"It still excites me and breaks my heart." Trent Reznor reflects on 30 years of Nine Inch Nails masterpiece The Downward Spiral By Stef Lach published 9 March 24 Trent Reznor is in a reflective mood as Nine Inch Nails' classic album The Downwards Spiral turns 30
10 classic metal albums that should be played live in full (but haven’t yet) By Stephen Hill published 2 March 24 From Metallica’s …And Justice For All to Limp Bizkit’s Significant Other, these masterpieces are so good that live crowds need to hear them in their entirety
"I couldn't do it because I was burnt out": How Trent Reznor almost missed the chance to become an Oscar-winning film composer By Niall Doherty published 28 January 24 The Nine Inch Nails man originally turned down David Fincher when he was asked to soundtrack The Social Network
10 metal bands’ first-ever concerts caught on film By Emily Swingle published 15 January 24 Want to see Ghost, Rage Against The Machine and Spiritbox’s first times on a stage? These clips have got you covered!
The 50 greatest metal EPs of all time By Chris Chantler published 10 January 24 From the early days of Def Leppard and Iron Maiden to modern classics via the likes of Sleep Token and Spiritbox, these are the best metal EPs in history
Every Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross soundtrack ranked from worst to best By Niall Doherty published 28 December 23 From Watchmen to Soul, rating the Nine Inch Nails pair's film and TV score work
The ten best film scores of 2023 By Niall Doherty published 26 December 23 Are you ready for Barbenheimerkillerofspiderdestiny?
Watch ten rock stars from the 90s in their earlier bands By Niall Doherty published 17 December 23 Warning: contains Tom Morello playing with a Michael Bolton lookalike
The ten best Nine Inch Nails deep cuts By Niall Doherty published 6 December 23 Heading into the darker corners of Trent Reznor's industrial-rock titans
10 A-list Hollywood directors who have directed music videos By Paul Travers published 10 November 23 Zack Snyder, Michael Bay and David Fincher have all sprinkled a little Hollywood magic on some classic music videos. And a couple of stinkers
12 songs that brought horniness back to heavy metal (without the cringe) By Rich Hobson published 2 November 23 From Sleep Token and Scene Queen to Ghost, Halestorm and Type O Negative - these are the bands who brought some sex positivity back to metal
10 hard rock and heavy metal farewell tours that weren’t actually farewells By Will Marshall published 17 October 23 Kiss, Judas Priest and Mötley Crüe have all made their goodbyes, only to continue touring and recording anyway
“His mother used to rock him to sleep to Kooks!”: the time David Bowie and Trent Reznor teamed up on tour together By Niall Doherty published 7 October 23 Bowie and Nine Inch Nails headed out on the Dissonance tour in 1995
10 times massive metal bands played ridiculously intimate concerts By Stephen Hill published 20 September 23 Metallica, Iron Maiden and Slipknot have all performed to the tiniest of crowds after making it big
“Updating The Wall for disaffected, mid-90s youth”: The prog roots of Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral By Prog published 20 August 23 Trent Reznor’s 1994 epic explored the collapse of a character like Pink Floyd had done 15 years earlier - but in a musically different manner
"There was talk that I would have to appear to prove that I was alive". The FBI once launched an investigation into the murder of Trent Reznor. Two years later, they realised he was still alive. By Liz Scarlett published 17 August 23 In 1989, the FBI launched an investigation into the apparent murder of an unidentified man in a video, who was later revealed to be Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor. They later realised that Reznor was (and is!) still alive
The 50 best metal albums of the 2000s By Merlin Alderslade published 28 July 23 From nu metal classics by Slipknot, Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit to metal legends like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest bouncing back in style, these are the albums that defined the 2000s
"What a creep!" The day that Prince broke Trent Reznor's heart By Paul Brannigan published 25 July 23 Nine Inch Nails mainman Trent Reznor once considered Prince his "idol". But that all changed after the two musicians booked into the same Los Angeles recording studio in the early '90s
10 pop covers of metal songs you won't believe actually happened By Stephen Hill published 4 July 23 From Lil Uzi Vert covering Chop Suey to Maroon 5 defanging a Nine Inch Nails classic, these covers will stun, embarrass and, in some cases, delight you!
“Led Zeppelin write weak, unimaginative songs”: 10 original reviews of classic albums that got it completely wrong By Paul Travers published 29 June 23 Everyone from Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath to Iron Maiden and Guns N’ Roses had their haters
