In 1995, Nine Inch Nails went on tour with David Bowie, who, along with Pink Floyd, had been a significant influence on The Downward Spiral. The stage set-up featured dirty curtains, rising and lowering for visuals shown during songs such as "Hurt". At the behest of Prudential Securities bankruptcy proceedings, TVT put the rights to Reznor's recordings for the label on auction in 2005. In 1989, while doing promotion for the album, the band members were asked what shows they would like to appear on. The American "March of the Pigs" CD single contains two mixes of the title track, two remixes of its fellow The Downward Spiral track "Reptile", and "A Violet Fluid", a non-album instrumental track.

Reznor asked Sean Beavan to mix the demos of Pretty Hate Machine, which had received multiple offers for record deals. In 2014, its first year of eligibility, [199] Nine Inch Nails was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with 14 other candidates. While they were not inducted that year, the band placed second in the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Fan Vote. Reznor stated of the decision "The promise of a world made better by computers and online connectivity has failed us in many ways, particularly when it comes to ticketing. However, after 9 years of studio sessions, no material was ever officially released from the group, and it was confirmed to be no longer active in 2005.When you use them to record voice messages, there may be silence at the start and end of the recording which makes playback more natural.

In 2009 Reznor married Mariqueen Maandig, [156] [157] and formed a project with Maandig and Atticus Ross dubbed How to Destroy Angels. Reznor and Ross received two awards for the score, a 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for a Motion Picture, [158] and a 2010 Oscar for Best Original Score. Since the release of Ghosts I–IV and The Slip, a 25-date tour titled Lights in the Sky, was announced in several North American cities, [137] and was later expanded to include several more North American dates as well as dates in South America. Freese and Cortini left the live band, but it became a quartet with the addition of Ilan Rubin on drums. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

I really recommend listening to the degenerative loop at the end of "The Background World" by Nine Inch Nails. Many of the songs on Year Zero contain an extended instrumental ending, which encompasses the entire second half of the three-minute long "The Great Destroyer". Performances were violent and chaotic, band members often injuring themselves by attacking each other, diving into the crowd, and destroying their instruments to close. The visual effect on Isaac may also be a reference to a line in Eminem's "My Name Is", in which he says, "Wanna see me stick Nine Inch Nails through each one of my eyelids?