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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]]''', 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?"

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]On May 19, 2018, Reznor somewhat explained the concept underlying each piece of the trilogy:<blockquote>at "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''Physical World" ticket presale, an exclusive listening station was meant to be from a personal angry self-destructive reflection on that question and defining how I feel made available for those in a world, that feels stranger, part of that’s agingattendance. Part of that’s because It gave fans the world is getting weirder. Finding your place in a world that looks different every day little bit changes and reacting opportunity to that in hear the first EP through anger songs "Ahead Of Ourselves" and self-destruction and setting a match to your life"Play The Goddamned Part" before the album's release.

The second EPalbum makes use of saxophone on several tracks, ''Add Violence'', was meant to the same questionmore than any previous NIN recording. But looking for answers externally. Maybe it’s because of this and there’s comfort This is explained in that. Maybe there’s a reason things feel kind of crazy and it’s not that I’m insane, that I’m in a situation that’s insane.<br>And an interview with the third EP which has grown into an LP (''Bad WitchEntertainment Weekly'')[http://ew. It was coming to one final look at that question from rejecting what EP number two sayscom/music/2018/06/20/trent-reznor-bad-witch-interview/], 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 where the what interviewer compares the thing is. But it wasn’t necessarily what we thought it was going use of sax 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 a cop out."</blockquote>on [[David Bowie]]'s ''Blackstar'':

In another interview with Lizzy Goodman posted on nin.com, Reznor explains the trilogy’s concept in detail: <blockquote>"But to be clearClearly, the record isn’t about Trump, it’s about making sense Bowie is front of the world. The first record, ''Not the Actual Events''mind, and that was more of certainly an internal fantasy influence. In terms of what if I lit a match to my life and just embraced burning the whole fucking thing down. You know? All precision of this is an illusion and arrangement, I really should be dead or lying in think back to [being] younger, reading about Psychedelic Furs as a ditch somewhere. Who I ''really'' am is an addict bunch of students that self-destructs. That’s my true nature all picked instruments and this is an illusion and some borrowed time. It wasn’t learned enough to make a pleasant thing, but it felt like, that’s a story to tell. And if felt like something I needed to internally processrecord. And As someone that supported other things that were interesting had studied his ass off how to us like aggressive music and a sense of the self-referentialplay an instrument, 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 guitarthought, which I told myself I would never 'You can do again for whatever reason and finding, you know whatthat? It sounds fucking good. Listening back and going, you know what? That was a good song from 25 years ago, ' Some people worried about technique or if 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 actsin tune, or if we do an album like that, but release one act at a time, 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 anymoreit’s played well. With the second one, [For ''Add ViolenceBad Witch'', the idea was, loosely, to zoom out, to be more global I thought] let’s just use it and add 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.  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 mayhem and as a species are probably an accident, a mutation. Really what message 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 explanationconvey. 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 All 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 time [the opposite of that, this is dirt and a broken computer chip and everything you believe sax] had been just sitting in is really just bullshitmy studio staring at me. Taunting me."</blockquote><br>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.

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.

An alternate front cover was found, depicting different hues and contrasts on all five boxes, as well as a different hand and a different computer chip. The alternate cover appeared on a Caroline Records promo CD.

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