5K Fragile Review in Kerrang! Magazine
In the latest issue of Kerrang! magazine features an awesome review of The Fragile with details from some new
tracks we've yet to hear. Here's a snippet from the review:
Acclaimed by Reznor himself as the best work of his life, "The Fragile" is ambitious, inventive and emotive. After
this, you may never want to hear Slipknot or Korn or Limp Bizkit again.
It begins, unexpectedly, with the funky strum of an acoustic guitar, although "Somewhat Damaged", the amusingly-titled
first track, quickly reveals classic NIN traits: a hypnotic, mechanised beat and a lyric full of self-loathing. 'Too fucked
up to care any more,' Reznor moans. He is a gothic rock icon, after all.
"The Day The World Went Away" follows, one of the album's key tracks, a gigantic rock roar interspersed with ominous lulls
and finished with a powerful 'na-na' chorus. Truly an anthem for the year 2000. Then comes "The Frail", a two-minute instrumental
evoking the eerie calm of Bowie's "Low", and "The Wretched", a cold, hard funk crunch as pervy as "Closer". Then it's the seven-minute
single "We're In This Together", a song with the raw power of early NIN and all the desperate romance of Bowie's "Heroes".
You can be read their full review here.
New Nothing Records Press Release
Nothing Records has sent SeemsLikeSalvation the latest Nine Inch Nails press release for The Fragile:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 15, 1999
NEW NINE INCH NAILS VIDEO DEBUTS TODAY ON MTV:
NEW ALBUM "THE FRAGILE" AVAILABLE IN STORES
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST:
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SHIPPED TO RETAILERS NATIONWIDE
New York Ğ nine inch nails debuted the video for "We're In This Together," the first single off of their highly anticipated
album "The Fragile," today at 4:45pm on MTV "Total Request Live." "We're In This Together" is the #1 most-added track at
Active Rock and Modern Rock radio stations nationwide.
This Tuesday, September 21, 1999, nothing records will release the "The Fragile." Over one million copies of the record have
been shipped to retailers nationwide. nine inch nails first full-length studio album in five years, "The Fragile" was produced
by Trent Reznor and engineer/mixer Alan Moulder. On CD, "The Fragile" features 23 tracks and will be available as a double disc set.
The cassette and vinyl editions will be offered in slightly different versions.Ê[The cassette (2 cassettes) version features an alternate
version of "Please." The vinyl (3 disc) version features 25 songs total; including slightly longer versions of "The Day The World Went Away,"
"Even Deeper," and "La Mer" as well as two additional tracks, "10 Miles High" and "The New Flesh."]
The media coverage of "The Fragile" will include exclusive interviews with nine inch nails' Trent Reznor in TIME magazine, The New York Times,
The Los Angeles Times, and USA TODAY.ÊIn the "New Season" preview of The New York Times, critic Jon Pareles stated: "
'The Fragile'seeks new nadirs of bitter disclosure matched to fine-tuned sonic assaults."
nine inch nails' official website is located at http://www.nin.com.
The official Nine Inch Nails website has removed the lyrics to The Fragile that NIN played at the MTV Video Music Awards last week and
has reuploaded the cover art to The Fragile album. Expect things to begin opening up at nin.com very shortly.
We're In this Together NIN Video To Debut On TRL
We were informed today that the highly anticipated Nine Inch Nails video, "We're In this Together"
will debut today on MTV's "Total Request Live". It's good to be sick on a day like this!!
NIN To Tour Paris In November
An advertisement in the "Elegy" magazine says The Fragile has a September 20th release in France. The advertisement
also says Nine Inch Nails will perform in Paris sometime in November, which yet again supports our earlier update.
Random Manson News
Marilyn Manson's latest music video, "Coma White" debuted on yesterday's edition of MTV's "Total Request Live" at #10.
Today is the one year anniversary of Marilyn Manson's "Mechanical Animals", which debuted at #1 on the charts. Happy birthday!
Manson's management informed SeemsLikeSalvation that Mechanical Animals has sold close to 3 million copies world wide.
Speaking of birthday's... Marilyn Manson's fianc* Rose McGowan turned 24 on September 5th.
New WITT Single Details
Weathermen Records has informed SeemsLikeSalvation that they have received word from their
distributor that the commercial release of "We're in This Together" will be released as a 2 part disc on October 8th, '99 and shipped out
on October 11th. The tracks as of today are unknown, but they are hoping that one of the discs will be enhanced, have non LP tracks,
or have something fun and exciting as a lot of two part discs have.
