Having endured darkness, despair addiction in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor realised it was time to clean up or die. The result was 2005’s With Teeth and 2007’s Year Zero. When Metal Hammer sat down with Trent at the time of the latter album’s release, we found the one-time Prince Of Darkness clean, serene and uncharacteristically happy.
It’s impossible to tell if anyone’s on stage. The Glasgow Academy is dense with smoke, and you can just make out a silhouette clutching the mic stand: “Hello pigs,” comes a voice from the fog. Lights flash, the music starts, and the dark spectres slowly emerge from the smoke to reveal the cast of this theatre macabre before they throw themselves soul-first into a two hour flight of blackened, angst-ridden fancy.
