Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock act, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. Since 1988, Nine Inch Nails has performed throughout the world, including tours in North America, South America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia. During its earliest incarnations, Nine Inch Nails as a live band acted as supporting acts on tours for bands and musicians such as Skinny Puppy, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Peter Murphy, and Guns N' Roses. Subsequent tours have featured Nine Inch Nails as the headlining act, with support from bands such as Unkle, Marilyn Manson, Atari Teenage Riot, and A Perfect Circle.
Nine Inch Nails' live performances contrast with its in-studio counterpart. [1] [2] Reznor writes and performs nearly all Nine Inch Nails studio material, with occasional instrumental and vocal contributions from others artists. However, Reznor has typically assembled groups of backing musicians to interpret songs for tours and other live performances. The live-band lineup has changed constantly throughout the band's history, with frontman Reznor remaining the only constant on vocals and guitar, and long-time studio collaborator Atticus Ross officially joining in 2016. Notable musicians who have contributed to live performances include Chris Vrenna, Richard Patrick, Jeff Ward, James Woolley, Danny Lohner, Robin Finck, Charlie Clouser, Jerome Dillon, Alessandro Cortini, Josh Freese, and Ilan Rubin.
Duration | Tour leg | Band lineup | Location(s) (dates) | Other acts | Ref. | |||
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Oct–Nov 1988 | Skinny Puppy's VIVIsectVI Tour | — | — | Ron Musarra | Chris Vrenna | North America (11 dates) | Headliner: Skinny Puppy | [3] [4] [5] [6] |
Oct–Dec 1989 | Pretty Hate Machine promotional tour | Richard Patrick | — | Chris Vrenna | Nick Rushe | North America (9 dates) | ||
Jan–Mar 1990 | Jesus and Mary Chain's Automatic tour | — | David Haymes | North America (30 dates) | Headliner: Jesus and Mary Chain | [3] [4] [7] | ||
Mar–Apr 1990 | Peter Murphy's Deep tour | — | North America (26 dates) | Headliner: Peter Murphy | [3] [8] | |||
May–Aug 1990 | Hate tour | — | Lee Mars | North America (39 dates) | Support: Meat Beat Manifesto, Die Warzau, Pure, Cold Front | [9] | ||
Aug 1990 | RevCo Tour | — | — | — | — | North America (14 dates) | Revolting Cocks with Reznor | [10] |
Dec 1990– Feb 1991 | Sin tour | Richard Patrick | — | Jeff Ward | Lee Mars | North America (31 dates) | Support: Die Warzau, Chemlab | [9] |
Apr 1991 | Gub Tour | — | — | — | — | North America (5 dates) | Pigface with Reznor | [10] |
Jul–Aug 1991 | Lollapalooza | Richard Patrick | — | Jeff Ward | James Woolley | North America (28 dates) | With: Jane's Addiction, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Living Colour, Ice-T & Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band, Violent Femmes | [9] [11] [12] |
Aug–Sep 1991 | European tour | — | Europe (13 dates) | Headliner: Guns N' Roses, The Wonderstuff, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine | [13] | |||
Duration | Tour leg | Band lineup | Location(s) (dates) | Other acts | Ref. | |||
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Mar–Aug 1994 | Self-Destruct | Robin Finck | Danny Lohner | Chris Vrenna | James Woolley | North America, Europe (53 dates) | Support: Marilyn Manson, Type O Negative, Fem2fem, PIG, Die Krupps, Treponem Pal | [9] [14] [15] |
Aug 1994– Feb 1995 | Further Down the Spiral tour | North America (82 dates) | Support: Marilyn Manson, Jim Rose Circus, Pop Will Eat Itself, Hole | [9] [16] | ||||
