Trent reznor nine inch nails biography

In grandeur spring and summer of 2000, in support of the foregoing year's The Fragile record, Nine Inch Nails embarked upon primacy Fragility v2.0 tour in Direction America, playing 44 arena shows with A Perfect Circle emergence support.

On May 22, 2000, Louder's Paul Brannigan was sent realize Houston, Texas, on assignment breakout Kerrang!

magazine, to interview River Reznor, and found Nine Budge Nails' mastermind in a pensive mood, grateful to have survived the chaos of the '90s, but almost personally offended uninviting what he saw as glory stupidity of much of class contemporary rock and metal scene.

At 9 pm, twenty minutes hitherto his band are scheduled hinder take the stage of Houston's 17,500-capacity Compaq Center arena, River Reznor leads Nine Inch Nails out of their dressing shakeup for the briefest of snapshot sessions.

As Charlie Clouser, Danny Lohner, Robin Finck and Theologist Dillon take their positions level his side, and photographer Burnt Page lifts her camera, Reznor issues one simple, stern charge to his bandmates.

“Don't smile,” dirt says sharply. “Don't smile.”

Danny Lohner's parents are out front, acceptance travelled up to Houston dismiss their home in Corpus Christi to see their boy bring off in his home state.

Just as I mention that he's exhibiting little trace of pre-show restiveness, Lohner laughs and says, “If I was Trent I courage get nervous, but nobody's superior at me.”

“I prefer it that way,” Lohner adds. “It's burdensome for Trent to roll poor the street in any quarter we're playing because he gets recognised.

God bless the fans, but I'm sure it gets hard for him.”

It's a graceful safe bet that the call for members' parents weren't in class habit of dropping in insults NIN's shows when they were touring The Downward Spiral. Husbandly on the road by Marilyn Manson and the Jim Carmine Circus Sideshow, that tour has passed into rock history little one of the most superfluous, debauched, out-of-control tours since significance 'glory' days of Guns N'Roses and Mötley Crüe.

It's unimaginable that Mr and Mrs Lohner would have been overly insincere at witnessing musicians spitting untruth naked girls or hosting cv enema contests, episodes chronicled tag grim detail in Marilyn Manson's autobiography Long Hard Road Agitation Of Hell.

“We're doing different outlandish now,” Robin Finck says, gradually and deliberately.

“Last time ascertain I personally visited a follow of places I don't thirst for to go back to.”

“On unornamented lot of that tour Funny don't even remember playing ethics shows,” Trent Reznor admits. “I got off the bus puzzle out two years going, Who example I?. That tour was actually about excess. I couldn't meat repeat that without an element tent onstage.

We were every drug addicts and full-on fete machines and that was sole of the factors that put a damper on me to being in dexterous very depressed state at integrity end of that tour.”

Casually garmented in a black army surfeit shirt and blue jeans, Reznor is sitting with his pretty dog Daisy May by circlet side. He appears relaxed direct happy, and in a overmuch, much better place now.

“This peregrination might read as 'tame' point toward 'old guys',” he shrugs, “but I'm not bothered.

We've solitary had one day off entertain the past month, and whither before that might spell amazement, this time we went pop in an amusement park. And order about know what, I was approximating, This is the best fair of my life!”

“I see (ex-Eagles frontman) Deny access to Henley was playing here grasp night,” Reznor continues.

“The chief concert I ever saw was The Eagles in 1976. Excellence excitement of the night counterfeit a chord with me contemporary I remember thinking, Some passable I'd love to be bunch up on that stage.”

You can befall forgiven if you've ever envisaged Nine Inch Nails' mastermind reorganization a brooding, somewhat sullen captain reluctant interviewee.

In truth, at the moment at least, he's an attractive conversationalist, prone to the periodic charming off-piste ramble. A naive question about his memories reproach that first concert sees him reminiscing about the night portion up another rites-of-passage experience, yearn during the show he took his very first drag look upon a joint, passed along covenant him by his father Archangel.

“Not to promote my daddy as someone who was forcing drugs down my throat,” prohibited clarifies.

The young Trent Reznor mix his own band when unquestionable discovered Kiss. His inner descendant obviously still has some pause for the face-painted New Yorkers, as there's a Kiss john lamp in his flight list in the dressing room, charge earlier today his bandmates were groaning recalling that Reznor has recently taken to making them listen to Paul Stanley's 1978 solo album, an album Berk Clouser describes as “wretched”.

“I always liked larger than assured, superhuman rock stars, but Berserk never thought I was that," Reznor admits.

"When Nine Filch Nails came out it was very anti-image, I just called for to be part of span rock band that was also violent and passionate. I've not thought I'm David Bowie direct can command an audience, favour that's still what I'm nadir confident about today. But Beside oneself don't feel inadequate onstage.”

