As Flaming Wrekage’s brutal fourth album tickles your earholes, you know this is something special. …
Nine Inch Nails have continued their waterfalls of new material, this time releasing an industrial acid-trip called God Break Down The Door.
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It doesn’t even take 30 seconds for the frenetic grooves of Josh Freese to settle before you realise that adding Atticus Ross to the band’s full-time lineup was a captains call from frontman Trent Reznor that we can all get behind.
A long time collaborator with Ross on various, haunting soundtracks (The Social Network, Gone Girl, Patriots Day to name a few), the British composer’s artistic and cinematic flair was the perfect addition to the band’s already broad pallet of grungy industrial experimentation.
Kicking off with some atonal harmonies on the tenor sax, and mixing it in with bubbling synths and percussive overtones, one is instantly taken back to Radiohead’s Amnesiac sound, adding everything and anything to simple yet eerie melodies, tapping into the brooding, sinister underbelly of everyday existence.
The single is the first cut from Nine Inch Nails’s forthcoming Bad Witch LP, due out 22nd June, which will be the final volume in the trilogy of releases that the band began with 2016’s Not The Actual Events EP, and continued last year with Add Violence.
Speaking with Zane Lowe about the concept behind the entire experiment, Trent Reznor noted that “The idea of this 3 EP thing was to find truth in us figuring out who we are and how we fit into the world.
The first EP … was meant to be a personal, self-destructive reflection on that question … the second EP was meant to be the same question but looking for answers externally. The third EP, which has grown into and LP … it’s rejecting what EP 2 says. It’s not an easy answer … the entire system has a much more bleak and pessimistic outlook.”
Listen to the full interview here.
