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man-kills-everything · 3 months

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You didn't hurt me

Nothing can hurt me

You didn't hurt me

Nothing can stop me now

#NIN #Ruiner #Nine Inch Nails Ruiner #1994 #NIN 1994 #Nine Inch Nails 1994 #Trent Reznor #The Downward Spiral #NIN The Downward Spiral #Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral #Spotify

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robsheridan · 3 months

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Hard to believe Nine Inch Nails' classic The Downward Spiral is 30 years old today! Here is some detail photography I took of the original album cover painting by Russell Mills for the 10th anniversary deluxe edition release, which I had the unique honor of designing, and somehow that is now 20 year old.

Everyone has that one album that hit at just the right moment of adolescence to change their perspective on music and get them through their teenage angst. The Downward Spiral was that album for me, released as it was in 1994, when I was a freshman in high school (and an absolute banner year for music/films/games all around). I must have stared at the artwork for hours over those years, without even much detail to draw from on its tiny 5” CD slip case. So five years later, when I found myself inexplicably working for Nine Inch Nails, it was surreal to see the actual original painting in the flesh, hanging as it was at the time in Trent Reznor’s office at Nothing Studios, New Orleans.

I was struck by how much dimension and texture there was in the artwork that never translated on that tiny slipcase printing, how much detail was happening in the physical materials of the art: Flies, moths, wires, blood… I had been staring at this “painting” for so long, yet suddenly it was like I had never seen it before. I also noticed that it had aged - the wires had wilted over the years, drooping down from their original position as captured in the original album cover (interestingly, judging by the photo posted today by NIN, the piece has since been restored); a tooth was missing from the other main piece.

That experience stuck with me and it was the first thing I thought about when the task of re-imagining the album package fell upon me in 2004. I wanted to re-photograph the artwork, subtly updating the cover to show that ten years had changed it physically, much like our perceptions of art and music and memories change over time with perspective. I also wanted to dig into the previously unseen details of the work and explore it with my macro lens, so that fans like me, old and new, could have new layers of texture to pore over for hours while listening to a legendary album.

Happy birthday, old friend.

#nine inch nails #the downward spiral #nin #trent reznor #90s nostalgia #90s music #industrial #rob sheridan #Russell mills #photography #album art #album design

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cold-black-and-infinite · 3 months

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Trent Reznor with Russell Mills' "Wound", March 8th, 2024

#nin #nine inch nails #trent reznor #photos #the downward spiral

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ruinedholograms · 6 months

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Further Down The Spiral (1995)

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witchrealms · 3 months

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#u #web finds #nine inch nails #nin #tech #ipod #music #the downward spiral #trent reznor #alternative #2000s #00s

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sewercentipede · 1 year

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NIN

#want so bad #need #nine inch nails #nin #merch #fashion #the downward spiral #eraser #transparent #my edit #up #1k

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natnin · 6 months

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#nine inch nails #trent reznor #the downward spiral #nin #tds era #closer

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tapeworrmart · 2 months

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Disconnect and self destruct one bullet at a time.

#The outsider by A Perfect Circle was made for him. In my mind #Anyway it's 4am and I HATE everything I draw. Wanna draw sm for him but I can't #So have this #Maybe I'll draw more my oc tomorrow #Postal 1997 #Postal #Postal game #Postal dude #The postal dude #Postal guy #Postal 1 #P1 dude #fan art #art #sketch #character art #Scars #Cuts #Oh and yes he's in a NIN shirt. The downward spiral. Because yknow...

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dustheadogma · 6 months

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the downward spiral

#drugblr #nine inch nails #nin #the downward spiral

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dykeferatu · 3 months

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#buzz buzz #nin #nine inch nails #the downward spiral

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mothwithapencil · 9 months

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I made pride flags colorpicked from Nine Inch Nails albums. I tried to make more but couldn't because NIN albums don't contain color. I feel a personal connection to Downward Spiral Lesbian

#nine inch nails #nin #pretty hate machine #the fragile #the downward spiral #further down the spiral

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man-kills-everything · 3 months

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30 years today since the pigs first marched

#NIN #Nine Inch Nails #NIN The Downward Spiral #Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral #The Downward Spiral #March of the Pigs #NIN March of the Pigs #Nine Inch Nails March of the Pigs #1994 #NIN 1994 #Nine Inch Nails 1994 #Trent Reznor #Spotify

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rezwhore · 2 months

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Watched the behind the scenes of the "Closer" video again and got inspired

#trent reznor #nine inch nails #treznor #nin #nine inch nails fanart #the downward spiral #traditional art #trent reznor art #fanart #this took ages #closer

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flowersofnaivete · 2 months

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There is practically no appreciation on here for the monumental Cultice drop currently in progress so I'll just leave this lil nugget and hope people are at least passively interested