Broken is an EP album by the American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released in 1992. The EP was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and Flood. It is considerably heavier and takes much more influence from industrial metal and noise rock than Pretty Hate Machine, which was more oriented towards synthpop.
After the commercial and critical success of Pretty Hate Machine, TVT Records pressured Trent Reznor to record a similar al...
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Broken is an EP album by the American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released in 1992. The EP was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and Flood. It is considerably heavier and takes much more influence from industrial metal and noise rock than Pretty Hate Machine, which was more oriented towards synthpop.
After the commercial and critical success of Pretty Hate Machine, TVT Records pressured Trent Reznor to record a similar album that had potential successful singles. Steve Gottlieb, the CEO of TVT Records, was insistent that he would not release anything other than an album much like Pretty Hate Machine. This led to Reznor demanding his label to terminate his contract, because he felt like their meddling was hindering his musical integrity. This argument between his label led Reznor to disappear for a few years, where he was, in fact, recording his new EP, which he planned to make much heavier, and a precursor to his future album The Downward Spiral. During this...
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