Nine Inch Nails mark used because no verified Jerome Dillon portrait is held in the archive

Nine Inch Nails / Touring Band

Jerome Dillon

NIN roleDrums and percussion

Drummer and percussionist for Fragility and the opening Live: With Teeth phase, appearing on major live and video documents from 1999 to 2005.

With Nine Inch Nails
1999–2005
Key documents
And All That Could Have Been; Beside You in Time

Profile

Jerome Dillon and Nine Inch Nails

NIN relationship
Touring drummer
Documented span
1999–2005
Primary roles
Drums and percussion
Work with Nine Inch Nails

Jerome Dillon joined Nine Inch Nails for the Fragility era, performing within the five-member ensemble that translated The Fragile into a highly arranged live production. He remained through the first phase of Live: With Teeth.

Dillon appears across major official documents from the period, including And All That Could Have Been, Into the Void, The Hand That Feeds and early footage later included with Beside You in Time.

NIN Timeline
  1. 1999

    Joins Nine Inch Nails

    Enters the Fragility lineup after auditioning following his work with Howlin’ Maggie.

  2. 1999–2000

    Fragility

    Performs through the full Fragility cycle and its layered live arrangements.

  3. 2002

    Official live document

    Appears throughout And All That Could Have Been.

  4. 2005

    Live: With Teeth

    Returns for the opening clubs, theaters and arena phase before leaving after the October 1 Hollywood Bowl show.

Tours and Live Roles

1999–2000

Fragility

Drums and percussion in the multi-instrumental five-piece.

2005

Live: With Teeth

Drummer through the opening phase and the October 1 Hollywood Bowl performance.

Release Contributions

Beside You in Time

The release includes 2005 footage from the opening Live: With Teeth period.

Notable Performances and Documents

2000

Into the Void

Appears with the Fragility ensemble in the performance-based video.

Selected Work Beyond NIN

Howlin’ Maggie

Performed with the Columbus group before joining Nine Inch Nails.

nearLY

Developed his own recording project after leaving the NIN touring lineup.

Film composition

Continued composing and recording for screen and independent projects.

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