It's hard to believe that Nine Inch Nails' mile stone, "The Downward Spiral", has been out for ten years. Their label, Interscope, took this fact as occasion to do an exquisite re-release...

People who know The Cure's deluxe edition of "Three Imaginary Boys" know that Universal come down handsomely when it comes to deluxe edition's packaging. In 2005, "The Downward Spiral" comes in the same double digipak as The Cure's first record, and of course it includes different tracks than the '94 original issue.
Disc one is now an SACD, playable on super audio as well as normal CD players, even if just SACD player owners will get to know all details, as the record was completely mastered and mixed in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.
The most interesting thing about this release is, especially for collectors, the package's second CD for which Trent Reznor pushed out some b-sides, demos, non album tracks and remixes.
Look forward to new, other or rare versions of classics like „Burn“, „Dead Souls“, „All The Pigs, All Lined Up“ or „Liar“. This re-release combines fine contents and packaging equally, and it's also an optimum appetizer for the new studio album, "With Teeth", due May 3rd, 2005.
The only problem with this double CD is the same one that The Cure's "Three Imaginary Boys" came with: fans already own this album, and it's really unfair to force them to buy another edition, even if there's no doubt about this record's quality.

Tracklist
CD1
1-Mr. Self Destruct
2-Piggy
3-Heresy
4-March Of The Pigs
5-Closer
6-Ruiner
7-The Becoming
8-I Do Not Want This
9-Big Man With A Gun
10-A Warm Place
11-Eraser
12-Reptile
13-The Downward Spiral
14-Hurt

CD2
1-Burn
2-Closer (Precursor)
3-Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
4-A Violet Fluid
5-Dead Souls
6-Hurt (Quiet)
7-All The Pigs, All Lined Up
8-Memorabilia
9-The Downward Spiral (The Bottom)
10-Ruiner (Demo)
11-Liar (Reptile Demo)
12-Heresy (Demo)