Nine Inch Nails

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Nine Inch Nails, or NIN, is the name of a famous alternative rock band. Trent Reznor writes all the band's songs and plays most of the music himself. He started the band in 1988 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

[edit] History

Pretty Hate Machine was Nine Inch Nails' first album. It first came out in 1989. The songs "Down In It" and "Head Like A Hole" became famous from the radio and MTV.

In 1992, Nine Inch Nails made a short album called Broken. It had only eight songs. The song "Wish" won a Grammy, a very important award for singers and musicians. Another album, called Fixed, has some of the same songs as Broken, but other musicians have changed the music and added new sounds. New songs made that way are called remixes.

A new album called The Downward Spiral came out in 1994. It is the most popular and famous Nine Inch Nails album. Music stores have sold more than 4 million copies of The Downward Spiral all together. The songs "Closer", "March Of The Pigs", and "Hurt" were very popular on MTV and radio stations. Trent Reznor asked many other musicians to make remixes from the songs. The remixes were released on a new album called Further Down The Spiral.

In 1994, Nine Inch Nails played at the Woodstock 94 concert in New York. After that, they became one of the most famous bands in the world. For five years, there were no Nine Inch Nails albums or concerts. Many fans worried that the band they liked would stop making music forever.

Finally, a new album came out in 1999. It was called The Fragile. It was the longest album Nine Inch Nails had ever made, and the music was very different from the old albums. Many of the songs were only music with no words. Writers who write about music wrote good things about The Fragile in many magazines and newspapers. People knew the music of Nine Inch Nails had changed, but many people thought it was better than before.

Even though many people liked the album, it would still take Trent Reznor another five years to make another one. This was due to Trent Reznor drinking and doing too many drugs. He is now healthy. Trent also argued with his manager John Malm over how much money he should make. The court has agreed with Trent and John is no longer Trent's friend.

Nine Inch Nails' newest album is called With Teeth. When the song "The Hand That Feeds" was first played on the radio, fans were very happy that Nine Inch Nails had come back. The second song on the album to be played on the radio is "Only" and the third is "Every Day Is Exactly The Same".

[edit] Band

Trent Reznor makes almost all of the music for Nine Inch Nails. He is the only member.

When Nine Inch Nails plays at concerts, other musicians are also part of the band. The musicians who play in Nine Inch Nails are not always the same. Now, Trent Reznor sings and plays some instruments, Aaron North plays the guitar, Jeordie White plays the bass guitar, Alessandro Cortini plays the keyboard, and Josh Freese plays the drums.