Heresy (track)
by Nine Inch Nails
Year: 1994
From the album The Downward Spiral (track #3)
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Heresy appears on the following album(s) by Nine Inch Nails:
- The Downward Spiral (track #3) (this album) (1994)
- The Definitive Nine Inch Nails - Deep Cuts (track #2) (compilation) (2006)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 06/14/2026 19:39 | Siromynian | 17,775 | 71/100 |
| ! | 04/24/2026 16:28 |  HoldenM | 9,321 | 91/100 |
| ! | 04/15/2026 15:20 | Exist-en-ciel | 161,474 | 71/100 |
| ! | 03/08/2026 15:13 |  VictorVale | 44,003 | 89/100 |
| ! | 02/10/2026 22:18 | Gedster | 532 | 72/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 85.9/100, a mean average of 85.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.2.
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Onater 03/29/2018 17:33 | #211927
A bit too "angsty teenager who just discovered reddit and atheism" for me lyrically, but musically on the same quality as the rest of the album.
first masterpiece of this album
GandalfORiley345 05/20/2014 02:22 | #112343
Hardly sounds, but softly and down voices, feels like a machine coming to you
Anti 04/04/2014 17:11 | #108471
I'm not the most religious person, but this is not really far up my alley.
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