Michael Trent Reznor (May 17, 1965) is a musician, composer, producer and American multi-instrumentalist. Work in the studio with the name Nine Inch Nails, and belonged to bands such as Option 30, Exotic Birds, and Tapeworm, among others. In 2007, Reznor ended his contract with Interscope Records, becoming a freelance artist. He is considered one of the most acclaimed creative figures of his musical generation.
Reznor's first release as Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine, was a commercial success and has released since then, several studio albums and singles. He has worked with David Bowie, Adrian Belew, Saul Williams and Marilyn Manson. In 1997, Reznor appeared in the list of most influential people compiled by U.S. magazine Time, and Spin magazine described him as the most vital artist in music.
Youth
Michael Trent Reznor was born in May 17, 1965 in Mercer, Pennsylvania. At the age of five he began to have piano lessons to learn after being self taught to play the tuba and saxophone. His parents divorced in 1970, and Reznor was raised by his grandparents. In a 1995 interview, his grandfather Bill Clark remarked, "Music was his life, from the time he was a little boy. He had a gift." Reznor has said in interviews that he hated his training and was very bored with the solitary and peaceful area where he was raised. Most of the time, Reznor was isolated from other children. He said he did not fit. Nor was there much access to radio and television, but that was his only escape once they entered the alternative rock scene since the 70s and beyond. Reznor often experienced emotional rejection to girls, as we can deduct in his songs. He even said, "I wanted to escape from the small town America. Explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of this happened where I was. Almost teach you to realize that this is not for you. "
In secondary schools, Mercer Area, Reznor learned to play the saxophone and tuba. He was a member of the jazz band and marching bands. The former director of the Mercer High School band, Hendley Hoge remembered Reznor as "very upbeat and friendly." Reznor also became involved in theater while in high school. His teammates voted Best in Drama for his roles as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar and Professor Harold Hill in The Music Man.
Reznor graduated from high school in 1983 and enrolled at Allegheny College. Computer Engineering and studied music and joined a local band called Option 30 playing three shows a week. After a year in college, Reznor decided to leave to devote full time to his career in music.
With his high school friend Chris Vrenna, Reznor moved to Cleveland, Ohio. In 1985, he joined a band named The Innocent as a keyboardist. They released one album, Livin 'in the Street, but Reznor left after just three months.
In 1986, Reznor appeared as a member of the fictional band The Problem in the film Light of Day. He also joined a local band from Cleveland, Exotic Birds.
He got a job at Right Track Studio as a handyman. The studio owner, Bart Koster commented Reznor "he is so focused in everything he does. When such, waxed the floor, was barbaric." Koster allowed Reznor to use the study outside working hours, he used to record demos of songs that ended on thefirst album by Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine. These demos were released later as a bootleg with the name Purest Feeling.
Reznor was the producer of albums by Marilyn Manson: Portrait Of An American Family (1994), Smells Like Children (1995), and Antichrist Superstar (1996), as well as the soundtracks of the films Natural Born Killers and Lost Highway. Reznor provided with "Driver Down" and "Videodrones; Questions" on Lost Highway. In contrast, another song, "The Perfect Drug" by Nine Inch is Nails.
A Reznor likes video games, notably Doom by id Software, which he said playing in the Nine Inch Nails tours after the shows. He also created the soundtrack for the hit video game from ID Software, Quake. (the NIN logo also appeared on boxes of ammunition from the gun nail gun in Quake and prior to this, embedded in the floor of a secret passage in Ultimate Doom).
Trent returned to work with ID Software in 2003 as a sound engineer for the video game Doom 3. However, due to "time, money and bad management", had to abandon this project, and his work did not sound the released version of the game. The original audio files can be found on the Internet, but are not officially recognized by Reznor or Id Software. Chris Vrenna, former drummer for Nine Inch Nails, produced the music for Doom 3 with his partner Clint Walsh.
During the 5 years between the albums The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999), Trent Reznor struggled with clinical depression, social anxiety disorder, writer's block, and the death of his grandmother. Reznor also revealed he was suffering from an addiction to alcohol and heroin at the time of Fragile. It was known that Reznor considered suicide during that period. In a 1999 interview for Rolling Stone, he said: "I took time to sit and change my mind and my life around. I had to slap me: 'If you kill yourself, do it, someone save you the problem. You ordered your stuff.
Other activities
Working out of Nine Inch Nails
Reznor composed with Brian Warner several of the tracks on the album of the band Marilyn Manson, Smells Like Children (1995) Antichrist Superstar (1996), as well as the soundtracks for the films Natural Born Killers and Lost Highway. Uncredited Reznor "Driver Down" and "Videodrones; Questions" on the soundtrack soundtrack, while the track "The Perfect Drug" is credited to Nine Inch Nails. Reznor sang background vocals on "Past the Mission", a song by Tori Amos's 1994 album Under the Pink. In 1998 Reznor produced a remix of Notorious BIG's song, "Victory" which also appears Busta Rhymes. The music video game from ID Software, Quake is credited to Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails, Reznor helped record sound effects and ambient audio, and played NIN logo appeared on boxes of ammunition in the game. Reznor's partnership with ID Software began because Reznor was a follower of the game Doom. He met with ID Software in 2003 to serve as sound engineer for Doom 3, but due to "time, money and bad management", abandoned the project, and work was never included in the final version of the game.
With the band Tapeworm, Reznor worked ten years with Danny Lohner, Maynard James Keenan and Atticus Ross, although the project was completed before they could launch any official material. The only known material Tapeworm is a version of a song called "Vacant", retitled "Passive" which appears on the album of remixes of A Perfect Circle 2004 Emotive .
Influence
Reznor's work as Nine Inch Nails has influenced many new artists, according to the same Reznor ranging from "generic imitations" from the days of early success for the band to younger bands echoing his style in a more real, less imitative. " After the release of The Downward Spiral, first-class artists echoed the influence of NIN: David Bowie NIN impact compared with that of The Velvet Underground at the time. In 1997, Reznor appeared in the list of most influential people of the year compiled by Time magazine, and Spin magazine described him as "the most vital artist in the music industry." Bob Ezrin, producer of Pink Floyd, Kiss , Alice Cooper and Peter Gabriel, Reznor described in 2007 as a "true visionary" advising new artists take note of its failure to engage. In a rare appearance at the Kerrang awards! In London that year, accepted the award Reznor Kerrang!. Timbaland, one of the producers of pop music more popular in recent years has cited as his producer Trent Reznor's favorite study.
Reznor has cited Gary Numan as an influence, coming to say "If it were not for The Pleasure Principle, not entered into this music." Numan played with Nine Inch Nails in concert at the O2 Arena in London on 15 July, 2009 after the introduction of Numan Reznor who said that "life had been a huge inspiration for him and the last twenty years." Numan played the song, "Metal" and "Cars."
