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'''"Ruiner"''' is the sixth track on ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]].'' In 2004, a demo version was released with the 10th Anniversary 2-disc Deluxe Edition of ''The Downward Spiral.''
===The Guitar Solo===
The bridge of this song features a rare guitar solo by [[Trent Reznor]]. In the April 1994 issue of Guitar World, he was asked about it in the following section of the interview:
*GW: I wanted to ask you about the solo in "Ruiner." How did you get that really nasty, ultra-quantized sound?
*REZNOR: Ah yes, the great, Pink Floyd-esque, Seventies- sounding section of the song. That's just a preset on the Zoom. I think I accidentally called up the wrong patch. I'm not a soloist. I was just laughing when I was playing with this ridiculous sound, recording into the computer saying like, "This is so cheesy," you know? I later realized that I basically tried to play a "Comfortably Numb"-type solo with this sound. I played the song for Chris, our drummer, and I was thinking, "He's going to start laughing. It's silly." But he goes, "Man, that guitar section was fucking great."
===Song Credits===
*Production: [[Flood]] and [[Trent Reznor]]
*Mixing Engineer: [[Alan Moulder]]
You didn't hurt me nothing can stop me now
==External Links==
*[http://nothing.nin.net/int20.html Guitar World 4/94] interview transcript
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