I love NIN.

Trent's work may be overrated in some cases, but I don't overrate... I actually love practically everything he fucking makes. Not because it's "cool", but because I actually like it. The only stuff I haven't found altogether amazing was the latest releases, but they have their tracks that are actually very good.

If anything I think he gets a lot of undeserved hate. Maybe.

Content in post provided by: ohgodshana2

RSS Feeds for the band
http://www.nin.com/feeds/

Lots of stuff here to check out and subscribe to.

Free MP3 Feeds

Use iTunes, Creative Zencast Organiser or any other RSS getter to subscribe to these and download free Mp3s straight from the Remix website.:

Rare And Unreleased tracks.

Random tracks here.
http://remix.nin.com/feed/playlist?id=1256

Fixed

The companion disc to Broken
http://remix.nin.com/feed/playlist?id=78

The Downward Spiral Instrumental (Almost)

Trent Reznor's unfinished attempt at making TDS instrumental.
http://remix.nin.com/feed/playlist?id=2361

March of the Pigs

Tracks from the March of the Pigs single.
http://remix.nin.com/feed/playlist?id=83

Year Zero Instrumental

Self explanatory.
http://remix.nin.com/feed/playlist?id=91

The Perfect Drug (Versions)

Tracks from the Perfect Drug single
http://remix.nin.com/feed/playlist?id=82

Things Falling Apart

Remixes from The Fragile
http://remix.nin.com/feed/playlist?id=81

Closer to God

Stuff from the Closer to God single, mostly remixes.
http://remix.nin.com/feed/playlist?id=80

Further Down the Spiral

Not sure which version, Halo 10 anyway, companion to TDS
http://remix.nin.com/feed/playlist?id=79

Other Rare Non-Halo Releases

Into the Void

"Into the Void" was released as a single only in Australia. This Australian release does not have a halo number, making it the only commercially-available Nine Inch Nails release with that distinction. However, a two-track promotional CD for "Into the Void", released only in the United States, was identified as Halo Sixteen. The version of "The Perfect Drug" included on this single is slightly longer than the one released on the Lost Highway soundtrack. It fades out at the end instead of ending abruptly.

Download here http://myzoostation.blogspot.com/200...into-void.html

Click "Descarga" under the track list to be taken to a picture identification thing. Type in the three or four letters to go to

Rapidshare

Code is myzoostation if it asks for a code

Starfuckers .inc

"Starfuckers, Inc." is the fourth single for the double album The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails. Although the song does not have an official halo, a promotional CD titled "Starsuckers, Inc."' was distributed with exclusive radio edits, and a video for "Starsuckers, Inc." was produced.

No download available that I can find.

Terrible Lie Live
:vomit:
Not too sure what this is, looks to be a concert bootleg.
Download here
http://myzoostation.blogspot.com/200...-live-lie.html , should be the same as the above Into the Void download.

We're In This Together

Promotional disc for the song "We're In This Together"
Listen to it here : http://www.9inchnails.com/discograph...s-together.php

Only

Promotional disc for the song "Only.", very rare.
Listen to it here : http://www.9inchnails.com/discography/promos/only.php

Happiness In Slavery

Contains the original version of "Happiness In Slavery". For promotional use only, very rare and usually only found in online auctions.
Listen to it here : http://www.9inchnails.com/discograph...in-slavery.php

The Hand That Feeds Disc One

Don't know much about this, assume it's a radio promo.
Listen to it here : http://www.9inchnails.com/discograph...that-feeds.php

Collected

Promotional DVD released in 2005, available online by signing up to the nin.com mailing list. The disc features snippets from all NIN videos. Very hard to get nowadays.

You can find a lot more rare stuff here, http://myzoostation.blogspot.com/sea...20Inch%20Nails and
http://www.9inchnails.com/discography/
although I haven't tried it myself yet as I am on holidays.
Please let me know if the links work.

Eh, they aren't bad at all. They're just not as instantly catching as other work. Give it some time and I'll love them too. Even the NIN songs I didn't instantly take a liking to ended up becoming favourites over time.

Yeah the way the new music works for me is. I listen to it once, then I find it okay, and when I listen to it again, I love it.

I've been looking for a BYIT audio for ages, thanks OP !

Good thread also !

Thanks.

Trent is a genius, listen to NIN pretty much everyday! :) Nice megathread!

Great thread mate. Probably my 2nd or 3rd favourite band now, I fucking love them. I saw them in 2007, one of the best gigs i've ever been to, fantastic stuff.

http://last.fm/user/chxrles

Pretty much sums up my love for NIN.

