gwax's rumblings

For quite a long time, I’ve been of the rather firm neg­a­tive opin­ion that Nine Inch Nails (NIN) was a semi-decent industrial-rock group that was sub­stan­tially infe­rior to KMFDM and oth­ers of the genre. However, I was in a bit of a crummy mood ear­lier this eve — a sit­u­a­tion that I often respond to by lis­ten­ing to angry metal or indus­trial music — and all the other bands that I tried weren’t quite fit­ting my mood, so I decided to try putting some NIN on the good ol’ Winamp. It turned out the be the case that NIN was pre­cisely the music that I needed to fit the mood that I was in and, I can now say, I am will­ing to accept NIN as a per­fectly valid and viable industrial-rock option in and of itself. NIN has carved out it’s own niche within my musi­cal desires and tastes; it has, so to speak, gained a place in my musi­cal pan­theon along­side its con­tem­po­raries, the likes of KMFDM, PIG and Skinny Puppy.