Audio was not neglected either, having recruited Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor to facilitate unique sound-effects and ambient music for the game.

( A small homage was paid to Nine Inch Nails in the form of the band's logo appearing on an ammunition box.

Music and sound design was by Trent Reznor, founder of Nine Inch Nails.

They adopted him after he was discarded by his trainer for coming last in a race in the first episode of the series. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has adopted multiple retired racers.

The move was critically well-received, as Numan's harder and darker sound emerged just as Numan-influenced bands like Nine Inch Nails were enjoying their first rush of fame.

The influence was two-way ; Numan claimed that Nine Inch Nails ' song " Closer " is his favourite hit single of all time, and influenced his music.

Krusty was created by cartoonist Matt Groening and partially inspired by Rusty Nails, a television clown from Groening's hometown of Portland, Oregon.

The character was partially inspired by TV clown " Rusty Nails " whom both The Simpsons creator Matt Groening and director Brad Bird watched as children while growing up in Portland, Oregon.

Director Mark Romanek's music video for the Nine Inch Nails song " The Perfect Drug " was designed specifically to look like a Gorey book, with familiar Gorey elements including oversized urns, topiary plants, and glum, pale characters in full Edwardian costume.

" The Four of Us Are Dying " was the title of an instrumental on the 2008 album The Slip by industrial rock artist Nine Inch Nails.

" It was also announced that the band would be the opening act on the upcoming tour with Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction.

The festival, created by Perry Farrell and Marc Geiger, was to become a farewell tour for Jane's Addiction, but at the same time it was a music festival with bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Butthole Surfers, Fishbone, The Rollins Band, The Violent Femmes, Body Count, and Ice-T. During this time Jane's Addiction began to get more exposure than they had ever before.

In August 2008 The Vandals played nine dates of the 2008 Warped Tour with Sum 41 drummer Steve Jocz filling in for Josh Freese, who was touring with Nine Inch Nails.

In September 2004, coinciding with Trent Reznor leaving New Orleans for the west coast, the Nine Inch Nails website announced " nothing studios: 1994-2004 ", suggesting that Nothing Studios was closed.

After Vrenna returned to Nine Inch Nails, the band hired Dave Suycott who was a high school friend of Walters.

* In the interview after their performance, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor claimed he thought his band's performance was " terrible ".

Much like fellow alternative rock / industrial band Nine Inch Nails, Crosby was the only member but found a touring band who knew the songs well enough to play with him live.

It was credited as " Closer ( Precursor ) ( Remix )" by Nine Inch Nails on the Criterion laserdisc, but the new DVD simply credits the song as " Closer " by Nine Inch Nails.

In 2003, Gurewitz was recruited by 12 Rounds member and Nine Inch Nails collaborator Atticus Ross and his younger brother Leopold to play guitar and bass in an electro-hardcore project called Error.

The album featured a heavier sound and it was recorded in Paris, with the band handling production duties with Alessandro Cortini ( Modwheelmood, Nine Inch Nails, SONOIO ) and Vicarious Bliss ( Justice, DJ Mehdi ).< ref > The band stated that " velocifero " literally means " bringer of speed " and is also the name of a classic retro styled scooter.

Peaches and Herms was the opening act for Nine Inch Nails and Bauhaus during the second half of their 2006 summer U. S. tour.

The inaugural 1991 lineup was made up of artists from various genres, drawing in headliners from post-punk such as Siouxsie and the Banshees to rap such as Ice-T as well as industrial music such as Nine Inch Nails.

Work was continued on the album through the first half of 1999, and Nine Inch Nails performed the title track " The Fragile " off the double-CD at 1999 MTV Video Music Awards almost one year to the day of the " ninetynine " commercial.

Trip hop has influenced artists outside the genre, including Gorillaz, Emancipator, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Travis, How to Destroy Angels, Beth Orton, The Flaming Lips, Bitter: Sweet, Beck, Deftones as well as Icelandic singer Björk, who utilized the genre throughout her 1995 album Post.

) Also notable are Dread Zeppelin, who take Led Zeppelin songs and cover them in a reggae fashion with the added twist of an Elvis Presley impersonation on the lead vocal ; Nine Inch Elvis, who take Elvis Presley songs and rework them in an industrial fashion similar to Nine Inch Nails ; and Beatallica, who " mix up " songs from The Beatles and Metallica into Metallica-sounding songs with humorous lyrics referring to both bands ' works.

Their influence extends from independent acts like Tin Omen, to industrial metal stars Nine Inch Nails, who opened for Skinny Puppy for a short time on their 1988 North American tour.

His gang consists of Sandy the Safecracker, Mooch ( the underworld syndicate's top gunman ), Spinny Wheels ( who drives the gang's getaway car ), Dinah Myte ( the underworld syndicate's greatest bomb tosser ), the new members, Nails the Carpenter, Needles the Tailor, Smitty the Blacksmith, the Witch Doctor and other unnamed members.

* Allie Langford / Nails ( Sibhan Fallen )-A teenage girl who experienced a delayed reaction to the Big Bang.

