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==Inspiration==
The album began life as a couple of tracks that were meant to be included in a forthcoming greatest hits package for [[Interscope Records]]. The sessions gave way to more songs and ended up yielding an entire album.[http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=6190]
According to an interview with the ''New York Times''[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/arts/music/nine-inch-nails-is-back-onstage-with-a-vengeance.html], Reznor had ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]'' in mind as he worked on ''Hesitation Marks'', stating:
The incentive has changed. It's not about, 'I'm going to kill myself if I don't get this out of my head.' But the excavation and the architecture behind it, the motivation behind it, is similar."</blockquote>
The album title is a term for wounds that are sometimes made when a person is contemplating suicide by wrist cutting. Fans have speculated that this is either a reference to Reznor being not quite ready to put NIN to rest, or a reference to the fact that the album is conceptually an "upward spiral" and a reflection of the fact that Reznor did not end up killing himself when he was at his lowest point.
==Tracklisting==