In the early ´90s, Trent Reznor, Kurt Cobain and Billy Corgan reigned over the alternative rock charts with their respective bands. Now, more than a decade later, Cobain is dead and Corgan has long ceased to cause kids to stampede to the record stores to buy his latest CD. Reznor, on the other hand, has returned from a six-year break from music to find that his furious industrial rock based on jagged guitars, booming drums, jarring keyboards and desperate vocals is as relevant as ever. The Grammy-winning performer behind Nine Inch Nails conquered depression, alcohol and drug abuse and managed to return to the spot light last year with a new album, With Teeth , that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart and received rapturous press reviews. His first tour sold out quickly and Reznor is now back for a second run. But when he was recording With Teeth , his first album since 1999´s The Fragile , the moody but charismatic Reznor had no clue whether anybody still had an appetite for his brutal sound and dark lyrics. ¨The culture, the times, the people and the business have changed,¨ he says. ¨I had a new excuse to fight: what if I can´t write sober, what if I don´t have anything to say, what if I´m irrelevant, what if I´m just old now, what if it was just an accident that I got popular in the first place? ¨My lack of putting out records and time between records, although not a calculated career move, may have benefited me because it skipped certain whole subgenres of really bad music. But I didn´t go into this record cycle assuming that I had all the power that I once wielded.¨ More: http://hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:158627