The Summary Judgment Review:
Title: With Teeth
Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Label: Interscope Records
Release Date: 5/3/05

Rating: 4 Skulls
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    • Reviewed by Death (8/7/05):
    Trent Reznor was obviously never "metal," but a lot of metalheads liked Nine Inch Nails along the way. Whether you come at them from a Godflesh, Moonspell, Paradise Lost, Kovenant, Fear Factory, modern In Flames, or a Type O Negative type perspective, there is overlap between many elements of the metal underground and the classic Nine Inch Nails aesthetic. I liked the Downward Spiral back in the 1990's but lost touch with what was going on with Nine Inch Nails after that. I recently decided to check out the new album, With Teeth, as almost a point of curiosity as much as anything else. I thought there might be a few of you out there who - like me - were at least mildly interested in what this album sounded like from a metalhead's perspective. The bottom line is that this is a good record that actually improves with repeated listens. The music as a whole is pretty good, with nothing much sounding too "commercial" (single "The Hand That Feeds" is pretty much the most straightforward "rock song"). A lot of "All the Love in the World" is mellow and trippy - especially for an opener - but the song is super-intense, one of the best on the album, and is a new Nine Inch Nails classic. I also like "Only" a lot - it is super-catchy and even though it is not "metal" it gets me fired up. The rest of the album is pretty good overall. Dark and generally pretty pissed off, With Teeth is interesting enough if you liked Nine Inch Nails back in the day and are interesting in revisiting that kind of trip from time-to-time again today.
    4 out of 5
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