Changes

[[Image:Bad_Witch_Cover.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 32: ''Bad Witch''<br />[https://amzn.to/2rzrvFn Find on Amazon] - [http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574848848&toolid=10001&campid=5336384580&customid=&icep_uq=nine+inch+nails+bad+witch&icep_sellerId=&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=&icep_minPrice=&icep_maxPrice=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg Find on eBay]]][[Image:Bad_witch_cover_alternate.jpeg|thumb|200px|Alternate Cover]]

'''''Bad Witch''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 32]]''''') will be was released on June 22, 2018 on Capitol Records. This album acts as the third installment of a '''[[The Trilogy|trilogy]]''' by [[Nine Inch Nails]], following the 2016 release of ''[[Not The Actual Events]]'' and the 2017 release of ''[[Add Violence]]''. The album leaked on June 18, 2018.

Like the two previous releases, ''Bad Witch'' will be is available as a 12" vinyl, a digital download and as a CD. Despite the fact that ''Not The Actual Events'' and ''Add Violence'' were marketed as EPs, ''Bad Witch'' is marketed as an album. In a post on [[ETS]], [[Trent Reznor]] explained the decision behind the format change by stating that "EPs show up with singles in Spotify and other streaming services = they get lost easier. EPs feel less important in today’s music-isn’t-as-important-as-it-once-was world. Why make it easier to ignore?"

''Bad Witch'' was officially announced on May 10, 2018. The official [[nin.com]] website description states:"CONCLUSION. SHADOWS ON THE CAVE WALL." This is likely a reference to Plato's allegory of the cave.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave]

On May 19, 2018, at "The Physical World" ticket presale, an exclusive listening station was made available for those in attendance. It gave fans the opportunity to hear the songs "Ahead Of Ourselves" and "Play The Goddamned Part" before the album's release. The album makes use of saxophone on several tracks, more than any previous NIN recording. This is explained in an interview with ''Entertainment Weekly''[http://ew.com/music/2018/06/20/trent-reznor-bad-witch-interview/], where the interviewer compares the use of sax to that on [[David Bowie]]'s ''Blackstar'': <blockquote>Clearly, Bowie is front of mind, and that was certainly an influence. In terms of the precision of arrangement, I think back to [being] younger, reading about Psychedelic Furs as a bunch of students that all picked instruments and learned enough to make a record. As someone that had studied his ass off how to play an instrument, I thought, "CONCLUSIONYou can do that?" Some people worried about technique or if it’s in tune, or if it’s played well. SHADOWS ON THE CAVE WALL[For ''Bad Witch'', I thought] let’s just use it and add to the mayhem and message we are trying to convey. All this time [the sax] had been just sitting in my studio staring at me. Taunting me."</blockquote> ==LP Title==Unlike the two preceding EPs, the title of ''Bad Witch'' is not derived from a lyric sung or printed in the album’s digital or liner notes. A definitive explanation of the title is yet to be revealed. ==Artwork==[[Image:Bad_Witch_Back_Cover.jpg|thumb|''Bad Witch'' back cover]][[Image:Despair.jpeg|thumb|"Despair" by Perham Nahl]]The "scratch marks" seen in the ''Not The Actual Events'' and ''Add Violence'' cover artworks appear in a different form on the right border of the back cover of this album.  An alternate front cover was found, depicting different hues and contrasts on all five boxes, as well as a different hand and a different computer chip. The alternate cover appeared on a Caroline Records promo CD. The middle bottom row image is adapted from a painting entitled "Despair" by Perham Nahl.[https://archive.org/details/artincalifornias00port/page/n175/mode/2up] The computer chip, within the fifth box, appears to be an image of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004 Intel 4004 CPU].

In an interview with Zane Lowe''Rolling Stone''[httphttps://ituneswww.applerollingstone.com/usmusic/postmusic-news/sa.24db9a20nine-inch-nails-atticus-ross-talks-stage-fright-59e3and-11e8trent-8359reznors-8a5db8dbb4ce?app=music&ignmusical-itsct=be1_con_zan&igngenius-itscg=10703702117/], Reznor somewhat explained the concept underlying each piece of the trilogyAtticus commented:<blockquote>"Let me drop some cryptic information on you. The idea There's a primitive aspect or reflection of this three EP thing was all to find truth in us figuring out who we are now and how in these times on there. It seems like we fit into the world've been led. The first EP, ''Not The Actual Events'', was meant to be from a personal angry self-destructive reflection on And I think we implied that question and defining how I feel in a worldthe cover, that feels stranger, part of that’s aging. Part of that’s because staring at shadows on the world is getting weirder. Finding your place in a world that looks different every day little bit changes and reacting to that in the first EP through anger and self-destruction and setting a match to your lifewall."

