Music and Lyrics
Although classified as an industrial rock song, "Head Like a Hole" takes its influence from Ministry, as well as the thrash metal genre. The tempo is 115 BPM, and it is played in the key of E.
The chords of this song are similar to the project's debut single, "Down in It". In contrast to "Down in It", "Head Like a Hole" has a longer intro, lasts roughly one minute longer (the song is five minutes long in its aggregate length), is heavy metal music-oriented, and has no rapping. "Head Like a Hole" is also the opening track on Nine Inch Nails' 1989 debut, and is one of the two Nine Inch Nails songs produced by Flood to appear on Pretty Hate Machine, as seen in the album booklet's liner notes.
A well-known line in the song, "you're going to get what you deserve," is a recurring element in a number of Trent Reznor-written songs, both in same and altered forms. For example, in the ninth track of 2007's Year Zero, "Meet Your Master", the first verse ends with the same line, quickly before the chorus begins.
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