Ruiner (track)
by Nine Inch Nails
Year: 1994
From the album The Downward Spiral (track #6)
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Ruiner appears on the following album(s) by Nine Inch Nails:
- The Downward Spiral (track #6) (this album) (1994)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 04/24/2026 16:28 |  HoldenM | 8,728 | 91/100 | |
| 04/15/2026 15:20 | Exist-en-ciel | 100,917 | 71/100 | |
| 03/08/2026 15:31 |  VictorVale | 43,563 | 88/100 | |
| 02/10/2026 22:34 | Gedster | 523 | 72/100 | |
| 11/04/2025 03:09 |  LukasAntoine00s | 5,271 | 80/100 |
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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 86.7/100, a mean average of 86.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 87.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.5.
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TheHolyKiwi 10/24/2014 08:41 | #125212
Favourite track besides Closer and Hurt (of course), the guitar solo part is down-right badass and the song drags you in with it's bombastic industrial riffs.
awesome groove
GandalfORiley345 05/20/2014 02:40 | #112346
Another great masterpiece, NIN is changing my mind
Anti 04/04/2014 17:25 | #108474
Epic build-up.
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