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fangomusic · 9 months

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Nine albums: Primus.

Frizzle Fry (1990), Sailing the Seas of Cheese (1991), Pork Soda (1993), Tales from the Punchbowl (1995), Brown Album (1997), Antipop (1999), Green Naugahyde (2011), Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble (2014), The Desaturating Seven (2017).

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robsheridan · 2 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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justgivemeabookplease · 1 year

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I’m thinking about how Wasteland, Baby was a call to action and a tongue-and-cheek acceptance of the end of the world. And how Eat Your Young and Unreal Unearth are about the nine circles of Hell, about the afterlife, about the consequences after death. I’m thinking about one album cover being under water and another being buried under earth, about NFWMB “ain’t it like thunder under earth the sound it makes”, about Unreal Unearth and unearthing something, un-burial, about Like Real People Do “what did you bury before those hands pulled me from the earth.”

I’m thinking Eat Your Young, about Kronos’ mythology, about hunger for and to keep power, about gluttony. I’m thinking about Swan Upon Leda, about the lust Zeus had for Leda, about the greed of man over bodies, about who is the sinner. I’m thinking about angels, about their lack of power in Swan Upon Leda “could never belong to angels”, about their fall from grace in the “Unknown” song “I thought you were like an angel/going unknown as any angel/you called me angel.”

I’m thinking about Hozier.

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ruinedholograms · 8 months

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closer to god (1994)

halo nine: uk vinyl part 1

We shot for two days, the second day was a lot of the band portraits and the first day was just the bugs, which is that Closer To God cover. I never shot still lifes of bugs before. We shot like 50 different pictures of bugs, and this is the one that turned out to be the cover. Trent was there the whole day, because he wanted to hang out with the bugs - Joseph Cultice

#he's just like me #i love bugs #nin #album art #hologram parade #joseph cultice #trent reznor #bugs #closer to god #90s #vinyl #records #the downward spiral #1994 #nine inch nails

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27thfirefly · 5 months

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#kris.txt #nin #trent reznor #nine inch nails #i wont lie folks im going through it #been listening to far too many loops of nin albums

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mahealinskis · 4 months

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dOpamine's first ending fairy

#onlyoneof #junji #yoojung #mill #nine #wookjin #rie #kb #kyubin #kpop #kpop bg #i'm so excited about all this comeback #can't wait for the album and mv to be out #i know the mv was posted by mistake but i will pretend i didn't see it #this comeback live was already good enough for now #i can survive until tomorrow

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fagforfrank · 3 days

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Pretty Hate Machine (1989) by Nine Inch Nails

Once again,my shitty little printer/scanner isn't big enough to scan the whole fold out but I tried my best :]

#nine inch nails #trent reznor #pretty hate machine #still one of the coolest names for a an album and one of the most iconic album covers #i love trents big juicy brain

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carlosgabrx · 1 year

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"RADICAL ROMANTICS" (2023) Fever Ray + Nina Andersson

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frgmnthtr · 2 years

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The Downward Spiral (1994)

#behind the scenes #music #art #album art #90s #russell mills #nin #trent reznor #nine inch nails #the downward spiral

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the-90s-music-colosseum · 2 months

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Happy 30th birthday to The Downward Spiral and Superunknown!!!

The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails and Superunknown by Soundgarden, both released March 8th 1994, turn 30 years old today.

#album birthday #nine inch nails #soundgarden

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fangomusic · 1 year

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Nine Albums: Darkwave

Cocteau Twins, Treasure

This Mortal Coil, It'll End in Tears

Chelsea Wolfe, Abyss

Dead Can Dance, Within the Realm of a Dying Sun

Zola Jesus, Stridulum II

Lingua Ignota, Caligula

Anna von Hausswolff, Dead Magic

Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Remnants of a Deeper Purity

Boy Harsher, Careful

#nine albums #9 albums #darkwave #cocteau twins #this mortal coil #chelsea wolfe #dead can dance #zola jesus #lingua ignota #anna von hausswolff #black tape for a blue girl #boy harsher #album art #album covers #great album #great music #dark

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robsheridan · 7 months

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Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Hesitation Marks, the last NIN album I worked on. The great Russell Mills (who did the iconic artwork for The Downward Spiral) returned to create new paintings for this album. I took macro photographs of the paintings in the same way I did for the 10th anniversary deluxe package of The Downward Spiral, finding little moments in all the incredible details and textures of Russell’s massive physical pieces.

I wrote an extensive breakdown of the album's art and design process on my Patreon. It covers a lot of topics: Working with Russell Mills, channeling NIN design decisions of the past, the typography of The Downward Spiral, the concept behind the minimal NIN logo, David Carson and the design philosophies of what isn't shown, photographing Russell's artwork, and spending months living in "a surreal, claustrophobic warehouse of dead things and old blood."

Below are some of my photography from the interior package, alternate cover and single designs, and a couple photos of original printer proofs from the production of the album.