The musical project of Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965), Nine Inch Nails was
born in 1988, the year the band signed with TVT Records. A year later, Pretty
Hate Machine, the first album to achieve cult status, was released, certified
platinum and produced by Mark Ellias aka Flood and Adrian Sherwood. NIN's
success made them one of the spearheads of the industrial metal movement, which
they established as one of the major trends of the 1990s. The band took part in
the Lollapalooza festival before embarking on a stormy first European tour.
Following the radical Broken EP (1991), whi...