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New Nine Inch Nails EP Will Bring the ‘Violence’; Listen to “Less Than”!

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7 years ago

July 13, 2017

As promised, Trent Reznor has just dropped the first single off Add Violence, the second of three EP’s that kicked off with last year’s Not the Actual Events.

Here’s “Less Than”, which revives the ’80s and hammers home the classic Nine Inch Nails sound that was missing on Not the Actual Events. Add Violence will release next Friday, July 21st. The EP and forthcoming shows are inspired by “anti-technology,” Reznor said on Beats 1.

TRACKLIST:

01. LESS THAN
02. THE LOVERS
03. THIS ISN’T THE PLACE
04. NOT ANYMORE
05. THE BACKGROUND WORLD

Limited digital + physical component version available now at: https://NIN.lnk.to/AVYD
Click here for vinyl info: https://NIN.lnk.to/AVVinylYD
CD version available Sept 1

Here’s the “Less Than” Music video that was directed by Brook Linder.

In an apology e-mail to fans back in June regarding the delay of their vinyl releases, Trent Reznor revealed that last December’s Not the Actual Events was just the first in a trilogy of planned Nine Inch Nails EPs. The next EP was said to arrive this summer with the finale potentially dropping just in time for the holidays. Here’s his statement:

FINALLY, DID YOU KNOW THERE’S A NEW TOP-SECRET NINE INCH NAILS EP THAT WILL BE RELEASED BEFORE THE FIRST SHOWS WE DO THIS SUMMER? DID YOU KNOW NOT THE ACTUAL EVENTS WAS THE FIRST PART OF A TRILOGY OF RELATED EPS THAT WILL BE RELEASED ABOUT 6-8 MONTHS APART? NOW YOU DO.

Their first scheduled tour date is July 23rd at FYF Fest in Los Angeles, which had us speculating that we could have new Nine Inch Nails music before the end of this month.

Brad Miska

Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

2 weeks ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…