Also, the Trump assassination attempt was planned and staged. And I think there's a decent chance that Charlie Kirk was a false flag in an attempt to create a Republican Horst Wessel.

Epstein didn't kill himself.

Things I listened to in the past week. #musicsky #metalsky #industrialsky

1. Archspire — Too Fast To Die
2. Nine Inch Noize — Nine Inch Noize
3. Archspire — Bleed The Future
4. Neural Glitch — HypNOTic ImpAIrment
5. Nine Inch Noize — Live at Coachella 2026
6. Ophidian I — Desolate

Fuck yeah.

Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds - Situation (Official Video) YouTube video by Johnny Blue Skies

You know, you'd think I would have learned to expect the unexpected when it comes to Sturgill Simpson, and yet here I am trying to wrap my head around the fact that he dropped a bunch of disco songs about fucking. Love the dude. #musicsky #countrysky?

Nine Inch Nails, Boys Noize - Memorabilia (Nine Inch Noize Version) YouTube video by NineInchNailsVEVO

So I love the Nine Inch Noize album and think it's great, but I'm not wild about the crowd noise. I would be more okay with it if it was consistent, but there's gaps between songs where it's not there and it bugs me. I almost prefer the Coachella rip floating around for that reason. #musicsky

Breakfast YouTube video by Tub Ring - Topic

TUB RING IS BACK

#musicsky #metalsky

The man on the left is a cannibal who murdered and ate his mother. The man on the right is, of course, Stephen Miller, the architect of much of Trump's vile policies. It's probably just a coincidence that they both have the same dead, soulless eyes.

HAHAHA HE DID IT AGAIN

Okay, this is a good one.

Trump Escalates Feud With Unclear Adversary By Posting AI Video Of Self Fucking Basketball WASHINGTON—Shocking Truth Social followers with a graphic insult to a nebulous opponent, President Donald Trump escalated a feud with an unclear adversary Monday by posting an AI video of himself fuck...

“The president is clearly enraged at somebody, but the clip provides far too little context to know who exactly is meant to be targeted,” said political analyst Allen Mueller

Nine Inch Noize - Heresy - Live at Coachella 2026 YouTube video by Coachella

FUUUUUUCK THIS IS SO GOOD

Mariqueen as co-vocalist is a fantastic addition. Really hope this is on the album that drops later this week! #musicsky #industrialsky

JD Vance did to Orban's regime what he did to the Pope.

Things I listened to in the past week.#musicsky #metalsky

1. Archspire — Too Fast To Die
2. Nine Inch Nails — Year Zero
3. Nine Inch Nails — With Teeth
4. SkyTigers — Injustice For All
5. Nine Inch Nails — The Fragile
6. Aberrant Extermination Impulsion — grindcore is dead... long live grindcore

THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL - NIN - YouTube

... of it). It's an brilliant and informative series and well with your time. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

... as well as 'Heresy' and 'The Downward Spiral') to the source of the various samples and sounds (like I never would have guessed that the humming and clicking sounds at the beginning of 'Eraser' were both created by humming/blowing through the mouthpiece of a saxophone detached from the rest...

... series of music theory breakdowns on this entire album (along with other NIN tracks and music by other artists) and the attention to detail is staggering, from the various motifs that recur throughout the album (like the piano melody at the end of 'Closer' that also shows up in 'Piggy'...

... really excellent) and some not as great, but you really can't beat the original. There was no doubt in my mind that The Downward Spiral would be the top of this list.

As a side note, I want to give a shout-out to a woman on YouTube named ixi who is an incredible musician. She did a full...

... 5 favorite albums ever in any genre. I've heard some covers of some of the songs, some great (Johnny Cash's take on 'Hurt' still hits me like a goddamn truck, and the now-defunct band From Exile released a four-track EP of NIN covers that includes 'Ruiner' and 'A Warm Place' that are...

... years later when my then-girlfriend (whom I later married) told me that, despite listening mostly to country music, The Downward Spiral was one of her favorite albums, and so I decided to give it a go. And I'll be damned... it grew on me. It's become a desert island album for me, one of my...

... my experience with industrial music came in the form of various projects from Celdweller's Klayton, namely Circle Of Dust, Argyle Park, and Chatterbox) and I distinctly remember saying that the vocals sounded like they were filtered through a McDonald's drive-thru speaker. It wasn't until...

... of the power loader from Aliens. The whole album is bleak, angry, and unconventional, and when I first heard it (in my high school computer class, where people were allowed to bring in CDs to play in the computers' CD drives) I didn't really get it. I was expecting something heavier (most of...

Even the song's guitar solo (generally a rarity for NIN) it's so processed that it sounds almost entirely alien. There's a variety of samples from movies; the opening moments of 'Mr. Self Destruct' are taken from THX 1138 and looped, while the mechanical sounds from 'Reptile' are mutated samples...

... of songwriting. The same goes for 'Ruiner', clearly a personal favorite of mine. It's a heavy song, but unconventionally so, eschewing recognizable guitar parts in favor of distorted beats, barely audible vocals, and on the epic chorus a blaring synth that almost sounds like a digitized trumpet.

... fuck you like an animal" has definitely been misinterpreted in its day and has caused people to miss the entire point of the song), but when you really listen to it, the way that it starts with a simple beat and builds, builds, builds until stripping it all away, it's an incredible piece...

... 'Pigs', and 'Heresy', but there's a lot of different outlets for that anger. 'Closer' is easily Reznor's best known work and remains one of the most improbable radio hits of all time thanks to its examination of sex as an outlet for self-destruction and its chorus (the phrase "I wanna...

... to shy away from his protagonist's dark indulgences. Where the Broken EP was all hot rage and anger, The Downward Spiral is cold, mechanical, and directs its anger in various different directions. There's still elements of the raw fury from Broken, as on 'Mr. Self Destruct', 'March Of The...

... massive, the industrial equivalent of The Wall, and it reached millions of people with its dark tale of its protagonist spiraling into nihilism and darkness, stripping away his humanity and actively self-destructing. It's a bleak, dark topic to cover, and Reznor does so unflinchingly, refusing..

Ruiner Ranks: Nine Inch Nails #musicsky #metalsky #industrialsky

1: The Downward Spiral

Yeah, like the guy who got his user name from a song on this album wasn't going to make it number 1.

Sometimes the obvious answer is still the right answer. The Downward Spiral was, and remains, absolutely...