9 Inch Nails followers could have needed to endure a 5 and a half 12 months wait from the band’s third studio album The Fragile in 1999 to the fourth, With Enamel, in 2005. However the internet outcome was the identical: a chart-topping album. The brand new set, produced by Trent Reznor and Alan Moulder, went straight to the highest of the Billboard 200 on Might 21, 2005.
With Enamel bought greater than 270,000 copies within the US in its first week. That was a considerable enhance on the already spectacular 228,000 opening tally of its predecessor. The album took over on the survey from Bruce Springsteen’s Devils & Mud, and stood as a doc of frontman and songwriter Trent Reznor’s private scenario throughout its making.
As soon as once more, its themes of dependancy and restoration reverberated strongly with NIN devotees. The album went on to a 43-week run on the chart and took simply two months from launch to be licensed gold by commerce physique the RIAA.
“The Hand That Feeds” served as a powerful opening observe for the album, leaping straight into the UK High 10 and the US High 40. It went to No.1 on Billboard’s Fashionable Rock Tracks chart and, impressively, so did the following two emphasis tracks from the set, “Only” and “Every Day Is Exactly The Same.”
Bristling and slamming
Critics have been usually upbeat about With Enamel, few extra so than Stylus journal, who described it as “current yet sounding potentially classic already.” E! On-line talked of its “dark, scary and paranoid gut punches,” whereas the New York Occasions noticed that “nearly every song bristles and slams.”
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Entertainment Weekly, in the meantime, made the poignant commentary: “Reznor seems to have finally grasped that listening to a NIN album should not be as torturous as whatever artistic agony went into its creation.”
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