Nine Inch Nails is tagged as: Nine Inch Nails was formed in Cleveland, Ohio, United States in 1988 by Trent Reznor, the only constant member of the band. He is generally credited for popularizing the genre known as “industrial rock”. Born Michael Trent Reznor, he was raised by his maternal grandparents in Mercer, Pennsylvania, USA. Reznor took up piano at the age of five and in high school took up the tuba and saxophone. During the early to mid 80s Trent played with various synthpop and new wave groups such as Exotic Birds and Option 30 before beginning his solo project. As a member of Exotic Birds, he appeared in the Michael J. Fox & Joan Jett film Light of Day. Nine Inch Nails has issued eight major albums. With the inclusion of Broken EP, the band’s primary releases are: 1. Pretty Hate Machine (1989)|2. Broken EP (1992)|3. The Downward Spiral (1994)|4. The Fragile (Left) / The Fragile (Right) (1999)|5. With Teeth (2005)|6. Year Zero (2007)|7. Ghosts I-IV (2008)|8. The Slip (2008) Nine Inch Nails has also produced a number of EP’s, remixes, and provided contributions to various movie soundtracks, including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,The Crow, Natural Born Killers and Lost Highway. Trent Reznor provided the (largely ambient) soundtrack for the id Software game Quake. |
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