“Sonically we approached the songs with instruments that were broken, not mic-ed right, or out of tune”: How Trent Reznor created the Nine Inch Nails masterpiece The Fragile

Trent Reznor in 1999.

In the 1990s, few music artists were as groundbreaking and influential as Trent Reznor.

Reznor created just two Nine Inch Nails albums in that decade, The Downward Spiral and The Fragile, although he did also work on various other projects, including Marilyn Manson’s hit album Antichrist Superstar and the soundtracks to the movies Lost Highway and Natural Born Killers.