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'''''Bad Witch''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 32]]''''') will be was released on June 22, 2018on Capitol Records. This album acts as the third installation 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.

==AboutFormats==Like the two previous releases, ''Bad Witch'' is available as a 12" vinyl, a digital download and as a CD. Despite the fact that the two releases that preceded it ''Not The Actual Events'' and ''Add Violence'' were marketed as EPs, ''Bad Witch'' is marketed as an album.In a post on [https://twitter[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.com/consequence/status/994607158418386946] It EPs feel less important in today’s music-isn’t-as-important-as-it-once-was officially announced on May 10, 2018world. Why make it easier to ignore?"

The official [[ninAn exclusive run (limited to 2400), off-white vinyl pressing was also offered through Merchbar as part of the #SpotifyFansFirst campaign.com]] website description states:

<blockquote>"CONCLUSIONA limited number of CD and vinyl copies pre-ordered through Australian retailer JB Hi-Fi came with a card autographed by Reznor and [[Atticus Ross]]. SHADOWS ON THE CAVE WALL."</blockquote>

In an interview with Zane Lowe[http://itunes.apple.com/us/post/sa.24db9a20-59e3-11e8-8359-8a5db8dbb4ce?app=music&ign-itsct=be1_con_zan&ign-itscgAbout==10703]''Bad Witch'' was officially announced on May 10, 2018. The official [[Trent Reznornin.com]] somewhat explained the concept underlying each piece of the trilogywebsite description states:<blockquote>"Let me drop some cryptic information on youCONCLUSION. SHADOWS ON THE CAVE WALL. The idea of this three EP thing was all " This is likely a reference to find truth in us figuring out who we are now and how we fit into the world. The first EP, Plato''Not The Actual Events'', was meant to be from a personal angry self-destructive s allegory of reflection on that question and defining how I feel in a world, it feels stranger, part of that’s agingthe cave. Part of that’s because the world is getting weirder[https://en. 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 sitting alone setting a match to your lifewikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave]

On May 19, 2018, at "The second EP, ''Add Violence''Physical World" ticket presale, an exclusive listening station was meant to the same question. But looking made available for answers externally. Maybe it’s because of this and there’s comfort those in thatattendance. Maybe there’s a reason things feel kind of crazy and it’s not that I’m insane that I’m in a situation that’s insane.<br>There was It gave fans the third EP which has grown into an LP (''Bad Witch''). It was coming opportunity to one final look at that question from rejecting what EP number two says, hear the songs "Ahead Of Ourselves" and it wasn’t an easy answer… "Play The entire system has a much more bleak and pessimistic outlook and I want to say too much because it gives away kind of Goddamned Part" before the what the thing isalbum's release. 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 of that felt like an arms race and it also felt like a cop out."</blockquote>

==Formats==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'':Like <blockquote>Clearly, Bowie is front of mind, and that was certainly an influence. In terms of the two previous releasesprecision 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, "You can do that?" Some people worried about technique or if it’s in tune, or if it’s played well. [For ''Bad Witch'' will be available as a 12" vinyl, a digital download I thought] let’s just use it and add to the mayhem and as a CDmessage 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 Spotify exclusive, single run (Ltd 2400), off-white vinyl pressing was also offered exclusively through Merchbar as part definitive explanation of #SpotifyFansFirst campaignthe title is yet to be revealed.

[[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, having 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 ''Rolling Stone''[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nine-inch-nails-atticus-ross-talks-stage-fright-and-trent-reznors-musical-genius-702117/], Atticus commented: "There's a primitive aspect or reflection of who we are in these times on there. It seems like we've been led. And I think we implied that in the cover, staring at shadows on the wall." In an interview with Covet The Cover on Instagram[https://www.instagram.com/covet_the_cover/p/C4OmwiFLpJo/?img_index=1], designer Hassan Rahim elaborated more on the design process:<blockquote>"Trent provided two key words: primitive spirituality," says Rahim. The NIN frontman Reznor went on to say that ''Bad Witch'' represented "not literally witchcraft but the unexplainable, magic, nature, belief… not in the scientific kind of way but the unknowable, what’s beyond the threshold of death." After researching hundreds of public domain photos around the themes, the 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."  This imagery was put through a repetitive degenerative "feedback loop" of photographing, copying and scanning, to achieve its distinctive aesthetic.</blockquote> ==Credits==*Nine Inch Nails: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross<br> *Written, arranged, produced, programmed and performed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross<br> *Additional vocals "Shit Mirror": [[Mariqueen Maandig Reznor]] and Ian Astbury<br> *Mix: [[Alan Moulder]]*Engineering: Chris Richardson and Justin McGrath*Mastering: Tom Baker at Baker Mastering<br> *Art Direction: 12:01- Office of Hassan Rahim*Legal: Zia Modabber for Katten Munchin Rosenman LLP, Ross 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> Thank you: 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> © 2018 Form and Texture (ASCAP) / Administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, Songs In the hand Key of Mink (BMI) / Administered by Downtown DMP Songs ==Live==All songs from ''Bad Witch'' have been played live except "Play The Goddamned Part" and the computer chip"I'm Not From This World".

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