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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 with Lizzy Goodman posted on nin.com==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|"But to be clear, Despair" by Perham Nahl]]The "scratch marks" seen in the record isn’t about Trump, it’s about making sense of the world. The first record, ''Not the The Actual Events'', 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 in a ditch somewhere. Who I ''reallyAdd Violence'' am is an addict that self-destructs. That’s my true nature and cover artworks appear in a different form on the right border of the back cover of 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.

And that supported other things that were interesting to us like aggressive music and a sense of the self-referential, looking back at other albums and pilfering bits of the art design to confuse people and also because I An alternate front cover was thinking about those records. To try picking up a guitarfound, which I told myself I would never do again for whatever reason depicting different hues and findingcontrasts on all five boxes, you know what? It sounds fucking good. Listening back as well as a different hand and going, you know what? That was a good song from 25 years ago, it’s not bad to play something like thatdifferent computer chip. There are no rules. That was the first record The alternate cover appeared on a Caroline Records promo CD.


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''The middle bottom row image is adapted from a painting entitled "Despair" by Perham Nahl.[https://archive.org/details/artincalifornias00port/page/n175/mode/2up] The computer chip, which has actswithin the fifth box, if we do appears to be an album like that, but release one act at a time, it will be more immediate and image of the level of adrenaline and momentum will be higher[https://en.wikipedia. And maybe it will be consumed in a way that feels more digestible to an outside world that doesn’t have long attention spans anymoreorg/wiki/Intel_4004 Intel 4004 CPU].

With the second one, In an [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nine-inch-nails-atticus-ross-talks-stage-fright-and-trent-reznors-musical-genius-702117/ interview] with ''Add ViolenceRolling Stone'', the idea was, loosely, to zoom out, to be more global and to imply that maybe we’re all Atticus commented: "There's a primitive aspect or reflection of who we are in a simulated realitythese times on there. It seems like we've been led. And I think we implied that might introduce in the concept of meaninglessness but also provide a safe container to explain why everything feels offcover, staring at shadows on the wall. "

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 ==Credits==*Nine Inch Nails: Trent Reznor and as a species are probably an accident, 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 beingsAtticus Ross<br> *Written, 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 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 want. They want it to be full matrix virtual realityarranged, and this is the opposite of thatproduced, this is dirt programmed and a broken computer chip performed by Trent Reznor and everything you believe in is really just bullshit."Atticus Ross</blockquotebr> *Additional vocals "Shit Mirror": [[Mariqueen Maandig Reznor]] and Ian Astbury<br>On May 19, 2018, *Mix: [[Alan Moulder]]*Engineering: Chris Richardson and Justin McGrath*Mastering: Tom Baker 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.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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