Nine Inch Nails 
The best album credited to Nine Inch Nails is The Downward Spiral which is ranked number 157 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 8,730.
Nine Inch Nails is ranked number 117 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 18,423.
Nine Inch Nails official website: http://nin.com
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- Atticus Ross
- Eric Avery
- Alessandro Cortini
- See also:
- Alessandro Cortini / Kevin Drumm / Lussuria / Regis / Prurient
- Alessandro Cortini / Merzbow
- Polar Bear
- Modwheelmood
- Deconstruction
- Coil / Nine Inch Nails
- Jane's Addiction
- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
- How To Destroy Angels
- Daniel Avery + Alessandro Cortini
- Nine Inch Nails & Boys Noize
- Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross / Jon Batiste
- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross / Boys Noize
- Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross / Gustavo Santaolalla / Mogwai
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Nine Inch Nails best albums
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Nine Inch Nails best tracks
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| ! | 5 days ago |  nextorgd | 29 | 91/100 |
| ! | 10/08/2025 11:56 |  doombringer | 210 | 85/100 |
| ! | 06/19/2024 20:23 | POWER18 | 25 | 93/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 3% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 80.5/100, a mean average of 79.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.9/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 17.7.
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Nine Inch Nails forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 25 hours ago in Chart of the day (#5477): By covecoveView latest topic →
souplipton 11/04/2017 18:17 in Last concert you went toNine Inch Nails comments
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The band were forced to cut their excessively long nails in order to play their guitars (Edited)
Trent is easily one of the best artists of recent times. Great voice, great music, and despite being active for over 20 years has yet to put out a bad album.
awesomness425 07/17/2015 06:24 | #145903
Only really listened to Downward but i highly enjoyed..starting to listen to The Fragile and it's good and uh i've heard 4 tracks for Pretty Hate Machine and they're fucking fantastic..just good instrumentation's really boost my mark up (Edited)
souplipton 09/04/2016 21:19 | #174288
Trent Reznor's is one of the most unique and singular vision in music. His music is entirely his own in writing, and in some cases in recording. Production wise, he is one of the greats of all time, and the ambitiousness of his albums matches that greatness. Many complain about the weakness of his lyrics, and though he will occasionally have lyrics that definitely do not match the quality of the music he makes, he has some incredible songs lyrically. As well, I find his lyrics do a good job of painting a picture of how he (or his characters) see the worlds they inhabit. I do not consider his lyrics to be the strongest part of his music, but for the most part I do not think that he's weakened by his lyrics. Overall I think Nine Inch Nails is one of the most overlooked bands, and I think it is one of the best bands of its generation.
still can not believe that many people think "hurt" would be originally by Johnny Cash.
