Nine Inch Nails is headed by Trent Reznor. In the nineties, the multi-instrumentalist pretty much single-handedly put the industrial genre on the world map. Despite the inaccessible songs, the experimental albums sold quite well. As a songwriter, Reznor has had its ups and downs, in the years between The (1994) and (1999) he suffered from writer's block. In 2002 there was the live album and then
… things went quiet around Nine Inch Nails. With Teeth appears at a time when the industrial genre is commonplace. You can't expect Reznor to make groundbreaking music. On With Teeth the song comes first and to a lesser extent the experiment. The arrangements are long drawn out and a lot of attention has been paid to the dynamics of the songs. Reznor shows with With Teeth that he has not forgotten it yet. (JdD)more
