- industrial rock, industrial, industrial metal, alternative rock
- 14 tracks
- TVT Records
The Downward Spiral is the second studio album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, fronted by Trent Reznor. It was released on March 8, 1994, by Nothing Records and Interscope Records in the United States and Island Records in Europe.
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Character
Grave, bleak, overwhelming and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Chicago Tribune3/4 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyB+
- Kerrang!4/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times4/4 ★
- NME4/10
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- USA Today3/4 ★
- AllMusic5/5 ★
- Blender4/5 ★
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music5/5 ★
- Mojo4/5 ★
- Pitchfork8.3/10
- PopMatters9/10
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide5/5 ★
- Spin Alternative Record Guide9/10
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Tracks
- 1Mr Self Destruct
- 2Piggy
- 3Heresy
- 4March of the Pigs
- 5Closer
- 6Ruiner
- 7The Becoming
- 8I Do Not Want This
- 9Big Man With a Gun
- 10A Warm Place
- 11Eraser
- 12Reptile
- 13The Downward Spiral
- 14Hurt
About the album
- Artist
- Nine Inch Nails
- Label
- TVT Records
- Released
- 1994
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- AU
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