Editing Trent Reznor (section)

===Nine Inch Nails===
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[[File:Trent Reznor Lollapalooza 1991.jpg|thumb|upright|Reznor performing at the 1991 [[Lollapalooza]] festival]]
While assembling the earliest [[Nine Inch Nails]] recordings, Reznor was unable to find a band that could articulate his songs as he wanted. Instead, inspired by [[Prince (musician)|Prince]], he played all the instruments except drums himself.<ref>{{cite magazine | title = The Truth About Trent | magazine = Option | last = Fine | first = Jason | date=  July–August 1994}}</ref> He continued in this role on most Nine Inch Nails studio recordings, though he has occasionally involved other musicians, assistants, drummers, and rhythm experts. Several labels responded favorably to the demo material, and Reznor signed with [[TVT Records]].<ref name="AMG" /> Nine selections from the Right Track demos were unofficially released years later in 1994 as ''Purest Feeling'' and many of these songs appeared in revised form on ''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]'', Reznor's first official release under the Nine Inch Nails name.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-10-12 |title=Revisiting 'Pretty Hate Machine', The Most Devastating Break-Up Album Ever |url=https://junkee.com/nine-inch-nails-pretty-hate-machine-masterpiece/273737 |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=Junkee |language=en-US}}</ref>

''Pretty Hate Machine''  was released in 1989 and was a moderate commercial success,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.spin.com/trent-reznor-upward-spiral-nine-inch-nails-spin-cover-september-2013/ | title=Trent Reznor's Upward Spiral | work=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] | date=August 25, 2013 | access-date=December 19, 2015 | author=Marchese, David | archive-date=December 22, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222082755/http://www.spin.com/trent-reznor-upward-spiral-nine-inch-nails-spin-cover-september-2013/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/08/the-nine-lives-of-trent-reznor | title=The nine lives of Trent Reznor | work=[[The Guardian]] | date=August 8, 2013 | access-date=December 19, 2015 | author=Beaumont, Mark | archive-date=May 10, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510204404/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/08/the-nine-lives-of-trent-reznor | url-status=live }}</ref> certified [[Music recording sales certification|Gold]] in 1992.<ref name="RIAA.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH |publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] |title=Gold and Platinum database |access-date=2007-08-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626050454/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH |archive-date=June 26, 2007 }}</ref> Amid pressure from his record label to produce a follow-up to ''Pretty Hate Machine'', Reznor secretly began recording under various pseudonyms to avoid record company interference, resulting in an [[Extended play|EP]] called ''[[Broken (Nine Inch Nails EP)|Broken]]'' (1992).<ref>{{cite magazine | title = Nine Inch Nails  | magazine = [[Musician (magazine)|Musician]] |date=March 1994}}</ref> Nine Inch Nails was included in the [[Lollapalooza]] tour in the summer of 1991, and won a [[Grammy Award]] in 1993 under "Best Heavy Metal Performance" for the song "[[Wish (Nine Inch Nails song)|Wish]]".<ref name="Lollapalooza">{{cite web | title = Nine Inch Nails – Timeline | publisher = rockonthenet.com | url = http://www.rockonthenet.com/artists-n/nineinchnails_main.htm | access-date = 2007-11-11 | archive-date = August 5, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130805140334/http://rockonthenet.com/artists-n/nineinchnails_main.htm | url-status = live }}</ref>

