For five years the man who is Nine Inch Nails procrastinated, produced other bands, sank into clinical depression and worried whether his next bass line would save rock. And he holed up in the studio until he came out with "The Fragile", a marvel of solitary despair on which every sound is made to wound.

Stephen Williams - Frontman Trent Reznor crafts a mood where the music's only a tangent. This record is sticky with anxiety and despair. Where rage against the machine finds rage, Reznor finds despair.

Letta Tayler - Chillingly but sublimely bleak, pulsating with fractured instrumentation that evokes darkness and decay as eloquently as its lyrics, "The Fragile" is a nihilitic tour de force - inaudible for most folks over 35, but a bible for frustrated youths anywhere

Guzman - Trent reznor's sprawling double-disc dissection of his psyche finds the forerunner of industrial rock in familiar territory, but he's never sounded so assured. "The Fragile" is frequently beautiful as it is brooding.

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US Tour Information Early January

Into the Void video early January

Tapeworm will be out by Mid-2000

Tour will start in Mid-February

It will be arena shows

Trent wants to work with Coil, Prince, and Roger Waters and David Gilmour

Trent would like to transcend modern music by working with Dr. Dre

the way out is through

head like a hole

piggy

the frail

the wretched

the great below

starfuckers

day the world went away

We recieved an email from Mr. Reznor about the special, here's what he said:

-just a quick explanation that you're free to release...
The MTV special was a way to document the first of I hope many legs of the 'fragility' tour. The size of venues, the choice of music, the scale and approach to production of those shows will most likely not be reproduced EVER with the exception of possibly Japan. I was pleasantly surprised at the reaction and felt the need to somehow fill everybody else in on what happened. Technical notes: all the video was filmed by friends and fans on consumer level DV. The audio was mixed in a studio, but not 'fixed' or re-recorded as is so often so. What you see is close to what it was - close but not the same. trent

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All weekend , win NINE INCH NAILS new CD "The Fragile" plus the limited edition K-Rock millennium Calendar. All winners qualify for our grand prize of a trip to Australia to see NINE INCH NAILS and $9,000 worth of diamonds from bluenile.com-- insuring you'll "GET NAILED" down under.

If I were you, I'd check your local CD stores in the next couple days, it should be there soon.

Starts out something like it's building into something massive and terrifying, guitars squeezed so tight that they howl like static. And then Trent Reznor's voice comes in. Second-division grunge with nothing to say. He must feel very much pre-Marilyn Manson.

H: "I love Trent, he's a good guy. I like some of his stuff, but this is a little too bleak. But I guess if you're in a real bad mood, I can see how this would keep you there, ha ha ha."
M: "Yeah, I prefer something that's a bit more upbeat."

The Great Dictator Self-destructive workaholic, arch hedonist with an eye on marriage, control freak who insists he's a "nice guy" the man at the heart of NINE INCH NAILS is a mass of contradictions. Will the real Trent Reznor please stand up?... So click here to proceed and read the rest of the article for yourself :) Big thanks to nodie for her massive typing efforts

Industrial music has died as a popular genre due to this album. Little has been said or done in the pop music scene that is industrial, and NIN would have been the ones to revive it. With this album it is done. Caput. See ya later! Reznor has moved on once again, and once again he has proven that he is a musical genius.

This is an interview from the January 2000 issue of FHM magazine in the UK. Personally I think this is the best interview I've read about Trent in a while. Not because of information, as it hardly tells anything new, but because it gives a better depiction of what Trent's like.

the very begining is the intro to closer (the heart beat sound) and the film is crack looking and old like a nin video. The video has Weird Al onstage in black pants and a black mesh shirt with holes in it. lol he does a pretty funny inimtation. The rest of the song is Terrible Lie and the end is the end of Closer.

