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With Teeth (Album) by Nine Inch Nails

Artist Biography For Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails Commonly Abbreviated As NIN Stylized As NIИ Is An American Industrial Rock Band Formed In 1988 In Cleveland Ohio. Singer Songwriter Multi-Instrumentalist And Producer Trent Reznor Was The Only Permanent Member Of The Band Until The Official Addition Of English Musician Atticus Ross In 2016. Reznor Chose The Name "Nine Inch Nails" Because It "abbreviated Easily" Rather Than For "any Literal Meaning". Other Rumored Explanations Have Circulated Alleging That Reznor Chose To Reference Jesus' Crucifixion With Nine-Inch Spikes   Or Freddy Krueger's Nine-Inch Fingernails. The Nine Inch Nails Logo First Appeared On The Music Video For Their Debut Single "Down In It". Reznor And Gary Talpas Designed The Logo Inspired By Tibor Kalman's Typography On The Talking Heads Album Remain In Light. The Logo Features The Band's Initials With The Second N Mirrored. Talpas A Native Of Cleveland Continued To Design Nine Inch Nails Packaging Until 1997. The Band's Debut Album Pretty Hate Machine 1989 Was Released Via TVT Records. After Disagreeing With TVT About How To Promote The Album The Band Signed With Interscope Records And Released The EP Broken 1992 . The Following Albums The Downward Spiral 1994 And The Fragile 1999 Were Released To Critical Acclaim And Commercial Success. Following A Hiatus Nine Inch Nails Resumed Touring In 2005 And Released The Album With Teeth 2005 . Following The Release Of The Album Year Zero 2007 The Band Left Interscope After A Feud. Nine Inch Nails Continued Touring And Independently Released Ghosts I–IV 2008 And The Slip 2008 Before A Second Hiatus. Their Eighth Album Hesitation Marks 2013 Was Followed By A Trilogy Which Consisted Of The EPs Not The Actual Events 2016 And Add Violence 2017 And Their Ninth Album Bad Witch 2018 . In 2020 Nine Inch Nails Simultaneously Released Two Further Installments In The Ghosts Series Ghosts V Together And Ghosts VI Locusts. When Touring Reznor Typically Assembles A Live Band To Perform With Him Under The Nine Inch Nails Name. This Live Band Has Varied Over The Decades With Various Members Leaving And Returning The Most Recent Lineup Consists Of Robin Finck Who Initially Joined In 1994 Alessandro Cortini Who Initially Joined In 2005 And Ilan Rubin Who Initially Joined In 2009 Alongside Reznor And Ross. The Band's Concerts Are Noted For Their Extensive Use Of Thematic Visual Elements Complex Special Effects And Elaborate Lighting. Songs Are Often Rearranged To Fit Any Given Performance And Melodies Or Lyrics Of Songs That Are Not Scheduled To Be Performed Are Sometimes Assimilated Into Other Songs.
Nine Inch Nails As A Live Band Is Generally Understood To Be A Separate Entity From Its Recording Studio-Based Component. Occasionally Past Band Members Are Invited To Participate In The Process When Not Directly Involved With Recording New Material Nine Inch Nails' Lineup Tends To Change Drastically Between Major Tours. Aside From Trent Reznor Remaining On Lead Vocals Nothing About The Live Band Has Remained Constant Since Its Inception. Reznor Cited The Long Gestation Period Between Studio Albums As Part Of The Reason For These Frequent Personnel Changes. Nine Inch Nails Have Sold Over 20 Million Records And Been Nominated For 13 Grammy Awards Winning For The Songs "Wish" In 1992 And "Happiness In Slavery" In 1996. Time Magazine Named Reznor One Of Its Most Influential People In 1997 While Spin Magazine Has Described Him As "the Most Vital Artist In Music". In 2004 Rolling Stone Placed Nine Inch Nails At No. 94 On Its List Of The 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time. Nine Inch Nails Were Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame In 2020 After Being Nominated In 2014 Their First Year Of Eligibility And Again In 2015. Music And Lyrics Nine Inch Nails Has Been Described As