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*"Body of Work" section with selected audio and video clips from NIN’s catalog (same as appears on ''[[Collected]]'')
==Outtakesand demos==
[[Image:Digital_Poster_-_With_Teeth.jpg|thumb|Digital Poster (Preview)]]
[[Image:WTunfinished1.jpg|thumb|Unfinished ''With Teeth'' CD-R front cover]]
On a PDF poster (containing lyrics and credits) posted to [[Nin.com/with teeth|the ''With Teeth'' site]] and later made physically available to members of The Spiral as part of the welcome package, several extra songs were alluded to but not featured on the album. All of these songs contained lyrics in some form, though they were not entirely legible. These songs are: "[[Message To No One]]", "[[The Warning (With Teeth song)|The Warning]]", and "[[The Life You Didn't Lead]]".
On May 5, 2005, in the [[Access]] section of [[nin.com]], Reznor simply replied with "?" in response to the following a fan submitted [[:File:2005_05_05Questions8.gif|fan the question]]: "In the .pdf file for the lyrics to the ''With Teeth'' album, there are [''sic''] appears to be songs listed with lyrics that do not appear on the DualDisc CD/DVD album. Those songs include "Home," "Message To No One" and "The Life You Didn't Lead". Will these songs be released ever?" Reznor simply replied with "?"
A song with the title "[[The Warning (Year Zero song)|The Warning]]" is on ''[[Year Zero]]''. When the 2019 Definitive Edition vinyl of ''With Teeth'' was released, the aforementioned poster was re-created as part of the packaging. Lyrics to "The Warning" were made legible and it was finally revealed that the track from ''Year Zero'' has its origins in the track from the ''With Teeth'' sessions.
In a late 2003 pre-release article from ''Alternative Press'' [httphttps://www.theninhotline.netcom/news/archivespermalink/backissue/03/11#1069729309/] for ''With Teeth,'' a song named "[[My Dead Friend]]" was mentioned. Whether this is an earlier name for a song that does appear (such as "Beside You In Time") or simply didn't make the cut, is so far unknown. It is speculated that it may have become "[[This Isn't The Place]]". Similarly, there is a possibility that "The Life You Didn't Lead" informed or inspired "[[The Lovers]]".
===Possible pre-release CDs===
In January 2020, two separate CDs surfaced that purported to contain songs from ''With Teeth'' in various states of completion, as well as outtakes that had not previously been mentioned. The first CD was labeled "With Teeth Tentative Sequence 12.23.04" and had five tracks that were all released on the final album in some form. The second was a double CD labeled "With Teeth Unfinished 11.30.04" containing all of the album tracks (some possibly finished, some in demo form) and several demoed outtakes on disc two. The tentative sequence CD was listed on eBay by Amoeba Records, and the double CD was posted to a NIN collecting group on Facebook.Music[https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/211-The-Auction-Thread-Ebay-Discogs-etc/page82?p=480625#post480625][https://www.ebay.com/itm/202874890707?_trksid=p2471758.m4703], and the double CD was posted to a NIN collecting group on Facebook.[https://www.facebook.com/groups/757462984432365?_rdr] The demo versions of "Getting Smaller" and "Right Where It Belongs" have the working titles of "Getting Smaller Every Day" and "Cages". This correlates with pre-release info given out by early review articles''Kerrang!'' magazine.[http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/display/2]
The previously unknown outtakes were named "Cover It Up", "Good Day", and "The End". "Cover It Up" was also reported to be an early version of "[[The Idea Of You]]". Tracks claiming to be from the five-track CD were posted to archive.org the same month as the eBay sale, but were found to be [[Hoaxes_and_jokes#With_Teeth_.22Tentative_Sequence.22_CD_upload|elaborate fakes]]. Both CDs were brought to the attention of [[Rob Sheridan]], who stated on Twitter that the five-track CD "appears to be one of the ones I made (printing out on a home printer on cut-out CD insert template paper) that we sent out to record industry people and potential collaborators." [https://web.archive.org/web/20200118020109/https://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/1218274718735691777] [https://web.archive.org/web/20200120042627/https://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/1219001089107755008] When asked on a subscriber-only Patreon AMA Q&A about the "new" outtakes on the double CD, he stated, "I should probably not comment any further on that one, it's really not my place to talk about unreleased NIN stuff."[https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/5831-With-Teeth-Tentative-Sequence]
==History==
[[Image:Bleedthrough.jpg|thumb|''Bleedthrough'' album art]]
===''Bleedthrough''===
The initial concept of the album was an exploration of "loss and possible discovery of self, along with alternate layers of reality and perception set inside a nightmare you can't seem to wake up from; with lots of feedback." Around this time mysterious quotes and binary codes appeared on the NIN website, including a passage from the book ''[[wp:The Lathe of Heaven|The Lathe of Heaven]]'' by Ursula K. Le Guin, containing the phrase "bleed-through". The working title for ''With Teeth'' was ''Bleedthrough'', referencing the phenomenon of audio bleed-through. Pre-production and initial recording began in 2003.
