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[[Image:Add_Violence_Cover.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 31: ''Add Violence''<br />[http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb%5Fsb%5Fnoss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dnine%2520inch%2520nails%2520add%2520violence%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&tag=thniinnawi-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 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+add+violence&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:Add_Violence_PC.jpg|thumb|150px|Physical component]]'''''Add Violence''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 31]]''''') is the third proper EP from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was released digitally on July 21, 2017, though pre-orders through [[nin.com]] allowed for a download two days early. This EP acts as the second installment of a '''[[The Trilogy|trilogy]]''', following the 2016 release of ''[[Not The Actual Events]]'', and preceding the 2018 release of ''[[Bad Witch]]''.

Akin to the first EP, ''Add Violence'' is available as a CD, a 12" vinyl , and a physical component. It had a wide digital release on July 21, 2017, under [[Trent Reznor]]'s label [[The Null Corporation]], and was followed by the release of a physical component the week of August 8 8th. The physical component was a booklet printed in the style of a manual, which contained artwork, lyrics, and a stickers. A CD release version was released on October 13. A 13th, and a 12" vinyl version followed on November 1717th. Physical versions were put out by Capitol Records.

The EP was officially announced on July 13, 2017. Its first track, "Less Than", was released digitally on July 13, 2017the same day, with an accompanying music video directed by Brook Linder. "This Isn't The Place" was made available on the official NIN YouTube channel on July 18, 2017.

<blockquote>"''ADD VIOLENCE'' finds Nine Inch Nails becoming more accessible and impenetrable at the same time. The sonic palette expands significantly from ''Not The Actual Events'', incorporating elements of beauty into the dark dissonance. The narrative arc linking the three records begins to emerge through the disassociated lyrics and the provocative and clue-filled cover artwork and accompanying physical component, available exclusively through the NIN.com store."</blockquote>

===Trilogy concept===In an interview As with Lizzy Goodman posted on nin"Not The Actual Events", the title is derived from lyrics from the EP's first track.comIn this case, Reznor explains the trilogy’s concept in detail:''add a little violence'' from "Less Than".

<blockquote>"But to be clear==Promotional releases==In 2020, the record isn’t about Trumpa promotional CD from Capitol Records was put up for sale on eBay, it’s about making sense containing instrumentals of all the worldsongs on the EP. The first recordIndividual promotional CD-Rs were also made for each of the five songs, ''Not with each disc containing three tracks: an early unmastered version (labeled on each disc as the Actual Events''"main" version), was more of an internal fantasy as well as instrumental and acapella versions of what if I lit a match to my life and just embraced burning the whole fucking thing downunmastered main track. You know? All of this is an illusion and I really should These discs may be dead or lying in a ditch somewhere. Who I ''really'' am is an addict that self-destructs. That’s my true nature and this is an illusion and some borrowed time. It wasn’t a pleasant thing, but it felt like, that’s a story to tellunofficial. And if felt like something I needed to internally processThere were also data discs containing [[multitracks]].

And that supported other things that were interesting to us like aggressive music and a sense ==Hidden Themes / Possible ARG==With the amount of the self-referential, looking back clues hinted at other albums and pilfering bits of unmistakable lyrical correlations present throughout both EPs, Reznor stated the art design to confuse people and also because I was thinking about those records. To try picking up a guitarfollowing in an interview posted online on July 26, which I told myself I would never do again for whatever reason and finding, you know what? It sounds fucking good. Listening back and going, you know what? That was a good song from 25 years ago, it’s not bad to play something like that. There are no rules. That was the first record.2017:

It wasn’t fully mapped out but it <blockquote><p>With the new EPs, I liked world-building, and writing music that can sit in that world. I was meant always the guy who desperately wanted the ''Dark Side of the Moon'' to feel like if we broke line up one big record – if it was with ''Downward SpiralThe Wizard of Oz''. I wanted to believe somebody was so far out of their mind that they figured that out. Fuck, which has acts, if we do an album like I got goose bumps just thinking about that, but release one act at a time, it will be more immediate and possibility right now — the level of adrenaline and momentum will be higher. And maybe it will idea that someone could be consumed in a way that feels more digestible to thinking so hard about an outside world that doesn’t have long attention spans anymorealbum.</p>

With <p>What the second oneobsessives maybe don’t know is that if I were to explain everything to you, or just explicitly lay out what the new EP is about, you’d only be disappointed. You don’t really ''Add Violencewant''to know. The experience of grappling with the thing is what makes it interesting, not the idea wasimmediate gratification of going, loosely"Oh, to zoom out, to be more global and to imply that maybe we’re all in a simulated realitythat’s what it means."[http://www.vulture. And that might introduce the concept of meaninglessness but also provide a safe container to explain why everything feels offcom/2017/07/trent-reznor-nine-inch-nails. html]</p></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 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."</blockquote> ==EP TitleLive==As with "Not The Actual Events", the title is derived from lyrics All songs from the EP's first track. In this case, ''add a little violenceAdd Violence'' from have been played live except "Less ThanNot Anymore". ==Hidden Themes / Possible ARG==With the amount of clues hinted at and unmistakable lyrical correlations present throughout both EPs, Reznor stated the following in an interview posted online on July 26, 2017: <blockquote>"With the new EPs, I liked world-building, and writing music that can sit in that world. I was always the guy who desperately wanted the ''Dark Side of the Moon'' to line up with ''The Wizard of Oz''. I wanted to believe somebody was so far out of their mind that they figured that out. Fuck, I got goose bumps just thinking about that possibility right now — the idea that someone could be thinking so hard about an album.<br>What the obsessives maybe don’t know is that if I were to explain everything to you, or just explicitly lay out what the new EP is about, you’d only be disappointed. You don’t really ''want'' to know. The experience of grappling with the thing is what makes it interesting, not the immediate gratification of going, 'Oh, that’s what it means.'"[http://www.vulture.com/2017/07/trent-reznor-nine-inch-nails.html]</blockquote>

The curious "scratch marks" seen in the various iterations main iteration of the ''Not The Actual Events'' cover artwork also faintly appear in the upper right corner of the ''Add Violence'' coverand on the back cover of ''Bad Witch'', seemingly lining up to become an eventual bigger picture. It is worth noting that the digital edition cover artwork juxtaposed with the amazon.com commercial release bears subtle differences.

<br>*Art Direction: [[John Crawford]]

*Additional Design: [[Corey Holms]]<br><br>

*Business Management: William Harper and Michael Walsh for Gelfand, Rennet Rennert & Feldman<br><br>