Epic fucking thread.

I've been a huge fan of NIN for a while now.


Ditching the record label was a damn smart idea.

Nine Inch Nails rocks.
My favourite song is ''Just like you imagined''.

The Only Time or Purest Feeling is my favourite.

I love "Right Where It Belongs" and "Reptile".

And man, I'm pretty sure I have bought nearly every major NIN release except for Fragile, which I'm slowly working my way through on iTunes.
But yeah, I gots PHM, Broken, Downward Spiral, the second half of And All That Could Have Been (no idea where the first went), With Teeth, Year Zero, Ghosts I-IV, and of course The Slip.

Needless to say, I have more NIN songs then any other band or group, 125 last time I checked. I LOVE NINE INCH NAILS RAWR

Next stop: Complete Fragile, find first half of AATCHB, and get the Beside You In Time DVD

You're missing the fact that NIN isn't industrial.

Edit:

@Take_Opal: You could add a little bit about the broken movie and closure being deliberately leaked to .

http://************.org/tor/3586323/...gh-Quality_DVD
http://************.org/tor/3582292/...layer_disc_ima
http://************.org/tor/3580314/...dual-layer_ISO)

Wordfilters should be replaced in order to access the links.

I did, I just couldn't post any links to it so I hinted "A bay for people commonly afflicted with scurvy".

NIN has primarily industrial influence in most of their music.

Edit:

I fucking love your name, by the way.

Thank you :D

Yeah they are. Nine Inch Nails is more industrial than they are rock or anything else. But instead of just-noise industrial like some of the earlier Skinny Puppy stuff, Trent has always has more structured melody in his music.

I, uh. Was going to elaborate further, but I forgot what I was thinking about.

Nine Inch Nails are probably my favorite band, but I lost interest in them since I got into hardcore metal/deathcore stuff.

Nice thread, I suck at music tasting but I like the sound of this.

I wish Trent would take up heroin again and produce another Downward Spiral/Fragile

How about not? I mean, really, I'm tired of people complaining about how Trent's new stuff "isn't like the old stuff!1" I mean, what do you expect? You expect him to recycle the same material over and over again just to fit your sense of nostalgia? Fuck that. I want new Nine Inch Nails not old. I want Trent to progress and create completely new music with completely different feels. If there wasn't any progression and it all sounded like The Downward Spiral or The Fragile, then I'd begin to get a little bored.

Hey its personal preference, I love the new stuff as much as the next guy but those two albums i'll probably die listening to.

That's a fucking horrible thing to say.

Oh I'm sorry, I go by what I hear and read on the interblag these days. -- last.fm/wikipedia/etc
There's a few slower emotive songs and weird ambient stuff, although predominantly I'd say it's Industrial.

Did you have another anal retentive thing to refer to them by?

Yeah, Trent says he's Industrial, so does Wiki.

While I don't agree with the heroin remark, a second Downward Spiral would make me cum buckets.

I honestly like The Fragile so much more then TDS, The Fragile is EPIC.

My order of Favorites is...

The Fragile
The Downward Spiral
Year Zero
Broken
The Slip
With_Teeth
Ghosts I-IV
Pretty Hate Machine

Edit:

Oh yeah do you like the Audio version of BYIT? Took me forever to rip it, no bugs?

If NIN is anything industrial it's industrial rock. And even then... what about Screaming Slave from Fixed? What about Into the Void from The Fragile? What about Survivalism from Year Zero? Only from With Teeth and so on. You wouldn't call them industrial. Reptile has a pretty industrial sound to it.
I'd call them alternative rock. Come on, Ministry may be industrial but this isn't.

Edit:

The inevitable favorites list:

The Downward Spiral
Broken
The Fragile
The Slip
Year Zero
Fixed
Ghosts I-IV
With Teeth
Pretty Hate Machine

Alternative Rock is a word used by media idiots for NIN.

And we're so underground and hardcore for saying it's industrial? (Which it isn't)

Edit:

You can't put NIN in a definitive genre. Period.

I like the songs, but I think Trent has a few screws loose if you know what I mean...

I didn't say that.

I believe a fair share of his work falls under industrial, but his musical style variates a lot.

Couldn't have anything to do with the hardcore drug usage and shit. But he's still awesome.

View YouTUBE video http://youtube.com/watch?v=_zEz3UOrdzA

Favorites List? Very well:

The Downward Spiral
With Teeth
The Fragile
Pretty Hate Machine
Broken
The Slip
Ghosts I-IV
Year Zero

Why is Pretty Hate Machine so low on everyone's favorites? :(

Here's mine... going on what I own.


