Reznor is a founder & independent originative inflict behind the band Nine Inch Nails. He is too a merely official member of the b&: different producers, engineers & musicians come assembled to assist him around writing and performing newly poop. Reznor writes a lot of the lyrics himself & is within resole control of the counsel of the class action.

Biography

Michael Trent Reznor was innate within Mercer, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles n of Pittsburgh, to Michael Reznor, an interior designer and bluegrass musician, and Nancy Clark. Reznor was known as by his middle title to stay away from confusion using his father. Once Trent was 5, his parents divorced, & he was sent to swallow his enate grandparents around Mercer. His sister Tera, born within 1971, remained with his mother.

Trent began swimming a piano at the age of 5 & showed an early aptitude for music. Inside the 1995 interview, his grandfather Bill Clark remarked, "Music was his life, from the time he was a wee boy. He was so gifted." [http://nothing.nin.net/int12.html] His previous soft teacher Rita Beglin said Reznor "always reminded me of Harry Connick, Jr." when he played. [http://nothing.nin.net/int12.html] Reznor was sufficiently gifted on the piano that these are believed he stand pursued the career as a piano player.

At a Mercer Vicinity Junior & Senior High Schools, Reznor learned to also play a saxophone and tuba. He was a member of each the jazz and marching bands. Previous Mercer High School band director Hendley Hoge remembered Reznor when "very upbeat and friendly." [http://nothing.nin.net/int12.html] Reznor too became taking part inside theater patch inside high school. He wwhen voted Better inside Drama by schoolmate for his roles as Judas around Jesus Christ Superstar and Professor Harold Hill in the Music Man.

Reznor graduated from either high within 1983 and enrolled at Allegheny College. He exposed computer engineering and music, and he joined the local band known as Option 30 which played three shows by the week. Fallowing a year inside college, Reznor decided to drop dead set pursue his career inside music fulltime.

By owning his high school friend Chris Vrenna, Reznor moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Inside 1985, he joined a band known as The Innocent as a keyboardist. It freed 1 album, ''Livin' in the Street, however Reznor quit fallowing only ternion months.

Around 1986, Reznor appeared as a member of A fictional band The Problems in the film Light of Day''. He likewise joined a local Cleveland band the Exotic Birds.

He had the job at Right Track Studio (now called Midtown Recording) as a handyman. Studio creator Bart Koster commented how else Reznor "is so focused in everything he does. When that guy waxed the floor, it looked great." [http://nothing.nin.net/int12.html] Koster allowed Reznor to utilize a studio in the period of off hours, which he utilized to record demonstration for songs that ended au fait Nine Inch Nails' number one album, Pretty Hate Machine. These demonstration were in a future freed as a bootleg under the title Purest Feeling.

Reznor was a credited producer for Marilyn Manson's albums Portrait of an American Family (1994), Smells Like Children (1995), and Antichrist Superstar (1996), when well as a soundtrack for the films Natural Born Killers and Lost Highway. Reznor is credited for "Driver Down" on the soundtrack for Misused Highway. There are ii more tracks, "Videodrones; Questions" & "The Perfect Drug" which are then credited to Nine Inch Nails instead.

Reznor likes video games, most notably Doom by id Software, which he has said he played in the Nine Inch Nails tour bus after doing shows. He too created the soundtrack for id Package's hit Quake. (As a side-note, a NIN logotype besides appears on the nail gun ammo boxes in Earthquake & before this, embedded within the floor of the secret room in Ultimate Doom).

Trent returned to function by having id Computer software inside 2003 as the healthy engineer for video game Doom 3. Still, due to "time, money, and bad management", he experienced to abandon this design, & his audio operate did non produce it into a stake's release. A original audio files may be observed using your internet browser, although it is non officially endorsed by Reznor even or id Computer software. Chris Vrenna, previous drummer for Nine Inch Nails, produced a music for Doom Three by having his partner Clint Walsh.

In a period of the 5 years between his albums The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999), Trent Reznor struggled with depression, social anxiety disorder, writer's block, and the death of his grandmother. It has as well been revealed by Reznor that he got been suffering from either drunkenness in a period of the Fragile era. It was reported that Reznor got considered committing suicide during this period. Inside the 1999 interview for Rolling Stone magazine, he said that "It just took me time to sit down and change my head and my life around. I had to slap myself in the face: 'If you want to kill yourself, do it, save everybody the fucking hassle. Or get your shit together.'"

Cestode, the collaboration by using Danny Lohner, Maynard James Keenan of Tool, and Atticus Ross of 12 Rounds, was in production for nigh tenner years, however an upgrade on a official Nine Inch Nails web site has declared that the plan has been terminated. A single known performance of any Cestode lesson was while Keenan's more band A Perfect Circle performed the song "Vacant" on the road inside 2001. "Vacant" appears in The Right Circle's third album eMOTIVe, reworked and retitled "Passive". "Passive" was afterwards utilized in the 1st bar scene in the film Constantine.

Reznor is believed to become required inside discussions on the musical version of the novel Fight Club.