In a [[Access#2004_10_18|question posted]] in the Access section of nin.com, Reznor announced that the working title ''Bleedthrough'' had been dropped. Reznor stated that the name was changed because "it was supposed to be about different layers of reality seeping into the next, but I think some people were thinking about blood or a tampon commercial." "'Bleedthrough' is no more," Reznor wrote in a message posted on nin.com, "as the songs and concepts matured, the focus and theme of the album shifted somewhat--leaving me feeling that title was inappropriate. Or you could just say I changed my mind. Yes, the new album has a title and track list, and no I'm not telling you what it is yet."
In an interview with ''Remix Magazine'', Reznor spoke about his new approach to recording:
<blockquote>I wasn’t wasn't doing anything consciously to react to what I thought sucked around me. And I didn’t do this record to be the opposite of ''The Fragile'', although it kind of came out that way. It just seemed fresh to me. It seemed inspiring. And the records I found myself listening to while doing this record—like old Gang of Four records, Stooges, Iggy Pop—felt fresh, felt dangerous, felt underproduced. It felt like the spirit of a human being conveying an emotional message was there in those things. And it wasn’t wasn't caught up in the glitz and glamour of production bells and whistles, which I myself have embraced at times in the past. So I wanted to kind of strip it down, and I realized I felt comfortable not fitting a lot of layers of stuff in. I thought, 'Let’s Let's only put in what is absolutely necessary. Let’s Let's take a stripped-down approach.'<br><br>
I realized that the last couple of records were written in the studio. So the writing and production and arrangement phase all kind of took place at the same time, bypassing having demos. Songs would start sometimes with a soundscape, sometimes a visual idea, sometimes a drumbeat, sometimes a cool effect, sometimes a chord change. But, usually, the setting was created first, and then a song kind of got wedged in there later on. And this time around, I went about it pretty much the opposite way. I set up a kind of demo room out in Los Angeles and moved out here from New Orleans, really just for a change of pace. I wanted to set up a place where I didn’t have too many options, and I wanted to do demos this time around.[https://www.theninhotline.com/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=55]</blockquote>
An interview with [[Atticus Ross]] in ''EQ Magazine''[https://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/display/155] gave some details about gear that was used for the album:
<blockquote>For some of the tracks on ''With Teeth'', Reznor played a Moog Voyager through a Fuzz Factory or a few other radical distortion guitar pedals. "And as he was playing, he'd be screwing with the guitar pedals," says Ross. "We'd record for a while and Trent would usually stumble into something that sounded pretty unique." Since the whole record was performance-based, this worked well with the theme.
<p>One of the favorite hardware synths for ''With Teeth'' was the Vostok, which would often be hooked up to a huge modular wall with Doepfer, Analogue Solutions, and Metasonix pedals with various sequencers, drum machines, and other synths attached.
<p>"We used a Kenton Pro 2000 for MIDI to CV with Trent's preferred controller for the modular being the French connection," says Ross. "Although this can be played as a regular keyboard, Trent performed many of the parts for With Teeth with the ring and thread."
<p>"Even MIDIable instruments would be sent through external chains recorded into the audio as performances," he says. A suitcase Synthi and 2 Sherman Filterbanks – chained together – were used as well.
<p>In addition to the hardware synths, a lot of soft synths were deployed, including several from GForce: Ohm Force, ImpOSCar, Oddity, and the MTron. "Those would often be programmed in all sorts of different ways," says Ross. "Sometimes we would take that out through the modular, sometimes we would find stuff to do to it inside of the computer, or sometimes one synth would go into another synth just to get a different effect."</blockquote>
The album is also notable for the fact that several tracks ("All The Love In The World", "You Know What You Are?", "The Collector", "Every Day Is Exactly The Same", "Getting Smaller", "Sunspots", "The Line Begins To Blur", and non-album track "Non-Entity") feature [[Dave Grohl]] on drums. In a [[Access#2004_07_13|post]] to the Access section of nin.com, Reznor stated that Grohl had drummed on fifteen tracks, and it is not known why he only features on a total of eight tracks. Reznor had been wanting a Dave Grohl-esque drum sound during the initial stages of recording, and realized it would make more sense to simply ask Grohl if he would do the drumming.[https://www.loudersound.com/features/nin-foo-fighters-with-teeth-trent-reznor-dave-grohl] While there were no proper physical liner notes for ''With Teeth'', Grohl's drum credits appeared on the PDF file that was released alongside the album, as well as on nin.com at the time of the album's release.
==Definitive 2019 Edition Vinyl==
A vinyl reissue campaign of the NIN catalog was begun in 2017 with three albums, and was continued in 2019 when ''With Teeth'' was released as the next installment. The item's description reads:
<blockquote>At long last, the Definitive version of ''With Teeth'', meticulously prepared by Trent Reznor, [[Atticus Ross]] and NIN art director [[John Crawford]]. Remastered in 2019 on 180-gram vinyl, with lots of details attended to that you may never notice but we care about.</blockquote>
This edition of the vinyl comes with a digital download card and a booklet containing photos and an essay about the album, written by David Fricke. It also contains the lyrics, adapted from the old PDF poster.