Glossary

Listings of words important in the understanding of Nine Inch Nails.

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105th Airborne Crusaders

A military unit formed in the fictional world of Year Zero.

10 Miles High

A NIN song that initially appeared on the vinyl edition of The Fragile

1 (216) 333-1810

A telephone number from the Year Zero promotion.

1 (310) 295-1040

A telephone number from the Year Zero promotion.

1 (866) 445-6580

A telephone number from the Year Zero promotion.

24.x.x

A numbering system found with Year Zero promotional items. See Numbers article for specific information.

A

A Mix Of All That Was

A fan compled bootleg of all songs that NIN played live from 1989 to 2000.

A Perfect Circle

Band formed by Billy Howerdel, a guitar tech that worked for NIN, and featuring Maynard James Keenan from Tool. They opened for NIN during Fragility v2.0 in 2000. See A Perfect Circle on Wikipedia for more information.

A Warm Place

The tenth track off of The Downward Spiral.

Aaron North

A musician whom was recruited to play with the NIN live band.

Aatchb

Abbreviation for And All That Could Have Been.

Adrian Sherwood

A producer whom has worked with NIN on numerous occasions.

Adrift And At Peace

The second track off of the album Still.

AIR

Abbreviation for Art Is Resistance.

Alan Moulder

A producer who has worked with NIN on numerous occasions.

Alessandro Cortini

A musician who was recruited to play with the NIN live band.

All The Love In The World

The first track off the album With Teeth.

All The Pigs, All Lined Up

The remix of March of the Pigs.

And All That Could Have Been

• Album: A CD/DVD/VHS album of NIN's live performances during the Fragility 2.0 tour.
• Song: The seventh track on Still.

Angry Sniper

A fictional character from the world of Year Zero.

Annie

Andrea Mulrain. She was "a college sweetheart/ heartbreak situation" of Trent's. Her name appears in The Becoming and is the only name of a person to ever appear in a NIN song.

Another Version of the Truth

• Song: The fourteenth track off of Year Zero.
• Website: Fictional website created for the story of Year Zero.

Art Is Resistance

Website created for the fictional world of Year Zero.

B

BYIT

Abbreviation for Beside You In Time

BallgameOver.mp3

A recording from the fictional world of Year Zero. It is about a man (presumed to be Angry_Sniper) who sets off bombs of Silver Nitrate in Wrigley Field, and shoots and kills someone.

Baseball in February

In BallgameOver.mp3, the character mentions that the baseball game is in February. This has significance because currently, professional baseball games usually not held in that month.

Bauhaus

A rock band whom opened for Nine Inch Nails during their Summer Amphitheatre Tour. Lead Singer Peter Murphy collaborated with Trent Reznor for several special radio appearances. See the Wikipedia entry of Bauhaus for more details.

Be The Hammer

Website created for the fictional world of Year Zero.

Beside You In Time

• Album: A DVD/HD DVD/Blu-Ray documenting the Live: With Teeth tour.
• Song: The 12th track off the album With Teeth.

Big Man With A Gun

The ninth track off the album The Downward Spiral

Blue pills

A type of medication given to soldiers in the fictional world of Year Zero.

Brian Tsunoda

Website created for the fictional world of Year Zero.

Broken

A Nine Inch Nails album. Also known as Halo 5.

Broken Movie

A music video made to promote the Broken EP, released in 1992.

Burn

A track from Nine Inch Nails on the Natural Born Killers soundtrack.

C

Capital G

• Album - Also known as Halo 25; a single released from the Year Zero album.
• Song - The seventh track off of Year Zero.

Cedocore

Website created for the fictional world of Year Zero.

Charlie Clouser

A former NIN band member whose activites included playing drums and keyboard, engineering, mixing, and music programming.

Chris Vrenna

A former drummer for NIN.

Church of Plano

Website created for the fictional world of Year Zero.

Closer

The fifth track off the album The Downward Spiral.

Closer (Precursor)

The second track off the album Closer To God. This track is a remix of the song Closer.

Closer To God

• Album - Also known as Halo 9.
• Song - The first track off of Closer To God

Closure

Also known as Halo 12. Closure has been released officially as two VHS tapes with NIN tour footage from the Self-Destruct Tour and NIN music videos. An "unoffical" DVD version was "leaked" via BitTorrent in late December of 2006.

Coachella

A music festival in Indio, CA. NIN played the festival on May 1, 2005.

Complication

The seventh track off of the right disk of The Fragile.

Consolidated Mail Systems

Website created for the fictional world of Year Zero.

Copper

In the fictional world of Year Zero, copper is used in the vaccine to prevent infection by the Red Horse virus.

D

Danny Lohner

Former bassist.

Der Kommissar

Trent sang a cover of this tune with Option 30.

Dig It

The Skinny Puppy song that supposedly inspired "Down In It".

Dead Souls

A Joy Division cover recorded for The Crow Soundtrack. It was later added as the fifth track on Disk 2 of The Downward Spiral "Deluxe Edition".

H

Halo

This is the official numbering system of NIN albums. While there is plenty of speculation, there is no official statement of why the word "Halo" is used for this purpose.

I

I Like Dudes

Heard when a line in "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" is played backwards. Originated from The Meathead Perspective.

J

JLYI

Short for "Just Like You Imagined".

L

La Mer

Track 11 from The Fragile (left).

Last

Track 3 from Broken.

Leaving Hope

Track 9 from Still.

Liar

Demo of "Reptile" on The Downward Spiral: Deluxe Edition.

Lost Fragile Tracks

The label of a CD in a picture on nin.com, speculated to contain unreleased tracks from The Fragile recordings.

LINE

Abbreviation for "Love Is Not Enough". Shorthand for "The Line Begins To Blur".

Love Is Not Enough

Track 5 from With Teeth.

M

Michael Reznor

See Trent Reznor.

O

OSR

Short for Open Source Resistance.

P

PHM

Short for Pretty Hate Machine.

R

Red Horse

A virus in the fictional world of Year Zero. Victims of this virus are prone to homicidal psychosis and massive hemorrhaging from lachrymal ducts, ears anus, and urethra. The virus is highly contagious and may spread via airborne means. The mortality rate is 100% within 48 hours. See Redhorsevector.net for more details.

Reznor Heating and Air Conditioning

A company that was started by George Reznor, great-great grandfather of Trent Reznor. The Reznor family has not had anything to do with the company in decades, despite it still using the Reznor name. You can read more here.

T

TF

Short for The Fragile.

W

WT

Short for With Teeth.

Y

YZ

Short for Year Zero.