Nine Inch Nails

American industrial rock project created by Trent Reznor in 1988 — which produced The Downward Spiral, one of the most commercially successful alternative albums of the 1990s — and whose song Hurt became even more famous when Johnny Cash covered it in 2002.

Produced industrial rock's commercial breakthrough — making aggressive electronic music accessible to a mainstream audience — and created Hurt, a song so perfectly structured that it became more famous in its cover version than the original.