“It nonetheless excites me and breaks my coronary heart”
Trent Reznor has spoken about his relationship with 9 Inch Nails’ basic album ‘The Downward Spiral’, on the thirtieth anniversary of its launch.
The album marked a sonic breakthrough for the band, launched 5 years after their extra synthpop-oriented debut ‘Fairly Hate Machine’. It integrated parts of techno, ambient and metallic, and is regarded by many as one of many seminal albums in industrial rock music.
It was launched on March 8, 1994, and to mark its thirtieth birthday, Reznor posted on the band’s official website that he had personally revisited the album, including that it nonetheless has the facility to maneuver him.
“Spending an excessive amount of time trying backwards feels harmful to me, however today on the calendar caught my consideration,” Reznor wrote.
“Has it actually been that lengthy, outdated pal? I simply spent an hour listening to this time capsule of what 28 12 months outdated me needed to say, and it nonetheless excites me and breaks my coronary heart. Be type to yourselves. Hope to see you quickly.”
Rumours are circulating that Reznor and his common collaborator Atticus Ross could be working with online game designer Hideo Kojima on a brand new mission after Kojima posted a photograph of the three of them collectively in January.
Kojima is presently engaged on creating Dying Stranding 2 and is concerned within the upcoming Dying Stranding movie. Reznor and Ross have beforehand labored on the scores for movies together with The Social Community, Gone Lady, Soul and The Killer.
Final summer time, Reznor advised Rick Rubin’s podcast that he’s not enthusiastic about touring once more. “I don’t need to be away from my children,” he mentioned. “I don’t need to miss their lives to go do a factor that I’m grateful to have the ability to do, and I’m appreciative that you just’re right here to see it, however I’ve achieved it loads, you realize?”
Elsewhere in the identical interview, Reznor mentioned that he teared up whereas listening to Dua Lipa’s music ‘Levitating’, claiming it to be a “actually well-done piece of music”.