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Michael Trent Reznor

Born: 17-May-1965
Birthplace: Mercer, PA

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Electronic Musician
Father: Michael Reznor
Mother: Nancy Clark

Sister: Tera Reznor (mother of 2, b. 1971)
Girlfriend: Courtney Love
Girlfriend: Tori Amos
Wife: Mariqueen Maandig (m. 2010)
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Nine Inch Nails


Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. Mastermind of the industrial rock musical project known as Nine Inch Nails, he was previously associated with the bands Option 30, Exotic Birds, and Tapeworm, among others. Reznor left Interscope Records in 2007, and is now an independent musician.

In the 00s Reznor continued his pattern of occasional output with Nine Inch Nails, issuing the remix collection Things Falling Apart in the first year of the decade, and only following up with the live document And All That Could Have Been two years later. Nothing Records folded in 2004. His fourth studio offering With Teeth finally arrived in 2005, six years after its predecessor.
Reznor reworked many of the demos he recorded and even added some new material to his debut album, entitled Pretty Hate Machine. After its recording he assembled a small live band, inviting Vrenna to join him as one of his bandmates. This band played some small shows in Cleveland and was eventually invited on the road by Skinny Puppy. The band would eventually be invited to join the first Lollapalooza tour, where they became one of the most popular bands on the tour.

By the time 1991 rolled around, Reznor was in a miserable state. The label was pressuring him to record more material but was trying to tell him which producers to use and how the material should sound. Reznor wanted out of his contract and secretly recorded an EP in various locations around the world. The EP, titled Broken, was released in 1992 and explained the situation to its buyers. The EP was released by Nothing Records, which Reznor and Malm established to help him get out of his contract. Eventually TVT settled with Reznor, allowing him the creative freedom he wanted, but they would distribute future releases.

It was during this time that Reznor was in the process of recording the second NIN album, The Downward Spiral. It was recorded in a Beverly Hills mansion-turned-studio dubbed "Le Pig" that would later be revealed to be the house where actress Sharon Tate and others were murdered by followers of cult leader Charles Manson. Reznor had also befriended a Florida-based shock-rock band, Marilyn Manson, who would sign to Nothing Records.