Nine Inch Nails' second full-length album, ''[[The Downward Spiral]]'', entered the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] chart in 1994 at number two,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cleveland.com/kidsnewsday/content.ssf?/homegrown/index.ssf?/homegrown/more/reznor/timeline.html |title=Trent Reznor: Timeline |publisher=Cleveland.com |access-date=2006-12-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011112200/http://www.cleveland.com/kidsnewsday/content.ssf?%2Fhomegrown%2Findex.ssf%3F%2Fhomegrown%2Fmore%2Freznor%2Ftimeline.html |archive-date=October 11, 2007 }}</ref> and remains the highest-selling Nine Inch Nails release in America.<ref name="RIAA.com"/> To record the album, Reznor rented and moved into the [[10050 Cielo Drive|10050 Cielo Drive mansion]], where the [[Tate–LaBianca murders]] had been perpetrated by the [[Manson Family]] in 1969.<ref name="Le Pig">{{cite magazine | last = Ali | first = Lorraine | title = Making Records – Where Manson Murdered Helter Shelter | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | date = March 18, 1994 | url = https://ew.com/article/1994/03/18/making-records-where-manson-killed/ | access-date = 2007-11-11 | archive-date = May 19, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080519182522/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,301460,00.html | url-status = live }}</ref> He built a studio space in the house, which he renamed Le Pig, after the word that was scrawled on the front door in [[Sharon Tate]]'s blood by her murderers. Reznor told ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' that, despite the notoriety attached to the house, he chose to record there because he "looked at a lot of places, and this just happened to be the one I liked most".<ref name="Le Pig"/> He explained that he was fascinated by the house due to his interest in "American folklore", but has stated that he does not "want to support serial-killer bullshit."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lynchnet.com/lh/lhrs3.html |title=Lost Highway Article – Rolling Stone 3–6–97 |publisher=Lynchnet.com |date=1997-03-06 |access-date=2017-01-05 |archive-date=January 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102094103/http://www.lynchnet.com/lh/lhrs3.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Nine Inch Nails toured extensively over the next few years, including a performance at [[Woodstock '94]], although Reznor admitted to the audience that he did not like to play large venues.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.9inchnails.com/articles/articles.php?id=8 | title = Love It To Death: Trent Reznor Of Nine Inch Nails Preaches The Dark Gospel Of Sex, Pain, And Rock & Roll | author = Jonathan Gold | publisher = [[Rolling Stone]] Issue #690, archived on Painful Convictions | date = September 8, 1994 | access-date = 2007-03-31 | archive-date = May 5, 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060505120739/http://www.9inchnails.com/articles/articles.php?id=8 | url-status = live }}</ref> Around this time, Reznor's studio perfectionism,<ref>{{cite magazine | title = Trent Reznor | magazine = [[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]] |date=January 1998 | issue = 114}}</ref> struggles with addiction, and bouts of writer's block prolonged the production of a follow-up to ''[[The Downward Spiral]]''.<ref name = "Hell">{{cite magazine | title = To Hell and back | author = Chick, Steve | magazine = [[Kerrang!]] | date = March 30, 2005}}</ref>

In 1999, the double album ''[[The Fragile (Nine Inch Nails album)|The Fragile]]'' was released. It was partially successful, garnering generally positive critical reception, but lost money for Reznor's label, so he funded the North American [[Fragility Tour]] out of his own pocket. A further six years followed before the next Nine Inch Nails album ''[[With Teeth]]'' was released. Reznor went into rehab during the time between the two records, and was able to manage his drug addictions. ''With Teeth'' reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' 200.<ref name="BillboardHistory">{{cite magazine | url = {{BillboardURLbyName|artist=nine inch nails|chart=all}}  | title = Artist Chart History – Nine Inch Nails | magazine = [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | access-date = 2006-12-18}}</ref><ref name="SMH">{{cite news | url = http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/hammer-time-over/2005/08/04/1122748732635.html | title = Hammer time over | author = Roberts, Jo | newspaper = [[Sydney Morning Herald]] | date = August 5, 2005 | access-date = 2006-11-28 | archive-date = November 3, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121103074354/http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/hammer-time-over/2005/08/04/1122748732635.html | url-status = live }}</ref> After ''With Teeth'', Reznor released the concept album ''[[Year Zero (album)|Year Zero]]'' in 2007, which has an [[alternate reality game]] themed after the album (see [[Year Zero (game)]]) which is about how the current policies of the American government will affect the world in the year 2022. After ''Year Zero''{{'s}} release, Reznor broke from large record labels and released two albums, ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]'' and ''[[The Slip (album)|The Slip]]'', independently on his own label, The Null Corporation. In 2009, Nine Inch Nails went on hiatus following the [[Wave Goodbye Tour]]. Nine Inch Nails returned to large record labels in 2013, signing with [[Columbia Records]], and releasing the album ''[[Hesitation Marks]]'' that September.

Atticus Ross, a frequent collaborator of Reznor's since 2002, was announced as an official member of Nine Inch Nails in 2016 – the first and only other official member of the band besides Reznor himself. With Nine Inch Nails' new incarnation as a duo, they released a trilogy of EPs from 2016 to 2018, tied together by a loose concept and spanning a wide variety of musical styles. 2016's ''[[Not the Actual Events]]'' saw a return to the heavier industrial style of the 1990s, while 2017's ''[[Add Violence]]'' instead focused on a more electronic sound and 2018's ''[[Bad Witch]]'' ventured into experimental jazz.