The 1990s were an exciting period in music history because that is when the organic elements of rock music truly started being blended with the sort of glitchy, electronic embellishments that became all the rage once the digital era properly kicked in, after the turn of the millennium. And American act Nine Inch Nails (NIN) is one band that epitomised this crossing over of the past and the future, marrying a hard industrial rock ethos with electronic inputs that made front man Trent Reznor a force to be reckoned with.

Nine Inch Nails blend industrial rock with electronic elements