He Moved Into a Funeral Home… and It Almost KILLED Nine Inch Nails

The story behind Nine inch nails record the fragile

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In 1994, Trent Reznor was one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Nine Inch Nails had a hit album with The Downward Spiral, "Closer" was everywhere, and the band's mud-covered set at Woodstock '94 made them legends overnight. Five years later, Reznor was hiding inside a converted funeral home in New Orleans, battling depression and addiction and making the most ambitious record of his career. This is the story of Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile, the album that almost ended Trent Reznor.

After the Self Destruct tour, Reznor moved into Nothing Studios, the old funeral home he turned into his own recording studio. Instead of starting a new Nine Inch Nails album, he produced Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar, a project that felt like a never-ending party and ended with the friendship falling apart. Then he lost his grandmother, Clara, the woman who raised him. He fled to Big Sur to write, secretly went to rehab, and came back to spend two straight years in the studio with co-producer Alan Moulder, recording with broken instruments, ukuleles, slide guitars, and drunk guys from the bar across the street.

With a mountain of music and no idea how it fit together, Reznor called in Bob Ezrin, the legendary producer behind Pink Floyd's The Wall, Alice Cooper, and KISS's Destroyer. The result was a 23-track double album that debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in September 1999, then fell to number 16 the next week. At the time, it was the biggest drop from number one in chart history.

We also cover the Fragility tour, which Reznor reportedly paid for himself after Interscope backed away, the 1999 MTV VMA performance next to Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys, and the night in London in 2000 when Reznor overdosed on heroin he thought was cocaine and woke up in a hospital with no idea where he was. Then comes the phone call that finally changed everything, his decision to get sober in 2001, and how The Fragile went from a commercial disappointment to one of the most loved albums in the Nine Inch Nails catalog, even earning a new score from Pitchfork years later. Its moody instrumentals also pointed toward the Oscar-winning film score work Reznor would later do with Atticus Ross.


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