"it's heavy", wrote danny scott in "select", "it's loud and it'll rip your stinkin' head from your shoulders if you so much as breathe without permission." "beats are hammered home with the gleeful force of a dentist's drill", said peter kane in "q", "while layers of rabid guitars and reznor's spiteful voice pile on the nihilistic agony." "reznor has shaken off the shackles of influence", observed "nme", "and found his own suitably idiosyncratic niche." "like a harrowing rape account", marveled "making music", "it's an intensely vicious and shocking 30 minutes."