“Nine Inch Nails is often called ‘industrial’. But I actually
here a lot of funk. Just listen to “Closer” and the foundation could be Stevie Wonder or George Clinton. Listening to Nine
Inch Nails feels like hearing the truth, so it get you abit closer
to God.”
They did/do a series of shows together, with the most
recent one, last weekend at Coachella festival.
And today their first, self-named longplayer is out.
The album consists of re-recorded and reworked versions of songs by NIN, a new version of Memorabilia, a song by legendary British electro pop act Soft Cell they had previously covered, and a cover of a song by Reznor and Ross‘s side-project, How To Destroy Angels. It features a mix of live and studio recordings.
Reznor: “The creative fulfilment of working on the Challengers and Tron scores with
Boys Noize led me to think that including him in the Peel It Back tour could be an interesting way to express NIN in more purely electronic terms live — a concept I’ve wanted to explore for some time. The result was so much fun for us we felt it was worth expanding and formalizing
in some way.”
“The album was recorded “all over the place, some of it’s live, some in studios,
hotels, planes, etc. We had a lot of fun revisiting these songs and hope you enjoy.”
TUTV: NIN + Boys Noize = Nin Inch Noiz = UNDERWORLD.
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
18 July 2025
Photo by John Crawford
NINE INCH NAILS bandmates, frontmanTrent Reznor and multi-instrumentalist Atticus Ross spend most of their time, lately, together scoring series soundtracks
under their own names.
They wrote their newest one for the upcoming, 3rd installment of
the science fiction Tron series, titled Tron: Ares. It premieres on
October 2025.
This one is credited to Nine Inch Nails (will sell better I guess).
The first taster of that soundtrack is named AS ALIVE AS YOU NEED ME TO BE and it’s
100% NIN. An ominous hammer drill.
Wake up people,
rub your eyes
the film is about
to start.
With a bit of time on their hands in-between
they started touring again, since June.
TRENT REZNOR and his NINE INCH NAILS released their classic LP THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL 30 years ago, on 8 March 1994. A ground/noise-breaking masterwork that cemented NIN’s greatness for eternity.
Rolling Stone wrote: “NIN achieve a new kind of loud on The Downward Spiral: accessible hard-rock moves overlaid with a scrim of electronic racket, white noise, screams, the kind of blown-speaker rattle that seems to use the limitations of crappy stereo equipment the way that Hendrix riffed on the distortion that howled from overdriven Marshall stacks. It’s a new frontier in rock & roll: music that pins playback levels far into the red.”