10 Rock Artists That Tried To Destroy Their Career

10. Trent Reznor - Nine Inch Nails

One of the common problems that come with fame is people thinking that it's going to cure a lot of the problems that you have. When you're a starry eyed kid without a penny to your name, the idea of going around the world playing music may seem like the greatest thing in the world. When Trent Reznor came up for air during the peak of Nine Inch Nails though, he seemed to feel almost more alone than he did before.

After combing through the most toxic parts of his personality on The Downward Spiral, the next few years would be even more hectic for Trent, from producing even more industrial music with acts like Marilyn Manson to putting out the album the Fragile, which continued on the hedonistic streak of Spiral while also playing him up as the rich rock star who finally managed to conquer the world. Things seemed to be looking up for Trent commercially, but this was also the time where he decided to cut and run.

Although Nine Inch Nails never really broke up, the next few years saw Trent doing everything else but work with his band, almost trying to make himself invisible by doing different side projects like the Quake soundtrack before finding a calling in films later down the line when he scored motion pictures like the Social Network. While With Teeth was the return to form that most Nine Inch Nails fans had been waiting for in the mid '00s, the character of Mr. Self Destruct that we had met covered in mud during Woodstock 1994 was officially dead and gone.