Danny Lohner

Daniel Patrick Lohner, frequently known as Renholdër, is an American musician and record producer best known for his work with Nine Inch Nails and A Perfect Circle.

Danny Lohner co-founded the crossover thrash band Angkor Wat in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1986 while he was still in high school.

The band released two albums, When Obscenity Becomes the Norm...Awake! (1989) and Corpus Christi (1990), on Metal Blade Records.

After moving to Austin, Lohner and Angkor Wat frontman Adam Grossman recorded a new album with an industrial metal sound.

They decided to release it under the name Skrew since most of the other members of Angkor Wat had left by that point and the new material was such a departure from their hardcore roots.

The first Skrew album, Burning in Water, Drowning In Flame, was produced by Revolting Cocks and Skatenigs member Phildo Owen and engineered by Paul Barker and Al Jourgensen of Ministry.

It was released on Metal Blade in 1991.

Lohner left Skrew in 1992.

Lohner has said Nine Inch Nails was his favorite band and he wanted to be involved in any way possible.

He called then Nine Inch Nails manager John Malm Jr.

and asked to work with the band, possibly as a guitar tech.

While recording with Skrew in Chicago, Lohner also met former Nine Inch Nails drummer Chris Vrenna, who was in town working with Die Warzau, and enlisted the help of Al Jourgensen's then-wife and manager Patty Jourgensen to help him write a letter to Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor.

Lohner landed an audition in 1993 to replace live guitarist Richard Patrick, who had just left the band.

Reznor instead decided to hire Robin Finck for the role, but hired Lohner as a live bassist and keyboard player.

Lohner provided additional guitar on "Big Man With a Gun" on The Downward Spiral and performed live with the band throughout the touring cycle for the album.

He appeared in the video for "March of the Pigs" and on the Closure video compilation.

After touring for The Downward Spiral ended, Lohner co-wrote the Nine Inch Nails song "The Perfect Drug", which appeared on the Lost Highway soundtrack and as a single.

Lohner formed a side project called Tapeworm with Reznor and then Nine Inch Nails keyboardist Charlie Clouser.

The idea was to create an outlet for ideas that didn't quite fit with Nine Inch Nails and to give Lohner and Clouser more democratic roles where they could act as equals to Reznor.

Various guest musicians reportedly worked with Tapeworm, including Tool singer Maynard James Keenan, Pantera singer Phil Anselmo, and Helmet frontman Page Hamilton.

Although the band is said to have recorded several songs, none of this material has been released.

However, two songs that began as Tapeworm songs were re-recorded and released by two of Keenan's other projects: "Passive" by A Perfect Circle and "Potions" by Puscifer.

Lohner contributed guitar to several songs on the Nine Inch Nails album The Fragile, and co-wrote the songs "Somewhat Damaged" and "The Great Below".

He again toured with the band as live bassist and keyboardist to support the album, and can be heard on the And All That Could Have Been live album.

He co-wrote the song "And All That Could Have Been" from the accompanying album Still.

Lohner left Nine Inch Nails on good terms before the recording of With Teeth.

This began as a result of the song titled "Renholdër" on A Perfect Circle's debut album Mer de Noms in 2000.

Lohner did not work on this song but was later told by guitarist Billy Howerdel that the song was about him.

In early 2003, A Perfect Circle announced that Lohner would replace Troy Van Leeuwen as the band's second guitarist.

Lohner played guitar on one track on band's second release, Thirteenth Step, and received additional production credit on a few others, but he did not tour with the band to support the album.

He made a guest appearance with Nine Inch Nails during the Wave Goodbye Tour in 2009.

He also performed alongside NIN alumni Chris Vrenna, Charlie Clouser, and Richard Patrick at a show in Cleveland, Ohio in 2022.

In 2020, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nine Inch Nails.

Before joining Nine Inch Nails as a live bassist and keyboardist, Lohner co-founded the crossover thrash band Angkor Wat and the industrial thrash band Skrew.

He has also performed on releases by Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, Tommy Lee's band Methods Of Mayhem, Wes Borland's Black Light Burns project, A Perfect Circle co-founder Billy Howerdel's solo projects, Tool/A Perfect Circle frontman Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer project, Japanese musician Hyde, and Hollywood Undead.

He has produced albums for Trust Company, Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer's solo project Fear and the Nervous System, Howerdel, Black Light Burns, Hollywood Undead, and Pentakill.

He also produced the soundtrack for the film Underworld.

His most recent work includes live performances and production for solo projects from Howerdel, Rammstein singer Till Lindemann and NOFX members Fat Mike and Eric Melvin.

In 2020 Danny Lohner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a part of Nine Inch Nails.

Lohner is frequently credited under the pseudonym Renholdër, an in-joke backward spelling of "Re: D. Lohner".