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Cleveland, Ohio, United States (1988 – present)

Nine Inch Nails, also known by the acronym NIN (or NIИ) , 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.

In 2002, a live album (their second live release, the first being the video Closure Documentary) entitled And All That Could Have Been was released on DVD & CD, the Deluxe version of the CD came packaged with a mini album called Still. “Still” features several previously released songs in a stripped down, near-acoustic format, along with several other new compositions.

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NotMrBlonde wrote:
8 hours ago

I just bought And All That Could Have Been on impulse and it's awesome.

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kohzumi wrote:
11 hours ago

Wah <3 4evah ;]

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pterodata wrote:
yesterday afternoon

welcome to: http://www.lastfm.com.br/music/Pterodata i'd like you to listen as i like to listen you

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lovintheday wrote:
yesterday morning

you need to put something i can never have it' my favorite song!!!!!!!!!!!

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rockin2tool wrote:
yesterday morning

marilyn manson is one of the most related artists to nine inch nails. i dont know what juansidous is talking about. MM was considered trents mini-me when he first came out.

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neccy60 wrote:
yesterday morning

NIN = Trent Reznor. Screw the others, they're just hang ons.

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Rorschach- wrote:
yesterday morning

damnit can they please change the picture to just Trent. Hes the only one that deserves credit for this amazing band.

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IndefiniteCure wrote:
yesterday morning

hey you know what? I've been listening to one NIN album per week, chronologically, for 5 weeks now and Im now at With Teeth...and yeah it is different...but it's awesome nonetheless, I find myself loving it...my 3 favorites being TDS, YZ and TF

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Juansidious wrote:
yesterday morning

It's really unfortunate that the artist listed as most similar to NIN is Marilyn Manson.

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MaYhEmLoVe wrote:
yesterday morning

nigga

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keeevina wrote:
Saturday evening

you are incredible mr. reznor.

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hunnybunny21 wrote:
Saturday evening

the fucked up thing is when i was in 7th grade i was singing about fucking like an animal. yikes.

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filipsz wrote:
Saturday evening

musically excellent but i fucking hate their image

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voRt_ wrote:
Saturday evening

TDS > PHM > Fragile > YZ > Broken > Slip > rest. all are good the only one I truly think is sub-par is With Teeth.

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Victo_prog wrote:
Saturday evening

Year Zero > Still > Ghosts > The Fragile > all the rest (IMO, and that doesn't mean I don't like the rest)

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enRemolinos wrote:
Saturday evening

dejó la cagaa en Santiago de Chile, de los espectaculos de mayor nivel vistos acá. http://agudosremolinos.wordpress.com

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Victo_prog wrote:
Saturday evening

As loud as Xan may be, I completely agree on the "evolution" thing, Year Zero is Trent's most "mature" work in my opinion (and Ghosts is his least "mature", since it's about playing around with sounds :3)

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Barusamikosu wrote:
Saturday evening

wtf Trent Reznor is NOT fuckable. He's all like male and has a penis and shit. Gross.

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Xan-Thalion wrote:
Saturday afternoon

@ Jezs00: damn I HATE when someone doesn't READ what I WRITE. I ADORE NiN. I simply dont like the whole "OMG the frontman is so sexy" shit. NiN is nice music - I dont care about the look of the frontman. I listen to Tactical Sekt also, and the frontman there has over 120 kilos. So... what the hell 'look' of the frontman has to do with the music?

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sophiuxe wrote:
Saturday afternoon

Nine Inch Nails is da best band ever. All of Trent's songs have a special meaning. They aren't songs like other bands. I agree with Jezs00 ;D

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South America, thank you very much! We had a great time performing for you and hanging out in your neck of the woods. I promise we'll be back before long and again I apologize for the cancellations (those were OUR fault and not the promoter's).

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