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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]]''' by [[Nine Inch Nails]], 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?"

''Bad Witch'' was officially announced on May 10, 2018. The official [[nin.com]] website description states:"CONCLUSION. SHADOWS ON THE CAVE WALL." This is likely a reference to Plato's allegory of the cave.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave]

<blockquote>On May 19, 2018, at "CONCLUSIONThe Physical World" ticket presale, an exclusive listening station was made available for those in attendance. SHADOWS ON THE CAVE WALLIt gave fans the opportunity to hear the songs "Ahead Of Ourselves" and "Play The Goddamned Part" before the album's release."</blockquote>

In The album makes use of saxophone on several tracks, more than any previous NIN recording. This is explained in an interview with Zane Lowe''Entertainment Weekly''[http://itunes.appleew.com/usmusic/2018/06/post20/sa.24db9a20trent-59e3reznor-11e8bad-8359witch-8a5db8dbb4ce?app=music&ign-itsct=be1_con_zan&ign-itscg=10703interview/], Reznor somewhat explained where the concept underlying each piece of interviewer compares the trilogy:<blockquote>"Let me drop some cryptic information on you. The idea use of this three EP thing was all sax to find truth in us figuring out who we are now and how we fit into the world. The first EP, that on [[David Bowie]]'s ''Not The Actual EventsBlackstar'', was meant to be from a personal angry self-destructive reflection on that question and defining how I feel in a world, that feels stranger, part of that’s aging. Part of that’s because the world is getting weirder. Finding your place in a world that looks different every day little bit changes and reacting to that in the first EP through anger and self-destruction and setting a match to your life.:

The second EP<blockquote>Clearly, ''Add Violence''Bowie is front of mind, and that was meant to certainly an influence. In terms of the same question. But looking for answers externally. Maybe it’s because precision of this and there’s comfort in that. Maybe there’s arrangement, I think back to [being] younger, reading about Psychedelic Furs as a reason things feel kind bunch of crazy students that all picked instruments and it’s not learned enough to make a record. As someone that I’m insanehad studied his ass off how to play an instrument, I thought, "You can do that I’m ?" Some people worried about technique or if it’s in a situation that’s insanetune, or if it’s played well.<br>And with the third EP which has grown into an LP ([For ''Bad Witch''). It was coming to one final look at that question from rejecting what EP number two says, and I thought] let’s just use it wasn’t an easy answer… The entire system has a much more bleak and pessimistic outlook and I want add to say too much because it gives away kind of the what the thing is. But it wasn’t necessarily what mayhem and message we thought it was going are trying to be when we startedconvey. I thought it was going to go more science fictionAll this time [the sax] had been just sitting in my studio staring at me. 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 outTaunting me."</blockquote>

In another interview==LP Title==Unlike the two preceding EPs, Reznor explains the trilogy’s concept title of ''Bad Witch'' is not derived from a lyric sung or printed in detail:the album’s digital or liner notes. A definitive explanation of the title is yet to be revealed.

<blockquote>==Artwork==[[Image:Bad_Witch_Back_Cover.jpg|thumb|''Bad Witch'' back cover]][[Image:Despair.jpeg|thumb|"Despair"by Perham Nahl]]The first record, "scratch marks" seen in the ''Not the The Actual Events, was more '' and ''Add Violence'' cover artworks appear in a different form on the right border 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 back cover 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 processalbum.

With the second one, Add Violence, the idea An alternate front cover wasfound, looselydepicting different hues and contrasts on all five boxes, to zoom out, to be more global as well as a different hand and to imply that maybe we’re all in a simulated realitydifferent computer chip. And that might introduce the concept of meaninglessness but also provide The alternate cover appeared on a safe container to explain why everything feels offCaroline Records promo CD.

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 The middle bottom row image is adapted from a society and as a species are probably an accident, a mutationpainting entitled "Despair" by Perham Nahl. Really what we are is fucking animals. And the illusion was enlightenment[https://archive. org/details/artincalifornias00port/page/n175/mode/2up] 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 beingscomputer chip, we’re bacteria in a jar. I wanted within 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, cleanfifth box, safe scientific explanation. We’re just an accident. String theory and quantum physics is a fucking trick. And we’re not going appears to suddenly elevate ourselves into transcendent beings. We’re kidding ourselves. I know this will be an unsatisfying conclusion for some peopleimage of the [https://en. It isn’t what they wantwikipedia. 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 bullshitorg/wiki/Intel_4004 Intel 4004 CPU]."</blockquote>

On May 19==Credits==*Nine Inch Nails: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross<br> *Written, 2018arranged, at "The Physical World" ticket presaleproduced, an exclusive listening station was made available for those in attendance. It gave fans the opportunity to hear the songs programmed and performed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross<br> *Additional vocals "Ahead Of OurselvesShit Mirror" : [[Mariqueen Maandig Reznor]] and "Play The Goddamned Part" before the album's release.Ian Astbury<br> *Mix: [[Alan Moulder]]*Engineering: Chris Richardson and Justin McGrath*Mastering: Tom Baker at Baker Mastering<br>

==LP Title==*Art Direction: 12:01- Office of Hassan RahimUnlike the two preceding EPs*Legal: Zia Modabber for Katten Munchin Rosenman LLP, 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 revealedRoss 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, Rennert & Feldman<br>

==Artwork==[[ImageThank you:Bad_Witch_Back_Cover.jpg|thumb|''Bad Witch'' back cover]]The "scratch marks" seen in the ''Not The Actual Events'' and ''Add Violence'' cover artworks appear in a different form on the right border of the back cover of this album. Mariqueen Maandig Reznor, Claudia Sarne, Steve Barnett, Michelle Jubelirer, Ashley Newton, Ambrosia Healy, Arjun Pulijal, Erin Cooney, Ed Scott, Jim Chancellor, Andrew Lazonby, Cesar Rosas<br>

An alternate front cover was found, depicting different hues © 2018 Form and contrasts on all five boxesTexture (ASCAP) / Administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, as well as a different hand and a different computer chip.Songs In the Key of Mink (BMI) / Administered by Downtown DMP Songs

==Live==All songs from ''Bad Witch'' have been played live except "Play The computer chip, within the fifth box, appears to be an image of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004 Intel 4004 CPU]Goddamned Part" and "I'm Not From This World".

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