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| Birth Name(s) : Michael Trent Reznor |
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Full Trent Reznor Biography
Michael Trent Reznor, also known as Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965), is an American musician, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the founder and primary creative force behind the successful Grammy Award-winning industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails.
Reznor graduated from this high school in 1983 and enrolled at Allegheny College, where he studied computer engineering. He also joined a local band called Option 30 and played three shows per week with them. After a year in college, Reznor dropped out to pursue a full-time career in music.
Reznor moved to Cleveland, Ohio. In 1985, he joined a band named The Innocent as a keyboardist. They released one album, Livin' in the Street, but Reznor quit after just three months. In 1986, Reznor joined the local band Exotic Birds. He also appeared with them as the fictional band The Problems in the film Light of Day.
He got a job at Right Track Studio (now known as Midtown Recording) as a handyman. Studio owner Bart Koster later said Reznor "is so focused in everything he does. When that guy waxed the floor, it looked great." Koster allowed Reznor to use the studio during off hours, which he used to record demos for songs that ended up on Nine Inch Nails' first album, Pretty Hate Machine. These demos were later released as a bootleg under the name Purest Feeling.
In 1994, Nine Inch Nails released its biggest critical and commercial success to date, The Downward Spiral, which eventually went platinum twice. The lead single, "Closer", became a huge hit, and its music video an MTV staple. The Downward Spiral won many music industry honors, including MTV Music Awards and American Music Awards. While writing The Downward Spiral, Reznor lived in the Tate mansion where the Manson family murders took place. After he moved out, and it was demolished, he went back and took the door as a souvenir. It became the front door to Nothing Studios in New Orleans.
Nine Inch Nails toured extensively over the next few years, including a performance at Woodstock '94 — where he admitted to the audience that he did not like to play large venues.
Apart from the remix album Further Down the Spiral, Reznor did not release another album until 1999's The Fragile. The album sold well, and received generally positive reviews. 2005's With Teeth received a similar reception. Toured extensively since 2005 to 2006 through Europe in festivals and small venues releasing a DVD of the live experience called Beside You In Time. On April 17th 2007, released Year Zero.
A big fan of David Bowie, one of his favorite albums is Bowie's Low (1977). He has stated in interviews that he played it constantly during the recording of The Downward Spiral, for inspiration. He also appears in David Bowie's video for "I'm Afraid of Americans" as Bowie's stalker.
Reznor was the credited producer for Marilyn Manson's albums Portrait of an American Family (1994), Smells Like Children (1995), and Antichrist Superstar (1996), as well as the soundtrack for the films Natural Born Killers and Lost Highway. Reznor is credited for "Driver Down" and "Videodrones; Questions" on the soundtrack for Lost Highway. One other track, "The Perfect Drug" is credited to Nine Inch Nails instead.
Reznor created the soundtrack for id Software's hit Quake. The NIN logo also appears on the nail gun ammo boxes in Quake and prior to this, embedded in both the floor and ceiling of a secret room in Ultimate Doom.
He returned to work with id Software in 2003 as the sound engineer for video game Doom 3. However, due to "time, money and bad management", he had to abandon this project, and his audio work did not make it into the game's release. The original audio files can be found on the Internet, although they are not officially endorsed by Reznor nor id Software. Chris Vrenna, on again off again drummer for Nine Inch Nails, produced the music for Doom 3 with his partner Clint Walsh.
Tapeworm, Reznor's collaboration with Danny Lohner, Maynard James Keenan of Tool, and Atticus Ross of 12 Rounds, was in production for almost 10 years, but an update on the official Nine Inch Nails website declared that the project had been terminated. The only known performance of any Tapeworm material was when Keenan's other band, A Perfect Circle, performed the song "Vacant" on tour in 2001. "Vacant" appears on A Perfect Circle's third album eMOTIVe, reworked and retitled "Passive".
In 2006, Reznor played his first "solo" show(s) at Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit. Backed by a four piece string section, he performed stripped-down versions of many Nine Inch Nails songs. |
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