Word: reznor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Downward Spiral, the bracing new album by Nine Inch Nails, the mood starts off grim and deteriorates fast. The record opens with a volley of gunshot-like reports that mutate into the techno thrash of Mr. Self Destruct, on which composer-singer Trent Reznor screams, "I am the voice inside your head -- and I control...
Last week, Trent Reznor took us 20 minutes into the future with his latest set of post-apocalyptic ditties, Nine Inch Nails' Broken. Like his industrial brethren Ministry and Skinny Puppy, Reznor revels in echo beats and electronic tom-toms in overdrive. His voice careens between a whisper and a roar, then lurches full throttle into screams that make Kurt Cobain look like Billie Holiday...
...static morse-code dashes which flicker in like a weak TV signal, then coagulate into a discrete pulse of white noise. An electronic church bell chimes in the distances. Then the whole soundscape explodes into a furious riot of 130-plus beat per-minute drums, thrash-synth and Trent Reznor's ragged vocals. The song zaps into silence four and a half minutes later...
...Reznor's self-flagellating rampage continues unabated through scenes of "Human junk just words and so much skin/Stick my hands through the cage of this endless routine/Just some flesh caught in this big broken machine...
Alienating stuff. According to Reznor, the making of the album was no less hellish. It was "a hard recording to make. Broken is an ugly record made during an ugly time in my life," he writes. "Broken was secretly of locations without the permission of The Record Label to ensure it could fester without Divine Intervention...