10 Perfect Rock Frontmen Of The 90s

As if the grunge wave wasn't a big enough wake up call, the next decade for rock and roll was going to be much darker than the one before it. The days of flashy bands strutting their stuff on MTV was over and the new school of thought was acts that had a lot more natural charisma behind them. We were prepared to go darker, but Trent Reznor managed to really test the limits of what we were prepared for.

While Nine Inch Nails may have gotten things started at the tail end of the '80s with Pretty Hate Machine, it wasn't until the Broken EP and the Downward Spiral that we got a real sense of who we were working with. From the raw sounds of the record, you could tell that Reznor was trying to get under your skin, with songs that picked at the disturbed nature of mankind and pressing on that wound even more.

When you saw the band live though, Reznor was more than just a studio labrat. This man was the complete package who was looking to create a raw experience on the stage, whether that was through the raw music that was coming out of the speakers or if it meant taking it out on his own bandmates from time to time. Though not everything is what you would call child-friendly, Trent really seems to ascribe to the idea that art is meant to comfort the disturbed.