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* Progressive metal band Dream Theater has performed a live medley called "Caught in Alice's New Nine-Inch Millennium Tool Garden." It used the lyrics of their earlier release "Caught in a Web," but with new music which was a combination of the styles of Alice in Chains, Nine Inch Nails, [[Tool]], and Soundgarden, all of which were prominent rock bands during the 90s. The band later wrote new lyrics to the song and released it as "New Millennium" on the album ''Falling into Infinity.''
* Nine Inch Nails is referenced in the Phi Life Cypher remix of Gorillaz' "Clint Eastwood:" "Now rearrangin' your whole skeletal structure then I find some nine inch nails to perform some acupuncture."
* "Weird Al" Yankovic has paid tribute to NIN more than once: "[[Closer]]" is parodied in the "Alternative Polka" from ''Bad Hair Day,'' aand "Germs," on the album ''Running with Scissors,'' sounds like a cross between "[[Terrible Lie]]" and "[[Closer]]" with some elements from "[[Mr. Self Destruct]]."
* Following the feud with Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, in their 2000 song "Hot Dog" returned the lyrics of "Closer," stating "You wanna fuck me like an animal/You'd like to burn from the inside." The use of the lyrics was actually meant as a tribute to Trent Reznor, whom Durst admires, though it is often misinterpreted as an attempt at "bashing" him. Reznor cleared the use of his lyrics with no trouble, and received credit in the liner notes for the song. "Hot Dog" also mentioned "A nine inch nail/ get knocked the fuck out" and two NIN song-titles: "[[The Perfect Drug (song)|A Perfect Drug]]" and "Closer."
* In Crazy Town's 1999 album ''The Gift of Game,'' the song "Darkside" contains the lyric "Devils eyes and nine inch nails."