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Trent Reznor
Michael Trent Reznor is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and composer. He came to prominence as the founder, lead singer, multi-instrumentalist, and primary songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. The band's line-up has constantly changed, with Reznor being its only official member from its creation in 1988 until 2016, when he added English musician and frequent collaborat…
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2026· 5 entries
“but I just want to do the best work I can do. Not unrealistic, but it”
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Public attention spiked: 20,432 Wikipedia readers in one day, 10× the usual 2,050, with 0 article edits.
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Snopes rated the claim “Singer-songwriter and composer Trent Reznor said, "I am Gen X. I think we need separate bathrooms for MAGA. I don't feel comfortable with them around women and children."” Incorrect Attribution.
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AOL: Trent Reznor's 5 Kids: Everything the Nine Inch Nails Singer Has Shared About Parenting
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2025· 9 entries
Due to "logistical challenges and complications
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Yahoo: Trent Reznor Net Worth 2025: How Much Money Does He Make?
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MetalSucks: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Launch New Festival Celebrating Film Scores
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Uproxx: Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross Launch The Future Ruins Festival, Featuring John Carpenter And A Bunch Of Other Film Composers
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American Songwriter: I’m Still Addicted to These 4 Stunning Film Scores Produced by Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor
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Released album “The Gorge: Soundtrack From the Apple Original Film”.
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loudwire: Trent Reznor’s Favorite Song of 2024 Wasn’t a Rock or Metal Song
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Billboard: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, ‘Emila Pérez’ Team Win Golden Globes in Music Categories
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Reznor and Ross scored the sci-fi sequel Tron: Ares under the Nine Inch Nails moniker
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2024· 14 entries
American Songwriter: Why Trent Reznor Switched to Movie Scores: “The Culture of the Music World Sucks”
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“The creation of Vaster Than Empires has its own story for another time, but here’s an alternate version BJ Burton came up with featuring Alan Sparhawk! queer.lnk.to/vasterthanem...”
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“Te Maldigo was adapted from an English set of lyrics with the title “god damn you”.”
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“A couple bits of context from Queer… We needed to compose a song with Omar Apollo for his character to sing in the film. We loved working with Apollo and the track turned out cool but wound up not being in the final cut of the film. The footage became this video: youtu.be/vpVlXGbUZVo?...”
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“Our score for Queer is out in the world now. This was a tricky one for us to land properly but we’re happy with how it turned out. queer.lnk.to/score”
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“It’s alive! Official NIN here: bsky.app/profile/nin....”
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brooklynvegan: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross collab w/ Low's Alan Sparhawk and BJ Burton on alt version of "Vaster Than Empires" from 'Queer' soundtrack
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Released album “Queer: Original Score”.
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Released album “The Franchise: Soundtrack From the HBO® Original Series”.
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Yahoo: How fame enabled Trent Reznor to become an “asshole", and how he realised his behaviour was “pure Spinal Tap”
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Uproxx: ‘The Bear’s Season 3 Debut Is Graced By A Score From Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross
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Released album “Challengers: Original Score”.
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Released album “Challengers [MIXED] by Boys Noize”.
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Reznor and Ross scored two films by Guadagnino: Challengers, and Queer
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2023· 4 entries
Released album “The Killer: Original Score”.
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Released album “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem: Original Score”.
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The duo scored their second animated project, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, and reunited with Fincher for The Killer
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Reznor and Ross joined Dave Sitek and Hudson Mohawke to create the virtual supergroup WitchGang
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2022· 3 entries
Released album “Bones and All: Original Score”.
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Released album “Empire of Light: Original Score”.
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Reznor and Ross scored Luca Guadagnino's Bones and All, as well as Sam Mendes's Empire of Light
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2021· 5 entries
The Guardian: David Fincher and Trent Reznor on Mank: 'People were like: Huh. This is very niche'
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The Guardian: Trent Reznor: sexual assault story in Marilyn Manson memoir is 'fabrication'
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It was that revealed Reznor and Atticus Ross would be producing Halsey's fourth studio album If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
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With Danny Elfman replacing Reznor and Ross as composer
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The two won a Golden Globe and an Academy Award alongside Jon Batiste for their work on the Soul score
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2020· 4 entries
Released album “Soul: Original Motion Picture Score”.
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Released album “Mank: Original Musical Score”.
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Reznor collaborated with Tobacco on his fifth studio album Hot Wet and Sassy on the song "Baby Sitter" after they had previously toured together in 2017
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Reznor and Ross reunited with Fincher to score his drama film Mank as well as scoring their first animated project, Pixar's Soul
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2019· 7 entries
Released album “Watchmen: Volume 3”.
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Released album “Waves: Original Score”.
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Released album “Watchmen: Volume 2”.
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Released album “Watchmen: Volume 1”.
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Released album “Bird Box”.
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Reznor and Ross composed the score for the independent drama Waves, and later that year made their second contribution to television with their score for Damon Lindelof's HBO miniseries Watchmen, a sequel to Alan Moore's
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Reznor received a songwriting credit on the Lil Nas X song "Old Town Road", due to the song heavily sampling the 2008 Nine Inch Nails instrumental track "34 Ghosts IV"
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2018· 3 entries
Released ep “Mid90s”.
