Big Nails, Garden Nails, Extra Long and Thick Nails, Small Nails-8 inches (200mm) 10

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At the behest of Prudential Securities bankruptcy proceedings, TVT put the rights to Reznor's recordings for the label on auction in 2005. The remix album was Nine Inch Nails' final release on a major record label for over five years, as the act had completed its contractual obligation to Interscope Records and did not renew its contract. Nine Inch Nails then embarked on a world tour that continued through the first Lollapalooza festival in 1991. The video, released in March 1994, features the band performing the song live in front of a white wall backdrop, with Reznor moving around aggressively, pushing the other band members and their instruments, and repeatedly tossing his microphone away.

Despite the disparity between those artists initially operating under the term "industrial" and Nine Inch Nails, it has become common in journalistic descriptions of Reznor's body of work to describe it as such.

Thirteen years after its release, it debuted at number 9 and peaked at 6 on the Canadian Singles Chart. The stage set-up featured dirty curtains, rising and lowering for visuals shown during songs such as "Hurt". Enjoying mainstream success thereafter, Nine Inch Nails then performed amid greater production values, adding theatrical visual elements. In 2005, Reznor sued his former friend and manager John Malm, co-founder of Nothing, for fraud, breach of contract and fiduciary duty, and other claims.

Allmusic's review described the album's laptop-mixed sound: "Guitars squall against glitches, beeps, pops, and blotches of blurry sonic attacks.In 2002, Johnny Cash covered the Nine Inch Nails' " Hurt" for his album, American IV: The Man Comes Around, to critical acclaim. Reznor began smashing his equipment while on stage; Rockbeat interviewer Mike Gitter attributed the live band's early success in front of rock oriented audiences to this aggressive attitude. Reznor and Ross again collaborated with Fincher for the official score the American adaptation of the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, released in December 2011, and then again on Fincher's 2014 film Gone Girl. While they were not inducted that year, the band placed second in the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees Fan Vote.

The tour debuted the band's grungy, messy image as the members appeared in ragged attire slathered in corn starch.

Nine Inch Nails' earliest influence was the punk rock band the Clash; Reznor stated that he started out trying to directly imitate them, only to abandon that direction due to his lack of a political message. However, after 9 years of studio sessions, no material was ever officially released from the group, and it was confirmed to be no longer active in 2005. A third video for "Pinion", partially incorporated into MTV's Alternative Nation opening sequence, showed a toilet that apparently flushes into the mouth of a person in bondage. After contributing to remixes of Nine Inch Nails songs, such as " Closer", Beavan mixed and co-produced Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar in 1996. The incident pushed Reznor into entering rehab, putting Nine Inch Nails on hold while he attempted to become sober.

In January 2017, the band announced that it would be performing at the Panorama Music Festival in New York on July 30. Also in 2017, the pair were tasked to score the upcoming Ken Burns series The Vietnam War, and provide both original music and a compilation soundtrack of popular songs.

Time magazine named Reznor one of its most influential people in 1997, while Spin magazine has described him as "the most vital artist in music". In the liner notes, Reznor credited the 1991 Nine Inch Nails touring band as an influence on the EP's sound.