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“When Nine Inch Nails released the double-album The Fragile in 1999, it was an eye-opening record for Loïc and me in many ways,” guitarist Robin Staps writes, mentioning their former vocalist Loïc Rossetti with whom the band recorded this tribute: “The sheer scope of this album, the production marrying fat electronics with broken, organic, and acoustic elements that are intentionally slightly out of tune – no one else had done it like that before. Initially, we wanted to cover ‘The Great Below’, but someone had already picked that track, which made ‘Even Deeper’ our second choice. In hindsight, we were lucky with that. It is the perfect track for us and I like to think that we managed to make it ours, while honouring the original. Special thanks go out to Simen from Spurv and Orestis from Playgrounded for contributing trombone and synths. This is also a farewell, big thank you, and send-off to Loïc, as it was the final track that we recorded with him on vocals!”
The Ocean, also known as The Ocean Collective, are a fascinating musical beast. Partly for lack of a more suitable and also commonly understood category, the band is often labelled as post-metal yet also contains progressive elements, classical instrumentation, and sludge among many other stylistic influences. Whatever label is attached to them, they have always remained as a unique yet recognisable musical entity despite cycling through many phases and experiments.
The Ocean came into existence when composer and guitarist Robin Staps moved to Berlin at the end of the year 2000. Gathering a first line-up, the band moved into the cellar of an old aluminium factory from the second world war. The resulting rehearsal, studio, and living space was named Oceanland and all their albums until 2007 were recorded there. Robin Staps has remained at the core of The Ocean as the band has experienced a continuous change of line-up with a plethora of amazing musicians contributing to or leaving their personal mark on the band either as members or guests. As expected, this has lead to a richly diverse discography of which, among many other releases, the acclaimed tenth full-length Holocene (2023) is their latest.
Parallel to the companion album Best of Nine Inch Nails Redux, Magnetic Eye Records will release The Downward Spiral Redux that contains 14 cover renditions of the original album tracks in sequence, recorded by some of the most compelling artists in hard and heavy music today.
Best of Nine Inch Nails Redux tracklisting:
01 Snakemother – The Day the World Went Away / Sin
02 Blue Heron – Head Like a Hole
03 Graycon – Right Where It Belongs
04 The Ocean – Even Deeper
05 Evi Vine – This Isn’t the Place
06 Nonexistent Night – The Perfect Drug
07 The Moth Gatherer – The Hand That Feeds
08 Chrome Ghost – Every Day Is Exactly the Same
09 Marissa Nadler – The Great Below
10 Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree – Over & Out
11 Thou – Suck
12 Orbiter – Terrible Lie
13 Bleakheart – Something I Could Never Have
Best of Nine Inch Nails Redux is available as a gatefold transparent yellow green vinyl 2LP, a gatefold marbled silver & white vinyl 2LP, and as a Digisleeve CD.
Enhance your Redux experience of Magnetic Eye Records and friends, who are respectfully paying homage to US-industrial rock legends Nine Inch Nails and their 1994 milestone album The Downward Spiral, with the additional of even more spectacular deep cuts and classics offered on the companion album Best of Nine Inch Nails Redux.
At this moment, the world’s reliance on machines, algorithms, and artificial intelligence has never been greater. This makes now the perfect time to reflect on the emergence of a musical force whose blend of mechanized instrumentation and raw emotion was singular and revolutionary. Nine Inch Nails were formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1988. They arrived around the same time as grunge when Generation X was developing an awareness of itself, but while there was cross-appeal, the sound they created was clearly and intentionally something very different.
The skepticism of that era came through in the music, with artists from Rage Against The Machine to Nirvana pushing back against what were acceptable words and actions in our society, and everything from the ideals of what major musicians should do with their fame to what people and corporations stood for were fair targets. Nine Inch Nails were at least twice as cynical as everyone else and reflected the singular, driven musical expression of mastermind Trent Reznor. The music he made as NIN has always ranged from infectious, furious, delicate, and sexual to transgressive, uplifting, cautionary, and hopeless. While Reznor did not always make broad, blunt statements about politics, materialism or repression (though he definitely did at times), there was a consistently restless quality to his music. His frustration at the veneer of normalcy and acceptability that characterized modern popular music was palpable, and he seemed to search endlessly for seams to peel back and rip loose to expose what was underneath.
Join MER in paying homage to one of rock’s most ambitious innovators and angriest Gen X voices railing against the status quo, as they present our latest Redux Series installment The Downward Spiral Redux, along with the traditional companion album Best of Nine Inch Nails Redux. The two double album collections together comprise 27 re-imagined renditions by some of today’s coolest and heaviest artists taking on Nine Inch Nails classics and deep cuts.
The Magnetic Eye Redux Series features hand-picked classic albums from across the history of rock and metal re-imagined in their entirety from start to finish. Artists we love from within and outside the heavy rock landscape choose tracks to make their own, bringing these milestone records into the new millennium with crushing heaviness and searing energy. To date, we’ve produced Redux editions of Pink Floyd‘s The Wall, Helmet‘s Meantime, Black Sabbath‘s Vol. 4, Jimi Hendrix‘s Electric Ladyland, Alice In Chains‘ Dirt, AC/DC‘s Back in Black, Soundgarden‘s Superunknown, Jethro Tull‘s Aqualung, and Ramones‘ self-titled debut, which have included artists like Red Fang, The Sword, Matt Pike, Pallbearer, The Melvins, All Them Witches, Khemmis, ASG, Supersuckers, Zakk Wylde, Mark Lanegan, Voivod, and many more amazing artists.