Trent: I don't know if you've ever tried to think of band names, but usually you think you have a great one and you look at it the next day and think it's stupid.
Trent: The name of the group doesn't really have any literal meaning. It just seemed kind of manly.
Trent: I'm interested in using the computer as a creative tool, as a recording tool, and as a musical tool.
Trent: It's like beating your head open and unzipping your chest cavity saying, ‘Here are my guts - Everything I've felt, including a lot of stuff I'm not proud of.’ It's hard, it uses you up. I walk off stage sometimes feeling like I just slept with everyone in the audience.
Trent: There are just some things that don't seem very fair in this world, like the hipocrisy of organized religion. I just don't understand how people can blindly believe a bunch of the lies they're fed,so that they don't have to think too hard about other issues, 'Be A good boy, and you'll go to Heaven'...If it works for you, fine. But it doesn't work for me.
Trent Reznor is a direct descendant of George Reznor, the founder of the Reznor Company in 1888. Reznor Company previously manufacturered Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning equipment, before being sold in the sixties. The equipment is still manufactured in Mercer, Pennsylvania, the town where Trent grew up.
Trent's former bandmate Chris Vrenna left NIN to form the electronic one man band Tweaker.
Trent has a project band, called TapeWorm.
Trent has been listening to country greats: Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, and Johnny Cash on his IPod and MP3 player as he walks his dog around town. The music makes him appreciate simplicity and directness.
After deciding to use more instrument driven material, Trent rented a beach house in Big Sur, and began writing songs at a Grand Piano. He decided that the results sucked."Once I started sounding like Willie Nelson, I have to get back to the computer".
Trent signed with the Exotic Birds in 1986, bringing Chris Vrenna along to replace the founding drummer Tom Freer. After contributing keyboards and vocals on L'Oiseau, both men left the lineup in 1988.
During his education at Alleghany College in Meadville, Trent assumed keyboard and vocal duties for the 'New Wave' act Optin 30. The band never release any recordings, but a demo tape that includes covers of songs by: Icehouse, The Thompson Twins, & Falco was released in 1993, and eventually released by the 'Shriek' label in 1997.
Trent uses the alias Poop Sniffer when playing video games.
While on stage in Columbus, Ohio, his dog Maise fell from the third floor balcony of the venue, killing her.
In early 2006, NIN released the 3rd single from With Teeth. 'Every Day Is Exactly The Same' reached #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Singles Chart.
The album PRETTY HATE MACHINE was NIN's first collabaration with producer Mark 'Flood' Ellis.
Trent was set to produce a track on Aaliyah's final album. Do to a scheduling conflict, this didn't occur.
Trent moved to Los Angeles in 2004, saying that he needed to get some friends that didn't drink.
Trent moved to New Orleans in 1995, and built a studio out of a former funeral home.
Buzz Ozbourn, aka King Buzzo, the afroed lead singer of The Melvins can be seen in the 'closer' video.
David Bowie appears on 'The Art Of Self Destruction' at 4:31, repeating the line "Falls wanking to the floor".
Trent can be heard saying "I am an innocent", on the track 'Mr. Self Destruct' from the Downward Spiral.
In the track 'Sanctified', during the instrumental preceding the final verse, you will hear a faint voice speaking. It is a sample of Oliver Stone's Midnight Express, one of Trents favorite movies.
Trent filmed a Public Service Announcent for PETA in 2006.
Reznor's favorite television show as a child was The Six Million Dollar Man.
Reznor appeared as a member of the fictional band The Problems in the 1986 movie titled Light Of Day.
Trent played the role of Judas in his high school production of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Trent was a member of the high school jazz and marching bands.
NIN added The Perfect Drug to the Lost Highway soundtrack in 1997.
NIN released the source files for The Hand That Feeds, in Garageband format, to allow fans to remix it.
The NIN song Starf*ckers, Inc. is a parody of Trent's friend and protege, Marilyn Manson.
The NIN's song Hurt would enjoy success again when it was covered by Johnny Cash, in 2003.
NIN's videos are known for their eerie images of pigs and S & M paraphernalia.
NIN won a Grammy for the song "Wish" in the Heavy Metal category.
Trent thanks British horror/fantasy writer Clive Barker, for inspiration on Pretty Hate Machine.
NIN's debut album was "PrettyHateMachine", released in 1989.
NIN'S songs cover a range of genres. "The Perfect Drug" has the drum and bass flavor. "The Frail" is a melancholy piano piece, and "Pretty Hate Machine" is dark electronic pop in the style of Depeche Mode.
The only constant member of NIN is: singer/producer/multi-instrumentalist, Trent Reznor.
NIN once conducted an online ticket auction through TicketMaster to give all fans the opportunity to buy premium seats, without having to go through a scalper.
As of July 2005, there are 20 Nine Inch Nails music videos.
Down In It is the first song Trent Reznor ever wrote. It can be found on 1989's Halo Two "Pretty Hate Machine".
During the course of their 18-year career, Nine Inch Nails have only produced four proper, full-length albums: -1989's Halo Two "Pretty Hate Machine" -1994's Halo Eight "The Downward Spiral" -1999's Halo Fourteen "The Fragile" -2005's Halo Nineteen "With Teeth". There is about five years between each major release.
Trent shot the music video for Gave Up in Charles Manson's former home. The video itself features a young, relatively unknown Marilyn Manson. Trent also recorded "The Downward Spiral" album in Charles' home, before it was demolished. Trent still owns the door to the abode.
The television show Millennium has featured music from Nine Inch Nails: In
The lead singer of Nine Inch Nails is Trent Reznor, whose name on his birth certificate is 'Michael Trent Reznor'. Trent was called by his middle name, so as to avoid confusion with Michael Reznor Sr., his father.
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