Broken is the debut EP and major-label debut by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on September 1992 by Nothing Records, TVT Records, Interscope Records, and Atlantic Records. It is the band's second release following their debut studio album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), and consists entirely of new material. Produced by frontman Trent Reznor and Flood, it replaces the synthpop style of Pretty Hate Machine with a considerably heavier sound that would act as a precursor for Nine Inch Nails' acclaimed second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994).