Incorporating Alternative Rock Industrial Rock Industrial Dance Industrial Electro-Industrial Industrial Metal Electronic Rock And Alternative Metal. AllMusic's Steve Huey States That "Nine Inch Nails Were The Most Popular Industrial Group Ever And Were Largely Responsible For Bringing The Music To A Mass Audience". Reznor Has Never Referred To His Own Work As Industrial Music But Admits To Borrowing Techniques From Such Early Industrial Bands As Throbbing Gristle And Test Dept. Despite The Disparity Between Those Artists Initially Operating Under The Term "industrial" And Nine Inch Nails It Has Become Common In Journalistic Descriptions Of Reznor's Body Of Work To Describe It As Such. Reznor Acknowledged In Spin Magazine That "Down In It" Was Influenced By Early Skinny Puppy Particularly The Band's Song "Dig It" Other Songs From Pretty Hate Machine And With Teeth Have Been Described As Synth-Pop. Reviewing The Fragile Critic Steve Cooper Noted That The Album Juxtaposes Widely Varied Genres Such As Solo Piano In "The Frail" And Drum And Bass Elements In "Starfuckers Inc." Ambient Music Has Been Featured In Some Of Nine Inch Nails' Music Including On Ghosts I–IV Which Is Specifically Dark Ambient Hesitation Marks The Downward Spiral The Slip And The Fragile. Songs Such As "Wish" And "The Day The World Went Away" Exhibit Terraced Dynamics. Reznor's Singing Follows A Similar Pattern Frequently Moving From Whispers To Screams. He Also Has Used Software To Alter His Voice In Several Songs As Evident In "Starfuckers Inc." And "Burn". The Band's Music Also Occasionally Contains Complex Time Signatures Notably In "The Collector" From With Teeth And Concert Favorite "March Of The Pigs". Reznor Uses Noise And Distortion In His Song Arrangements And Incorporates Dissonance With Chromatic Melody And/or Harmony. These Techniques Are All Used In The Song "Hurt" Which Contains A Highly Dissonant Tritone Played On Guitar During The Verses A B5#11 Emphasized When Reznor Sings The Eleventh Note On The Word "I" Every Time The B/E# Dyad Is Played. "Closer" Concludes With A Chromatic Piano Motif The Melody Is Debuted During The Second Verse Of "Piggy" On Organ Then Reappears In Power Chords At Drop D Tuning Throughout The Chorus Of "Heresy" While An Inverted Ascending Version Is Used Throughout "A Warm Place" And Then Recurs In Its Original State For The Final Time On "The Downward Spiral". On The Fragile Reznor Revisits The Technique Of Repeating A Motif Multiple Times Throughout Different Songs Either On A Different Musical Instrument With A Transposed Harmony Or In An Altered Tempo. Many Of The Songs On Year Zero Contain An Extended Instrumental Ending Which Encompasses The Entire Second Half Of The Three-Minute Long "The Great Destroyer". AllMusic's Review Described The Album's Laptop-Mixed Sound "Guitars Squall Against Glitches Beeps Pops And Blotches Of Blurry Sonic Attacks. Percussion Looms Large Distorted Organic Looped Screwed Spindled And Broken." Lyrical Themes Found In Nine Inch Nails Songs Are Largely Concerned With Dark Explorations Of The Self Ranging From Religion Greed Fame Lust Addiction Self-Deception Aging Regret And Nihilism. Occasionally The Lyrics Depart From Their Introspective Nature To Deal With A Topic Like Politics Which Is The Focus Of Year Zero. Three Nine Inch Nails Albums Are Concept Albums The Downward Spiral The Fragile And Year Zero. The Album With Teeth Was Originally Set To Be A Concept Album About An Endless Dream Occurring In Reality But Reznor Eventually Took This Idea Out Of The Record. Influences Nine Inch Nails' Earliest Influence Was The Punk Rock Band The Clash Reznor Stated That He Started Out Trying To Directly Imitate Them Only To Abandon That Direction Due To His Lack Of A Political Message. Other Early Influences Include Ministry And Skinny Puppy Which Helped Shape 1989's Pretty Hate Machine. The Album's Liner Notes Also Paid Tribute To Public Enemy And Prince. Another Large Influence On The