Nine Inch Nails' the Fragile released in 1999 was the first full length album released by the band since 1994's the Downward Spiral. The album begins with the anger and depression assiociated with Trent Reznors life and takes you on autobiographical journey through the loss of his grandmother and a life or death struggle with heroin addiction. The music illustrates his pain in the two discs of amazing music; it is definitely an album to listen to from start to finish. Although this album did not enjoy as much popular success as The Downward Spiral I believe it is a much better album and it is worth the extra money for the double disc.