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[[Image:halo2.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 2 - : ''Pretty Hate Machine'']]
'''''Pretty Hate Machine''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 2]]''''') is the first LP studio album by [[Nine Inch Nails]], released on October 20, 1989 by [[Interscope|Interscope Records]] and was a huge success. The first single off of the album, ''[[Down In It (halo)|Down In It]]'', was released on September 27, 1989 while the album was released on October 20, 1989 and was a huge success.
It received radio airplay for the aforementioned "[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]" as well as subsequent singles "[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]" and "[[Sin (song)|Sin]]".
==Recording==
Working nights at [[Right Track Studio]] as a handyman and toilet cleaner, [[Trent Reznor]] used studio "down time" to record and develop his own music. Playing most of the keyboards, drum machines, guitars, and samplers himself, he recorded a demo, unofficially titled ''[[Purest Feelng]]''.
Teaming up with manager [[John A. Malm, Jr.]] they sent the demo to various record labels. Reznor received serious offers from many of them. He signed a deal with [[TVT Records]] who, until then, were known mainly for releasing novelty and television jingle records.
==Subsequent Touring==
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The album also gained popularity through word-of-mouth and developed an underground following. Reznor quickly hired a band for touring with The Jesus and Mary Chain, including guitarist and future Filter/Army of Anyone frontman [[Richard Patrick]]. NINNine Inch Nails's live set was notorious for louder, more aggressive versions of the studio songs, and also for destroying their instruments at the endof sets. Reznor preferred using the heel of his boots to strip the keys from expensive keyboards.
==Purest Feeling==
Since the album was released, a recording known as ''[[Purest Feeling]]'' surfaced. This bootleg album contains the original demo recordings of most of the tracks found on ''PHMPretty Hate Machine'', as well as a couple that were not used ("[[Purest Feeling (song)|Purest Feeling]]" and "[[Maybe Just Once]]").
==Tributes==