Danny Lohner
Daniel Patrick Lohner (born
December 13,
1970 in
Corpus Christi,
Texas) , most commonly known as
Danny Lohner is an
industrial musician who plays bass guitar, guitar and keyboards. He has worked with
Trent Reznor on numerous occasions, both with
Nine Inch Nails and on the defunct
Tapeworm project. He has also played for
Killing Joke,
Methods of Mayhem and in the past was one of the founding members of the now defunct industrial-thrash outlet
Skrew as well as one of the members of the Texas thrash metal band
Angkor Wat.
He also was featured on
Marilyn Manson's breakthrough album
Antichrist Superstar, as did most of
Nine Inch Nails due to
Trent Reznor's relationship with Manson, acting as his mentor in the world of music. Lohner can be heard playing the acoustic guitar on the track "the Reflecting God".
Additionally, he does remixes for various artists under the
pseudonym Renholdër ("re:d.lohner" backwards) such as the song of the same title featured on
A Perfect Circle's debut album
Mer de Noms. He is currently a studio member of A Perfect Circle, helping with engineering and filling in for instruments and vocals as necessary. He has appeared in all of their albums to date in one form or another, although in 2006 the band was on hiatus as
Maynard James Keenan worked on the new
Tool album and toured.
During 2003, Lohner worked with
Richard Patrick of
Filter,
Wes Borland of
Limp Bizkit and
Josh Freese of
A Perfect Circle, in a project called
The Damning Well. A total of 14 songs were recorded (half of which featured
Amy Lee of
Evanescence on vocals, instead of Richard Patrick), but only one of these has been released ('Awakening') which was featured on the soundtrack for the movie
Underworld. So far, there have been no plans to release the rest of the songs.
In 2005 and 2006, Lohner was involved with
Wes Borland in a project called
Black Light Burns, taking on the role of producer as well as playing guitar, bass, synth, programming, etc. Other members include Josh Eustis of
Telefon Tel Aviv and
Josh Freese. A release is planned for an unspecified date sometime in 2006 or 2007 through Geffen Records. That is expected to be followed by a world tour.
He also worked with Japanese rock artist
Hyde in 2005-06, recording bass tracks along with
Craig Adams on Hyde's new album Faith .
