Favorite Tracks:The Becoming, Big Man With A Gun

Awesome album. You wanna hear what hell on earth sounds like? Listen to this.

Favorites: Closer, Hurt

TrentR looks for the extremes on this album. As an artist he succeeds, but as a musician he wants to make his statement somewhat too clear and uncompromising. There are limits to the use of distortion. Because this album is very much appreciated by the fans, I think it's important to listen to the album a few more times and possibly change my scores for the individual tracks. The benefit of the doubt, because TrentR is an intelligent musician who can perfectly channel his despair and dark emotional life. What I miss on this album are some Dark Ambient tracks. The sound collages will only pop up frequently later in the musical output of NIN, but they should have already appeared on this album.

This album is definition of industrial music, Hurt is best and most emotional/destructive closer track ever, Trent's masterpiece.

Welcome to Trent's nightmare. A work of genius, but every time I get to the end I feel shattered.

I am not crazy about this album, but I think this is just umpratical, i mean, how can an album with two 92 rated tracks are not in the top 100? I mean there are SEVERAL albums there that doesn't have a single one of them. I guess this site is contradicting itself sometimes.

From Meowtopia 06/05/2018 16:35

The genius of the album is undeniable- a fantastic listen.

Due to the nature though I don't always find myself vying to listen to it.

I know this album is super creative and new. But I feel sludge, prog black metal etc. is better for the purpose of being difficult and rewarding music.

From Onater 03/28/2018 07:06

...times sure have changed since my last comment...

From planetneutral 02/04/2018 16:19

Not something I would readily listen to again, but tolerable enough.