“Closer” is one of Nine Inch Nails‘ more famous songs, and was released as Halo 9 (with different US and UK versions), the second single from their second studio album The Downward Spiral.

The song samples the drum track from Iggy Pop’s 1977 single “Nightclubbing”:

The music video for “Closer”, directed by Mark Romanek, was inspired by a 21 minute long stop animation film called Street of Crocodiles, released in 1986.