Nine Inch Nails

Genres:	Heavy Metal • Music Videos & Concerts • Pop / Rock
Descriptive "tags":	industrial • industrial rock • rock • alternative • electronic
Decades Active:	1980s • 1990s • 2000s
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Biography

Trent Reznor (Michael Trent Reznor, 17 May 1965, Mercer, Pennsylvania, USA), the multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and creative force behind Nine Inch Nails, trained as a classical pianist during his small-town Pennsylvania childhood, but his discovery of rock and early industrial bands, despite his dislike of the ‘industrial’ tag, changed his musical direction completely. Following a period working in a Cleveland recording studio and playing in local bands, Reznor began recording as Nine Inch Nails in 1988. The dark, atmospheric Pretty Hate Machine, written, played and co-produced by Reznor, was largely synthesizer-based, but the material was transformed onstage by a ferocious wall of guitars and show-stealing Lollapalooza performances in 1991. Coupled with a major US radio hit with ‘Head Like A Hole’, it brought platinum status.

Inspired by the live band, Reznor added an abrasive guitar barrage to the Nine Inch Nails...

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