The new Nine Inch Nails is here. After years of waiting, Trent Reznor surprised fans with the announcement of a new EP yesterday. The new EP is called Not The Actual Events, and features music written with longtime collaborator Atticus Ross, who is now considered to be an official member of the group. The EP also features previous collaborators, drummer Dave Grohl (Nirvana, The Foo Fighters) on “The Idea of You”, guitarist Dave Navarro (Jane’s Addiction) on “Burning Bright (Field on Fire)”, along with Reznor’s wife and fellow How to Destroy Angels bandmate, vocalist Mariqueen Maandig on “She’s Gone Away”.
Not the Actual Events comes three years after NIN’s 2013 Hesitation Marks. According to Reznor, the album is “an unfriendly, fairly impenetrable record that we needed to make. It’s an EP because that ended up being the proper length to tell that story.” Have a listen to the five-track story below:
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