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Michael Trent Reznor, Jr. (born May 17 , 1965 ) is an American Musician . Reznor is the founder and primary creative force behind the band Nine Inch Nails . BIOGRAPHY Michael Trent Reznor, Jr. was born in Mercer , Pennsylvania to Michael Reznor and Nancy Clark. Reznor was called by his middle name to avoid confusion with his father. After his parents divorced, he lived with his maternal grandparents in Mercer. His sister Tera, born in 1971, remained with his mother. Reznor began playing the " when he played. {Link without Title} Reznor has said in interviews that he hated his upbringing and was very bored with the quiet reclusive area he was brought up in . He said he didn't fit in. Reznor often experienced emotional rejection from girls which can be hinted in his songs. He even said, "I wanted to escape Small Town USA. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books. When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you". At the Mercer Area Junior and Senior '' and Professor Harold Hill in '' The Music Man ''. Reznor graduated from high school in 1983 and enrolled at Allegheny College where he studied Computer Engineering and music, and he joined a local band named Option 30 which played three shows per week. After a year in college, Reznor decided to drop out to pursue a full-time career in music. Reznor moved to Cleveland , Ohio . In 1985, he joined a band named The Innocent as a Keyboardist . They released one album, ''Livin' in the Street'', but Reznor quit after just three months. In 1986, Reznor appeared as a member of the fictional band The Problems in the film '' Light Of Day ''. He also joined a local Cleveland band the Exotic Birds . He got a job at ''. These demos were later released under the name '' Purest Feeling ''. Reznor was the credited producer for Marilyn Manson 's albums '' Portrait Of An American Family '' (1994), '' Smells Like Children '' (1995), and '' Antichrist Superstar '' (1996), as well as the soundtrack for the films '' Natural Born Killers '' and '' Lost Highway ''. Reznor is credited for "Driver Down" and "Videodrones; Questions" on the soundtrack for ''Lost Highway''. One other track, "The Perfect Drug" is credited to Nine Inch Nails instead. Reznor likes Video Game s, most notably '' Doom '' by Id Software , which he has said he played in the Nine Inch Nails tour bus after doing shows. He also created the soundtrack for ID Software 's hit '' Quake ''. (As a side-note, the NIN logo also appears on the Nail Gun ammo boxes in ''Quake'' and prior to this, embedded in both the floor and ceiling of a Secret Room in ''Ultimate Doom''). Trent returned to work with id Software in 2003 as the sound engineer for Video Game '' Doom 3 ''. However, due to "time, money, and bad management", he had to abandon this project, and his audio work did not make it into the game's release. The original audio files can be found on the Internet, although they are not officially endorsed by Reznor or id Software. Chris Vrenna, former drummer for Nine Inch Nails, produced the music for ''Doom 3'' with his partner Clint Walsh. in March of 2006]] During the five years between his albums '' The Downward Spiral '' (1994) and '' The Fragile '' (1999), Trent Reznor struggled with Depression , Social Anxiety Disorder , Writer's Block , and the death of his grandmother. It has also been revealed by Reznor that he had been suffering from alcohol addiction during the ''Fragile'' era. It was reported that Reznor had considered committing Suicide during this period - in a 1999 interview for '' Rolling Stone '' magazine, he said that "It just took me time to sit down and change my head and my life around. I had to slap myself in the face: 'If you want to kill yourself, do it, save everybody the fucking hassle. Or get your shit together.'" {Link without Title} Tapeworm , a collaboration with Danny Lohner , Maynard James Keenan of Tool , and Atticus Ross of 12 Rounds , was in production for almost ten years, but an update on the official Nine Inch Nails website declared that the project had been terminated. The only known performance of any Tapeworm material was when Keenan's other band A Perfect Circle performed the song "Vacant" on tour in 2001. "Vacant" appears on A Perfect Circle's third album '' EMOTIVe '', reworked and retitled "Passive". Reznor will make a guest appearance on rapper ", released with the single " Every Day Is Exactly The Same ". Reznor has also been confirmed as the co-producer of the next album by Saul Williams , who toured with NIN in 2005 and 2006 {Link without Title} . DISCOGRAPHY This is a list of musical work credited to Trent Reznor. For work credited to Nine Inch Nails, see Nine Inch Nails Discography . Writing and performance
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Remixes For remixes credited to Nine Inch Nails, see .
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