Michael Trent Reznor was born May 17th, 1965 (a Taurus) in Mercer, Pennsylvania to Michael Reznor and Nancy Clark. Reznor was called by his middle name to avoid confusion with his father. When Reznor was five, his parents divorced, and he was sent to live with his maternal grandparents in Mercer. He began playing the piano at the age of five and showed an early aptitude for music. At the Mercer Area Junior and Senior High Schools, Reznor learned to also play the saxophone and tuba. He was a member of both the jazz and marching bands.Reznor also became involved in theater while in high school.****** Reznor graduated from high school in 1983 and enrolled at Allegheny College. 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 his career in music fulltime. With his high school friend Chris Vrenna, 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, it all started when Koster, an owner of a studio, allowed Reznor (who was the handyman there) to use the studio during off hours, which he used to record demos for songs that ended up on Nine Inch Nails' first album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989). These demos were later released as a bootleg under the name Purest Feeling.
From 1994 - 1996 he worked on various soundtracks, music for the video game DOOM, and several albums Marylin Manson released. 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/heroin 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 everDONOTBLOCKOURADSybody the fucking hassle. Or get your shit together.'" Which brought the release of the 2005 album "With Teeth".
OFFICIAL ALBUMS (20 Halos in all as of 2005) Pretty Hate Machine , Broken, The Downward Spiral , The Fragile, With Teeth. Also, has contributed music to these soundtracks: Natural Born Killers, Lost Highway, Tomb Raider. He also created the soundtrack for the video game Quake. (As a side-note, the NIN logo also appears on the nail gun ammo boxes in Quake and prior to this, embedded in the floor of a secret room in Ultimate Doom). He has helped numerous bands make there way into mainstream, including bands, such a Marilyn Manson, PIG, and Tapeworm.
