Name: Not The Actual Event
Brand: Nine Inch Nails

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B002656502

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Limited edition

Release date

2017-11-17

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Supplier US

Unive­rsal

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Sales:8.875

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602557534320

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Nine Inch Nails

Genre US

Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

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Industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails (abbreviated as NIN and stylized as NIИ) was formed in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. Reznor has served as the main producer, singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, and sole member of Nine Inch Nails for 28 years. This changed in December 2016 when Atticus Ross officially became the second member of the band.
Nine Inch Nails straddles a wide range of many styles of rock music and other genres that require an electronic sound, which can often cause drastic changes in sound from album to album. However NIN albums in general have many identifiable characteristics in common, such as recurring leitmotifs, chromatic melodies, dissonance, terraced dynamics and common lyrical themes.
Nine Inch Nails is most famously known for the melding of industrial elements with pop sensibilities in their first albums. This move was considered instrumental in bringing the industrial genre as a whole into the mainstream, although genre purists and Trent Reznor alike have refused to identify NIN as an industrial band.

Nine Inch Nails' Not The Actual Events. Available here on LP and CD.

Not The Actual Events certainly signals a new direction, though it doesn’t totally steer the ship off the path. Reznor called the EP “an unfriendly, fairly impenetrable record that we needed to make.” The opener, “Branches/Bones,” is harsh in the most pleasurable way, touching on sounds closer to Broken than anything else in the band’s catalog, but still has the modern polish that NIN’s become known for. Its pulsating guitar echoes “Starfuckers, Inc.” or “Wish,” but its short length creates a decisiveness and impact that gives it a sharp edge.

Not The Actual Event

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