Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral: This Is (Not) An Exit

This album was a foundational influence for me as a writer, if the fact that I use The Downward Spiral font for every video I make didn’t make it obvious enough. The raw footage for this video clocked in at 3 hours and 40 minutes, and was recorded over four days.

Forgot to mention, but along with “The Perfect Drug,” “Driver Down,” released by Trent Reznor under his own name on that soundtrack, is friggin great too. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver is also worth checking out. The soundtrack uses some sounds that remind me of TDS. From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell as well.

Video by Noah McAlister

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - nine inch nails' the downward spiral: this is (not) an exit
03:42 - background
07:14 - the concept
10:10 - mr. self destruct
15:30 - piggy
20:33 - heresy
23:59 - march of the pigs
28:58 - closer
33:57 - ruiner
40:44 - the becoming
44:39 - i do not want this
48:27 - big man with a gun
49:57 - a warm place
52:28 - eraser
54:33 - reptile
56:35 - the downward spiral
57:42 - hurt
01:03:10 - some thoughts on interpretation
01:11:17 - b-sides and remixes
01:16:47 - after the downward spiral
01:20:28 - recommendations
01:22:57 - credits
01:23:00 - eraser audition

MUSIC
Northern Journey OST “Fallcrush”
SIGNALIS OST “Cigarette Wife”
SIGNALIS OST “Warm Light”
SIGNALIS OST “Crepuscular”
Iron Lung OST “Amid Bones”
Silent Hill OST “Rising Sun”
SIGNALIS OST “Home”
SIGNALIS OST “Teeth”
Silent Hill OST “Block Mind”
SIGNALIS OST “Turned Around”
SIGNALIS OST “Dowsing
SIGNALIS OST “Bodies”
Iron Lung OST “Lowering the Casket”
SIGNALIS OST “Casual Loop”
SIGNALIS OST “Eternity in a Box”
SIGNALIS OST “Dream Diary”
SIGNALIS OST “Safe Room”
SIGNALIS OST "Ewige Wiederkunft”
Resident Evil 5 OST “Item Box 1”
SIGNALIS OST “Rotfront (Moon)”
Buckshot Roulette OST “Overdose Casino”
Iron Lung OST “Ghostlight”
Iron Lung OST “Through the Veil”
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver OST “Necropolis Problem”
Buckshot Roulette OST “Monochrome LCD”
Resident Evil 4 OST “Serenity”
Silent Hill 4: The Room OST “Waverer”
SIGNALIS OST “Visions of Alina”
SIGNALIS OST “Ritual”
Iron Lung OST “It Wakes”
Iron Lung OST “Voices in the Deep”
Silent Hill OST “Until Death”
Silent Hill OST “Tears Of…”
Silent Hill OST “Not Tomorrow 1”
Buckshot Roulette OST “70K”
Silent Hill 2 Complete Soundtrack “Unseen”
Silent Hill 2 OST “Fermata In Mistic Air”
SIGNALIS OST “Ritual”
Demon’s Souls “Character Creation Theme”
Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines “World Spirit Map”
Silent Hill 2 “Terror In The Depths Of The Fog”


VARIOUS LINKS
-Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place (Illum Tangendo):    • Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place (Illum Tang...  
-NIN/BOWIE performing “Hurt” -    • David Bowie Nine Inch Nails Hurt (excellen...  
-Big ups to the NIN live archive (where I grabbed most of the Bowie tours pics): https://ninlive.com/shows/1995/199509...
-SPIN magazine article - https://books.google.com/books?id=td2...
-There’s a really excellent Song Exploder episode on Netflix that covers “Hurt” and features Trent Reznor in about 2020 talking about the song and what he was thinking during the making of it, along with isolating its various track. Good watch


PLAYLISTS
Nine Inch Nails playlist -    • nine inch nails vids  

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