The Nine Inch Nails story remains one of modern rock's most inexplicably alluring, frontman Trent Raznor has created a legend of almost impenetrable mystique around himself and the band. This 12 track CD featuring top names in the US underground scene pays tribute to industrial music's finest.

Burn Anachromatic / Heresy Substance / Happiness In Slavery Bile / Starf**Kers Inc Wormhole / Big Man With A Gun Transient / March Of The Pigs Owl / Kinda I Want To Nocturne / Head Like A Hole Razorblade Smile / Hurt The Razor Skyline / Reptile Anno Daemonicus / Terrible Lie Transient / Into The Void /The Day The World Went Away Wormhole

Why change a winning formula? Due to the outstanding success of our first tribute to Trent Reznor and co., here's a second helping! Featured are the best up and coming industrial bands paying their respects to the "high-tech, raw edged aural assaults" that have become synonymous with the "Nails". The Nine Inch Nails story remains one of modern rock's most inexplicably alluring with front man Reznor creating a legend of almost impenetrable mystique around himself and the band.

Terrible Lie / Guenter Schulz / Sin / Razed In Black / Heresy / The Electric Hellfire Club / Burn /Synical / Sanctified / Inertia / We're In This Together / The Filmstrip / Last / The Lucifer Scale / Hurt / Necromantik Sunshine / Ringfinger / Nova Mortuba / Gave Up / Stun Gun / The Only Time / Godbox / Reptile / Porcupine Defense / Suck / Goteki

Industrial music has a long and freakish history, slammed full of far more questions than there could ever be answers. Where did it start, who was responsible, what does it mean, where did it go? For some, the story starts with Throbbing Gristle; for others, it dates further back still, into the misty realms of the early 20th century and the first electronic music experiments. For others, it dates back to Ministry's transformation from clean-coiffed New Wave pop stars into unkempt motor-neurone madmen. And for anybody brought up on the college rock radio stations of the very early 1990s, it began the first time they heard Nine Inch Nails. The Nine Inch Nails story remains one of modern rock's most inexplicably alluring. Despite having just three full length albums to his name, "Pretty Hate Machine," "The Downward Spiral" and "The Fragile," frontman Trent Reznor has created a legend of almost impenetrable mystique around himself and his band, fashioning a coccoon of darkness, distortion and disinformation which imbibes his every pronouncement with a portentousness which leaves other would-be iconoclasts in the dust.

The "pigs" saga, whereby he rented a house in the Hollywood Hills, only to discover, much later on, that it was the scene of the infamous Manson murders; the bizarre chain of events which led to a full scale murder investigation after one of his video props was found in a field; the media-frenzied coverage of his relationships with the likes of Al Jourgensen, David Bowie and Marilyn Manson... all of these things - and more - have seen Reznor and Nine Inch Nails assume a domination of American rock in the 1990s far out of proportion with their actual recorded output. Or so it seems. But then you listen to those records and suddenly, even that makes sense - no light-hearted flirtation with a passing gloomy mood for Nine Inch; their albums are not simple collections of songs, they are encapsulations of entire moods and emotions, an intensity which rolls between madness and misery, hope and hubris, but never relinquishes its iron talon- like grip on the listener's psyche.

Other bands make records. Nine Inch Nails record souls. And while the sonic sensations of their sound do indeed match most people's designation of Industrial music, they have also melded it, until the greatest challenge facing the bands featured on this, the first ever Nine Inch Nails tribute album, was not to recreate what Reznor did with the songs when he recorded them, it was to discover what else he could have done. Of course, Reznor himself has already made a similar gesture, punctuating his own album releases with a stream of EPs and remixes which do indeed attack his best-known songs from wholly different musical and emotional perspectives. But that only added further challenge to this collection and it is indeed a sign of the ensuing triumph that, the next time those questions arise - where did it start, who was responsible, what does it mean, where did it go? - you'll be able to play this album and wonder no longer. The answer is: wherever, whatever and whoever you want. Nine Inch Nails made sure of that.

Closer Rosetta Stone / Piggy Sigue Sigue Sputnik / Starfuckers Inc/ Razed In Black / The Perfect Drug Dkay/com / Mr Self Destruct Candymachine 88 / Terrible Lie Newleydeads / Down On It Meeks / Head Like A Hole Pig / Wish Sheep On Drugs / That's What I Get 16 Volt Vs Spahn Ranch / Something I Can Never Have Shining / Reptile Interface Vs Sinboy