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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| ! | 08/18/2026 11:50 | Mafedere | 12,418 | 74/100 |
| ! | 06/14/2026 19:39 | Siromynian | 20,322 | 71/100 |
| ! | 04/24/2026 16:28 |  HoldenM | 10,332 | 90/100 |
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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 12.1.
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GandalfORiley345 05/20/2014 02:22 | #112343
Hardly sounds, but softly and down voices, feels like a machine coming to you
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.
Anti TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/04/2014 17:11 | #108471
I'm not the most religious person, but this is not really far up my alley.
first masterpiece of this album
