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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 and a CD release on October 13. A 12" vinyl version followed on November 17. Physical versions were put out by Capitol Records.

The EP was officially announced on July 13, 2017. 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.

<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>

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-itscgPromotional releases==10703], Reznor somewhat explained the concept underlying each piece of the trilogy:<blockquote>"Let me drop some cryptic information 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''In 2020, a promotional CD from Capitol Records was meant to be from a personal angry self-destructive reflection put up for sale on that question and defining how I feel in a worldeBay, that feels stranger, part containing instrumentals of that’s aging. Part of that’s because all the world is getting weirder. Finding your place in a world that looks different every day little bit changes and reacting to that in songs on the first EP through anger and self. Individual promotional CD-destruction and setting a match to your life. The second EP, ''Add Violence'', was meant to the same question. But looking Rs were also made for answers externally. Maybe it’s because of this and there’s comfort in that. Maybe there’s a reason things feel kind each of crazy 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''). It was coming to one final look at that question from rejecting what EP number two saysfive songs, containing instrumental 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 isacapella versions. 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 There were also data discs containing [[multitracks]] for "Less Than" and deep diving and part of that felt like an arms race and it also felt like a cop out"The Background World"."</blockquote>

<blockquote>"<p>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.</p> <brp>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]</p></blockquote>

<br>*Written, arranged, produced, programmed and peformed performed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross*Mix: [[Alan Moulder]]

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

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