Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral [Explicit Content] (2 Lp's) - Vinyl

Nine Inch Nails: Trent Reznor (vocals, various instruments).Additional personnel: Danny Lohner, Adrian Belew (guitar); Flood (synthesizer, programming); Andy Kubiszewski, Chris Vrenna, Stephen Perkins (drums).Engineers: Sean Beavan, Chris Vrenna, Alan Moulder.Recorded at Le Pig, Beverly Hills, California; The Record Plant A&M Studios, Los Angeles, California.THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL was nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance."Hurt" was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.The Downward Spiral positioned Trent Reznor as industrial's own Phil Spector, painting detailed, layered soundscapes from a wide tonal palette. Not only did he fully integrated the crashing metal guitars of Broken, but several newfound elements -- expanded song structures, odd time signatures, shifting arrangements filled with novel sounds, tremendous textural variety -- can be traced to the influence of progressive rock. So can the painstaking attention devoted to paci