Retired fan sites

This is a list of major Nine Inch Nails fan sites that are no longer active. This list is not exhaustive.

9inchnails.cz

9inchnails.cz was a Czech fansite of Nine Inch Nails with a large amount of information including discography, lyrics (also Czech translations) and downloads. It was partly written in English (almost all headers and important links) and Czech. It also included a Czech board about Nine Inch Nails. The site had a very stylish design.

Above The Trees

Above The Trees was a NIN fan site run by Rob Sheridan before he was hired as NIN’s official webmaster. It contained lyrics, pics, trivia, videos, fonts, a rare song archive, etc. [1] [2]

The Art of Self Destruction

The Art of Self Destruction was a Nine Inch Nails archive of general information as well as music downloads, images, fonts, desktop themes, discography and tour information. It offered all NIN music videos, many unreleased tracks, stills of music videos, multitrack files, and more. The web site went down after the sole operator of the web site fell behind in the updating process - mainly because of the influx of new Nine Inch Nails information at the time.

Burning Souls

Burning Souls was a Nine Inch Nails fansite containing a discography, art, lyrics, tours, news, reviews, and other information, as well as being associated with nincollector.com. It also had a discussion forum that, while smaller in size to Echoing the Sound, had a dedicated userbase. The site had a history of stability problems, but it lasted much longer than the average fansite, from 1993-2013. [3]

Happiness In Slavery

Happiness In Slavery (aka nineinch.com) was an Australian NIN fan site run by John Raptis. It contained a message board, articles, photos, downloads, and various multimedia.

nincollector.com

nincollector.com was a website which attempted to document every version of every release by Nine Inch Nails. The website was run in connection with the Burning Souls NIN fansite. The site went defunct in 2017, though the data had not been updated since 2006. Most of the data contained there was incorporated into nincatalog.com. [4]

nineinchnails.net

nineinchnails.net was a NIN fan site run by Evan Moore, which included Seems Like Salvation news. The site also contained lyrics, fonts, videos, graphics, etc.

nintorrents.com

nintorrents.com was a fan-made BitTorrent tracker for non-commercially released Nine Inch Nails content. Launched on May 8, 2008, it hosted live concert recordings, among other things, and had over 1,000 registered users.

Painful Convictions

Painful Convictions was a popular NIN fansite. It was first created in early 1995 under the name "NAILS Links." Back in those days the site was no more than a simple link list. In time the site grew, and in the fall of 1996 the domain, 9inchnails.com, was graciously donated by Radiks Internet Access. After that, the site greatly expanded and went through several metamorphoses. In around 2000, the site was sold to MusicFans.com. While MusicFans continued to employ Matt Brink for upkeep, the company couldn't survive the fall of the dot coms and the site fell back into complete control of Matt Brink. The site was also home to the Perfect Isolation message boards. In 2008, it was rebranded as NIN Source at ninsource.com. The site went defunct in 2011.

Portrait of Decay

Portrait of Decay was an archive of preserved/reconstructed iterations of nin.com and all of its various sub-sites. There were tentative plans for The NIN Hotline to acquire the site's content, but this hasn't yet happened.

Seething Animosity

Seething Animosity was a website that cataloged and reviewed Nine Inch Nails bootlegs, both live recordings and unauthorized compilations and mixes, that were often sold in independent record stores as "imports". It was initially created by Jerry and hosted on his personal webpage at RIT, where it was updated through 1995. [5] Subsequent to that, Christopher Schulte copied the data and updated it, including cover images, through 2000 on his own website. [6]

smashedupsanity.com

smashedupsanity.com (aka Sick Among The Pure) was a major NIN fan site run by Keith Duemling.

thefragile.com

thefragile.com contained news, custom @thefragile.com email addresses for fans, etc.

The Unofficial Nine Inch Nails Homepage

Jason Patterson launched the Unofficial Nine Inch Nails Homepage on his Florida State University personal site in May 1994. It hosted images, audio files, lyrics, copies of the NIN Discography and NIN FAQ from alt.music.nin, guitar tabs, interviews, and other files and information. Due to its reliable hosting, early launch, good design, and comprehensive content, it quickly became the most popular NIN fansite on the nascent World Wide Web. It went through three major site designs: a Downward Spiral theme when it launched, a Further Down the Spiral/Dissonance (pagan imagery) theme in 1995, and the final design, a Perfect Drug theme in 1997. In late 1995, it moved to its own domain: nothing.nin.net. Although it hasn't been updated since 1997, Patterson continues to own and host the website. [7]

nin.net also hosted the Hope and Vaseline Fanzine [8] and NIN News [9], one of the first NIN news websites, which Patterson continued to update through 1998.

Because of the popularity of the Unofficial Homepage, NIN management contracted with Patterson to have him build the official Nothing Records homepage in 1996 at nothingrecords.com (and eventually the official NIN web presence). Patterson provided semi-regular status updates on NIN News, but the site never launched. [10] Apparently, they parted ways in late 1998, probably coincident with when Patterson also stopped providing updates on NIN News, and the official nin.com website launched in May 1999, under Rob Sheridan's stewardship.