Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
With Teeth is the fourth studio album by Nine Inch Nails, released in May 2005. Produced by frontman Trent Reznor and long-time collaborator Alan Moulder, it also draws on contributions from Dave Grohl and future band member Atticus Ross. The taste it signals runs toward darkness with an industrial edge — films and books that share its preoccupation with predatory intent, self-destruction, and the violence that hides beneath a polished surface.
With Teeth is the fourth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released by Nothing Records and Interscope Records on May 3, 2005. The album was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and long-time collaborator Alan Moulder. It also features contributions from musician Dave Grohl and future band member Atticus Ross.
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Film
Demon Squad: Tooth and Claw
Supernatural menace and a conspiracy lurking beneath brutal killings match the album's tension between surface violence and darker underlying forces.
Film
Teeth
Body horror treated as dark comedy — a living myth of flesh turned weapon shares the album's preoccupation with danger embedded in the physical.
Film
Night Teeth
A shadowy underworld and bloodthirsty intentions lurking behind a glamorous LA night echo the album's gleaming surface concealing something predatory.
Film
Candy
A relationship driven by mutual addiction and self-destruction maps closely onto the album's collision of obsession and ruin.
Book
Without You
Bad luck, bad business, and depression dismantling a beloved band resonates with the album's industrial-era themes of collapse and creative cost.
Book
Teeth
Nineteen original stories of teenagers and vampires share the album's gothic register of youth, darkness, and predatory intimacy.
Book
Slash
A rock guitarist's memoir redefining sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll from inside the industry mirrors the album's blunt, unvarnished hard-rock ethos.
Book
Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung
Critical essays on rock performers — Bowie, Reed, Iggy Pop — offer the same sharp-eared dissection of rock's extremes that the album inhabits sonically.
For the same raw, dark energy, try Night Teeth — a slick LA thriller with a dangerous underworld — or Candy, a bleak drama about love and self-destruction that matches the album's emotional intensity.
Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung is a collection of sharp, irreverent rock criticism covering Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and the Clash — essential reading for anyone who takes underground music seriously.
Produced by Trent Reznor with Alan Moulder and featuring Dave Grohl, it blended industrial aggression with unexpectedly melodic songwriting, and future collaborator Atticus Ross helped shape a sound that still feels distinctive.