With the advent of the World Wide Web and other multimedia technologies, bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins ( with the album Machina / The Machines of God ), Coheed And Cambria ( with the Amory Wars as a backing story for every one of their albums ), and Nine Inch Nails ( with the album Year Zero ) exploited emergent cultural phenomena such as the alternate reality game to provide additional web-based content beyond that on the album itself.

In a move that provoked mixed reaction from both fans and critics, Bowie chose Nine Inch Nails as his tour partner for the Outside Tour.

While they did not release any albums during this period, Devo recorded a number of songs for various films and compilations since their reunion, including a cover of the Nine Inch Nails hit, " Head Like a Hole " for the film Supercop.

* 1967 – Chris Vrenna, American musician, producer and sound engineer ( Nine Inch Nails and Tweaker )

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.

* 1988 – Ilan Rubin, American singer and musician ( Angels & Airwaves, Nine Inch Nails, Lostprophets, Denver Harbor, and Fenix TX )

The Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral has several nihilistic themes and concepts throughout the overall storyline, with the narrator rejecting the world and the concept of God and attempting to forge his own versions ( with lines such as " God is dead / And no one cares / If there is a Hell / I'll see you there ").

* The Null Corporation, the current imprint for Nine Inch Nails

In 2007, Gilbert and Morris remixed two tracks for the Nine Inch Nails remixes album Year Zero Remixed.

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

Quake Mobile does not feature the Nine Inch Nails soundtrack due to space constraints.

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.

They include Last House on Dead End Street ( 1977 ), Paul Schrader's film Hardcore ( 1979 ), Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline ( 1979 ), the Ruggero Deodato film Cannibal Holocaust ( 1980 ), David Cronenberg's Videodrome ( 1983 ), the Nine Inch Nails film The Broken Movie ( 1993 ), the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ( 1986 ), the Alejandro Amenábar film Tesis ( 1996 ), the film Strange Days ( 1995 ), the Anthony Waller film Mute Witness ( 1994 ), the Johnny Depp film The Brave ( 1997 ), the Joel Schumacher film 8mm ( 1999 ), the John Ottman film, Urban Legends: Final Cut ( 2000 ), and Fred Vogel's film August Underground ( 2001 ) and its sequels.

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.

* The opening sounds of " Mr. Self Destruct " on the Nine Inch Nails 1994 album The Downward Spiral is a sample from THX 1138 in which a man is being beaten by a prison guard.

In 2000, Bill Viola collaborated with the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, and its lead singer Trent Reznor to create a video suite for the band's tour.

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 Slip ( album ) ( 2008 ), a. k. a. Halo 27, the seventh studio album by Nine Inch Nails

The band has stated that their primary influences include Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Sepultura, Faith No More, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Helmet, Rage Against the Machine, Slayer, Pink Floyd, Primus, Tool, Ministry, Mr. Bungle, Biohazard, Nine Inch Nails, Pantera, Beastie Boys, Black Sabbath, and Jane's Addiction.

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.

Numan has become acknowledged and respected by his peers, with such musicians as Dave Grohl ( of Foo Fighters and Nirvana ), Trent Reznor ( of Nine Inch Nails ), and Marilyn Manson proclaiming his work an influence and recording cover versions of old Numan hits.

Nine Inch Nails covered the song " Metal " on The Fragile remix album Things Falling Apart as did Afrika Bambaataa ( with Numan himself ) on the album Dark Matter Moving at the Speed of Light.

In July 2009, Gary Numan appeared as a special guest at the " Wave Goodbye " Nine Inch Nails concert at The O2 arena ( London ) in London.

* Trent Reznor, frontman of Nine Inch Nails

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

In Sept 2010 Belladonna are mentioned alongside Nine Inch Nails, Moby and Marilyn Manson in Mötley Crüe's frontman Vince Neil's autobiography " Tattoos and Tequila " as one of the most important acts that have been influenced by Mötley Crüe in recent years.

Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor hails from Mercer, Pennsylvania ; while former drummer / programmer Chris Vrenna ( also known for his work in other projects ) is from Erie.

Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has criticized Universal Music Group for overcharging for his album Year Zero in Australia.

" Skinny Puppy frontman Nivek Ogre dismissed Nine Inch Nails as " cock rock ", although admitting an appreciation for Ministry's Psalm 69.

He is the frontman for the band Filter, a founding member of the supergroup Army of Anyone, and has served as a touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails.

A Taxi Driver-influenced music video was produced for the " I'm Afraid of Americans ( V1 )" remix, starring David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor.

During the U. S. tour, the band performed a few covers with Bauhaus singer Peter Murphy and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor.

The band started as a side-project between Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and live-band members Danny Lohner and Charlie Clouser.

Renamed Psyclon Nine they played a small festival headlined by See Colin Slash, whose frontman, Eric Gottesman, was promptly recruited as the band's third member.

Trent Reznor, founder of popular industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails

Around this time, photos of Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins, taken by Trent Reznor, appeared on Nine Inch Nails ' official web site, leading to speculation that Reznor could be helping Jane's Addiction record new material.

Mercer is the birthplace of the 19th century painter Samuel Waugh, actor and impresario J C Williamson born here in 1845 ( full name James Cassius Williamson ) as well as musician Trent Reznor, creator of the band Nine Inch Nails, and John Bingham, a drafter of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Nothing Records is most famous for its two original signings, Trent Reznor's own band Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

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.

Trent Reznor also acknowledged that Skinny Puppy's " Dig It " inspired the very first Nine Inch Nails track written that became the first hit song, " Down in It ".

The album is highly esteemed by the leader of Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor.

For years, Trent Reznor had tried to contact Lynch to see if he would be interested in directing a video for his band, Nine Inch Nails, but had no success.

Jourgensen and Barker also formed Lard with Dead Kennedys lead singer Jello Biafra, Acid Horse with Cabaret Voltaire, 1000 Homo DJs ( which featured Nine Inch Nails ' Trent Reznor doing vocals on a cover of Black Sabbath's Supernaut ), PTP with Chris Connelly and Pailhead with Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi.

In early 2007, they also opened for the European shows of Nine Inch Nails, at the invitation of Trent Reznor.

In early 2007, they opened for Nine Inch Nails on their European tour, at the invitation of Trent Reznor.

During the original broadcast of the show, a commercial faded in the Nine Inch Nails NIN logo on a black screen while playing a combination of music that started as a solo piano piece and morphed into an electronic / industrial beat ( which would later found out to be the songs " La Mer " and " Into the Void ," which share many melodic components and can be considered variations on a theme ) and ended with Trent Reznor screaming " Tried to save myself, but myself kept slipping away " and the word " ninetynine " in the trademark NIN reversed-N font.

Early in Doom 3s development, Trent Reznor of the band Nine Inch Nails, a fan of the Doom games, was set to compose the music and sound effects to Doom 3.

In 2005, Trent Reznor from the band Nine Inch Nails released the source multitrack GarageBand files for the song " The Hand That Feeds " to allow the public to experiment with his music, and permitted prospective GarageBand users to remix the song.

Broken ( informally known as The Broken Movie ) is a 1993 horror musical short film / long form music video filmed and directed by Peter Christopherson, based on a scenario by Trent Reznor, the founder of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails.