NINE INCH NAILS

A new NIN album already? Oh go on then...

Your last album took six years. We've only had to wait 18 months for this one.
Trent Reznor (vocals [spooky edit - NO FUCKING SHIT]): "It's been pretty interesting, I'm probably as surprised as some fans are (laughs). But really it's just a matter of discipline. When i was on the last tour, to keep myself busy i was just really hunkered down and was working on music the whole time, so this kept me in a creative mode and when i finished the tour i felt like i wasn't tired and wanted to keep at it."

Is there anyone else playing on the album?
"It's all me, mostly recorded in hotel rooms around the world on laptops. There maybe some surprise vocalists that pop up here and there - although i don't want to say who since the final mix hasn't been determined yet, and Josh Freese is playing the drums on one song, but it's not like a big guest star-type record. It feels a bit more focused in a certain direction than 'With Teeth' did,"

What's the concept?
"I'm trying to avoid getting too detailed about this but i will tell you that this is a concept record, and it's part of a bigger picture of a number of thing's I'm working on. Essentially i wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist. This album is a bit more electronic and I'd say rhythm plays a bigger element in it than in the past and it's veering away from concern about song structure and getting played on the radio."

Are you talking about some kind of multimedia event?
"My goal is that the music can be interpreted with the richest context. So what I'm immersed in is a way to achieve that. Now that albums have gone from 12 inches of real estate with artwork and a whole aesthetic, to CDs, which are ugly and disposable, to nowadays just being a file on a computer, it's led me to putting a lot of thought in to ways to present music that still makes it feel important and that has depth and purpose."

Will it be a heavy album?
"It's not heavy in any kind of metal tyoe sense, I'd say a big inspiration sonically would be early Public Enemy records, a collage of sound type of thing, not heavy in a metal guitar kind of way."

On 'The Downward Spiral' and 'The Fragile' you blended together an extreme amount of disparate sounds and layers - is this moving further in that direction?
"Well Alan Moulder (long-time collaborator) was stunned when he first heard it. Normally a Pro-Tools session has alot of tracks and this time he was like 'You're kidding me, it's only this much stuff?'. The end result has a bit of racket to it, it's much more improvisational, less refined. With this record i feel alot less concerned about what people think about it - espcially the dying record industry. I couldn't care less about that right now."

typo
[Edited 1/4/07 5:15am]

Oh yeah, and

Trent said

isten says:

i think i just came a little

IstenSzek said:

I know!

For me it was:

Trent said:

indeed. and i love the bit about abandoning conventional song structures
and it being a bit of a concept album.

I hope Bette Middler and Loreena McKermitt appear in the album

IstenSzek said:

I know!

It's like a great wet dream involving lots of come!

MikeMatronik said:

Loreena Bobbit might be on it

MikeMatronik said:

IstenSzek said:

It'll be rappers if anything - like Trent Reznor vs. Saul Williams.

I have a feeling the album's going to be very political, and very angry.

Seriously I'd love to see Brian May (of Queen) in the new album. Trent did a cover version of one of their songs

MikeMatronik said:

Get Down, Make Love!

I wouldn't want to see Brian though...Trent works best alone, always. That's why With_Teeth hasn't lasted as long as the other releases. The Fragile is now 7 years old, and it's still timeless, still relevant, and still beautiful. With_Teeth will date as rock music, and is less durable.

Spookymuffin said:

My favorite album is "Still". The Fragile never did much for me!

MikeMatronik said:

Still!

It is brilliant.

I can't believe the Fragile didn't do much for you

To me it's Trent's most coherant and sincere work. Listening to it all together..the recurrent themes, all the b-sides and remixes - it was a brilliant era when all the music had this same vibe to it that was just perfect.

Spookymuffin said:

I ended up deleting it.

I love Still the most because it's so depressing and melancohlic.

I'm also very fond Pretty Hate Machine...And of course of the Spiral (Heresy is fucking awesome!)

MikeMatronik said:

Sad about the Fragile. Oh well, tomato/tomato.

I'm a complete NIN nut so every release is gold dust to me. Interestingly, I was never like this with Prince. I had fav albums and also thought he'd made some shit. Same with Gary Numan. But with NIN every release has totally satisfied me. He's so coherent as an artist, in my opinion.

And I listened to Heresy on the train into work this morning. It is fucking awesome. That whole album is one of the greatest creations of all time. It is incredible. How he did that is just beyond me. It's amazing. Fucking amazing. I love it.

Spookymuffin said:

I guess Trent's music connected with your psyche.

MikeMatronik said:

totally.

Spookymuffin said:

Few artists totally connect with me. I guess an example is Kate Bush

MikeMatronik said:

Nice choice, I dig her.

The only other artists I connect to (and in no way is it as much as with NIN) are:

Depeche Mode
Secret Machines
Gary Numan
A Perfect Circle

Spookymuffin said:

my step brother got me into a perfect circle and especially with eMOTIVE!

MikeMatronik said:

Awesome! They are fantastic; I used to be all about eMOTIVe, but now Mer de Noms has grown on me.

Spookymuffin said:

I have that one and Thirteenth Step on my hard drive to listen in the near future, but I sometimes listen to their cover of Imagine, on and on and one...it's hipnotic!

MikeMatronik said:

Imagine is indeed an incredible cover. The other hypnotic song on that is "What's Going on?" and "counting bodies...." - those are both great.

Check out Magdalena on Mer de Noms.

Spookymuffin said:

will do

Whenever I hear an artist say their new music is not conventional--its all I need to get my interest.

"With Teeth" disappointed me so much that I'm not even sure if I'm even going to bother with his new one. I thought it was so bad that it tainted much of the previous NIN stuff that I had loved. It kind of made me realize that I think Trent's songwriting has gotten really predictable, and the production on his albums has been pretty poor since Flood left.

wow.. i can't wait.. since its more electronically based, and not heavy sounding


he always impressed me with the music you can actually hear he composed.


fuck the loud shit

is it dfficult to get the Still CD?

and damn, am i the only person who doesn't completely hate with teeth?