To her dismay, Nails ( as Allie took to calling herself ) learned that the clinic was in fact a hoax to hire meta-human mercenaries for personal gain orchestrated by Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, who played on Allie's insecurities and her desire to be returned to normal to persuade her into helping them rob a ship full of gold, in exchange for a cure.

* " Hard as Nails "-Static travels to Gotham City to rescue Nails, a school girl friend of his who has fallen in with Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, who are promising to cure her of her Bang Baby affliction.

Bassist Jon Lyons ( original name Jonathan Lyons Terlep ) who replaced original bassist Terry Nails ( Steve Jones, Ozzy Osbourne ) was later replaced by Greg Sutton, Pete Costello, and Jimmy James.

He recorded his demos in Los Angeles with Chris Vrenna, who had also worked with Nine Inch Nails.

Nails receives a call from an informant named Sparks, who tells him that Jack and Holli have had sex and are leaving for the real world.

* Charlie Adler as Nails, an anthropomorphic spider who serves as Frank's partner

Former presenters of Radio Ireland / Today FM include Philip Boucher-Hayes, Mark Byrne, Mark Cagney, Enda Caldwell, Breffni Clack, Alison Curtis ( The Last Splash and The Alison Curtis Show featuring Mister Ed Smith ), Tom Dunne ( Pet Sounds ), Eamon Dunphy ( original presenter of The Last Word ), Bob Gallico, Tommy Greene, Anne-Marie Hourihan ( originally Eamon Dunphy's co-host ), Bill Hughes, Robbie Irwin ( weekend sports programs presenter ), Mark Kavanagh ( dance show ), Ann Marie Kelly, John Kelly, Stephen Keogh, Tracey Lee, Nails Mahoney ( briefly ), Marty Miller ( now rockin ' out on Radio Nova 100FM ) the late Dermot Morgan, Paddy Murray and Liam Mackey ( Murray and Mackey ), Ian Noctor ( newsreader who also for a period presented Dad Rock ) Ed Myers, Paul Power, Ita Ryan ( The Celtic Reel ), John Ryan ( original presenter of The Sunday Supplement ), Donal Scannell, Jon Troy ( Between The Sheets-love songs ), and Karl Tsigdinos ( The River of Soul ).

Some scholars, such as Debra Nails, identify Lycon as the father of Autolycus, who appears in Xenophon's Symposium 2. 4ff.

Nails also identifies Socrates ' prosecutor with the Lycon who is the butt of jokes in Aristophanes and became a successful democratic politician after the fall of the Four Hundred ; she suggests that he may have joined in the prosecution because he associated Socrates with the Thirty Tyrants, who had executed his son, Autolycus.

He is one of only a few artists who has played in two different bands listed on VH1's " 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock "; Nine Inch Nails ( ranked # 43 ) and Guns N ' Roses ( ranked # 9 ).

On the 23rd of February 2009 session drummer Josh Freese, who has been a bandmate of Finck's in both Guns N ' Roses and Nine Inch Nails, announced that as part of the pricing strategy for his new solo album Since 1972 a one-off package costing $ 75, 000 would include " a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN " followed by a visit to Robin's place afterwards where " his wife will make you raw lasagna ".

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.

He has worked extensively as a session and touring musician, most famously with Talking Heads, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, and Nine Inch Nails.

In 1994, he worked again with Nine Inch Nails, this time on The Downward Spiral.

* Jello Biafra worked as a roadie for The Ravers ( later known as The Nails ) before forming the Dead Kennedys with guitarist East Bay Ray

In the past, Reiflin has worked with many notable groups in the industrial rock, experimental metal and related genres, including Ministry, the Revolting Cocks, Lard, KMFDM, Pigface, Swans, Chris Connelly, Nine Inch Nails, R. E. M., and many others.

Before forming A Perfect Circle, Howerdel worked as a guitar tech for Faith No More, Fishbone, David Bowie, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Guns N ' Roses, and Tool, among other bands.

During the next three years ( 1995 – 1998 ), Carson was doing work for Pepsi Cola, Ray Ban ( orbs project ), Nike, Microsoft, Budweiser, Giorgio Armani, NBC, American Airlines and Levi Strauss Jeans, and later worked for a variety of new clients, including AT & T, British Airways, Kodak, Lycra, Packard Bell, Sony, Suzuki, Toyota, Warner Bros., CNN, Cuervo Gold, Johnson AIDS Foundation, MTV Global, Princo, Lotus Software, Fox TV, Nissan, quiksilver, Intel, Mercedes-Benz, MGM Studios and Nine Inch Nails.

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

He worked with Trent Reznor on numerous occasions, both with Nine Inch Nails and on the now defunct Tapeworm project.

Lohner worked with Richard Patrick of Filter, Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit, Black Light Burns, and Josh Freese of A Perfect Circle and Nine Inch Nails, in a project called The Damning Well.

He worked with Trent Reznor on the soundtrack of Natural Born Killers, helping record and produce a new version of " Something I Can Never Have ," the original version of which appeared on Nine Inch Nails ' Pretty Hate Machine album.

He also has worked with Ursula Rucker and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.

In the fall, he also worked with Nine Inch Nails in preparation for their summer tour.

As an engineer, or remix engineer, he has worked with Skinny Puppy, Mirror, Bryan Adams and Nine Inch Nails.