In an interview with Covet The second EP, ''Add Violence'', was meant to the same questionCover on Instagram[https://www. But looking for answers externallyinstagram. Maybe it’s because of this and there’s comfort in that. Maybe there’s a reason things feel kind of crazy and it’s not that I’m insanecom/covet_the_cover/p/C4OmwiFLpJo/?img_index=1], that I’m in a situation that’s insane.designer Hassan Rahim elaborated more on the design process:<brblockquote>And with the third EP which has grown into an LP ("Trent provided two key words: primitive spirituality," says Rahim. The NIN frontman Reznor went on to say that ''Bad Witch''). It was coming to one final look at that question from rejecting what EP number two saysrepresented "not literally witchcraft but the unexplainable, magic, nature, and it wasn’t an easy answer… The entire system has a much more bleak and pessimistic outlook and I want to say too much because it gives away belief… not in the scientific kind of way but the what unknowable, what’s beyond the thing is. But it wasn’t necessarily what we thought it was going to be when we started. I thought it was going to go more science fiction. I don’t really want to overwhelm you with cleverness and deep diving and part threshold of that felt like an arms race and it also felt like a cop outdeath."</blockquote>

In another interviewAfter researching hundreds of public domain photos around the themes, Reznor explains the trilogy’s concept in detail:final creative solution was to make the cover "a sequential puzzle of images. More cryptic than explanatory. Alluding to unidentified aerial phenomena, fear, superstition, collapse of civilisation, and ultimately rebirth."

<blockquote>"The first record, Not the Actual Events, This imagery was more of an internal fantasy of what if I lit put through a match to my life and just embraced burning the whole fucking thing down. You know? All repetitive degenerative "feedback loop" of this is an illusion and I really should be dead or lying in a ditch somewhere. Who I really am is an addict that self-destructs. That’s my true nature photographing, copying and this is an illusion and some borrowed time. It wasn’t a pleasant thing, but it felt likescanning, that’s a story to tell. And if felt like something I needed to internally processachieve its distinctive aesthetic.</blockquote>

With the second one, Add Violence, the idea was, loosely, to zoom out, to be more global ==Credits==*Nine Inch Nails: Trent Reznor and to imply that maybe we’re all in a simulated reality. And that might introduce the concept of meaninglessness but also provide a safe container to explain why everything feels off. Atticus Ross<br>

By the time we got to the third one*Written, we had an idea in mind but it felt … rehearsed. Predictable. In the endarranged, what felt true was to say that we as a society and as a species are probably an accident, a mutation. Really what we are is fucking animals. And the illusion was enlightenment. The more we’ve connected with each other the dumber we’ve gotten and the more we decide we want to kill each other. We’re not some elevated transcendent beings, we’re bacteria in a jar. I wanted the art direction of Bad Witch to feel like shadows on a cave wall and we’re trying to figure out what it is and really there’s no nice, clean, safe scientific explanation. We’re just an accident. String theory and quantum physics is a fucking trick. And we’re not going to suddenly elevate ourselves into transcendent beings. We’re kidding ourselves. I know this will be an unsatisfying conclusion for some people. It isn’t what they want. They want it to be full matrix virtual reality, and this is the opposite of thatproduced, this is dirt programmed and a broken computer chip performed by Trent Reznor and everything you believe in is really just bullshit."Atticus Ross</blockquotebr>

On May 19, 2018, *Mix: [[Alan Moulder]]*Engineering: Chris Richardson and Justin McGrath*Mastering: Tom Baker at "The Physical World" ticket presale, an exclusive listening station was made available for those in attendance. It gave fans the opportunity to hear the songs "Ahead Of Ourselves" and "Play The Goddamned Part" before the album's release.Baker Mastering<br>

==LP Title==*Art Direction: 12:01- Office of Hassan RahimUnlike the two preceding EPs*Legal: Zia Modabber for Katten Munchin Rosenman LLP, the title of "Bad Witch" is not derived from a lyric sung or printed in the album’s digital or liner notes. A definitive explanation of the title is yet to be revealedRoss Rosen for Ross B.Rosen & Associates, LLC*Management: Silva Artist Management*Booking: Marc Geiger for WME*Business Management: William Harper and Michael Walsh for Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman<br>

==Artwork==[[ImageThank you:Bad_Witch_Back_Cover.jpg|thumb|''Bad Witch'' back cover]]The "scratch marks" seen in the ''Not The Actual Events'' and ''Add Violence'' cover artworks appear in a different form on the right border of the back cover of this album. Mariqueen Maandig Reznor, Claudia Sarne, Steve Barnett, Michelle Jubelirer, Ashley Newton, Ambrosia Healy, Arjun Pulijal, Erin Cooney, Ed Scott, Jim Chancellor, Andrew Lazonby, Cesar Rosas<br>

An alternate front cover was found, depicting different hues © 2018 Form and contrasts on all five boxesTexture (ASCAP) / Administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, as well as a different hand and a different computer chip.Songs In the Key of Mink (BMI) / Administered by Downtown DMP Songs

==Live==All songs from ''Bad Witch'' have been played live except "Play The computer chip, within the fifth box, appears to be an image of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004 Intel 4004 CPU]Goddamned Part" and "I'm Not From This World".

|after=TBD[[Ghosts V: Together]]}}