The album spawned two singles, ' March of the Pigs' and ' Closer', in addition to the promotional singles ' Piggy' and ' Hurt'. The album was influenced by late-1970s rock music albums such as David Bowie's Low and Pink Floyd's The Wall in particular, and focused on texture and space. It was used as a studio called 'Le Pig' for recording Broken (1992) and The Downward Spiral with collaborations from other musicians. In 1992, Reznor moved to 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, where actress Sharon Tate was murdered by members of the Manson Family. The Downward Spiral features elements of industrial rock, techno and heavy metal, in contrast to the band's synth-pop-influenced debut album Pretty Hate Machine (1989), and was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and Flood. It is a concept album detailing the destruction of a man from the beginning of his 'downward spiral' to his death by suicide.
The Downward Spiral is the second studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on March 8, 1994, by Nothing Records and Interscope Records in the United States and by Island Records in Europe.
