Nine Inch Nails (NIN)
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- Released: October 20, 1989
- Genre: Industrial rock, electronic rock
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The presence of in the keyword dates the torrent perfectly: 2008 to 2013 (before the site was shut down following a legal settlement with the MPAA in 2015).
To the uninitiated, it was a mess of metadata. To Elias, it was a monolith.
The date range is critical. 1989 marks the release of Pretty Hate Machine —Trent Reznor’s breakthrough blend of synth-pop, industrial metal, and anguish. 2008 concludes with The Slip , a landmark album Reznor released for free online. This 19-year span captures NIN’s most pivotal era: