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Trent Reznor Continues His Journey Through Sweet Misery
Vancouver
June 14, 2000
NINE INCH NAILS and A Perfect Circle Tuesday night at GM Place.
While some people manifest their fear and anger within themselves through
personal angst and maybe a little soul searching, Trent Reznor wears his emotions on his sleeves like handcuffs, hanging from a prisoner on death row. His musical mastery is so beautifully captivating and fantastically scary that it's hard to imagine Trent ever having a nice day. But he certainly had a good night. Fresh from the recording studio, Nine Inch Nails ripped through GM Place last night, in support of their new album The Fragile/Halo Fourteen.
Opening act "A Perfect Circle," featured Maynard James Kenan (of Tool fame) on vocals and Billy Howerdel (former Tool guitar tech) on guitar. Maynard truly has one of rock's great new voice's and by giving life to songs from APC's new album "Mer de Norms," he showed that good songs can be made even better, by an unbelievable set of lungs. Highlights included the melody-centric "Magdelena," the extremely wicked "Thinking of you" and radio friendly "Judith."
Reznor and Co. kicked off the main event with a searing rendition of "Terrible Lie," and quickly put to rest, any rumours of Nine Inch Nails mellowing over their five year hiatus. They wasted no time diving into the downward spiral, and as the familiar crunchy guitar riff from "March of the pigs," carried the crowd into joyous despair one could only wonder, how much heavier it could get?
But NIN can indeed take it to the next level, and before you could say 'I hate myself,' the stage started transforming into something resembling a mutant transformer from a bad sci-fi movie. As the band glided into a mesmerizing medley of "La Mer", giant T.V. screens rotated into position and displayed visions of Reznor's electronic nightmare. Beautiful sequences of water and fire rippled through the digital backdrop (by renowned artist Bill Viola) while the cold steel sound of "Complication" blared through the stellar sound system.
After playing mostly instrumentals from The Fragile, Reznor slipped back down the spiral and kicked into a monster version of "closer." This was obviously the evening's swan song, given the manic decibel levels of screaming fans. No sooner had the audience come up for a gasp of air, did Reznor drag us down again with the heart stopping "Head like a hole." Reznor, looking like an 80's cult leader gone mad, viciously screamed the now infamous line "I'd rather die...than give you control!" along with his 16,000 disciples.
Nine Inch Nails encored with the Floyd-like "The Day the world went away" and the raunchy "Starfuckers Inc." As the last chords from the ballad masterpiece "hurt" resonated through GM Place, Trent left the stage - the same way he entered - shrouded in mystery. One can only imagine what really goes on in the savage mind of Trent Reznor, but one thing is crystal clear: We anxiously wait for his return.
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