good catch anon
Trent Reznor = no good
witch thing = real
DIG on short film "Broken" by Nine Inch Nails
also "Witch Hunt" by VISTA
these people are serious - this is not an act for show business
the business of occult is not a joke
In 1992, Trent Reznor was in a bad place. Literally.
Nine Inch Nails’ head honcho was renting the Beverly Hills home where, in 1969, Charles Manson’s “family” had murdered five people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. In the house, Reznor put together a recording studio that he dubbed Le Pig, after an infamous incident in which the murderers had used Tate’s blood to scrawl “PIG” on a living room wall. After working at four other studios, Reznor was using Le Pig to finish Nine Inch Nails’ second major release, Broken.
Of course, Reznor had been in a bad place emotionally long before he moved into the house. In 1989, he had witnessed Nine Inch Nails break through with Pretty Hate Machine, only to become embroiled in a battle over creativity with the band’s label, TVT. While Reznor wanted to move on to darker, edgier material, TVT demanded a commercial, synth-pop follow-up immediately. When Trent refused to comply, his record label refused to put out any other Nine Inch Nails music.
“We made it very clear we were not doing another record for TVT. But they made it pretty clear they weren't ready to sell,” Reznor told Spin in 1996. “So I felt like, well, I’ve finally got this thing going but it’s dead. [Producer Mark Ellis] Flood and I had to record Broken under a different band name, because if TVT found out we were recording, they could confiscate all our s— and release it.”