Work with other bands
Featuring
"My Monkey" for Marilyn Manson, appears on Portrait of an U.s. Personal (1994) "Victory (Nine Inch Nails Remix)" for Puff Daddy & The Family, appears on Victory: Remixes (1998)

Guitar
"Lunchbox" for Marilyn Mansin, appears on Portrait of an Our contries Personal (1994) "Deformography" for Marilyn Mansin, appears on Antichrist Superstar (1996) "Mister Superstar" for Marilyn Mansin, appears on Antichrist Superstar (1996)

Mellotron
"Cryptorchid" for Marilyn Mansin, appears on Antichrist Superstar (1996)

Mix
Portrait of an Western Personal (Marilyn Manson, 1994)

Piano
"Man That You Fear" for Marilyn Mansin, appears on Antichrist Superstar (1996)

Producer
Get Your Gunn, tracks 1-Two (Marilyn Manson, 1994) Portrait of an Our contries Personal (Marilyn Manson, 1994) Natural Born Killers (Soundtrack, 1994) "Down in the Park" for Marilyn Mansin, appears on Lunchbox (1995) Prick, tracks 1, Three–Five (Prick, 1995) Smells Like Children (Marilyn Manson, 1995) Antichrist Superstar, tracks One-Two, Four-10, 12-16, 99 (Marilyn Manson, 1996) Misplaced Main road (Soundtrack, 1997) Sweet Dreams, tracks 1-Three (Marilyn Manson, 1997) The Beautiful People (Marilyn Manson, 1997) Tourniquet (Marilyn Manson, 1997) "Victory (Nine Inch Nails Remix)" for Puff Daddy & The Family, appears on Victory: Remixes (1998) Voyeurs (Two, 1998) It Dreams (Guest producer, Jakalope, 2004)

Programming
Antichrist Whizz (Marilyn Manson, 1996)

Remixes
"Burnt Offering" for Machines of Loving Grace, appears on ''Burn Like Brilliant Trash (At Jackie's Funeral) (1992) "Burn Like Brilliant Trash (Dub 120 BPM)" for Machines of Loving Grace, appears on Burn Like Brilliant Trash (At Jackie's Funeral) (1992) "Symphony of Destruction (The Gristle Mix)" for Megadeth, appears on Foreclosure of a Dream (1992) "Stone Cold Crazy (Re-produced by Trent Reznor)" for Queen, appears on Stone Cold Crazy (promo) (1992) "Missing Link (Screaming Bird Mix)" for Curve, appears on Blackerthreetrackertwo (1993) "Who Was In My Room Last Night (Trent Reznor Remix)" for Butthole Surfers, appears on The Wooden Song (1993) "Light (Fat Back Dub)" for KMFDM, appears on Light (Single) (1993) "Mother Inferior Got Her Gunn (Trent Reznor Remix)" for Marilyn Mansin, appears on Get Your Gunn'' (1994) "The Heart's Filthy Lesson (Alt Mix)" for David Bowie, appears on ''The Heart's Filthy Lesson'' (1995) "I'm Afraid of Americans" for David Bowie, released as a lone, (1997) "Pleasant Smell (Rethought by Trent Reznor, Keith Hillebrandt and Clint Mansell)" for 12 Rounds, appears on Pleasant Smell (1998) "Pleasant Smell (Rethought by Keith Hillebrandt, Clint Mansell and Trent Reznor)" for 12 Rounds, appears on Pleasant Smell (1998) "Lapdance (Trent Reznor Remix)" for N*E*R*D, appears on Spin This (compilation) (2001) "Growing Up (Trent Reznor Remix)" for Peter Gabriel, appears on Growing Up (2003) "Vertigo (Trent Reznor Remix)" for U2, appears on Vertigo (promo) (2005)

Saxophone
"Communique" for Lucky Pierre, appears on Communique (1988) "I Need to Get to Know" for Lucky Pierre, appears on Communique (1988)

Vocals
"Communique" for Lucky Pierre, appears on Communique (1988) "I Need to Get to Know" for Lucky Pierre, appears on Communique (1988) "Supernaut" for 1000 Homo DJs, appears on Supernaut (1990) (vocals distorted due to a dispute by having TVT Records) "Suck" for Pigface, appears on Gub (1991) "The Bushmaster" for Pigface, appears in Gub (1991) "Supernaut (Trent Reznor Vocal Version)" for 1000 Homo DJs, appears on Black Box: Wax Trax! Records, The First 13 Years (1994) (vocals restored) "Past the Mission" for Tori Amos, appears on Under the Pink (1994) "Black Bomb (Jerry in the Bag)" for Josh Wink, appears on Herehear (1998)

Trivia
Reznor is around possession of John Lennon's Mellotron, which he has used on Broken, The Fragile, and Marilyn Manson's third full-length studio album, Antichrist Superstar.

Trent Reznor is known to speak retired strongly against faith & recently a policies of President George W. Bush.

Reznor has recently mass produced certain song session files from either With Teeth available publically, permitting anyone to remix them using commerical package rather Garageband or Protools. Up to now, Reznor has freed files for "The Hand That Feeds" and "Only."

When writing The Downward Spiral, Trent lived in a Tate mansion in which the Manson family murders took place. He exclusively learned of the grim history of the page until when he moved out, & it was demolished. Whenever he encountered retired, he went back, & took a door as a souvenir.

He is like short, exclusively astir 168 centimeters tall (Quintuplet'Sestet").