NINE INCH NAILS Frontman Says First Single Is Not Representatve Of New Album

March 25, 2005

NINE INCH NAILS frontman Trent Reznor spoke to Canada's Chart Attack last week about the group's new album, "With Teeth", and NIN's current tour of more "intimate" venues.

On the tour:

"We wanted to do it because it’s fun, I like playing those size shows. But also we really weren’t sure how big a venue we could play. We were kind of seeing how tickets went for this and if it warranted coming back.

"I would imagine on the fall tour it will be more thought out, and probably the production will be up several notches, but that’s all hypothesis."

On the criticism that the new single, "The Hand That Feeds", boasts a more "mainstream" direction than NIN's past offerings:

"Well, there are no songs like that on 'The Fragile'. 'Hand That Feeds' has an immediacy to it. The good part of it is, is that you can latch onto it. The bad part of it is that that's what burns out the quickest. Someone leaked it on the Internet and I made the mistake of being led to some fucking discussion boards of people bitching about what it sounds like. Fuck you. Out of the context of the album, it's probably the most accessible thing I've done, so I understand your concerns. But the copy that got out was off a cassette and it sounded terrible. Having a smattering of stuff that goes from accessible to things that are more unusual, more interesting, I think that's good. It wasn't a calculated attempt to get on the radio."

In other news, Rolling Stone magazine has published a review of the opening concert of NINE INCH NAILS' U.S. tour, which took place on Wednesday in Fresno, California. Read the review at this location.

(Thanks: The NIN Hotline)

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