Across Nine Inch Nails’ three-and-a-half-decade career, there have been 11 albums, 20 singles, a truckload of EPs and remix albums, a revolving door of band members, at least three prolonged absences, at least three triumphant comebacks, and some of the finest and fiercest alternative-rock music ever made. For most of their lifespan, Trent Reznor has been the group’s sole official member but since 2016 he has been joined by Atticus Ross, with whom he has also made many excellent film scores. When NiN go big, anthemic and for your throat, they are unstoppable– think The Hand That Feeds from 2005’s With Teeth, We’re In This Together from 1999’s The Fragile, Terrible Lie from their debut Pretty Hate Machine, Closer from The Downward Spiral, or The Beginning Of The End from Year Zero. But it’s in the darker corners of their catalogue where they make some of their most interesting and intriguing music. Tread carefully: here’s ten of the best NiN deep cuts.
