Head Like a Hole
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| Single by Nine Inch Nails | |||||||||||||
| from the album Pretty Hate Machine | |||||||||||||
| Released | March 22, 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Format | Compact Disc, 12" | ||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1989 | ||||||||||||
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| Length | 5:00 | ||||||||||||
| Label | TVT | ||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Trent Reznor | ||||||||||||
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"Head Like a Hole" is a song by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. A song influenced by industrial metal group Ministry, it was released as the second single from the group's debut album Pretty Hate Machine. The song received an almost overwhelmingly positive response from critics, and has been noted as one of the most popular tracks from the album.
"Head Like a Hole" nearly charted on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at 9th on the Bubbling Under chart while faring better on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart peaking at 28th. It enjoyed heavy rotation on the radio at the time. It has also been covered by new wave band Devo, Christian rock band Showbread, indie rock band Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives, punk rock band AFI and nu metal band Korn.
Trent Reznor wrote "Head Like a Hole" in 1988, after touring with Skinny Puppy. Flood, Adrian Sherwood, and Keith LeBlanc were co-producers of the song, and it was recorded in 1989. "Head Like a Hole" was one of the last songs completed for the album, since Flood did not arrive to the studio until the completion of Depeche Mode's Violator (1990).
"Head Like a Hole" has been classified as an industrial rock and electronic rock song. Also recognized as an "industrial dance anthem," it takes its influence from Ministry, as well as the thrash metal genre. The tempo is 115 BPM, and it is played in the key of E.
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