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'''''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, "You can do that?"CONCLUSIONSome people worried about technique or if it’s in tune, or if it’s played well. [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. SHADOWS ON THE CAVE WALLTaunting 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.

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-itscg=10703]An alternate front cover was found, Reznor somewhat explained the concept underlying each piece of the trilogy:<blockquote>"Let me drop some cryptic information depicting different hues and contrasts on you. The idea of this three EP thing was all to find truth in us figuring out who we are now and how we fit into the world. The first EP, ''Not The Actual Events''five boxes, was meant to be from as well as a personal angry self-destructive reflection on that question different hand and defining how I feel in a world, that feels stranger, part of that’s agingdifferent computer chip. Part of that’s because 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 The alternate cover appeared on a match to your lifeCaroline Records promo CD.

The second EP, ''Add Violence'', was meant to the same questionmiddle bottom row image is adapted from a painting entitled "Despair" by Perham Nahl. But looking for answers externally[https://archive. 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 insaneorg/details/artincalifornias00port/page/n175/mode/2up] The computer chip, that I’m in a situation that’s insane.<br>And with within the third EP which has grown into an LP (''Bad Witch''). It was coming fifth box, appears to one final look at that question from rejecting what EP number two says, and it wasn’t be 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 kind image of the what the thing is[https://en. But it wasn’t necessarily what we thought it was going to be when we startedwikipedia. 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 outorg/wiki/Intel_4004 Intel 4004 CPU]."</blockquote>

In another an interview with Lizzy Goodman posted ''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 ninthere.comIt seems like we've been led. And I think we implied that in the cover, Reznor explains staring at shadows on the trilogy’s concept in detail: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>"But to be clearTrent provided two key words: primitive spirituality, the record isn’t about Trump, it’s about making sense of the world" says Rahim. The first record, Not the Actual Events, was more of an internal fantasy of what if I lit a match NIN frontman Reznor went on to my life and just embraced burning the whole fucking thing down. You know? All of this is an illusion and I really should be dead or lying in a ditch somewhere. Who I say that ''reallyBad Witch'' am is an addict that self-destructs. That’s my true represented "not literally witchcraft but the unexplainable, magic, nature and this is an illusion and some borrowed time. It wasn’t a pleasant thing, belief… not in the scientific kind of way but it felt likethe unknowable, that’s a story to tell. And if felt like something I needed to internally processwhat’s beyond the threshold of death."

And that supported other things that were interesting to us like aggressive music and a sense After researching hundreds of public domain photos around the self-referentialthemes, looking back at other albums and pilfering bits of the art design final creative solution was to confuse people and also because I was thinking about those recordsmake the cover "a sequential puzzle of images. More cryptic than explanatory. To try picking up a guitarAlluding to unidentified aerial phenomena, which I told myself I would never do again for whatever reason and findingfear, you know what? It sounds fucking good. Listening back and goingsuperstition, you know what? That was a good song from 25 years agocollapse of civilisation, it’s not bad to play something like that. There are no rules. That was the first recordand ultimately rebirth."


It wasn’t fully mapped out but it This imagery was meant to feel like if we broke up one big record – if it was Downward Spiral, which has acts, if we do an album like that, but release one act at put through a timerepetitive degenerative "feedback loop" of photographing, it will be more immediate copying and the level of adrenaline and momentum will be higher. And maybe it will be consumed in a way that feels more digestible scanning, to an outside world that doesn’t have long attention spans anymoreachieve 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".

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