With Teeth (2005)
With Teeth is a 2005 alternative metal album by Nine Inch Nails.
After a five-year silence and Trent Reznor's road out of addiction, Nine Inch Nails returned in 2005 with a leaner, more direct record. With Teeth trades some of the layered dread of earlier work for taut, hook-driven industrial rock, Reznor's voice front and center over live-feeling drums. Dave Grohl sits behind the kit on several tracks, and Atticus Ross, soon a permanent collaborator, adds texture. Produced with Alan Moulder, it swings between piano-led restraint and clenched, danceable aggression. The result is one of the band's most immediate albums, raw about relapse, exhaustion and the pull of self-destruction.
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What is With Teeth about?
After a five-year silence and Trent Reznor's road out of addiction, Nine Inch Nails returned in 2005 with a leaner, more direct record. With Teeth trades some of the layered dread of earlier work for taut, hook-driven industrial rock, Reznor's voice front and center over live-feeling drums. Dave Grohl sits behind the kit on several tracks, and Atticus Ross, soon a permanent collaborator, adds texture. Produced with Alan Moulder, it swings between piano-led restraint and clenched, danceable aggression. The result is one of the band's most immediate albums, raw about relapse, exhaustion and the pull of self-destruction.
When was With Teeth released?
With Teeth was released in 2005.
Who made With Teeth?
With Teeth is by Nine Inch Nails.
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A few thoughts on With Teeth
If the album's clenched, industrial pulse hooks you, David Fincher's film Fight Club channels the same disgust with numb modern life and self-annihilation. Reznor and Ross later scored The Social Network, worth hearing beside this. For a game with matching mechanical dread, play the claustrophobic horror of Dead Space, all grinding metal and adrenaline.
Nine Inch Nails after the comeback
With Teeth marked Nine Inch Nails' return after a five-year silence, leaner and more direct than before. These albums follow that later chapter of the band, from a free surprise release to a concept record and beyond, all built on tight songs, live-feeling drums and Trent Reznor's clearer, front-and-center voice.
Industrial rock that defined the nineties and beyond
With Teeth keeps the industrial rock roots Nine Inch Nails planted years earlier. These records trace that heavier, more corrosive lineage, from the synth-pop menace of the band's first album to its bleakest studio landmark, a remix companion, and a stadium act's boldest electronic experiment.