Trent Reznor

The only known performance of any Tapeworm material was of Keenan's other band, A Perfect Circle performing the song "Vacant" on tour in 2001. "Vacant" appears on A Perfect Circle's third album eMOTIVe, reworked and retitled "Passive". The score was well received, although the movie was not well received. A collaboration with Danny Lohner, Maynard James Keenan of Tool, and Atticus Ross of 12 Rounds known as Tapeworm was in production for almost ten years, but an update on the official Nine Inch Nails website has declared that the project has been terminated. Most recently, Sheik wrote the score for the 2004 film A Home at the End of the World, starring Colin Farrell. He has also worked with David Bowie, Pigface, Marilyn Manson, The Neptunes, 1000 Homo DJs, and Peter Gabriel. Sheik indicated in interviews that the record was an attempt to create an album of pure pop songs. Trent has collaborated with such artists as Tori Amos, adding backing vocals to "Past the Mission" from Under the Pink. Escewing the Nick Drake-like sound of Phantom Moon, Daylight featured a lighter, more modern sound with production effects and electronic backgrounds.

Or get your shit together.'". In 2002, Sheik made a brief commercial comeback his album Daylight, including single success on the tracks "On A High" and "Half Life". I had to slap myself in the face: 'If you want to kill yourself, do it, save everybody the fucking hassle. The album continued the melancholic tone of Sheik's previous work, and displayed his growing prowess as a composer and arranger. In a 1999 interview for Rolling Stone magazine, he said that "It just took me time to sit down and change my head and my life around. The two collaboratively created the album by each drawing inspiration from other's simultaneous work, with Sheik sending Sater music and Sater sending Sheik words. It was reported that Reznor had considered committing suicide during this period. Sheik's next record, 2001's Phantom Moon, was a collaboration with poet and writer Steven Sater, who Sheik met through his Soka Gakkai involvement.

He has been reported to be suffering from bipolar disorder. Some say that Sheik went to greater lengths to reflect his Buddhist faith after reaching certain popular success from his eponymous record. During the five years between his albums The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999), Trent Reznor struggled with depression, writer's block, and the death of his grandmother. In fact, some songs are laced with biting anger. Chris Vrenna, former drummer for Nine Inch Nails, produced the music for Doom 3 with his partner Clint Walsh. Additionally, on some tracks Sheik took a step away from his pop roots to address larger social issues. The original audio files can be found on the internet, although they are not officially endorsed by Reznor or id software. In his second album, 1998's Humming, Sheik experimented in the studio with meticulous string arrangements while keeping the haunted vocal sound of his first album.

However, due to "time, money, and bad management" he had to abandon this project, and his audio work did not make it into the game's release. In 2000, Sheik wrote the foreward to The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions by Soka Gakkai leader Daisaku Ikeda. Trent returned to work with id Software in 2003 as the sound engineer for video game Doom 3. A lay Buddhist, Sheik's involvement with Soka Gakkai has increased steadily over the years. (As a side-note, the NIN logo also appears on the nailgun ammo boxes in Quake). In 1998, he was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Barely Breathing". He also created the soundtrack for id Software's hit Quake. Duncan Sheik's eponymous debut album spawned the 1996 hit single "Barely Breathing" in the U.S, which remained on the charts for 55 straight weeks.

Reznor likes video games, most notably Doom by id Software, which he has said he played in the Nine Inch Nails tour bus after doing shows. Sheik began his professional musical career playing for other acts, including Liz And Liza (with Lisa Loeb), and played on His Boy Elroy's 1993 album. Reznor was the credited producer for Marilyn Manson's albums Portrait of an American Family (1994), Smells Like Children (1995), and Antichrist Superstar (1996), as well as the soundtrack for the film Natural Born Killers. Sheik graduated from Phillips Academy in 1988, after which he studied semiotics at Brown University. His latest album, "With Teeth", is expected to be released on 3 May 2005. There, Sheik's grandmother (a piano graduate of The Juilliard School) taught him to play the piano and encouraged his musical development. Subsequent works include 1992's eight song EP "Broken", 1994's "The Downward Spiral" and 1999's "The Fragile". Sheik's upbringing was split between his parents' home in South Carolina and that of his grandparents in New Jersey.

TVT Records signed Trent Reznor, and in 1989 he released "Pretty Hate Machine", Nine Inch Nails' first album. Duncan Scott Sheik (born November 18, 1969 in Montclair, New Jersey) is an American singer-songwriter. Until recently, he had lived in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 2004, he stated he will have nothing more to do with the label. He released most of his work under his former record label, Nothing Records.

Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965 in Mercer, Pennsylvania), better known as Trent Reznor, is the creative force behind the band Nine Inch Nails.