Nine Inch Nails “Zero-Sum” from the 2007 album “Year Zero”.

I have to confess to currently not being the best-informed NIN fan: I only own “The Downward Spiral” and “Year Zero” (both of which I stole from my brother over the years). That said, every time these records come back into my rotation I can’t quite understand why I haven’t yet sought out the rest of the back catalogue for more powerful/intense/unsettling/amazing music.

One day I will delve into all of the other recordings, and have no doubt that I’ll be fully consumed with them. In the meantime, I’ve just listened to this track on repeat five times in a row…

And for MASSIVE fans of Trent Reznor’s work, one track you may not have heard but you should definitely invest in is his appearance on El-P’s “Flyentology” (watch/listen here - unfortunately the vocal levels are a bit off, but you get the idea).