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The Industrial outfit Nine Inch Nails isn't really a group but is a creation
of the multi-instrumentalist+vocalist Trent Reznor. Born 17 May 1965,
in Mercer, Pennsylvania USA, Reznor began his music career working in
a Cleveland recording studio and playing in local bands.
During 1989, he signed a deal with TVT Records, teamed up with guitarist
Richard Patrick and drummer Chris Vrenna to record Nine Inch Nails' debut
full-lenght album, "Pretty Hate Machine", which was issued in
November; the record reached the #75 slot on The Billboard Top 200 chart
spawning "Down In It", which peaked at #16 on The Modern Rock
Tracks chart and the top 30 hit, "Head Like A Hole"; one more
single, "Sin", cracked the top 10 of the Billboard Magazine's
Hot Dance chart.
In 1991 the NIN frontman enlisted the help of keyboardist James Woolley
and supported the band's debut album by appearing on the Lollapalooza
tour; "Pretty Hate Machine", eventually was certified platinum
for sales of one million copies two years after its release.
After Reznor signed with Interscope, that helped him set up his own record
label, Nothing Records, in September of 1992 returning with a shortened
line-up, Nine Inch Nails released an 8-song EP entitled "Broken",
the record rose to #8 on The Billboard 200 chart and generated "Happiness
In Slavery" which peaked at #13 on The Modern Rock Tracks chart;
the second single, "Wish", was another Modern Rock top 30 hit
and won Reznor a Grammy for Best Metal Performance.
Two years later, after Richard Patrick left the band to form Filter,
a re-energized Nine Inch Nails: Reznor, new guitarist Robin Finck, bass
player Danny Lohneer, Woolley and Vrenna, released the band's second full-length
album, "The Downward Spiral"; the record shot to #2 on The Billboard
Top 200 and cracked the top 10 on the U.K. Albums charts; the first single
off the CD, "Closer", peaked at #11 on The Modern Rock chart
and "Piggy" hit the top 20; the band scored huge club success
with "March Of The Pigs" and the final single, "Hurt",
rose to #8 on The Modern Rock chart.
During 1995 Trent Reznor built an incredible studio in New Orleans, afterwards
he released the U.S. only remix album "Further Down The Spiral",
reaching the #23 position on Billboard's Top 200 and produced Marilyn
Mason's "Antichrist Superstar" which was released on Nothing
Records; he also found time to create a soundtrack for Oliver Stone's
cult teen movie "Natural Born Killers"; eventually Nine Inch
Nails, at the 38th Annual Grammy ceremony, walked away with Best Metal
Performance for "Happiness In Slavery".
Two years later Vrenna left the band to be replaced by drummer Jerome
Dillon and Reznor worked with David Lynch, producing the soundtrack for
"Lost Highway", this album included "The Perfect Drug",
which reached #11 on The Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Nine Inch Nails returned in autumn 1999 with the acclaimed double-CD,
"The Fragile"; the set debuted at #1 in U.S. and at #2 on the
Top Canadian Albums charts spawning three Billboard's Modern Rock top
40 single cuts: "Into The Void", "We're In This Together"
and "Starfuckers, Inc.", plus "The Day The World Went Away"
which was a massive hit, reaching #1 on The Canadian Singles chart and
#17 on The Billboard Hot 100 Stateside.
The next year, the group went on to release another remix full-length
disc, which barely broke the top 60 on the U.S. Albums chart.
The soundtrack to the motion picture "Tomb Raider", released
in mid-2001, included Nine Inch Nails' "Deep", the track climbed
into the top 20 of Modern Rock chart; the next year the band released
the live album "And All That Could Have Been", reaching #26
on The Billboard Top 200 list.
Trent Reznor with the band released in early May 2005 the monster hit
album "With Teeth"; the record which also featured guest drummer
Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters, shot
to #1 on The Billboard 200 and peaked at #2 on Top Canadian Albums charts;
the powerful first single track, "The Hand That Feeds", stormed
the Modern and Mainstream Rock charts peaking at #1 and #2, respectively;
both of the follow-up singles, "Only" and "Every Day Is
Exactly The Same" went to #1 on The Modern Rock chart.
In April 2007 Nine Inch Nails unleashed the apocalyptic concept album,
"Year Zero", the album reflects Reznor's pessimistic predictions
of the world 15 years into the future where the U.S. has turned into a
police state. The disc debuted at #2 on The Billboard 200 while the first
single, "Survivalism", shot to #1 on The Hot Modern Rock list;
it was followed into the same chart by the second single, "Capital
G", which peaked at #6.
On October 8, the band had severed all ties with its longtime label,
Interscope Records, a month later Nine Inch Nails dropped the remix album
"Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D"; the set features a
diversity of remixers, from New Order's Stephen
Morris to Hip-Hop poet Saul Williams and an unknown fan who submitted
a remix via the Internet, it is the final album to be released under Interscope.
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