Andy Kubiszewski News Today

On March 8, 1994, Nine Inch Nails delivered a dark, destructive masterpiece titled 'The Downward Spiral.'

Pretty Hate Machine, then satiated fans with the scorching industrial EP Broken, but by the time 1994 rolled around, fans were more than ready to see what would be Trent Reznors follow-up act. Surprisingly to some, it was not a crushing yet danceable Pretty Hate Machine II, but rather a harder edged, aggressive conceptual album called The Downward Spiral. As Reznor explained to Select Magazine, "The idea behind the album is of someone who sheds everything around them to a potential nothingne...