Nine Inch NailsThe Downward Spiral

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Electronic, Rock

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Alternative Rock, Experimental, Industrial Metal

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Tracklist

Mr Self Destruct4:30
Piggy4:25
Heresy3:54
March Of The Pigs2:59
Closer6:13
Ruiner4:58
The Becoming5:32
I Do Not Want This5:41
Big Man With A Gun1:36
A Warm Place3:23
Eraser4:54
Reptile6:52
The Downward Spiral3:57
Hurt6:14

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Notes

This is the second studio album from Nine Inch Nails and their most commercially successful. It reached number 2 in the Billboard Top 200 and produced four singles: "March of the Pigs", "Closer", "Piggy" (radio only), and "Hurt" (radio only).

Album sales: 4,000,000
First release date: March 1994

CD version has non-standard packaging: it came in a CD single-type slim jewel case with an external booklet, all housed in a slipcase.

Japanese CD contains a bonus track, "Dead Souls", originally released on soundtrack Various - The Crow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

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