Charlie Clouser | ||||||||
Apr 1995 | Alternative Nation Festival | Australia (3 dates) | With: Faith No More, Ice-T & Body Count, Lou Reed, Violent Femmes, Primus, Tool, L7, The Tea Party, Ween, Live, The Flaming Lips, Pennywise, Pop Will Eat Itself, Powderfinger | [17] | ||||
Sep–Oct 1995 | Dissonance/Outside tour | North America (26 dates) | With: David Bowie Support: Prick | [18] [19] | ||||
Nov–Dec 1995 | Club Tour | North America (11 dates) | Support: Helmet | [10] | ||||
Aug–Sep 1996 | Nights of Nothing tour | Kevin McMahon | North America (3 dates) | With: Marilyn Manson, Meat Beat Manifesto | [20] [21] [20] |
Duration | Tour leg | Band lineup | Location(s) (dates) | Other acts | Ref. | |||
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Nov 1999– Jan 2000 | Fragility v1.0 | Robin Finck | Danny Lohner | Jerome Dillon | Charlie Clouser | Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Australia (26 dates) | Support: Atari Teenage Riot, Skingame | [22] [23] |
Jan–Feb 2000 | Big Day Out 2000 | Australia (6 dates) | With: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Atari Teenage Riot, Blink-182, The Chemical Brothers | [24] | ||||
Apr–Jul 2000 | Fragility v2.0 | North America, Europe (43 dates) | Support: A Perfect Circle | [25] [26] |
Duration | Tour leg | Band lineup | Location(s) (dates) | Other acts | Ref. | |||
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Guitar | Bass | Drums | Keyboard | |||||
Mar–May 2005 | Spring club tour | Aaron North | Jeordie White | Jerome Dillon | Alessandro Cortini | North America, England (30 dates) | Support: Carre Callaway, The Dresden Dolls | [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] |
Jun–Aug 2005 | Summer international tour | Europe, Japan, Australia (22 dates) | Support: The Dresden Dolls, Saul Williams, Eagles of Death Metal, The Bird Blobs, The Follow | [27] | ||||
Sep – Dec 2005 | Fall arena tour | North America, South America (46 dates) | Support: Queens of the Stone Age, Autolux, Death from Above 1979 | [23] [32] [30] [33] | ||||
Alex Carapetis | ||||||||
Josh Freese | ||||||||
Feb–Apr 2006 | Winter arena tour | North America (33 dates) | Support: Moving Units, Saul Williams | [34] | ||||
May–Jul 2006 | Summer amphitheatre tour | North America (31 dates) | Support: Saul Williams, TV on the Radio, Bauhaus, Peaches | [35] | ||||
Duration | Tour leg | Band lineup | Location(s) (dates) | Other acts | Ref. | |||
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Feb–Mar 2007 | Spring European tour | Aaron North | Jeordie White | Josh Freese | Alessandro Cortini | Europe (63 dates) | Support: The Popo, Ladytron, Serena Maneesh | [36] |
Aug–Sep 2007 | Summer / Fall international tour | Europe, Asia, Australia, Hawaii (28 dates) | With: Foo Fighters, Silversun Pickups [I] Support: Intacto, Theodor Bastard, Serena Maneesh, The Dandy Warhols, Ladytron, Alec Empire, Unkle, The Lovesong, White Rose Movement | [37] | ||||
Duration | Tour leg | Band lineup | Location(s) (dates) | Other acts | Ref. | |||
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Guitar | Bass | Drums | Keyboard | |||||
July–Dec 2008 [I] | Over North America | Robin Finck | Justin Meldal- Johnsen | Josh Freese | Alessandro Cortini | North America (59 dates) | Support: A Place to Bury Strangers, Boris, The Bug, Crystal Castles, Deerhunter, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Health, White Williams | [38] [39] |
October 2008 [I] | Over South America | South America (3 dates) | Support: Vigilante | [38] | ||||
^ I The North American and South American legs overlapped in mid-October.
