Nine Inch Nails star Trent Reznor unveils 'life-changing' moment

Trent Reznor, one of the most accomplished songwriters of the modern era, just detailed the interaction he had with music in his teenage.

Renowned for working in the band Nine Inch Nails, he spoke of the expansive education he received over music while growing p in the 1980s revealing the one “life-changing” track for him during a conversation with good friend Rick Rubin, in the Tetragrammaton podcast.

Reznor stated that if he had not been introduced to the larger-than-life rock ‘n’ roll world of KISS as a teenager, his life would’ve taken a whole different turn, with his piano tutor suggesting that the Closer hitmaker could consider becoming a concert pianist.

Recalling how his 13-year-old self drew a comparison between what his tutor suggested and the music KISS put out for everyone to listen, Reznor declared that becoming a pianist "didn't sound like it was any fun", whereas the universe of KISS "seemed like it was too good to be true."

"It was exciting. it was taboo, it felt larger than life," he further recalled, adding, "It felt like you might get in trouble if you had the Hotter Than Hell album.... It just clicked that I want to be in a band., I want to do that."

"And I had a life changing experience," he recalled.

The vocalist continued, "National Record Mart was the, the store in the mall 15 minutes away from where I grew up, and I remember walking in there and hearing something that was like, ‘What is this?’ And it was Frank Zappa, the Sheik Yerbouti album, filled with profanity."

"They'd put the cover of the album they were playing up on the counter when they're playing it, and it just felt like, I don't understand what I'm hearing, but wow, man," Trent Reznor had revealed in the podcast, explaining how music in his teenage shaped him later on.