NIN Official Club Event "Le Pig" by Paranoia Cafe

Hi there, today I received information about an official NIN event, at Roppongi, Tokyo! Roppongi's one of the COOL bar calling Paranoia Cafe, holding a BIG 2-day event next weekend! A famous Hollywood special make-up and effect artist, Screaming Mad George, designed their interior decoration. He also has been involved with Malylin Manson's video clips, and has worked for NIN, you've seen it many times...he made the chair with the heart in the video for "Closer"!!!! It sounds so great!!!! They also have a very good sound equipment in their shops!

At an event called "le pig", they will playing NIN music from midnight to morning!!! Why don't you attend this terrific event??? The Japanese distibutor of nothing/interscope Universal Victor and NIN's Japanese Tour's promoter Creativeman are officially cosponsoring this event.

The events will open in a club which is located in B1F of Paranoia Cafe, called "Club Paranormal". If you are interested, please visit their site (Japanese only) or ask them by telephone. Tel:03-5411-8018 · http://www.d2.dion.ne.jp/~paracafe/

Regarding the location of the shop, please visit this address. There's a map of their shops. http://www.d2.dion.ne.jp/~paracafe/information.htm

More informations are below.

December 10th
le.pig---by PARANOIA CAFE
OPEN 22:00 (J3000YEN)(J2DRINK)(J DJ : SATO.M (PARANOIA CAFE)
This first day, they playing NIN for a half of whole time, for other half playing Trent's various works.

December 11th
le.pig---by PARANOIA CAFE
OPEN 23:00 (J3000YEN)(J2DRINK)(J DJ : SATO.M (PARANOIA CAFE)
This second day, they playing NIN for a whole time, the perfect NIN day!!!!!!

First one hour is a waiting time for a customer, and event will close at 5:00 am. If you have a flyer of this event, they will give you a discount off the entree fee, it will be 2500Yen. Or if you will say this famous song title "Gave Up" at entrance, they will do a same!!!! Good luck!

Spin's January 2000 issue is about to hit the stands with Nine Inch Nails' leader Trent Reznor on the cover. NIN's comeback album, the double disc The Fragile was named Album of the Year.

They will be release next year on an EP or on singles, but they could very well have been on this album. In fact, I can ensure you that during the last months of mixing, I believed to become insane:the more we advanced, the more I had the impression that we'll go to a triple CD and that he would be released on the new millennium. So cuts have to been made.

NINE INCH NAILS' SECOND SINGLE "INTO THE VOID" HITS MODERN ROCK RADIO THIS WEEK:

NINE INCH NAILS SOLD-OUT EUROPEAN TOUR ENDS TODAY IN LONDON:

December 1, 1999 - New York - nine inch nails' second single, "Into The Void" hits modern rock radio stations nationwide this week. The video for the track will be filmed later this week in London as nine inch nails complete their European tour tonight at London1s Brixton Academy. The sold-out tour, which began on November 14th in Barcelona, has received both enthusiastic audiences and rave reviews. Following their November 17th show in Milan, La Republica stated: "(nine inch nails) music is curative - dark and gothic atmosphere for two hours of hard, intense and visionary music - nine inch nails have literally driven to collective exaltation the 2000 people gathered at the Alcatraz in Milan -- it was the hardest and most fascinating rock show of the year."

nine inch nails touring plans for 2000 include dates in Japan in January {January 10, 11, 12 (Tokyo/Tokyo Bay NK Hall), January 14 (Yokohama/Pacifico Yokohama) and January 15 (Osaka/Osaka Castle Hall)} and dates in Australia and New Zealand from January 21st through February 6th as headliner on the "Big Day Out" tour. U.S. tour dates are anticipated to begin in early 2000.

nine inch nails live is Trent Reznor (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Robin Finck (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Danny Lohner (bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals), Charlie Clouser (keyboards, theremin, vocals), and Jerome Dillon (drums).

Lots of discussion over on Shunt about the music Trent is playing every night before NIN go on stage - several tracks from the forthcoming Recoil LP called 'Liquid'. Recoil is the project run by former Depeche Mode member, Alan Wilder. Check out www.recoil.co.uk.

Also, spotted at the London show on Monday: Alan Wilder, Gary Numan, Flood, Alan Moulder, Nicole Blackman, Steven Monti (Curve)