The Downward Spiral
Pretty Hate Machine
Year Zero
The Fragile
Ghosts I-IV
The Slip
With Teeth

I am a die hard Reznor fan...but lately if you ever check their site/myspace they just put out ambient shorts with truthfully no quality to them, I mean it's great he's doing what he wants to do...but it shouldn't really be published I don't think if no one is going to listen to it.

Tiny bit of bad sound near the end of Hurt, but other than that, perfect rip, and many thanks once again.

The DVD rocks, best one I've bought in a while.

Perfect little dream....

Order of favourites

The Downward Spiral
Year Zero
Broken
The Fragile
With Teeth
Pretty Hate Machine
Ghosts I-IV
The Slip

That doesn't mean that any of these are bad.

But honestly, TDS...

FUCK I CAME.

But people do listen to them... It's not like everyone doesn't listen to the music you don't like.

Sweet thread. I love NIN.

DVD? Pff!

HD-DVD bitch! Sure it's dead but the quality is godly, especially on Surround Sound! :4chan:

The Blu Ray one is amazing-er.

I'd hardly call Alternative a genre; it's so vague.
There's no definitive sound to it. I could call Hüsker Dü an alternative band, and you can call NIN and alternative band, and some other folk would call Rocket From the Tombs an alternative band. There you have three different sounds, rock, protopunk and industrial; they're all alternative. Does that make sense? It's a retarded blanket term.

Yeah, you people are all so cool for putting a bunch of albums in order from favorite to least favorite. I wouldn't ever think of doing that. I think rating every album like that is degrading to the artist. They've put a lot of work into each and every album and I love every NIN album from Pretty Hate Machine to The Slip. I don't go out of my way to figure out which one is better to me, I just enjoy them all equally with the very different variety of music presented in each one.

You little rebel you...

It states on nin.com, that each version is the same!

Lies and Slander Mr Opal hur hur!

Not visual wise, content wise they're talking about.

Actually, the DVD version has an interactive discography that the fancy HD versions don't.

SO HA

DVD has surround sound as well.

5.1

Where the hell is my Discogrophy?! I can't find it! And anyway, it's kind of a useless feature since it got outdated three weeks later.

It's on the bonus features on the DVD.

It's pretty cool cos you can listen to bits of their songs.

It's nothing essential though.

Also, can you rip the Winter 06 tour from the special features please ?

Currently, NIN is my favorite band.
I love how they release multitracks for the internet to mess with. And their new albums are pretty cool. Year Zero was probably the one I was most excited for due to the fact that they set up an ARG along with it for everyone to follow, which was awesome.
Granted their new albums are nothing like their old material.. I'd have to say Pretty Hate Machine is my favorite. I still have an original CD of when it first came out.
I'm seeing them live September 3rd and I can't wait. Their shows are amazing.

As for the 'olol trent should go take drugs again' comment that I hear a lot. My response to this is "No."
Downward Spiral is good, but it's not their best. Nine Inch Nails evolves with the times and style. Their style back then didn't depend on him screwing himself up. Obviously it did have influence on it, but it wasn't the sole cause of it all.

The BYIT rip is quite good, but you could use VBR instead of CBR.

I just said I listened to NIN, have been a fan over the years...a collection of bells and a slight overdrive effect added doesn't constitute as work worth of praise, any average Joe can do that in two seconds in Reason.

I wasn't attacking it...I was simply saying...why publish multiple works that have no quality and effort put into them?

nin ftw.

Survivalism is the greatest fucking song, ever. I love it, especially the video.

One of my friends gave me a copy of Year Zero for my birthday. I've listened to it so many times I can't count. Ghosts owas the first one I bought. The Slip reminds me of Year Zero, and I'll have to look around and listen to the other CDs, I just recently really got into them.

Good thread, though.

I thought I did, maybe I didn't include it in the RAR. Yeah I'll try to do it again.

I love NIN.
I'm going to see them in August.
I can't wait.

September 5th at the Oracle it's going down!

:excited:

Wait... where do you live?

Berkeley, Near Oakland, CA.

1,000,000 is blowing my mind right now. I love this song. Definitely one of my new favorites since The Slip came out.

Oshi, I live in San Jose, CA.

Yeah, 1,000,000 is fucking awesome.

Fucking A.
Can't wait to see what he comes out with next.

Fuck yeah, got the entire discography today, listening to The Downward Spiral in a dark room with only the monitor light for company... All I need now is the Ravenholm level and I'll be about ready to piss myself.

How did you just get the enitre discography? And TDS isn't scary :(

You need to get The Downward Spiral.



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