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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 installation installment of a trilogy, following the 2016 release of ''[[Not The Actual Events]]'', and preceding the 2018 release of ''[[Bad Witch]]''.

The EP was officially announced on July 13, 2017. It had a wide digital release on July 21, 2017, under [[Trent Reznor]]'s label [[The Null Corporation]], and will be followed by the release of a physical component the week of August 8 and a CD release on September 1. A 12" vinyl version is also expected to follow. The EP's Its first track, "Less Than", was released digitally on July 13, 2017, 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.

==Hidden Themes / Possible ARG=Trilogy concept===In an interview with Lizzy Goodman posted on nin.com, Reznor explains the trilogy’s concept in detail:With <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 an internal fantasy of what if I lit a match to my life and just embraced burning the amount 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 ''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 tell. And if felt like something I needed to internally process. And that supported other things that were interesting to us like aggressive music and a sense of clues hinted the self-referential, looking back at other albums and pilfering bits of the art design to confuse people and also because I was thinking about those records. To try picking up a guitar, which I told myself I would never do again for whatever reason and unmistakable lyrical correlations present throughout both EPsfinding, 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. 
It wasn’t fully mapped out but it 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, Reznor stated but release one act at a time, it will be more immediate and the following level of adrenaline and momentum will be higher. And maybe it will be consumed in a way that feels more digestible to an interview posted online on July 26outside world that doesn’t have long attention spans anymore. With the second one, ''Add Violence'', the idea was, loosely, to zoom out, 2017: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 off.

"With By the time we got to the new EPsthird one, I liked world-building, and writing music that can sit we had an idea in that worldmind but it felt … rehearsed. Predictable. I was always the guy who desperately wanted the Dark Side of the Moon to line up withA 1995 article in the Fort Wayne Gazette Journal brought widespread attention to the apocryphal claim that Pink Floyd’s seminal 1973 album, The Dark Side of In the Moonend, what felt true was recorded to intentionally sync up with, say that we as a society and enhanceas a species are probably an accident, viewings of a mutation. Really what we are is fucking animals. And the Hollywood classic illusion was enlightenment. The Wizard of Oz. Evidence ranges from eerie coincidence (physical actions and cuts happening in accordance more we’ve connected with each other the music) to playful (the Witch of dumber we’ve gotten and the North entering more we decide we want to the line “Don’t give me that do goody good bullshit”)kill each other. The Wizard of OzWe’re not some elevated transcendent beings, we’re bacteria in a jar. I wanted the art direction of Bad Witch to believe somebody was so far feel like shadows on a cave wall and we’re trying to figure out of their mind that 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 figured that outwant. FuckThey want it to be full matrix virtual reality, I got goose bumps just thinking about that possibility right now — and this is the idea opposite of that someone could be thinking so hard about an album, this is dirt and a broken computer chip and everything you believe in is really just bullshit. "</blockquote>

What ==EP Title==As with "Not The Actual Events", the obsessives maybe don’t know title is that if I were to explain everything to you, or just explicitly lay out what derived from lyrics from the new EP is about, you’d only be disappointed's first track. You don’t really want to know. The experience of grappling with the thing is what makes it interestingIn this case, not the immediate gratification of going, “Oh, that’s what it means.''add a little violence'' from "Less Than"[http://www.vulture.com/2017/07/trent-reznor-nine-inch-nails.html]

==FormatsHidden Themes / Possible ARG==[[Image:Add_Violence_PC.jpg|thumb|Physical component]]Akin to With the first EP (with the exception amount of a CD release), ''Add Violence'' is also available as a digital downloadclues hinted at and unmistakable lyrical correlations present throughout both EPs, a 12" vinyl and a physical component. Regarding Reznor stated the latterfollowing in an interview posted online on July 26, the official description reads2017:

<blockquote>PROPER USE OF THIS RECORDING REQUIRES IT TO EXIST IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD"With the new EPs, AS REAL AS YOU AREI 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. CHOOSING THIS PACKAGE GETS YOU THE DIGITAL FILES AND WE WILL SHIP THE ACCOMPANYING PHYSICAL COMPONENT TO YOUR RESIDENCE WHICH MAY PROVIDE ADDITIONAL CLARITYvulture. VERY LIMITED SUPPLIES AVAILABLEcom/2017/07/trent-reznor-nine-inch-nails.html]</blockquote>

The curious "scratch marks" seen in the various iterations of the ''Not The Actual Events'' cover artwork also faintly appear in the upper right corner of the ''Add Violence'' cover, 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.

*Nine Inch Nails: Trent Reznor and [[Atticus Ross]]<br>

All songs written *Written, arranged, produced, programmed and performed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross*Mix: [[Alan Moulder]]*Mastering: Tom Baker at Baker Mastering<br><br>*Engineering: Jun Murakawa, Chris Richardson, Chris Holmes, Dustin Mosley, Geoff Neal*Additional vocals on "Less Than": [[Sharlotte Gibson]] & Allison Iraheta<br><br>*Art Direction: John Crawford*World Integration and Execution: 42 Entertainment*Additional Concept Development: Church Lieu*Additional Design: Corey Holms<br><br>*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, Rennet & Feldman<br><br>Thank you: [[Mariqueen Maandig Reznor]], Claudia Sarne, Alex Lieu, Susan Bonds, Koji Egawa, Ruairi O'Flaherty, Ray Diaz, Steve Barnett, Michelle Jubelirer, Ashley Newton, Ambrosia Healy, Arjun Pulijal, Erin Cooney, Jim Chancellor, Ed Scott, Jim Pascoe, Corinne Schiavone, Michelle Weinberg Published by Form and Texture (ASCAP) / Administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, Songs In the Key of Mink (BMI) / Administered by Downtown DMP Songs ==Live==All songs from ''Add Violence'' have been played live except "Not Anymore".

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