With Teeth [PA] [Digipak] by Nine Inch Nails

Pros: Several great moments...
Cons: ...weighed down with blandness, redundancy, and songs that simply seem to never end

Nine Inch Nails, huh? Well, they've always intrigued me... "Hurt" is beautiful, "Closer" is strangely hypnotic, but I admit that With Teeth is my first real venture into their music. Whether this was the wisest beginning point ...

Pros: What we love about NIN but with a touch of New Wave for added enjoyment
Cons: Some tracks aren't quite up to NIN standard

Good thing the last Nine Inch Nails album was two-discs because it would take six more years for Trent Reznor to release the next one. While With Teeth is a welcome addition to the NIN collection, it is also the weakest. Since I consider ...

Pros: Some really awesome beats hidden in here.
Cons: Enough with the angst, already. Rich and famous, are you REALLY still that unhappy?

Self-loathing and discontent is nothing new in music, as we’ve discussed already, but no one’s ever done it with as much style and charm as Nine Inch Nails head chef Trent Reznor. “Hey God Why are you doing this to me? Am I not ...

Pros: solid variety, excellent lyrics showcasing Reznor's state of mind
Cons: a couple or three tracks are rather "eh"

For some, Trent Reznor, the brain behind Nine Inch Nails, is a genius not to be questioned. These people view him as a sort of musical demigod, never questioning why it takes him five years to release a new album seemingly every time. ...

Pros: Some of Reznor's best...
Cons: ...yet several other moments make it tempting to downrate the album to three stars.

I remember discovering Nine Inch Nails in 2003 after some well-placed personal recommendations from other music reviewers on this site.  In 2003 and 2004, I picked up and absolutely devoured Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, The ...

Pros: Production, Lyrics, Dave Grohl, Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder.
Cons: Not Groundbreaking in Comparison to other NIN albums.

When Trent Reznor emerged out of the underground industrial scene in his Nine Inch Nails (NIN) moniker in 1989, no one would believe that it would be him, among bands like Ministry and Skinny Puppy that would take the genre to the mainstream. Reznor ...

Pros: Amazing songs, triumphant return to the music scene after a hiatus
Cons: Hard to follow up The Fragile and I don't blame 'em

I got on the Nine Inch Nails bandwagon pretty late--about 2005 right when With Teeth came out after going on a listening spree of Johnny Cash with my brother. After he told me that Hurt was a cover song of a Nine Inch Nails track, I had to ...

Pros: Six really good tracks
Cons: A little too mellow

I am a Nine Inch Nails fan. I have all the albums and most of the remix albums. I bought the poster and the t-shirt. I consider The Downward Spiral to be one of my all-time, desert island, top five albums. I also thought The Fragile was a ...

Pros: Excellent song writing, nice piano work, great vocals
Cons: probably a disappointment to those hard core NIN weird dancing people....lots of fuzztone

Plain old Nails So there are those who listen to NIN and those who LISTEN to NIN. I am a casual bystander at best. I known those for whom the negative energy of NIN made their lives bearable, and in some ways it is cathartic music. Rather ...

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Trent Reznor views the world as a soured, curdled place, where the only excitement and beauty is the excitement and beauty he makes himself. He went through the gears of a fractured upbringing in a quiet Midwest town, which no doubt helped influence his ...

Pros: The groove is back! His brutality sounds less juvenile here than it ever has.
Cons: Trent's lyrics are often trite and not that deep.

Bow down before the one you serve, you’re gonna get what you deserve. I want to fuck you like animal. I want to feel you from the inside. Covered in hope and Vaseline, still cannot fix this broken machine. The ...

Pros: Incredibly production, and as always, songwriting from Trent Reznor
Cons: Actually only the title track

The funny thing about Nine Inch Nails albums is that because Trent Reznor only releases one every five years, you can use them to mark the progress in your life. For instance, listening to "The Fragile" takes me back to my college years in 1999 and I ...

Pros: A definite departure in sound, some satire and experimentation sits beside classic NIN
Cons: I've got my arms in flip flop flip flop flip?

This is a strange, strange album to try and review. On one hand, there's the surface area, an ugly little pastel of an outcry of someone struggling to keep his head above water while drowning in the very shades of blue that he's so carefully worked to ...

Pros: Half of the album is great.
Cons: Half of the album blows.

Six years since of the release of The Fragile, Trent has finally come around to creating, recording, and giving us Nine Inch Nails fans a new album. Titled, "With Teeth," I was ready for a new Nine Inch Nails album. I didn't know what to expect with ...

Pros: Exceptionally forumlated, intelligent and inventive through and through
Cons: A few minor slip-ups and dud tracks

During the past fifteen years, the band Nine Inch Nails have been responsible for the growth of industrial metal, largely owing to the frontman and one consistent member Trent Rezoner, his voice uncannily beautiful and dangerous as he releases his deep ...