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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. 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
Manson'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". 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. 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. To celebrate his freedom, in March 2008, Reznor released the NIN's collection
of 36 untitled instrumental tracks "Ghosts I-IV"; it was conceived
as an experiment, following the conclusion of "Year Zero", Trent
Reznor enlisted Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder with help from guitarist
Adrian Belew, keyboardist Alessandro Cortini and The
Dresden Dolls' drummer Brian Viglione to create spontaneous, impulsive
soundtracks to daydreams with no agenda or release date, only a self-imposed
10-week time limit. The end result was a wildly varied body of work released
in its entirety with no label-imposed limitationsmusical, physical
or otherwise. "Ghosts I-IV" arrived in five differently priced
formats, from free download to a $300 ultra-deluxe limited edition, peaking
at #14 in U.S. and at #3 in Canada.
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Pretty Hate Machine(1989) |
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Broken
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The Downward Spiral(1994) |
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Further Down The Spiral(1995) |
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Lost Highway
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The Fragile(1999) |
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Things Falling Apart(2000) |
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Tomb Raider
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And All That Could Have Been
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With Teeth(2005) |
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Year Zero(2007) |
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Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D(2007) |
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The Slip(2008) |
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