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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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave Plato's 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?" Some 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. Taunting me.</blockquote> 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.

<blockquote>==Live==All songs from ''Bad Witch'' have been played live except "Play The Goddamned Part" and "I'm Not From This World"CONCLUSION. SHADOWS ON THE CAVE WALL."</blockquote>

In an interview with Zane Lowe==Artwork==[[httpImage://itunesBad_Witch_Back_Cover.applejpg|thumb|''Bad Witch'' back cover]][[Image:Despair.com/us/post/sa.24db9a20-59e3-11e8-8359-8a5db8dbb4ce?app=music&ign-itsct=be1_con_zan&ign-itscg=10703jpeg|thumb|''Despair'' by Perham Nahl]], Reznor somewhat explained the concept underlying each piece of the trilogy:<blockquote>The "scratch marks"Let me drop some cryptic information on you. The idea of this three EP thing was all to find truth seen in us figuring out who we are now and how we fit into the world. The first EP, ''Not The Actual Events'', was meant to be from a personal angry self-destructive reflection on that question and defining how I feel ''Add Violence'' cover artworks appear in a world, that feels stranger, part different form on the right border of that’s aging. Part the back cover 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 a match to your lifethis album.

The second EPAn alternate front cover was found, ''Add Violence''depicting different hues and contrasts on all five boxes, was meant to the same question. But looking for answers externally. Maybe it’s because of this and there’s comfort in that. Maybe there’s as well as a reason things feel kind of crazy different hand and it’s not that I’m insane, that I’m in a situation that’s insane.<br>And with the third EP which has grown into an LP (''Bad Witch'')different computer chip. It was coming to one final look at that question from rejecting what EP number two says, 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 kind of the what 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 of that felt like an arms race and it also felt like alternate cover appeared on a cop outCaroline Records promo CD."</blockquote>

In another interview with Lizzy Goodman posted on ninThe middle bottom row image is adapted from a painting entitled ''Despair'' by Perham Nahl.com[https://archive.org/details/artincalifornias00port/page/n175/mode/2up] The computer chip, within the fifth box, Reznor explains appears to be an image of the trilogy’s concept in detail[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004 Intel 4004 CPU].

<blockquote>"But to be clear, the record isn’t about Trump, it’s about making sense of the world. The first record, Not the Actual Events, was more of In an internal fantasy of what if I lit a match 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 interview with ''reallyRolling Stone'' am is an addict that self[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nine-inch-nails-atticus-ross-talks-stage-fright-destructs. That’s my true nature and this is an illusion and some borrowed time-trent-reznors-musical-genius-702117/], Atticus Ross commented: "There's a primitive aspect or reflection of who we are in these times on there. It wasn’t a pleasant thing, but it felt seems like, that’s a story to tellwe've been led. And if felt like something I needed to internally processthink we implied that in the cover, staring at shadows on the wall."

And that supported other things that were interesting to us like aggressive music and a sense of the self-referentialIn an interview with Covet The Cover on Instagram[https://www.instagram.com/covet_the_cover/p/C4OmwiFLpJo/?img_index=1], looking back at other albums and pilfering bits of designer Hassan Rahim elaborated more on the art design process:<blockquote>"Trent provided two key words: primitive spirituality," says Rahim. The NIN frontman Reznor went on to confuse people and also because I was thinking about those records. To try picking up a guitarsay that ''Bad Witch'' represented "not literally witchcraft but the unexplainable, which I told myself I would never do again for whatever reason and findingmagic, you know what? It sounds fucking good. Listening back and goingnature, you know what? That was a good song from 25 years agobelief… not in the scientific kind of way but the unknowable, it’s not bad to play something like that. There are no rules. That was what’s beyond the first recordthreshold of death."


It wasn’t fully mapped out but it After researching hundreds of public domain photos around the themes, the final creative solution was meant to feel like if we broke up one big record – if it was Downward Spiralmake the cover "a sequential puzzle of images. More cryptic than explanatory. Alluding to unidentified aerial phenomena, which has actsfear, if we do an album like thatsuperstition, but release one act at a timecollapse of civilisation, it will be more immediate and the level of adrenaline and momentum will be higher. And maybe it will be consumed in a way that feels more digestible to an outside world that doesn’t have long attention spans anymoreultimately rebirth."

With the second one, Add Violence, the idea This imagery wasput through a repetitive degenerative "feedback loop" of photographing, loosely, to zoom outcopying and scanning, to be more global 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 offachieve its distinctive aesthetic. </blockquote>

By the time we got to the third one, we had an idea in mind but it felt … rehearsed. Predictable. In the end, what felt true was to say that we as a society ==Credits==*Nine Inch Nails: Trent Reznor 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 that, this is dirt and a broken computer chip and everything you believe in is really just bullshit."Atticus Ross</blockquotebr>

On May 19, 2018, at *Additional vocals "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 OurselvesShit Mirror" : [[Mariqueen Maandig Reznor]] and "Play The Goddamned Part" before the album's release.Ian Astbury<br>

==Artwork==*Art Direction: 12:01- Office of Hassan Rahim[[Image*Legal:Bad_Witch_Back_CoverZia Modabber for Katten Munchin Rosenman LLP, Ross Rosen for Ross B.jpg|thumb|''Bad Witch'' back cover]]Rosen & Associates, LLC*Management: Silva Artist ManagementThe "scratch marks" seen in the ''Not The Actual Events'' *Booking: Marc Geiger for WME*Business Management: William Harper and ''Add Violence'' cover artworks appear in a different form on the right border of the back cover of this album. Michael Walsh for Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman<br>

An alternate front cover was foundThank you: Mariqueen Maandig Reznor, depicting different hues and contrasts on all five boxesClaudia Sarne, as well as a different hand and a different computer chip.Steve Barnett, Michelle Jubelirer, Ashley Newton, Ambrosia Healy, Arjun Pulijal, Erin Cooney, Ed Scott, Jim Chancellor, Andrew Lazonby, Cesar Rosas<br>

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