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Pretty Hate Machine
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<p><i>Pretty Hate Machine</i> is the debut studio album by the American <a href="/facts/Industrial_rock/3QsITeG9">industrial rock</a> band <a href="/facts/Nine_Inch_Nails/8KMe39qN">Nine Inch Nails</a>, released by <a href="/facts/TVT_Records/SWwou2kL">TVT Records</a> on October 20, 1989. Frontman <a href="/facts/Trent_Reznor/7wm0tTdk">Trent Reznor</a> sang and performed most of the instruments, also producing the album alongside <a href="/facts/Keith_LeBlanc/kuc4CNEI">Keith LeBlanc</a>, <a href="/facts/John_Fryer_(producer)/SxtaPL1g">John Fryer</a> and <a href="/facts/Flood_(producer)/Du8CwnVj">Flood</a>, with a few other contributors. </p><p>The album features a heavily <a href="/facts/Synthesizer/NrmdVrPa">synthesizer</a>-driven electronic sound blended with <a href="/facts/Industrial_music/Ua77gRPB">industrial</a> and <a href="/facts/Rock_music/zBM2guyQ">rock</a> elements. Much like the band's later work, the album's lyrics contain themes of <a href="/facts/Angst/bsEf5I7L">angst</a>, <a href="/facts/Betrayal/MEH61qS8">betrayal</a>, and <a href="/facts/Lovesickness/4q8RJJJo">lovesickness</a>. The record was promoted with the singles "<a href="/facts/Down_in_It/0MCoCjTu">Down in It</a>", "<a href="/facts/Head_Like_a_Hole/4ueQV9AY">Head Like a Hole</a>", and "<a href="/facts/Sin_(song)/HYY80ePg">Sin</a>", as well as <a href="/facts/Pretty_Hate_Machine_Tour_Series/8KMe39qN">the accompanying tour</a>. A remastered edition was released in 2010. </p><p>Although the record was successful, reaching No. 75 in the US and receiving highly favorable reviews from critics, Reznor feuded with TVT over promotion of the album and eventually signed with <a href="/facts/Interscope_Records/lUbcuepS">Interscope Records</a>. <i>Pretty Hate Machine</i> was later certified triple-platinum by <a href="/facts/Recording_Industry_Association_of_America/8a7K0Ubf">RIAA</a>, becoming one of the first independently released albums to do so, and was included on several lists of the best releases of the 1980s. In 2020, <i><a href="/facts/Rolling_Stone/HhCFoJ9F">Rolling Stone</a></i> ranked <i>Pretty Hate Machine</i> at number 453 on its "<a href="/facts/Rolling_Stone%2527s_500_Greatest_Albums_of_All_Time/40CPshrf">500 Greatest Albums of All Time</a>" list. </p>