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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 Lizzy Goodman posted on nin.comOn May 19, 2018, Reznor explains the trilogy’s concept in detail: <blockquote>at "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''Physical World" ticket presale, an exclusive listening station was more of 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 made available for those 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 timeattendance. 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 gave fans the opportunity to us like aggressive music and a sense of hear the self-referential, looking back at other albums songs "Ahead Of Ourselves" and pilfering bits of "Play The Goddamned Part" before 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 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. 
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'album', which has acts, if we do an album like that, but s 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 anymore.

With the second oneThe album makes use of saxophone on several tracks, more than any previous NIN recording. This is explained in an interview with ''Add ViolenceEntertainment Weekly''[http://ew.com/music/2018/06/20/trent-reznor-bad-witch-interview/], where the idea was, loosely, to zoom out, to be more global and to imply that maybe we’re all in a simulated reality. And that might introduce interviewer compares the concept use of meaninglessness but also provide a safe container sax to explain why everything feels off. that on [[David Bowie]]'s ''Blackstar'':

By the time we got to the third one<blockquote>"Clearly, Bowie is front of mind, we had and that was certainly an idea in mind but it felt … rehearsed. Predictableinfluence. In terms of the endprecision of arrangement, what felt true was I think back to say that we [being] younger, reading about Psychedelic Furs as a society bunch of students that all picked instruments and as learned enough to make a species are probably record. As someone that had studied his ass off how to play an accidentinstrument, 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 beingsI thought, we’re bacteria 'You can do that?' Some people worried about technique or if it’s in a jartune, or if it’s played well. I wanted the art direction of [For ''Bad Witch '', I thought] let’s just use it and add to feel like shadows on a cave wall the mayhem and we’re message we are 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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