Nine Inch Nails

For the wikipedia entry on Nine Inch Nails, go here.

Nine Inch Nails is the studio name for Trent Reznor, as well as the name of the band hired by him to perform songs while on tour. The next album is Year Zero.

Several rumors have persisted about the origins of the name "Nine Inch Nails", one being that Reznor chose to reference the story of Jesus' crucifixion with nine inch long spikes. Others claimed that Reznor was inspired by the sight of nine inch fingernails on Freddy Krueger.[8] Reznor asserts that he coined the name partly because it "abbreviated easily", rather than for "any literal meaning". Gary Talpas and Reznor designed the Nine Inch Nails logo that first appeared on NIN's debut, "Down in It" (which consists of the letters "NIN" set inside a border with the second "N" reversed), inspired by Tibor Kalman's typography on the Talking Heads album cover for Remain in Light. Talpas would continue to design NIN packaging art through the 1997 double VHS Closure.