http://remix.nin.com/ For those of you who haven't seen already, I was just sent to this site by a fellow NIN fan, and ye gods, it's one of the best things a band has ever done with their music!
With Trent out of the big record label's hands, I'm incredibly interested to see where goes next. Having all his music available to mess up and do as whatever the fan wants is just step one for him....
I'm still bummed Tapeworm never came completely into being, although I did see APC perform that one song live so I'm relatively happy with that 4 minutes of pleasure.
Tapeworm was a long rumored project that would have had Trent collaborating with Maynard Keenan, Phil Anselmo, the guy from Helmet, and a few others I can't think of. It was a legal clusterfuck for many years before Trent considered the matter dropped.
It's worth noting the 'split' between Reznor and Atkins over Pigface was exceedingly acrimonious / played up - for years after Pigface performed 'Suck' with the lyrics changed to "A million Trent Reznors sucking at me, suck, suck, suck; how does it feel? suck, suck, suck".
Wow, Tapeworm sounds like it could have been awesome, but then musical collaborations like that often turn out disappointing anyway. Well, this particular talentless internet faggot is going to really enjoy remixing In This Twilight for a million Trent Reznors sucking at me :D One day the internet will be free of cynicism... then the world will implode.
Ah, cool! Yeah, a definite shame it never came about! But you're right, I'm guessing things wouldn't have developed the same way if Tapeworm had gone ahead. And with so many strong musical personalities colliding, who knows what would have happened. However, I did find out about Pucifer from that article, who are new to me :D I'm definitely going to check their album out.
V is for Vagina is good fun. It's not groundbreaking art by any means, but it's a side of Maynard's musical inclinations that aren't represented in Tool.