Further Down the Spiral is a remix album by Nine Inch Nails, and was released on June 1, 1995. It is the tenth official Nine Inch Nails release and is the companion remix disc to The Downward Spiral. There are two editions of this release, one denoted as Halo 10 (released in the US) the other as Halo 10 V2 (released in Japan, Australia and the UK), each containing a different set of tracks with a large degree of overlap between the two.
The album is among the best-selling remix albums of all time and was certified gold on June 26, 1996, for sales in excess of 500,000 copies in the US alone. Further Down the Spiral showed a more varied and experimental point of view to the original and boasted many high profile contributors/remixers including Aphex Twin, J. G. Thirlwell, Rick Rubin with Dave Navarro and Coil with Danny Hyde.
The discs include remixes of "Mr. Self Destruct", "Piggy", "Hurt", "Eraser", "The Downward Spiral", "Heresy", "Reptile", and "Ruiner" as well as two original compositions by Aphex Twin.
Coil contributed more remixes than any of the other participating artists with a total of four tracks - "The Downward Spiral (The Bottom)", "Eraser (Denial; Realization)", "Eraser (Polite)" and "Erased, Over, Out". Jim Thirlwell is the second-most featured artist with three contributions - "Self Destruction, Part Two", "Self Destruction, Part Three" and "Self Destruction, Final".
Read more about Further Down The Spiral: "At The Heart of It All" and "The Beauty of Being Numb", Coil On Reznor's Remix Files, Charlie Clouser On His Process, Track Listing, Chart Positions