Duration | Tour leg | Band lineup | Location(s) (dates) | Other acts | Ref. | |||
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Feb–March 2009 | 2009 Tour | Robin Finck | Justin Meldal-Johnsen | Ilan Rubin | Robin Finck Ilan Rubin | Australia & New Zealand (8 dates) | Support: The Naked and Famous, Jaguar Love | [38] |
May–August 2009 | NIN | JA 2009 | North America, Europe, Asia (49 dates) | With: Jane's Addiction Support: Street Sweeper Social Club | |||||
August–September 2009 | Wave Goodbye | New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto (11 dates) | Support: The Horrors, Mew, Alec Empire, Health, Queen Kwong, io echo | [40] |
Duration | Tour leg | Band lineup | Location(s) (dates) | Other acts | Ref. | ||||
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Guitar | Bass | Drums | Keyboard | Backing vocals | |||||
July–September 2013 | Twenty Thirteen | Robin Finck | Josh Eustis | Ilan Rubin | Alessandro Cortini | — | North America, Europe, Asia (12 dates) | ||
September–November 2013 | Tension 2013 | Robin Finck Josh Eustis Alessandro Cortini | Pino Palladino | Alessandro Cortini Josh Eustis | Lisa Fischer Sharlotte Gibson | North America (33 dates) | Support: Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Explosions in the Sky (31 dates) Autolux (2 dates) | [41] | |
February–August 2014 | NIN 2014 | Robin Finck | Alessandro Cortini Ilan Rubin Robin Finck | Alessandro Cortini | — | North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Latin America (74 dates) | With: Queens of the Stone Age, Soundgarden Support: Brody Dalle, Cold Cave, Oneohtrix Point Never, The Dillinger Escape Plan | [42] [43] |
Duration | Tour leg | Band lineup | Location(s) (dates) | Other acts | Ref. | |||
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Guitars | Bass | Drums | Keyboard | |||||
July–December 2017 | I Can't Seem to Wake Up 2017 | Robin Finck | Alessandro Cortini | Ilan Rubin | Atticus Ross | North America (8 dates) | Support: Tobacco (2 dates) | [44] |
June–December 2018 | Cold and Black and Infinite 2018 | North America, Europe, Asia (61 dates) | Support: Queen Kwong, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Kite Base, Jesus and Mary Chain | [45] |
Duration | Tour leg | Band lineup | Location(s) (dates) | Other acts | Ref. | |||
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April–May 2022 | U.S. Spring Tour | Robin Finck | Alessandro Cortini | Ilan Rubin | Atticus Ross | North America (8 dates) | Support: Boy Harsher and 100 gecs | [46] |
June 2022 | U.K. Summer Tour | Europe (6 dates) | Support: Nitzer Ebb and Yves Tumor | [47] | ||||
September–November 2022 | U.S. Fall Tour | North America (12 dates) | Support: Nitzer Ebb and Yves Tumor | [46] |
Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN, stylized as NIИ, is an American industrial rock band formed in Cleveland in 1988. Its members are the singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Trent Reznor and his frequent collaborator, Atticus Ross. Reznor was previously the only permanent member of the band until Ross was officialized in 2016. The band's debut album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), was released via TVT Records. After disagreeing with TVT about how to promote the album, the band signed with Interscope Records and released the EP Broken (1992). The following albums, The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999), were released to critical acclaim and commercial success.
"March of the Pigs" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994). It was released on February 25, 1994 as the album's lead single.
"Down in It" is the debut single by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on September 15, 1989. Taken from the band's debut album Pretty Hate Machine, it was the first song ever written by frontman Trent Reznor.
"We're in This Together" is a song by industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails released in 1999. It is the 15th official Nine Inch Nails release and is a single for the album The Fragile. It was released as a three-disc single.
"Head Like a Hole" is a song by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as the second single from the group's debut album, Pretty Hate Machine. It enjoyed heavy rotation on the radio at the time of its release, eventually reaching number 9 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.
Robert John "Robin" Finck is an American guitarist. Finck is the longest-serving touring musician for Nine Inch Nails, performing with the band from 1994 to 2000, and returning in 2008. With Nine Inch Nails, Finck contributed studio performances on The Slip (2008).
