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Josh Freese has insisted no one "should feel sorry" for him after he was sacked by the Foo Fighters because he's very happy with his career now.

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He’s played with Lady Gaga, played on SNL, and co-founded Dub Trio – now Stu “Bassie” Brooks has officially joined Nine Inch Nails on bass

Brooks just played his first show with Trent Reznor and co. at the Smoothie King Center, New Orleans

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"They're lining up six hours before the show. They just scream when you go out on stage as if it's Beatlemania." Nine Inch Nails and Korn love them and they might have invented metal's sleaziest subgenre. This is the story of Health

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"Every time I opened Rolling Stone there was a picture of him in his underpants." How Mariah Carey, Cher, Whitney Houston, Courtney Love, Michael Stipe and more got savaged by one of the 90s' most brutal diss tracks

This classic 90s industrial metal banger is also one of the angriest

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"You know that feeling you get when somebody embarrasses themselves so badly you feel uncomfortable?" How a grunge legend alienated his entire fanbase with a curveball solo record, and why he had zero regrets about doing so

Not everyone wants to get on board when artists take a creative left turn

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Trent Reznor explains 'drummer swap' with Foo Fighters

Trent Reznor explained how his band Nine Inch Nails ended up swapping drummers with Foo Fighters after Josh Freese left Dave Grohl's group and joined NIN to be replaced in the Foo Fighters by NIN star Ilan Rubin.

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'The fuse has been lit and the desire is there': Nine Inch Nails working on new music

Nine Inch Nails have been back in the studio working on new music a year after losing their spark.

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"The fuse has been lit and the desire is there." Trent Reznor is prioritizing writing a new Nine Inch Nails album over any other projects

Keep your fingers crossed for new NIN music in 2026

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“People were going, ‘Hey man, I saw you’re on that Avril Lavigne record.’ I went, ‘Nah, I didn’t play on that.’ They go, ‘Your name’s on it!’”: The drummer who’s played on 400 albums has made one of his own – full of one-minute tracks

"I knocked out four or five songs in an evening"

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"It’s strange when you’re playing in front of 30 people, lip-syncing. Especially when you’re hanging upside down with a piece of meat behind you." How Nine Inch Nails' anthem of self-loathing and sleaze got twisted into the ultimate horny metal track

As Tommy Lee of Motley Crue once put it, Closer is "the ultimate **** song" - but it certainly wasn't written that way

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“I thought, ‘Enough. I don’t know that I need this kind of thing’”: In the early 90s, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor was at war with his label – so he did the most extreme thing he could

Between NIN’s Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral came Trent Reznor’s most extreme artistic statement

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"What would Van Gogh be worth if he had other artists dabbing their paint brushes on his canvas?" How Trent Reznor wrote Nine Inch Nails' first big hit - and why it annoyed the hell out of him

This dancefloor anthem turned Nine Inch Nails into household names in the 90s

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Sleep Token, Deftones, Linkin Park, Ghost, Spiritbox, Nine Inch Nails and more among 2026 rock and metal Grammy Award nominees

The 66th Annual Grammy Awards will take place in Los Angeles on February 1

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"Jonathan was just bugging out. So we thought, ‘That may work out if Chester sang on the verse’”: The unreleased Korn album we’ve been waiting 20 years to hear – complete with Chester Bennington collaboration

It features on one of metal’s great lost albums

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“I loved working with bands like Opeth and Marillion. I was starting to get a name for myself. But my New Year resolution was to learn to say ‘no’”: In 2009 this notorious workaholic was trying to do less. His career suggests it didn’t go that way

After over two decades making music, his main band had recently achieved global recognition and he’d just launched his debut solo album. Did he ever really slow down?

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“We were being told that we were going to be the new Nine Inch Nails, the new Nirvana, even though we don’t sound remotely like them”: The story of Godflesh – the cult metal duo worshipped by Metallica, Korn and Type O Negative

Godflesh are far from metal’s most famous band, but they’ve influenced Metallica, been asked to tour with Danzig and almost had one of their members hired by Faith No More

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Behind The Super Loud, Super Unique Soundscape Of 'Tron: Ares'

Sound designer Tormod Ringnes reveals what makes Tron sound like Tron.

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Dave Ball was not some bloke in the background of Soft Cell – he drove their startling, subversive sound

Far more than a mute foil to Marc Almond, Ball brought his love of northern soul and strange electronics to bear on some of Britain’s most uncompromising pop

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"Take cover." Foo Fighters announce 2026 stadium tour with Queens Of The Stone Age - listen to new Foos song Asking For A Friend now

Foo Fighters will be back on the road in 2026!

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Foo Fighters return with new song Asking For A Friend

Foo Fighters have a new song called Asking For A Friend on the way.

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“It’s almost cooler that we never did release it. It’s become this mythical thing now”: The lost Nine Inch Nails supergroup that could have united two of rock’s most iconic singers

This early 2000s project could have been asbolutely huge

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It Turns Out Nine Inch Nails Has An Actual Cameo In Tron: Ares

We had to take a "closer" look.

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Foo Fighters thrills fans with preview clip of new song

Foo Fighters have suggested fans won't have much longer to watch for new music.

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Sure, Tron: Ares Isn't The Best Movie Of The Year, But You Should Still See It In Theaters For One Specific Scene

It’ll give you something to believe in.

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Tron: Ares Is a Bad Movie, but a Great Nine Inch Nails Music Video

A pulsing electronic score turns a mediocre movie into a sick vibe.

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