The retail price will be $10.99 and can be purchased at www.theweathermen.com. As soon as more information
arrives they will notify us.
Street Advertisements For The Fragile
The scan on the right are usually called Subway posters, but this an actual painting of The Fragile cover art. In this case the
Tower sunset is a highly visible store (lots of important people in the record business come to the store) rather than just send
posters and those little cardboard square things, the labels pay more money to have a painting/billboard
put up outside of the store to advertise the album. I'm told there are probably 30 of these paintings, which a group of artists
that are comissioned to paint these kind of things (most of them are shitty) for the labels once the label has bought the space at Tower.
Anyhow subway posters are giant like posters that advertise upcoming shows, events, or releases. This image was taken with a
polaroid camera in front of the Tower Sunset in LA, which went on display this evening. Although there are several of
these for different artists all along the outside of the store. The NIN painting is in a prominent position, which Interscope Records paid for.
Coma White Video Causes Small Issues
Here are two scans from reverse sides of a new Nine Inch Nails flats. The front is a higher quality scan of the cover
art to the North America release of "The Fragile" on September 21st, while the reverse side is the advertisement for The Fragile
and the promotional single "We're In This Together" which still has a commercial release outside of North America on October 11th.
Thanks a lot to: Mridziro weKarimba na Chawasrira
Free Fragile Weekend At FNX Network
FNX wrote us yesterday evening to explain that SeemsLikeSalvation News is the first to know that FNX is about to announce
"Free Fragile Weekend" with copies of the new Nine Inch Nails CD every 15 minutes; celebration commences on Monday night with
a live Tower Records release party.
(BOSTON) The FNX Radio Network, the Boston-based radio chain that debuted Nine Inch Nails' "The Day The World Went Away,"
"Starfuckers, Inc." and "We're In This Together" before any station in the free world, has announced plans for an entire weekend
dedicated to The Fragile, NIN's long-awaited double album.
The FNX "Free Fragile Weekend" will kick off on Friday, September 17th at 5:00. The station will give out free copies of the CD
every 15 minutes until Sunday evening, along with frequent giveaways to a Nine Inch Nails laser light show at Boston's Museum Of
Science. CDs will not be given away during specialty programming segments like "Spin Cycle" and "The Jazz Brunch"
In addition to spinning music from Trent Reznor's entire musical career, tracks from the new Nine Inch Nails disc may also be showcased during the promotion.
On Monday, September 20, FNX will invade Tower Records on Newbury Street in Boston with a special, one-time only live broadcast of
"Xtreme FNX." Thousands of fans are expected to visit Tower on Monday night for the store's midnight sale of "The Fragile." In addition
to live appearances from FNX deejays Adam 12 and Storm Zbel, FNX will also be handing out free, limited edition FNXNIN bumperstickers.
For more information on FNX's "Free Fragile Weekend," log on to the FNX Radio Network website at www.fnxradio.com.
NIN To Tour The Globe
For those who are anxious enough to see Nine Inch Nails tour since the three small appearances at the "Nights of
Nothing" tour in 1996 (supporting the Nothing bands). Start saving up your money now, because the tour of the millennium is just around
the corner and though this date is still unconfirmed for this years fall scheduled tour there is a high possibility this is true.
We mentioned last month on August 14th (read our "Nine Inch Nails Tentative Tour
Schedule" headline for more info) that the tentative tour schedule is: South America - October, Europe - October/November, Japan - early
January 2000, Australia - January/February 2000, including a North American tour Spring 2000. The tentative schedule is living up to be true
with an unconfirmed date at the 013 Arena in Tilburg, Holland on November 28th, 99. The venue couldn't give
any date on which the presale started, because NIN management couldn't confirm the gig till now. 013 is a 2,300 capacity venue, which only opened
in November 1998. It's the only venue in Holland, which was specifically built for pop music. Marilyn Manson played there on December 14th of last
year. I can warn you that tickets can go extremely fast. The Red Hot Chili Peppers gig at the 14,000 venue in the Hague sold out within the hour.
We'll keep you posted on the latest...
Two New NIN Tracks On The Fragile Tripple Vinyl
The triple vinyl to The Fragile, will contain two non-CD/TAPE tracks, according to NineInchNailsNews.com.
The tracks are: "The New Flesh" and "10 Miles High." This is similar to what NIN did with their "The Day The World Went Away"
vinyl featuring the Porter Ricks remix.
The Alternative Press: Industrial Strength Machine Music CD featuring a live track of "Gave Up" by Nine Inch Nails
amongst the 16 hard edge tracks that began the industrial scene came out today.
