 By 2001 , long @-@ time Nine Inch Nails collaborator Alan Moulder had tracked " more than an album 's worth " of demos . Moulder further described the rough tracks as " very unlike The Fragile " and were a deviation from most Nine Inch Nails material . By 2002 , Clouser had left Nine Inch Nails and was no longer associated with Tapeworm . The group , which now consisted of Reznor , Lohner , Keenan , and Atticus Ross , booked time in a recording studio in hopes of producing an album . An official website , tapeworm.net ( now offline ) , was created to showcase pictures from various recording sessions , including images of Josh Freese behind a drum kit . 
