Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails (colloquially known as NIN) are a critically and commercially successful American band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1988 by Trent Reznor.

Trivia

In their early days, NIN used Phantasy as a practice space and it was home for several of their first concerts.

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Director Tony Scott has used Nine Inch Nails music in two of his films to date. The Fan featured a clip from "The Art of Self Destruction, Part One" from Further Down the Spiral. Man on Fire featured clips from six Nine Inch Nails songs: "The Art of Self Destruction, Part One", "Self Destruction, Part Two", and "The Downward Spiral (the bottom)" from Further Down the Spiral; "The Mark Has Been Made" and "The Great Below" from The Fragile; and "The Wretched" from Things Falling Apart. Reznor himself received a "Music Consultant" credit on the film.

Related Topics:
Tony Scott - The Fan - Further Down the Spiral - Man on Fire - The Fragile - Things Falling Apart

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The credit sequence for the David Fincher film Seven uses the NIN song "Closer (precursor)". Surprisingly, this was done without seeking permission, though NIN is credited in the end credits for the song.

Related Topics:
David Fincher - Seven

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The entire 2005 U.S. Club tour sold out in under 10 minutes, with tickets selling on eBay and other sources for more than $200.

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To date, Trent Reznor claims he has no tattoos of any kind. However, he had both of his ears pierced and had his septum pierced briefly. He stated, "... it was a nightmare whenever I had a cold!"

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While obviously not limiting himself to Apple Computers, Reznor does own a PC (mostly for gaming, among many other things), although he exclusively prefers an Apple. Reznor was relatively new to PC games: he's a die-hard Mac man. "I was never aware of what was going on in the PC world until someone showed me Castle Wolfenstein 3D," he admits. "I'd never gone near a PC; that's a bad word around the studio. We're all Mac people, since most of the music software is written for Mac. But when I saw Wolfenstein I went out and bought whatever it was at the time, 386, 486, and we got hooked. The sense of being immersed in the game really struck a chord with me. And when we were rehearsing for the downward spiral tour, Doom came out, and I was like, 'Oh my god.' So now every six months a major upgrade goes on around here."

Related Topics:
Castle Wolfenstein 3D - Doom

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Trent is obsessed when it comes to video games. During tours the band would sometimes be deathmatching on Quake in a makeshift LAN or Trent would be playing anything he would get his hands on in a dressing room or bus, whether it was a Super Nintendo or a Sega Genesis. Trent also plays ' competitevely in the Cyberathlete Amateur League. in Rolling Stone Magazine, trent admitted that he often played the game Halo when he should have been writing or recording songs.

Related Topics:
Quake - LAN - Super Nintendo - Sega Genesis - Cyberathlete Amateur League - Rolling Stone - Halo

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Trent Reznor is a sci-fi and horror fanatic, often sampling movie sound bytes for his music, including THX 1138 and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, among countless others. Among many books that he has read, The Lathe of Heaven is one of his personal favorites and is thought to be an indirect inspiration for some of the songs on With Teeth. The horror film classic The Exorcist has "...ruined my childhood," he says. "It was the ultimate scare thing because it couldn't easily be disproved." He also loved the TV show Six Million Dollar Man, "probably because I wasn't the biggest kid in the class and I wasn't the athletic superstar football player. I always thought he was cool. The day the Bionic Woman died on The Six Million Dollar Man, that was a tearful day in our household." He considers this. "When I think back, I had a degree of feeling mildly depressed; of melancholiness."

Related Topics:
THX 1138 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Lathe of Heaven - With Teeth - The Exorcist - Six Million Dollar Man

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Tori Amos's song "Caught a Lite Sneeze" features the lyrics "made my own pretty hate machine," Precious Things includes the line "with their nine-inch nails...," and "Professional Widow" repeats the word, "Starfuckers," which Reznor proceeded to write a song about. Reznor also sings with Amos on the song "Past the Mission", from her album Under the Pink, and Amos sometimes performs the Nine Inch Nails track "Hurt" live in concert.

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