With Teeth is the fourth studio album by the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released by Nothing Records and Interscope Records on May 3, 2005. The album was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and long time collaborator Alan Moulder. It also features contributions from musician Dave Grohl and future band member Atticus Ross.
In line with the band’s previous material, the record features introspective songwriting influenced by Reznor‘s addiction to alcohol and drugs and subsequent sobriety. The album generated three singles: The Hand That Feeds, Only, and Every Day Is Exactly the Same, the latter of which was released as an accompanying remix EP. The album was supported by the Live: With Teeth tour.
With Teeth was well received by critics, albeit slightly less than the band’s previous work. Some complimented the aggressive composition, while others said the album was bland and criticized Reznor for a lack of originality. The album became the band’s second to reach No. 1 in the U.S. and was certified gold by the RIAA.
Nine Inch Nails garnered mainstream attention with their influential second album The Downward Spiral, as well as a widely broadcast live performance at Woodstock ‘94, becoming one of the most popular music acts of the 1990s. Reznor appeared in Time magazine’s list of the year’s most influential people in 1997, and Spin magazine described him as “the most vital artist in music”. However, his musical output was infrequent, having released only three studio albums from 1989 to 2005 with a rough average of five years between each release. During this time, Reznor became increasingly addicted to alcohol and drugs, resulting in depression and writer’s block.
The 1999 Nine Inch Nails double album The Fragile was met with generally positive reviews from music critics and eventually sold 898,000 copies. However, it failed to attain the success of its predecessor and fell from the top of the Billboard charts after only a week. Afterwards, the only original Nine Inch Nails material released until 2005 was the 2000 remix album Things Falling Apart, as well as the 2001 remix album Still and the 2001 single “Deep” from the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider soundtrack.
Tracklist:
- All the Love in the World
- You Know What You Are?
- The Collector
- The Hand That Feeds
- Love Is Not Enough
- Every Day Is Exactly the Same
- With Teeth
- Only
- Getting Smaller
- Sunspots
- The Line Begins to Blur
- Beside You in Time
- Right Where It Belongs
Bonus tracks - Home (non US release)
- Right Where It Belongs (Version 2) (UK and Japanese releases)
- The Hand That Feeds (Ruff Mix) (Japanese-only release))
Musicians
Trent Reznor: lead vocals, arranging, performance, songwriting, production, engineering, 5.1 surround mix, sound design, all instrumentals & instrumentation
Alan Moulder: additional instrumentals, production, engineering
Atticus Ross: programming, additional production, sound design
Leo Herrera: engineering, project coordination
James Brown: engineering, 5.1 surround mix
Rich Costey: engineering
Tom Baker at Precision Mastering: mastering
Adam Ayan for Gateway Mastering: surround mastering
Rob Sheridan: design
Jeremy Berman: drum technician
Gerch for Drum Fetish: drum technician
Jerome Dillon: additional drum programming, live drums (7, 14)
Rupert Parkes: additional programming (1)
Alien Tom: turntables (1)
Dave Grohl: percussion (1), drums (2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11)
