Albuquerque Stoner Metal band Blue Heron have released a cover of Nine Inch Nails Head Like a Hole, taken from the upcoming tribute album: Best of Nine Inch Nails Redux – the companion piece to The Downward Spiral Redux – due out November 28th via Magnetic Eye Records.
You can watch the video for Head Like a Hole here:
While pre-orders for Best of Nine Inch Nails Redux are available from this link.
Bass player “Big” Steve Schmidlapp comments:
“It’s always been a dream to cover a Nine Inch Nails song, but the opportunity never presented itself being that I’ve never played in an Industrial band.
I was beyond excited when we were asked to do a track for the Nine Inch Nails Redux and was shocked that ‘Head Like a Hole’ hadn’t already been taken. ‘Head Like a Hole’ was the gateway song for me and many others to find Nine Inch Nails and industrial music in the early 90s. I always felt like the synthesized bass line would be a badass heavy groovy guitar riff, which was the foundation of how we approached creating our rendition. We definitely put our own stamp on the song, I’m excited to hear what people think of it.”
Tracklist:
- 1. SNAKEMOTHER ‘The Day the World Went Away / Sin
- ‘2. BLUE HERON ‘Head Like a Hole’
- 3. GRAYCON ‘Right Where It Belongs’
- 4. THE OCEAN ‘Even Deeper’
- 5. EVI VINE ‘This Isn’t the Place’
- 6. NONEXISTENT NIGHT ‘The Perfect Drug’
- 7. THE MOTH GATHERER ‘The Hand That Feeds’
- 8. CHROME GHOST ‘Every Day Is Exactly the Same’
- 9. MARISSA NADLER ‘The Great Below’
- 10. BEES MADE HONEY IN THE VEIN TREE ‘Over & Out’
- 11. THOU ‘Suck’
- 12. ORBITER ‘Terrible Lie’
- 13. BLEAKHEART ‘Something I Could Never Have’
Blue Heron Live:
- 10 Oct 2025 Karlsruhe (DE) Alte Hackerei +High Desert Queen
- 11 Oct 2025 München (DE) Keep It Low Festival
- 12 Oct 2025 Arnstadt (DE) Rockjungfer
- 13 Oct 2025 Bamberg (DE) Live Club +Submarine on Mars
- 14 Oct 2025 Hagen (DE) Werkhof Hohenlimburg +Stargo
- 15 Oct 2025 Rotterdam (NL) Roodkapje +Mephistofeles +High Desert Queen
- 16 Oct 2025 Tilburg (NL) Little Devil +Gnome +Tankzilla
- 17 Oct 2025 Trier (DE) Rothaus +Organic Destruction
- 19 Oct 2025 Antwerp (BE) Desertfest Belgium
PRESS SOURCE: Dominik Goncalves dos Reis/All Noir.
