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Studio album by Nine Inch Nails | |||||
Released | May 3, 2005 | ||||
Recorded | September–December 2004 | ||||
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Length | 56:05 | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 71/100 |
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AllMusic | |
The A.V. Club | B |
Robert Christgau | |
Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
Kludge | 7/10 |
NME | 7/10 |
Pitchfork | 6.5/10 |
PopMatters | 4/10 |
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Stylus Magazine | A− |
With Teeth (stylized as [WITH_TEETH]) is the fourth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on May 3, 2005 by Nothing Records and Interscope Records. The album was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and long-time collaborator Alan Moulder. Reznor has indicated that the album is influenced by his battle with and recovery from alcoholism and substance abuse.
With Teeth became an immediate commercial success, debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 272,000 copies sold in its first week. The album generated three singles, "The Hand That Feeds", "Only" and "Every Day Is Exactly the Same", all of which became number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Reznor garnered mainstream attention with his influential second album The Downward Spiral, as well as a widely broadcast live performance at . From that point onward, Nine Inch Nails was among the most popular music acts of the 1990s. In 1997, Reznor appeared in Time magazine's list of the year's most influential people, and Spin magazine described him as "the most vital artist in music.". However, Reznor's musical output was infrequent, having released only three major albums (excluding remixes and the 1992 EP Broken) from 1989 through 2005, with a rough average of five years between each release. During this time, Reznor became increasingly addicted to alcohol and drugs, resulting in erratic behavior, depression, and writer's block.