Nine Inch NailsBest Nine Inch Nails Albums Ranked
8.1
Avg Score
124
Opinions
32
Albums
17
Reviewers
Summary from 124 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Nine Inch Nails's catalog across 32 albums from 124 opinions, with an overall average of 8.1/10. The top-rated Nine Inch Nails album is The Downward Spiral (1994) with a 8.4/10 average from 11 ratings, followed by Pretty Hate Machine and Ghosts VI: Locusts. The discography on Wavelength spans 1989 to 2026. Closer ranks as the highest-rated Nine Inch Nails song on Wavelength with a 9.6/10 average.
The Downward Spiral
1994
Pretty Hate Machine
1989
Ghosts VI: Locusts
2020
Bad Witch
2018
Live: And All That Could Have Been
2002
Hesitation Marks
2013
The Slip
2008
Broken - EP
1992
Ghosts V: Together
2020
Still
2002
Not The Actual Events
2016
Lost Highway (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
1997
Add Violence - EP
2017
Ghosts V–VI
2020
Year Zero
2007
TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2025
TRON Ares: Divergence
2026
With Teeth
2005
Add Violence
2017
Every Day Is Exactly the Same (Remixes)
2006
The Fragile
1999
Ghosts I-IV
2008
Things Falling Apart
1999
Closer
The Downward Spiral
The Downward Spiral
The Downward Spiral
Hurt
The Downward Spiral
March of the Pigs
The Downward Spiral
Ruiner
The Downward Spiral
Heresy
The Downward Spiral
Bad Witch
““Got a new face, it feels alright,” Trent Reznor bellows mere seconds into ‘Bad Witch’’s chaotic opener, the brilliantly-titled ‘Shit Mirror’. It’s a slight stretch of a statement – ‘Bad Witch’ is less a new visage for Nine Inch Nails, and more a refining of everything that already made them such a formidable force. Plastic surgery on an already chiselled jawline, if you will. Not that it matters ”
The Downward Spiral
“Interscope takes further advantage of the holiday shopping blowout with this deluxe edition of yet another 90s alt-rock staple. Here's Trent Reznor's best-known (and most highly regarded) work, The Downward Spiral, bulked up to include Dolby 5.1 surround and SACD mixes, and an entire second disc's worth of B-sides, remixes and rarities.”
The Downward Spiral
“Nine Inch Nails achieve a new kind of loud on The Downward Spiral: accessible hard-rock moves overlaid with a scrim of electronic racket, white noise, screams, the kind of blown-speaker rattle that seems to use the limitations of crappy stereo equipment the way that Hendrix riffed on the distortion that howled from overdriven Marshall stacks. […]”
Ghosts V–VI
“a timely two-part dip into daydreams and nightmares”
Bad Witch
“Nine Inch Nails' Bad Witch is their finest work in over a decade”
Bad Witch
“Trent Reznor’s third EP-length NIN release in the last two years is the best of the lot, with a raw and rough sound that feels both unfinished and alive.”
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