风格:工业金属 Industrial Metal, 重金属 Heavy Metal, 另类金属 Alternative Metal, 工业摇滚 Industrial Rock
档案:成立时间:1989 克里福兰 俄亥俄
风格划分:工业重金属、工业舞曲
工业音乐久远的历史过程中诞生过很多杰出的代表艺人、Ministry、Skinny Puppy、Front 242、KMFDM等等等等。但是,进入九十年代后,Nine Inch Nails一跃成为了最受欢迎的工业音乐艺人,这难免让人感到有点意外,某些乐评人在谈及这一现象不无嘲讽地说,“NIN只是工业音乐外表下的流行音乐,他从未做过真正的工业音乐”。而Marilyn Manson这样靠噱头、变态起家的工业新秀再次授人以柄,成为人们争论工业音乐前进还是倒退这一话题时的反方证据。
无论如何,1989年Nine Inch Nails发行的首张专辑《Pretty Hate Machine》到底还是为工业音乐挽回了一些颜面。单是它在排行榜上逗留数年之久这一记录,就足以证明一切了。专辑的音乐载体无一不是标准的工业味道,机械、冰冷、扭曲应有尽有。而事实上,它最成功的地方还是出色的流行感觉,一来拉近了一般乐迷对于工业音乐的距离感,二来增加了专辑的人情味、耐听性,双管齐下。专辑的歌词也尽量摆脱了工业音乐一贯的直白灰色甚至黑色的腔调,较多采用打油诗般的流畅语言婉转地表达同样极端的思想内容。
1994年,Nine Inch Nails终于推出了第二张专辑《The Downward Spiral》,该张专辑因明显带有的70年代前卫摇滚痕迹而被看作工业音乐的新概念专辑。NIN的核心人物Trent Reznor很熟练地在跨度巨大的两种摇滚风格之间找到了结合点,得到了另类/主流乐迷的极力推崇。
关于1999年专辑《The Fragile》的评价,显然走上了两个极端。单就整体制作水平来看,Trent Reznor明显是下了一番功夫的。这张双CD专辑中没有太多的亮点,而且显得不够凶猛,但它拥有更加深邃阴柔的工业音乐氛围,注重深层的心理感受,以至于专辑听起来有些生涩。对于这一变革,有人说是一种成熟,也有人数是一种无所适从的创作枯竭地表现。
工业音乐本身天生带有的局限性是不争的事实,鉴于此,我们宁可看到创新失败的尝试,也不愿永远停留在铁砧上锻造出来的昨天。
[Halo 01] 1989. Down In It [USA, TVT Records, 2611-2] (00:17:47)
[Halo 02] 1989. Pretty Hate Machine [UK, Island Records, CID 9973] (00:48:47)
[Halo 02R] 1989. Pretty Hate Machine [2010, USA, Universal Music Enterprises, B0015099-02] (00:53:10)
[Halo 03] 1990. Head Like A Hole [USA, TVT Records, TVT 2615-2] (00:56:47)
[Halo 04] 1990. Sin [USA, TVT Records, TVT2617-2] (00:19:29)
[Halo 05] 1992. Broken [EU, Island Records, IMCD 8004] (00:37:40)
[Halo 06] 1992. Fixed [Japan, EastWest, AMCY-525] (00:40:19)
[Halo 07] 1994. March Of The Pigs [USA, Nothing Records, 95938-2] (00:27:20)
[Halo 08] 1994. The Downward Spiral [USA, Nothing Records, intd-92346] (01:05:10)
[Halo 09] 1994. Closer To God [2000, USA, Nothing Records, 0694959052] (00:52:43)
[Halo 10a] 1995. Further Down The Spiral [USA, Nothing Records, INTDM-95811] (01:04:01)
[Halo 10b] 1995. Further Down The Spiral [EU, Island Records, IMCD 8041] (01:00:29)
[Halo 11] 1997. ‘The Perfect Drug’ Versions [USA, Nothing Records, INTDM-95007] (00:34:32)
[Halo 12] 1997. Closure – на аудио-носителях не выходил. Видео: DVD1, DVD2.
[Halo 13] 1999. The Day The World Went Away [Japan, Universal Victor Inc., MVCT-12015] (00:15:49)
[Halo 14] 1999. The Fragile [EU, Nothing Records, 490 473-2] (00:54:58+00:48:49)
[Halo 15a] 1999. We’re In This Together [EU, Nothing Records, 497 141-2] (00:16:13)
[Halo 15b] 1999. We’re In This Together [EU, Nothing Records, 497 140-2] (00:18:40)
[Halo 15c] 1999. We’re In This Together [2000, Japan, Universal Victor Inc., MVCT-12021] (00:19:38)
[Halo 16] 2000. Things Falling Apart [USA, Nothing Records, 0694907442] (00:53:27)
[Halo 17] 2002. And All That Could Have Been [EU, Nothing Records, 493 186-2] (01:14:00+00:43:23)
[Halo 18] 2005. The Hand That Feeds [EU, Interscope Records, 00602498815045] (00:19:18)
[Halo 19] 2005. [With_Teeth] [EU, Nothing Records, 0602498814390] (00:59:20)
[Halo 20] 2005. [Only] [EU, Interscope Records, CID 903] (00:17:18)
[Halo 21] 2006. [Every Day Is Exactly The Same] [USA, Nothing Records, B0006589-22] (00:38:39)
[Halo 22] 2007. Beside You in Time – на аудио-носителях не выходил. Видео: BDRemux.
[Halo 23] 2007. Survivalism [EU, Interscope Records, halo 23] (00:13:47)
[Halo 24] 2007. Year Zero [Russia, Interscope Records, 460502601143] (01:03:51)
[Halo 25] 2007. Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D [USA, Interscope Records, B0010331-60] (01:11:22)
[Halo 26] 2008. Ghosts I–IV [EU, The Null Corporation, HALO TWENTY SIX CD] (00:52:30+00:57:47)
[Halo 27] 2008. The Slip [USA, The Null Corporation, HALO 27 CD-LE] (00:43:53)
[Halo 28] 2013. Hesitation Marks [USA, The Null Corporation, halo 28dcd] (01:01:59+00:17:42)