Nine Inch Nails have announced that they will be returning in 2016 with a new EP titled, Not The Actual Events. The five-song project will be self releasedĀ on December 23 via the NIN website.
In a press release statement, Trent Reznor said:
“It’s 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.”
The pre-order for Not The Actual Events launched today on Nine Inch Nails‘ redesigned website, www.nin.com. Fans can pre-order two formats at the NIN store: 180g 1-sided vinyl and a unique limited digital + physical component version. The EP will be available on all digital platforms on December 23. Ā Check the album artwork below.
A very special limited vinyl edition of The Fragile is also available for pre-order in the NIN store.Ā Created by Reznor and Ross, this four-disc, 150-minute version of the classic 1999 album features 37 instrumental, alternate and unreleased tracks, many of which have never been heard before.Ā The Fragile: Deviations 1 will not be available on any digital services.
Explains Reznor:
“The Fragile occupies a very interesting and intimate place in my heart… I was going through a turbulent time in my life when making it and revisiting it has become a form of therapy for me.Ā As an experiment, I removed all the vocals from the record and found it became a truly changed experience that worked on a different yet compelling level. The Fragile: Deviations 1 represents Atticus and I embellishing the original record with a number of tracks from those sessions we didn’t use before.Ā The result paints a complimentary but different picture we wanted to share.”
