Nine Inch Nails was formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1988 by Trent Reznor. After recording a new album, Reznor usually assembles a live band to perform with him. The touring band features a revolving lineup that often rearranges songs to fit a live setting. Written, arranged, and performed by Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails’ first album Pretty Hate Machine debuted in 1989. The album spawned three singles, the most successful being "Head Like a Hole". Nine Inch Nails has since released seven more albums, three live albums and twenty three singles. Nine Inch Nails has received four awards from 25 nominations, including two Grammy Awards for the songs "Wish" and "Happiness in Slavery" in 1993 and 1996 respectively. Nine Inch Nails have received two Kerrang! Awards honoring the band’s overall contributions since 1988. The band was ranked as the 94th "Greatest Artist of All Time" by Rolling Stone in 2004 and has sold over twenty million copies of it’s albums. Reznor announced on October 8, 2007 that Nine Inch Nails had fulfilled its contractual commitments to Interscope Records and was now free to proceed as a free agent. On March 20, 2009, two unreleased songs, ‘Not So Pretty Now’ and ‘Non-Entity’ (both left over from the With Teeth sessions) were released as a free download.
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