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The Guardian: Trent Reznor: ‘You’re seeing the fall of America in real time’
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Reznor and Ross scored Jonah Hill's directorial debut Mid90s, as well as Susanne Bier's Bird Box, which was released on Netflix
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2017· 2 entries
Released album “The Vietnam War: Original Score”.
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Released album “The Walled Off Hotel”.
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2016· 6 entries
Released album “Before the Flood: Music From the Motion Picture”.
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The Guardian: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross to score film about Boston bombings
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The Guardian: YouTube is built on the back of stolen content says Trent Reznor
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– the first and only other official member of the band besides Reznor himself
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Released album “Patriots Day: Music From the Motion Picture”.
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With Fisher Stevens's climate change documentary Before the Flood (whose score also included compositions by Gustavo Santaolalla and Mogwai) and Peter Berg's Patriots Day, a crime drama about the Boston Marathon bombings
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: Trent Reznor to be 'point man' for iTunes relaunch
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2014· 4 entries
The Guardian: Trent Reznor: 'a staleness has permeated rock music'
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Released album “Gone Girl: Soundtrack From the Motion Picture”.
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The Guardian: Trent Reznor's Twitter rant prompts apology from Grammy bosses
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That the composition process was "a lot more work" and that he "would be hesitant to go as far in that direction in the future"
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2013· 4 entries
The Guardian: Trent Reznor pays tribute to David Bowie's The Next Day
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2013).
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Reznor returned to Columbia Records for Hesitation Marks, the eighth Nine Inch Nails studio album
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Signing with Columbia Records, and releasing the album Hesitation Marks that September
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2012· 2 entries
Released a song and music video from An Omen EP titled "Keep it Together"
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Reznor announced that the group's next release would be an EP titled An Omen EP, set for release on Columbia Records in November 2012, and that some of the EP's songs would later appear on the band's first full-length al
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2011· 5 entries
Released album “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”.
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Social Network (2011).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for The Social Network (2011).
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Reznor announced that he would again be working with Fincher, this time to provide the score for the American adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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“s next release would be an EP titled An Omen EP, set for release on Columbia Records in November 2012, and that some of the EP”
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “The Social Network”.
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With the retail edition becoming available on July 6, 2010
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2009· 3 entries
Reznor composed "Theme for Tetsuo" for the Japanese cyberpunk film Tetsuo: The Bullet Man directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
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Reznor considered the marketing aspect of a major label when he saw a lot of promotion for Radiohead's then-upcoming tour, contrasting with little promotion for his current Nine Inch Nails tour or any of its recently rel
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Nine Inch Nails went on hiatus following the Wave Goodbye Tour
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2008· 1 entry
Said that "[Reznor] is the only one [he'd] let near [his] music"
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2007· 2 entries
Which has an alternate reality game themed after the album (see Year Zero (game)) which is about how the current policies of the American government will affect the world in the year 2022
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As a "true visionary" and advised aspiring artists to take note of his no-compromise attitude
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “The 2006 Radio Sessions”.
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Reznor played his first "solo" shows at Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit
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2005· 1 entry
Jurors sided with Reznor, awarding him upwards of $2
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2004· 1 entry
Reznor's former manager John Malm Jr
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2003· 2 entries
Only to discover that he had only $400,000 (~$651,760 in 2024) in liquid assets
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As the sound engineer for Doom 3, though due to "time, money and bad management", he had to abandon the project, and his audio work did not make it into the game's final release
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2001· 1 entry
Reznor was asked by Romanek to provide the score for One Hour Photo, but the music did not work for the film and was not used
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1999· 1 entry
The double album The Fragile was released
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1997· 1 entry
Reznor appeared in Time magazine's list of the year's most influential people, and Spin magazine described him as "the most vital artist in music"
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Quake”.
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1995· 2 entries
As "self-loathing, sexual obsession, torture and suicide over a thick sludge of gnashing guitars and computer-synthesized beats"
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Nine Inch Nails toured as a co-headlining act on the North American leg of Bowie's 1995 Outside Tour
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1994· 3 entries
As Purest Feeling and many of these songs appeared in revised form on Pretty Hate Machine, Reznor's first official release under the Nine Inch Nails name
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At number two, and remains the highest-selling Nine Inch Nails release in America
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Reznor produced the soundtrack for Oliver Stone's film Natural Born Killers, using a portable Pro Tools setup in his hotel room
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1993· 1 entry
Under "Best Heavy Metal Performance" for the song "Wish"
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1989· 1 entry
And was a moderate commercial success, certified Gold in 1992
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1988· 1 entry
Until 2016, when he added English musician and frequent collaborator Atticus Ross as its second permanent member
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1986· 1 entry
Joined local band Exotic Birds and appeared with them as a fictional band called The Problems in the 1987 film Light of Day
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1985· 1 entry
Joined The Innocent as a keyboardist; they released one album, Livin' in the Street, but Reznor left the band after three months
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1983· 1 entry
And enrolled at Allegheny College in Meadville, where he studied computer engineering
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1982· 1 entry
As a member of synth-pop bands such as The Innocent, Slam Bamboo, and Exotic Birds
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1973· 1 entry
“s 1973 album A Wizard, a True Star with”
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1965· 2 entries
The son of Nancy Lou (née Clark) and Michael Reznor
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Born 1965-05-17.
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