Band's Sound Is Gary Numan Which Is Evident As Reznor Once Said That "after Hearing 'Cars' I Knew I Wanted To Make Music With Synthesizers". The 2005 Single "Only" Exemplifies The Disco-Style Beats And Synthesizers Drawn From Numan's Persuasion. Other Artists Of Significance To Nine Inch Nails Include Acts Such As Depeche Mode Queen King Crimson Devo The Cure Joy Division U2 Bauhaus Adam Ant Coil And Soft Cell. Reznor Has Toured With Some Of His Influences Including A Brief Tour Opening For Skinny Puppy In 1988. In 1995 Nine Inch Nails Went On Tour With David Bowie Who Along With Pink Floyd Had Been A Significant Influence On The Downward Spiral. In 2006 Nine Inch Nails Went On Tour With Bauhaus On Their Summer Amphitheatre Tour. Legacy Nine Inch Nails Has Influenced Many Newer Artists Which According To Reznor Range From "generic Imitations" Dating From His Initial Success To Younger Bands Echoing His Style In A "truer Less Imitative Way". Following The Release Of The Downward Spiral Mainstream Artists Began To Take Notice Of Nine Inch Nails' Influence David Bowie Compared Reznor's Impact To That Of The Velvet Underground. Guns N' Roses Singer Axl Rose Was Influenced Heavily By Nine Inch Nails In Changing His Band's Sound To An Industrial Style In The Mid-90's. Bob Ezrin Producer For Pink Floyd Kiss Alice Cooper And Peter Gabriel Described Reznor In 2007 As A "true Visionary" And Advised Aspiring Artists To Take Note Of His No-Compromise Attitude. Nine Inch Nails Has Been Credited By Music Journalists For Popularizing Industrial Music Despite Ambivalence From Reznor. The Act Has Received Four Awards From 25 Nominations Including Two Grammy Awards For The Songs "Wish" And "Happiness In Slavery" In 1993 And 1996 Respectively. Nine Inch Nails Have Received Two Kerrang! Awards One Of Them Being The Kerrang! Icon In 2006 Honoring The Band's Overall Contributions Since 1988 And Long-Standing Influence On Rock Music. The Band Has Also Received Nine Nominations From The MTV Video Music Awards For Several Of Its Videos Including Two Nominations For The "Closer" Music Video And Five Nominations For "The Perfect Drug" Music Video Including Video Of The Year. In 1997 Reznor Appeared In Time Magazine's List Of The Year's Most Influential People And Spin Described Him As "the Most Vital Artist In Music". The Recording Industry Association Of America Certified Sales For 10.5 Million Units Of The Band's Albums In The United States Which Accounted For Roughly Half Of The Band's Reported Sales Worldwide At That Time. In 2003 Rolling Stone Magazine Placed The Downward Spiral At No. 200 In A 2003 List Of The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time And By The Following Year Ranked Nine Inch Nails At No. 94 In Their The 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time List. In 2019 Reznor And Ross Received Songwriting And Production Credits For The Number-One Single "Old Town Road" By Lil Nas X Which Sampled Their Track "34 Ghosts IV" From Ghosts I–IV. "Old Town Road" Broke The Record For Most Consecutive Weeks At Number One On The Billboard Hot 100. As Producers For The Song Reznor And Ross Won A CMA Award For The 'Musical Event Of The Year' Along With Lil Nas X Featured Artist Billy Ray Cyrus And Producer YoungKio. In January 2020 After Previous Nominations In 2014 And 2015 Nine Inch Nails Alessandro Cortini Robin Finck Danny Lohner Trent Reznor Atticus Ross Ilan Rubin And Chris Vrenna Were Named As Inductees Of The 2020 Class Of The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Official Members Official Members
Trent Reznor – Lead And Backing Vocals Guitars Bass Keyboards Synthesizers Saxophone Piano Programming Drums Percussion 1988–present Atticus Ross – Keyboards Synthesizers Programming Bass Backing Vocals 2016–present Additional Touring Lineup
