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[[Image:Bad_Witch_Cover.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 32: ''Bad Witch'']]
''[[Not The Actual Events]]'', ''[[Add Violence]]'' and ''[[Bad Witch]]'' form a trilogy of related albumspieces, respectively released in 2016, 2017 and 2018. The tours [[I Can't Seem To Wake Up NIN 2017-2018]] and [[Cold And Black And Infinite Tour]] touring cycle took place to support it. This period marks the inclusion of [[Atticus Ross]] as an official member of NIN[[Nine Inch Nails]], as well as a member of the live band during the tours.
==Tracklist==
===''Not The Actual Events''===
#"[[Branches/Bones]]" – 1:46
#"[[Dear World,]]" – 4:06
#"[[The Idea Of You]]" – 3:27
#"[[Burning Bright (Field On Fire)]]" – 5:50
===''Add Violence''===
#"[[Less Than]]" – 3:30
#"[[The Lovers]]" – 4:09
#"[[Not Anymore]]" – 3:06
#"[[The Background World]]" – 11:44
===''Bad Witch''===
#"[[Shit Mirror]]" – 3:06
#"[[Ahead Of Ourselves]]" – 3:30
===Links to other NIN material===
====''The Downward Spiral''====
Side B of the ''Not The Actual Events'' vinyl features 3 additional, unlisted tracks from ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]'' in reverse: "[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]", "[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]" and "[[Reptile]]".
Additional lyrics for "Less Than" are printed on the physical component of ''Add Violence'', and they seem to reference "[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]" by using the line "doesn't it make you feel better".
====''The Fragile '' / ''Still''====
Additional lyrics for "This Isn't The Place", printed on the physical component of ''Add Violence'', are a direct quote from "[[The Great Below]]", with the line "I can still feel you, even so far away". Trent stated that "This Isn't The Place" is about [[David Bowie]] during a concert. It can be speculated that this line relates to mourning in both case.
An alternate front cover for ''Not The Actual Events'' is a re-used ''[[Still]]'' cover art.
====''With Teeth '' / ''Bleedthrough''====
Lyrics from the track "The Background World" feature a reference to the [[Bleedthrough]] concept, in the line "Is always bleeding through".
Additional lyrics for "The Lovers" printed on the physical component of ''Add Violence'' feature the word "godlike", possibly referencing "[[The Life You Didn't Lead]]". In an episode of the ''Song Exploder'' podcast[http://songexploder.net/nine-inch-nails], [[Trent Reznor]] and [[Atticus Ross]] explained that the song is about an alternate reality that explores what might have happened if Reznor had never left his old home of New Orleans and had never gotten clean and sober. It began as a sort of poem he had written in order to explore what he calls the "seduction of addiction" and stated that "it was me allowing myself permission to examine a period of my life that I had consciously chose not to think about very much, then immerse myself in it in a kinda 'What if the path I'm currently on wasn't really the right one, and I just went hard-left the other way?".
====''Year Zero''==== ''Add Violence'' is in part a continuation of the ''Year Zero'' story and its [[Timeline of Year Zero Discovery|ARG]], with elements appearing on the front cover and the back cover of the album ("SIMULATION ON", "PRESENCE", "2022", etc), in the music video for "This Isn't The Place" (Appearance appearance of a "Cedocore" box), and on the physical component. They are all linked together with multiple variations of the panel, mentions referencing the concept of The Trilogy, the physical component appearing itself in the music video, etc.
==Physical Components==
==Artworks==
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Image:Ntae_alt_4.jpg|''Not The Actual Events'' Alternate digital artwork - Origin: Embedded in first 2016 digital filesImage:Ntae_physical_component.jpg|''Not The Actual Events'' Physical component
Image:bboneshidden1.jpg|Hidden lyrics example 1
Image:bboneshidden2.jpg|Hidden lyrics example 2
Image:Sga_rep.jpg|Lyric card depicting "Reptile" superimposition
Image:Add_Violence_PC.jpg|''Add Violence'' Physical component
Image:Add_Violence_BC.jpg|''Add Violence'' back cover
Image:TITPstill.jpg|Screenshot from the "This Isn't The Place" video
Image:Bad_Witch_Back_Cover.jpg|''Bad Witch'' back cover
</gallery>