The Becoming

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The Becoming by Nine Inch Nails

About The Becoming

"The Becoming" is the seventh track on the 1994 album The Downward Spiral. A semi-acoustic version can be found on Still, which has an accompanying performance video released at the time on nin.com. The bassline on this track was done with a prototype of the Oberheim OB-Mx synthesizer. Trent Reznor stated in an interview that the idea for the metaphor of a person becoming a machine was inspired by Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Iron Man. In a 2004 interview for Alternative Press .

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About this song

Credited to
Nine Inch Nails
Album
The Downward Spiral (Deluxe Edition) · Track 7 of 27
Released
March 8, 1994
Duration
5:31
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