re: Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral turns 30 today

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Oh, I don't know about that. Trent Reznor is very open about how much of an influence Ministry and a lot of the Wax Trax bands were on him

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It took Al and Trent years to finally admit Trent did the Vocals on 1000 Homo DJ's cover of Supernaut

I still have he CD single of this one somewhere in my collection...

And Suck off the Broken EP stems from Trent's collaboration with Industrial Supergroup PigFace who recorded the original version.

NIN - Suck

Pigface - Suck (NSFW Audio). (I was fortunate enough to see Pigface play in 1994. To this day, I still say it's the best small venue show I've ever seen.)

I listened to TON's of industrial music during this time. While I won't 100% disagree TheTideMustRoll's thesis, I'd say NIN's DNA is pretty intertwined into the Early/Mid 90's Industrial scene.

The difficulty in putting brackets on "industrial music" is it ranges from dance hall industrial with bands like Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb to Metal industrial with bands like Ministry, KMFDM and Circle of Dust. To me, NIN was somewhere in the middle. They were on par with bands like Front Like Assembly and Contagion

It's pretty obvious that the term "industrial" in the 90's painted with a wide brush. Additionally, many of these bands had wide variety in their music within the same albums and changed their sounds significantly from album to album. For example, Ministry's "Twitch" is nothing like "Psalm 69" both both are technically considered industrial.

So saying NIN isn't like the other industrial music of the time is showing an incomplete view of the width and breath of the 90's industrial music scene.