Trent Reznor Is Nine Inch Nails....
Just slightly more than a day to go until the release of the much anticipated album With Teeth. Here are a couple of interesting snippets and articles about the new record.
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Trent Reznor back from the wasteland
-Scott Kara of The New Zealand Herald

"My name is Trent Reznor and I am an alcoholic. If there's coke around - cocaine that is, the Colombian marching powder - keep it away from me. I shovel that for breakfast.

At least I used to. Now, I am clean and I can think again. Although I remain an intimidating person, I am also less prone to being a dickhead."
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Here is a very accurate review by Virus.

"The rumors that were going on upfront - more rock, less industrial - are not really wrong, but not principally and overall right either."
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Even fucking Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit digs the new album...Though admittedly I am not certain that this is a good thing.

"trent reznor is and will always be a force of genuine inspiration. he has never let me down. do yourself a favor and get this cd NOW!!!!!!"
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"Do you see a point where you’ll release something as just Trent Reznor?" - Brian Stillman of Revolver

Trent Reznor: "I imagine so. This record feels like Nine Inch Nails to me, and at the same time – and you’ll have to take my word for it – it doesn’t feel like I’m trying to fit into something that fit me 10 years ago and, motherfucker, I’ve got to fit into it again. At the end of the day, if a record is successful, if your career is up or down or you’re signed or not, you’re left with yourself. And through the good times and the bad times, I feel proud that what I’ve done with Nine Inch Nails has always felt like the right thing to do. I wouldn’t want to rewrite The Downward Spiral or Pretty Hate Machine. It was honest for the guy who did them, a confused fucker who was terrified. I recognize that guy, but I don’t feel like him anymore."
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It also took a humiliating spell in rehab to separate Trent the person from Trent the personality. - Victoria Durham of Rock Sound

"I did the full deal," he details,"I did a week in the psych ward, detox, it was full on. It wasn't glamorous this time. I can kind of laugh about it now. But the door that closes and doesn't open back up, and you realise there are no handles on it - it's hard to feel glamourous in that situation when you're vomiting on yourself. I was taught humility." He breaks into a smile, anticipating the inevitable question. "There was no master plan in taking this long between records. This was really about survival."
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Beyond Hurt
By Robert Hilburn, LA Times

The low point was waking up one morning in London with a hospital tube in his mouth and not knowing where he was. He had overdosed on heroin in his hotel room and had been taken out through the laundry room by aides who were trying to protect his privacy.

That was after Reznor came out with his follow-up to "Spiral," 1999's aptly titled "The Fragile" — an unwavering portrait of psychological helplessness that felt both frightening and sad. Sales were disappointing, and even admirers in the music industry wondered if he'd ever make another album.
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Coming to Grips
-Orkus Magazine, May 2005
"So I took a two-year time out to come to terms with myself again.”
During which he discovered, however, that almost nothing was left of the millions he had earned in the nineties with his records and tours. “My manager, who I worked with for almost 20 years, had gutted me like a Christmas goose, and to realize that hurt like hell,” hisses Reznor. “I always thought something like that couldn’t happen to me. But now I'm exactly the dumb rock star I had always laughed at — I let myself get thoroughly fucked over and even politely said thanks. Because of that I’m now in a lawsuit that is almost as messy as a divorce."
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The Line Begins To Blur in New Midnight Club Game.
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