Today is Trent Reznor's birthday and he gave Nine Inch Nails fans a present: today NIN unleashed "God Break Down The Door," the first song off their forthcoming EP Bad Witch. The EP is the third and final installment in NIN's EP trilogy which began in 2016 with Not The Actual Events, followed by 2017's Add Violence. As Trent Reznor revealed to the BBC in March, the musical direction of Bad Witch took the band by surprise:
"We started out with a pretty rigid concept of what the three EPs were going to be, having not written them all, but had a kind of blueprint for the trajectory and the sound. And then as we finished the last one, Add Violence, and started work on what we thought was going to be the third EP, we found ourselves - it felt too predictable. It felt like what we originally -- the map we'd kind of drawn out, the plot line -- felt like we were forcing things musically and storytelling-wise, just the whole trajectory.
We thought it was a brief phase and we kept at it and it still inherently felt wrong, so we -- the reason it's been a little bit delayed, is it took us a while to, for what has become the third EP, to reveal itself to us. It was kind of a left turn, a surprise, it took us awhile to wrap our heads around it"
Wrap your head around "God Break Down The Door" below and pre-order Bad Witch here. The EP arrives on June 22nd.
Nine Inch Nails hit the road with The Jesus And Mary Chain on Cold And Black And Infinite tour this fall. Tickets go on sale this Saturday, May 19th through an exclusive physical sale. The pre-sale for the Detroit shows takes place at the Little Caesars Arena Auxiliary box office at 2645 Woodward Avenue located off Henry St. on the Chevrolet Plaza. Info on the pre-sale is located here.
Nine Inch Nails w/ The Jesus And Mary Chain - U.S. tour
Jun 13 -- Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint (sold out)
Jun 15 -- Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint (sold out)
Jun 16 -- Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint (sold out)
Sep 13 -- Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre
Sep 14 -- Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre
Sep 18 -- Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks* (presale May 20)
Sep 19 -- Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks* (presale May 20)
Sep 24 -- Memphis, TN @ Orpheum Theatre
Sep 26 -- Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre
Sep 27 -- Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre
Sep 29 -- Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheatre
Oct 09 -- Washington, DC @ The Anthem
Oct 13 -- New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
Oct 14 -- New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
Oct 19 -- Boston, MA @ Boch Centre
Oct 20 -- Boston, MA @ Boch Centre
Oct 22 -- Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre
Oct 23 -- Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre
Oct 25 -- Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
Oct 26 -- Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
Nov 23 -- New Orleans, LA @ Saenger Theatre
Nov 24 -- New Orleans, LA @ Saenger Theatre
Nov 27 -- Irving, TX @ The Pavillion at Toyota Music Factory
Nov 28 -- Irving, TX @ The Pavillion at Toyota Music Factory
Dec 03 -- San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Dec 07 -- Los Angeles, CA @ Palladium
Dec 08 -- Los Angeles, CA @ Palladium
Dec 11 -- Los Angeles, CA @ Palladium
Dec 12 -- Los Angeles, CA @ Palladium
Published May 17th, 2018