Robin Finck – Guitars Synthesizers Keyboards Lap Steel Violin Backing Vocals 1994–1996 1999–2000 2008–2009 2013–present Alessandro Cortini – Bass Keyboards Synthesizers Guitars Backing Vocals 2005–2008 2013–present Ilan Rubin – Drums Percussion Bass Guitars Cello Keyboards Backing Vocals 2008–2009 2013–present Key Former Members
Chris Vrenna – Drums Percussion Keyboards Samplers 1988–1990 1992–1997 Richard Patrick – Guitars Backing Vocals 1989–1993 Jeff Ward – Drums 1990–1991 Died 1993 James Woolley – Keyboards Synthesizers Programming Backing Vocals 1991–1994 Died 2016 Danny Lohner – Bass Guitars Synthesizers Backing Vocals 1993–2003 Charlie Clouser – Keyboards Synthesizers Theremin Percussion Programming Backing Vocals 1994–2001 Jerome Dillon – Drums Guitars 1999–2005 Jeordie White A.K.A. Twiggy Ramirez – Bass Guitars Backing Vocals 2005–2007 Aaron North – Guitars Backing Vocals 2005–2007 Josh Freese – Drums Marimba 2005 2005–2008 Justin Meldal-Johnsen – Bass Backing Vocals 2008–2009

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With Teeth Also Known As Halo 19 Or WITH_TEETH Is The Fifth Full-Length Studio Album By Nine Inch Nails Released On May 3 2005. It Spawned Three Singles The Hand That Feeds Only And Every Day Is Exactly The Same Four Tour Legs And Much Celebration For Trent Reznor's Sobriety. According To A Statement On Nin.Com Reznor Stated That Producer Rick Rubin Was Reznor's "mentor" And "source Of Inspiration" Throughout The Planning And Writing Process Of The Album. Reznor Was Also Heavily Inspired By The Use Of More Analog Electronic Effects And Instruments Specifically Tape Delay And Modular Synthesizers Stating That "computers Among Other Things Are Ruining Music These Days. I Hate The Pro Tooled Sound Of Perfection And Everything Being 'fixed.' This Record Is Most Definitely 'un-Fixed." During The Recording Of The Album Reznor Listened To Gang Of Four Public Image Ltd. And Pere Ubu. In An Interview With Remix Magazine Reznor Spoke About His New Approach To Recording "I Wasn’t Doing Anything Consciously To React To What I Thought Sucked Around Me. And I Didn’t Do This Record To Be The Opposite Of The Fragile Although It Kind Of Came Out That Way. It Just Seemed Fresh To Me. It Seemed Inspiring. And The Records I Found Myself Listening To While Doing This Record—like Old Gang Of Four Records Stooges Iggy Pop—felt Fresh Felt Dangerous Felt Underproduced. It Felt Like The Spirit Of A Human Being Conveying An Emotional Message Was There In Those Things. And It Wasn’t Caught Up In The Glitz And Glamour Of Production Bells And Whistles Which I Myself Have Embraced At Times In The Past. So I Wanted To Kind Of Strip It Down And I Realized I Felt Comfortable Not Fitting A Lot Of Layers Of Stuff In. I Thought 'Let’s Only Put In What Is Absolutely Necessary. Let’s Take A Stripped-Down Approach.'
I Realized That The Last Couple Of Records Were Written In The Studio. So The Writing And Production And Arrangement Phase All Kind Of Took Place At The Same Time Bypassing Having Demos. Songs Would Start Sometimes With A Soundscape Sometimes A Visual Idea Sometimes A Drumbeat Sometimes A Cool Effect Sometimes A Chord Change. But Usually The Setting Was Created First And Then A Song Kind Of Got Wedged In There Later On. And This Time Around I Went About It Pretty Much The Opposite Way. I Set Up A Kind Of Demo Room Out In Los Angeles And Moved Out Here From New Orleans Really Just For A Change Of Pace. I Wanted To Set Up A Place Where I Didn’t Have Too Many Options And I Wanted To Do Demos This Time Around." With Teeth Unlike Most Nine Inch Nails Albums Does Not Have A Unified Concept And Deals With A Variety Of Themes. Reznor Wrote The Album After Overcoming Undisclosed Addictions And Settling Legal Issues With His Former Manager John A. Malm Jr. "A Lot Of This Was My Relationship With Myself The World At Large And Where I Might Fit Into That...Also My Relationship To A Disease That's Going To Kill Me If I Don't Deal With It And I Came Very Close To That. Hopefully Disguised Enough That It's Not A Terribly Boring Record About Recovery And Addiction And That Nonsense."
