Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor wasn’t kidding as he chanted “Nothing can stop me now” near the start of the band’s concert Friday night at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena.
But the next part of that chorus phrase — “cause I don’t care anymore” — was belied by a 95-minute show that was, indeed, a non-stop (and passionate) onslaught of meticulously crafted sensory assault, from the sonics to the ingenious visuals. It was a near-perfect kind of expression, one that played right to the expectations of fans who knew the group to be a consistently provocative live act but also accessible to any of the 15,000 at Little Caesars who may not have been as well-acquainted.
Those virtues were certainly to be expected, of course; when you have a group led by two EGO (Emmy, Grammy and Oscar) Award winners