“I could be onstage in front of thousands of fans singing my music back to me, and I’d feel empty and miserable”: the dark and twisted history of Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails in 2004.

“Nine Inch Nails,” Trent Reznor once told us, “is not a band. And it’s not a democracy.”

The NIN frontman is one of the great auteur rock’n’roll stars. There aren’t many like him. He has collaborators and hired hands, but his music is ultimately his great and magnificent vision.