Awesome Nine Inch Nails

A group of talented kids celebrated their friend’s birthday with a kick-ass performance of the Nine Inch Nails track Wish. The music video serves as a fundraiser for the O’Keefe Music Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps offer free music lessons and music camps to young musicians. Crank up the volume to 11 for this one. (Thanks, Myriam!)

There I Ruined It continues to create insane new versions of songs using AI-generated voices. This time, he took the Nine Inch Nails somg Hurt (Quiet) and combined it with The Beach Boys hit Surfin’ U.S.A. The resulting track is something we like to call Summertime Sadness 2.0.

Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral is a dark industrial masterpiece. MawinSwag took the entire album and performed it using the sounds from Nintendo’s Mario 64. The Mushroom Kingdom descends into madness with tracks like Mr. Self Destruct, Closer, Reptile, and Hurt. Piggy got a copyright strike, so skip over that part and find it here.

Equipped with her electric guitar, a microphone, effects pedals, and loop box, multitalented musician Kawehi follows up on her breakout performance of Nine Inch Nails’ Closer with a fantastic street corner cover of The Hand That Feeds. Who knew Lawrence, Kansas was so cool?

Musical mashup and meme maker William Maranci managed to assemble this brilliant mashup just in time for Halloween, somehow blending together Ray Parker Jr.’s theme from Ghostbusters with Nine Inch Nails’ industrial classic Closer.

Created by Brendan Becker aka Inverse Phase in 2012, Pretty Eight Machine is an awesome tribute to the music of Nine Inch Nails, performed on 8-bit gaming and computer sound chips. Now, you can pre-order it as a vinyl double album. The set includes 13 tracks from the SE release, and will be pressed on splatter art discs.

(PG-13: Language) If Trent Reznor was making music during the 1970s, it might have sounded something like this industrial-disco smashup by editor William Maranci, who once again proves that there are no two genres that can’t be combined as Lipps, Inc’s Funkytown and Nine Inch Nails Closer become one.

Aussie pianist Josh Cohen is back with another beautiful cover version – this time expanding on Nine Inch Nails and Johnny Cash’s Hurt with a moving and engrossing 11-minute arrangement of Trent Reznor’s dark and disturbing track.

(Flashing lights) “So what are you waiting for? You got what you asked for. Did it fix what was wrong with you?” The music video for Nine Inch Nails’ single was made with a modified version of Llamasoft’s PS4 virtual reality shooter Polybius.

Trent Reznor and frequent film-score collaborator Atticus Ross teamed up to create this dark, distorted, cinematic, and sonically stellar five-song EP that recalls the greatest industrial sounds of classic Nine Inch Nails, while still sounding completely fresh.

Isosine created this unlikely, yet absolutely brilliant remix of Taylor Swift’s pop hit Shake it Off and Nine Inch Nails’ dark soliloquy The Perfect Drug. It’s the musical equivalent of Black Swan. Download the MP3 here.

Fred Scott professes that Trent Reznor is one of his musical heroes but that doesn’t keep him from playfully but perfectly calling out the Nine Inch Nails frontman on his rather reliable songwriting process. (Thanks G. Pelabras!)

“Wave goodbye, wish me well, I’ve become something else.” Trent Reznor’s single is of a man who’s no longer waiting to get to the end of the tunnel because he’s filled it with his own light. From his upcoming LP Hesitation Marks.

(NSFW: Lyrics) Sit back, crank up your speakers to 11 and thrash your head to this masterful 22-song performance from Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails – the highlight of this past weekend’s Lollapalooza in Chicago. (Thanks Dave!)

Trent Reznor’s side project sated us for a while but the news that the first Nine Inch Nails album in 5 years is releasing 9/3/13 made us thirsty all over again. Go ahead and drink down the first single, Came Back Haunted.