Jonthan Rach’s exhibition of photographs presents Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails at the turning point of fame and notoriety as they toured the world after the release of 1994’s The Downward Spiral.
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TRENT REZNOR DESCENDS — 25 YEARS OF NINE INCH NAILS THE FRAGILE
After achieving escape velocity with The Downward Spiral, Trent Reznor would struggle to realise his most ambitions project yet — Nine Inch Nails The Fragile — now celebrating its 25-year anniversary.
BIG MAN WITH A GUN– How Nine Inch Nails Took On Censorship and US Gun Culture – And Lost – Pt I
On Big Man With A Gun Nine Inch Nails presented the negative side of guns in America — gross and grotesque, violent and vulgar — another painful reality which some of its citizens prefer not to see. As the narrative voice behind The Downward Spiral album Trent Reznor is forever torn between running away and confronting the issue head-on.
REPTILE: REZNOR, BEAUTY, AND SELF (COURTNEY) LOVE
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – I found her bitter – And I reviled herArthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell On Reptile, Trent Reznor reveals the ugliest side of his persona, wounded by broken relationships he treads a crooked line between body horror and and a slow-burning misogyny embodied in the figureContinueContinue reading “REPTILE: REZNOR, BEAUTY, AND SELF (COURTNEY) LOVE”
[Breaking The Spiral] – Netflix Documentary Reveals How Trent Reznor wrote ‘Hurt’ and The Downward Spiral Broke Into The Mainstream
Reznor had his doubts about Hurt, conscious that even though it is not explicitly about suicide, perhaps a death revisited, it might still allow people to wallow in its mood long enough to fantasise about their own passing. Even though Hurt perhaps offers a glimpse of hope, it remains mired in realisation perhaps too late, and this distanced perspective can become appealing if it is allowed to be romanticised into the idea of being ‘in a better place’.
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