The below originally appeared in Kerrang! magazine in March 2014. On one hand, Trent Reznor was simply giving Kerrang! a tour of Nine Inch Nails’ studio. Nothing fancy, just a room-by-room stroll through 10050 Cielo Drive, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. It’s just that said gated residence was also the site of one of the most notorious murders in American history. It was here that a cult nicknamed the Manson Family carried out the murder of Hollywood actress Sharon Tate, at the behest of their leader, Charles Manson, while also slaying four other victims on August 9, 1969. “This is the room Sharon Tate ended up in,” said Trent, ushering K! writer Mike Gitter into the place in which Manson acolyte Susan Atkins stabbed a heavily pregnant Sharon a total of...
