Nine Inch Nails - "Head Like A Hole"

If I'm going to subject you to the mashup with "Call Me Maybe" in the background, the least I can do is provide you with the original, too. This will please the almighty Reznor, right?

pomDeter - "Call Me A Hole"

What do you get when you mash up Nine Inch Nails's "Head Like a Hole" and Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe"? You only get the best thing ever in the history of ever! Whoever this pomDeter guy is really outdid himself here!

Industrial charity

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One thing that I wanted to highlight for a while now has been the different charitable things people within the goth-industrial scene have done. Although this is drastically not a comprehensive list of nice things that musicians have done ever, this just gives you a taste of their humanity.

Honestly, what finally got me off my duff to write this post is the fact Spider Lilies joined Music for Good on ReverbNation today to give a portion of their proceeds to charity: water, an organization that focuses on making it so people in developing nations have access to potable water.

I:Scintilla gave a portion of their proceeds from the sales of the Dying and Falling EP to help the victims of the 2011 Tohuku earthquake in Japan.

Helalyn Flowers donated music in 2012 for "The Greenlight Bundle" on groupees.com, which donated proceeds to War Child International, Make a Wish, and the Sandy Hook School Support Fund.

Trent Reznor raised money to help someone pay for hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical expenses incurred from a heart transplant in 2009.

Finally, Emilie Autumn released a charity single, By the Sword, after the events of 9/11 to raise money for AmeriCares and the American Red Cross.

Like I said, I'm probably only just scratching the surface here, but the goth-industrial community does a lot of good things for people. If you know of other musicians who have given to charity or performed other charitable acts, let me know!

How to Destroy Angels - "How Long?"

Trent Reznor does other things besides Nine Inch Nails.

Nine Inch Nails - "We're in This Together"

Regardless of whether or not you like Trent Reznor, think he's any good, sold out, "isn't really industrial", or what have you, you do have to admit he's probably one of the biggest reasons, if not the biggest reason, why people who aren't within the scene even know what industrial is. Honestly, both of the updates for today are really introductions for articles I intend to do in the future. Just as the morning update showed off Alaina Beaton's work, which is a bit of a sore subject for a certain group of people, Nine Inch Nails is also a subject that can cause a lot of controversy when it's introduced to the scene audience (and at a scale drastically higher than Alaina Beaton, obviously).

This video shows off one of Nine Inch Nails's bigger songs though, which is from the The Fragile album and the 3-disc single, We're in This Together. Sit back and enjoy -- or not, depending on your opinion of NIN.