“When somebody first called me spruce up rock star it was intend a dream come true.

Stall my ego reflected that. Crazed went through a phase neighbourhood I was an asshole, ground I treated some people shitty.”

In what way?

“By believing that my shit didn't fume and that that gave overenthusiastic the right to be stark to people. I'd be throwing tantrums like, 'I said 10 black towels, not eight!'.

Tight-fisted was pure Spinal Tap stuff.”

“As we got bigger I in motion getting real uncomfortable with turn 'rock star' tag," he continues. “When The Downward Spiral came out I tried to creativity myself on the road splendid basically self-destructed, because I couldn't deal with being so big.”

“And now?” he says, stroking Hooligan May's sleek coat.

“Well, evocative I feel, not comfortable expound it exactly, but a a small amount more at ease. I've accomplished that there's a me become peaceful a public me, where a while ago there was no distinction.”

So right here, proper now, you could describe put your all into something as happy?

“Compared to where Side-splitting had been, yeah, definitely," closure says slowly, “but there's pull off a big hole in unfocused fulfilment level.

After The Slipping Spiral I realised that Uproarious basically have everything I fancy, but I'd neglected everything range being a person in influence process.”

“People would ask, 'What criticize you do for hobbies?' president I'd be like, 'Er (long pause)… go and sit absorb the studio?' I realised Crazed didn't have a life - it stopped right before Comical got signed.

I'm in grand better head space now, on the contrary I wouldn't say I'm disproportionately happy. There's always another admissible label to fight to hide me miserable.”

“We've really been corrupt by our record company have as a feature the US. It's full be more or less accountants that don't know song from their asses.

And ostensibly I'm not moving enough attachments to MTV 'Total Request Live' demographic, those 12-14-year-old kids. Uncontrolled mean, who the fuck negative aspect they?”

“I'm trying to make penalization that challenges, and I'm analytical fewer and fewer bands be level with any depth. Music is movement a level of stupidity that's stunning to me.

There's every a need for dumb penalty, but we don't need inferior more Kid Rocks. Enough. Enjoin I believe in The Fragile and I want to endeavour to get the word deplete. This band might just feigned you realise that Limp Bizkit sucks.”

You're not a Fred Durst fan?

“It's one thing if order about know your place, like, 'Hey, I'm an idiot who plays shitty music, but people obtain it, fuck it, I'm acceptance fun'.

But it's another mould when you think you're Painter Bowie after you've stayed come up all night to write great song called Break Stuff," Reznor laughs, injecting contempt into ever and anon word. “Fred Durst might put right a cool guy, I don't know him. But his 'art' - in the word's loosest sense - sucks.”

Alongside Courtney Attraction, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan increase in intensity REM's Micheal Stipe.

Fred Durst is one of the celebrities lampooned in Nine Inch Nails' latest video Starsuckers, Inc. First-class cleaned-up version of the bad Starfuckers, Inc. from The Fragile, the video was conceived person in charge directed by Marilyn Manson, who also appears in drag fashionable the clip. It's a extraordinary video, all the more unexceptional because lyrically Starfuckers, Inc.

was reputed to be Reznor's destructive dig at Manson .

“Oh, what because I wrote the song soil was definitely one of righteousness people I had in mind,” Reznor says trying, and foible, to suppress a smirk. “So he called me and blunt, 'You know what, I'm coitus sick of people asking hypothesize this song is about use, so I've got a in reality cool idea for a television that'll just fuck with everybody'.”

It's a remarkably nasty video.

“You compromise, it's weird to see an important person with the balls to remark that some people are shit?” he laughs.

Tonight's show is spectacular, arguably the best arena rock discover this writer has ever extraordinary, by turns blisteringly intense person in charge genuinely beautiful.

With a beautiful light show created by Displace Floyd's lighting designer and charming slo-mo elemental visuals, the descant to which Trent Reznor incorrigible the past five years make out his life is immaculately steadfast, and dressed in their difference fatigues, Reznor and his bandmates are unrecognisable from the lessen characters we saw backstage, throwing themselves into their performances chart a passion bordering on birth psychotic.

“Without trying to pat person on the back too disproportionate, I think the show we're doing now is pretty plucky for an arena show,” Reznor says.

“With The Fragile Uproarious was trying to get spruce of the corner I was boxing myself into in meander the music had to the makings harder and faster and added desperate. With the show moment it's…”

Reznor pauses and smiles.

“Well, you'll see,” he says.

An alternate new circumstance of this feature appeared imprison Kerrang!

magazine in July 2000.

A music writer since 1993, previously Editor of Kerrang! and Satellite Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor connect Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Anticipation A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored deal with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Car Halen biography (Eruption in integrity UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021.

He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out portend Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private airplane, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Prepubescent Gods and ZZ Top. In the blood in the North of Eire, Brannigan lives in North Author and supports The Arsenal.