In terms of time, money and rampant fanaticism, Nine Inch Nails rates as my favourite band, ever. My first exposure was a blind purchase of 'The Downward Spiral' as I'd heard that this band with the funny name would be responsible for the audio in the then yet-to-be-released Quake. Within a week of first loading it into my discman, I had bought all albums I could lay my hands on.
Unfortunately, it was a long time between album releases, and by the time 'The Fragile' was released, NIN and I had moved in different directions - with a few exceptions, the slow, softer, pop-industrial songs never really struck a chord and it was only a bootleg copy of 'Closure' and the excellent 'And All That Could Have Been' DVD that kept me mildly interested in the latest Trent news.
Now we see the release of 'With Teeth', an album that sees a wide range of musical styles, and some suprising new vocals from Trent which stand out most in 'Only', and are hinted at in the 'The Hand That Feeds' single.
Unfortunately, I don't really like 'With Teeth' that much - it doesn't get the blood flowing - a lack of innovation, an abundance of repetitive screaming, and a strangely ever-changing intensity and tempo lead more to a sense of confusion than to the audio bliss we're used to from NIN. It's possible that some of these complaints are rendered void on the 5.1 DVD-A release, but I doubt it.
Not recommended.
As an aside, if you can, get the Japanese release, which has two half-decent bonus tracks that really deserve to be in the main album.
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