Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Nine Inch Nails na biyu mai tsawo, "The Downward Spiral", ya shiga "Billboard" 200 chart a 1994 a lamba biyu, kuma ya kasance mafi kyawun sayar da Nine Inch Nails a Amurka. Don yin rikodin kundin, Reznor ya yi hayar kuma ya koma gidan 10050 Cielo Drive, inda
Iyalan Manson sun kashe Tate <unk> LaBianca a shekarar 1969. Ya gina wani ɗakin studio a cikin gidan, wanda ya sake suna Le Pig, bayan kalmar da aka rubuta a kan ƙofar gaban Sharon Tate ta jini ta masu kisan kai. Reznor ya gaya wa "Entertainment Weekly" cewa, duk da sanannun gidan, ya zaɓi yin rikodi a can saboda ya "duba wurare da yawa, kuma wannan ya zama wanda na fi so". Ya kuma bayyana cewa gidan ya burge shi saboda sha'awarsa ga "al'adun gargajiya na Amurka", amma ya bayyana cewa ba ya "son tallafawa kisan gilla".