Trent Reznor - vocals
Danny Lohner - guitar, bass, keyboards
Bursting onto the scene in 1989, Nine Inch Nails married the electronic assault of
industrial music with the predictable hooks of pop music. The band, largely a front
for the solo efforts of one Trent Reznor, blazed new aural landscapes on their
reenergizing a Goth scene that had been festering just below mainstream radar
screens while existing on a steady diet of bands like Laibach and Einsturzende
Neubauten.
Reznor recruited a band and hit the road with the Lollapalooza circus in 1991,
expanding the NIN fan base with a series of inspired performances and
subsequent release of the explosive Broken EP in 1992. Flirting with
top-of-the-charts popularity, Reznor martialed the troops to produce 1994's The
Downward Spiral, a prog-rock concept album that was recorded in the Hollywood
house where Sharon Tate met her fate at the hands of the Manson Family.
A year later, Further Down the Spiral, an extended EP of remixed tracks from The
Downward Spiral, was released on Interscope. Their 1997 single, "The Perfect
Drug," was included on the Lost Highway movie soundtrack and earned a
Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance.
Just recently, in 1999, Reznor released a Double CD set EP titled "The Fragile". Along with this came, thankfully, another tour. Nine Inch Nails will be touring in Australia with the Big Day Out '00 Festival in late January to eraly February. It is rumoured that His old band from the downward spiral tour will be rejoining him, including Robin Finck (guitar) who left Nine Inch Nails to play guitar for Guns 'n' Roses. Reznor is widely regarded as one of the most influential voices in alternative music, earning himself a slot in a canon of musical
auteurs previously carved out by the likes of Bowie, Reed, and Eno.
This short Band History was taken form Nine Inch Nails At The Gauntlet