With Teeth is the fourth studio album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released by Nothing Records and Interscope Records on May 3, 2005. The album was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and long-time collaborator Alan Moulder. It also features contributions from musician Dave Grohl and future band member Atticus Ross.
Tapeworm was an American side project of Nine Inch Nails which existed in various forms from 1995 to roughly 2004. Tapeworm never released any recordings, but was frequently referenced in interviews. The band started as a side-project between Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and live-band members Danny Lohner and Charlie Clouser. Through the years the group expanded and evolved numerous times to include artists such as Maynard James Keenan, Atticus Ross, and Alan Moulder, effectively turning the project into a supergroup. After many years of rumors and expected release dates, Reznor announced the end of the project in 2004.
"Wish" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their debut EP Broken (1992). It was released in 1992 as a promotional single from the EP. The drumming on the track was performed by Martin Atkins.
Nine Inch Nails, an American industrial rock band fronted by Trent Reznor, has toured all over the world since its creation in 1988. While Reznor—the only official member until adding Atticus Ross in 2016—controls its creative and musical direction in the studio, the touring band performs different arrangements of the songs. In addition to regular concerts, the band has performed in both supporting and headlining roles at festivals such as Woodstock '94, Lollapalooza 1991 and 2008, and many other one-off performances including the MTV Video Music Awards. Prior to their 2013 tour, the band had played 938 gigs.
"Passive" is a song by American rock band A Perfect Circle. The song, originating from the Tapeworm side-project under the title "Vacant", was eventually recorded in the studio as "Passive" by A Perfect Circle around the time of the side-project's demise. It was the second single from their album Emotive, and peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart in 2005.
The following is a campaign timeline of the Year Zero alternate reality game. The Year Zero alternate reality game, and its accompanying concept album of the same name, criticizes the United States government's policies as of 2007, projecting a dystopian vision of its impact on the state of events in 2022. The game began in mid-February 2007 and seems to have wrapped up in April shortly after the album came out.
Year Zero Remixed is the third remix album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released in the United States on November 20, 2007, and in the United Kingdom six days later. It features remixed versions of tracks from the band's previous studio album Year Zero, created by various producers and recording artists.
The Slip is the seventh studio album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on May 5, 2008, digitally on the Nine Inch Nails website, and on CD on July 22 by The Null Corporation. It was their second release in 2008, following their sixth album Ghosts I–IV, released two months prior. The album was produced by frontman Trent Reznor with collaborators Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder.
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Street Sweeper Social Club is an American rap rock supergroup, formed in Los Angeles, California in 2006. The band primarily consists of guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and vocalist and emcee Boots Riley of the Coup. The band had been testing songs out during Tom Morello's Nightwatchman tour and released an album on June 16, 2009. Stanton Moore drummed for the group for the recording of the album although he did not join the band for the following tour. Street Sweeper Social Club opened for Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction in May 2009. Street Sweeper Social Club describes itself as "more than a band, it's a social club." Their 2010 EP The Ghetto Blaster EP includes covers of M.I.A. "Paper Planes" and LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out".
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Another Version of the Truth was an independently released live concert video documenting Nine Inch Nails' 2008 Lights in the Sky tour made available throughout late 2009/early 2010 on Blu-ray, DVD, and various other online formats. Another Version of the Truth is also the title of an instrumental track on Nine Inch Nails' 2007 album Year zero. The video is a 3-disc set bringing together numerous editors, designers, and web programmers to create a professional digital film, followed by a physical release created "by fans for fans".
Those who know Nine Inch Nails only from their studio recordings--industrial-rock affairs heavy on synthesized sounds--might assume that the group's material wouldn't translate well in a live setting. They'd be sorely mistaken, as evidenced by the band's Friday night (5/13) performance at Boston's Orpheum Theatre.
In theory, Nine Inch Nails shouldn't be a great live band. Reznor's music sometimes consists of non-organic instruments thrown straight onto a computer, at times being twisted to the point of not even sounding like the original source.