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TRENT REZNOR Says Drugs Kept NINE INCH NAILS Down

March 26, 2007

Launch Radio Networks reports: NINE INCH NAILS leader Trent Reznor told Gigwise.com last week that using drugs had impaired his ability to write music, which is one of the reasons there were gaps of five or six years between some of the band's previous records. Reznor explained, "I had made writing out to be a terrifying prospect filled with pain and failure...By the end of my run with drugs I'd also realised that my brain wasn't functioning right and I'd lost the power to really concentrate — it really made my art suffer, which made me feel worse, which made me want to get high and you know, that cycle starts up."

Even after he finally got sober in 2003, Reznor told Launch he took some time to get himself together before writing his last effort, 2005's "With Teeth". "I was tinkering around with projects in the studio but I wasn't immersing myself in writing a new record because I wasn't sure that I could do it," he said. "I didn't know if I'd destroyed my brain, or if I could write sober, and I wanted to feel a little more okay about myself before I asked that question, being prepared that it might come up with a bad answer."

Reznor said sobriety has made him more productive than ever, resulting in just a two-year gap between "With Teeth" and the new NIN album, "Year Zero".

"Year Zero" is due out on April 17 and is reportedly the first of two concept albums, the second of which Reznor hopes to finish next year.

NINE INCH NAILS is currently on tour in Europe and has not yet announced North American dates.

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