Reznor Seemingly Gained A New Awareness Of World Issues And Showed This By Speaking Out Against The US Government As Well As Becoming A Spokesperson For PETA. Some Songs Seem To Deal With Addiction "With Teeth" "Sunspots" While Others Have A More Political Intent "The Hand That Feeds" "Right Where It Belongs" . The Initial Concept Of The Album Was An Exploration Of “loss And Possible Discovery Of Self Along With Alternate Layers Of Reality And Perception Set Inside A Nightmare You Can't Seem To Wake Up From With Lots Of Feedback”. Around This Time Mysterious Quotes And Binary Codes Appeared On The NIN Website Including A Passage From The Book The Lathe Of Heaven By Ursula K. Le Guin Containing The Phrase "bleed-Through". The Working Title For With Teeth Was Bleedthrough Referencing The Phenomenon Of Audio Bleed-Through. In A Question Posted In The Access Section Of Nin.Com Reznor Announced That The Working Title Bleedthrough Had Been Dropped. Reznor Stated That The Name Was Changed Because "it Was Supposed To Be About Different Layers Of Reality Seeping Into The Next But I Think Some People Were Thinking About Blood Or A Tampon Commercial". "'Bleedthrough' Is No More " Reznor Wrote In A Message Posted On Nin.Com "as The Songs And Concepts Matured The Focus And Theme Of The Album Shifted Somewhat--Leaving Me Feeling That Title Was Inappropriate. Or You Could Just Say I Changed My Mind. Yes The New Album Has A Title And Track List And No I'm Not Telling You What It Is Yet".
Reznor Commented On The Change Of Direction For The Album Stating That "About Five Or Six Songs Into Writing It The Songs Started To Sound Good On Their Own And They Didn't Need This Framework To Work Together ” And That With Teeth Consists Of "a Collection Of Songs That Are Friends With Each Other But Don't Have To Rely On Each Other To Make Sense" However The Album's Narrative Arc Describes "a Difficult Journey That Begins With A Nightmare And Ends With Acceptance Of A New Reality.” In An Interview In February 2004 Reznor Stated That The New Material Was “more Song-Oriented Than The Fragile . It's Much More Lean. It's Going To Be Twelve Good Punches In The Face -- No Fillers No Instrumentals Just Straight To The Point…It's A Complicated Concept Record But Reduced To Just Simple Songs. It's Not Epic In Its Scope. It's Minimal And A Bit Brutal." The Album's Final Title May Be A Reference To A Song Of The Same Name By The Melvins As Reznor Is A Fan. In A 2024 Post On His Instagram Profile Rob Sheridan Elaborated On The Evolution Of The Material "Whenever This Work Comes Around Again People Always Ask Me About The "Bleedthrough" Album How Different It Was From "With Teeth " Etc And I Think There’s This Fan Mythos That Some Entirely Different Album Was Scrapped And Sits In A Vault Somewhere But That’s Not The Case. Bleedthrough Was Just In-Progress With Teeth Demos And What Changed Wasn’t The Entire Album It Was The New Material That Was Added As Recording Moved From New Orleans To LA How That Affected The Way Older Demos Were Completed How The Tracklist Evolved How Perspectives Shifted. Sometimes Concepts Change As Inspiration Changes And The Names And Visuals You’ve Been Sitting With For Almost A Year Don’t Feel Right Anymore. If Anything What You Saw At That Time Was A Rare Window Into The Creative Process Of How An Album Evolves Not The Scrapping Of A Bunch Of Material To Start From Scratch. And The Artwork As Well Evolved Pretty Organically From This Into The "With Teeth" Artwork." A Vinyl Reissue Campaign Of The NIN Catalog Was Begun In 2017 With Three Albums And Was Continued In 2019 When With Teeth Was Released As The Next Installment. The Item's Description Reads "At Long Last The Definitive Version Of With Teeth Meticulously Prepared By Trent Reznor Atticus Ross And NIN Art Director John Crawford. Remastered In 2019 On 180-Gram Vinyl With Lots Of Details Attended To That You May Never Notice But We Care About."
This Edition Of The Vinyl Comes With A Digital Download Card And A Booklet Containing Photos And An Essay About The Album Written By David Fricke. It Also Contains The Lyrics Adapted From The Old PDF Poster.