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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]

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. The album makes use of saxophone on several tracks, more than any previous NIN recording. This is explained in an interview with ''Entertainment Weekly''[http://ew.com/music/2018/06/20/trent-reznor-bad-witch-interview/], where the interviewer compares the use of sax to that on [[David Bowie]]'s ''Blackstar'': <blockquote>Clearly, Bowie is front of mind, and that was certainly an influence. In terms of the precision of arrangement, I think back to [being] younger, reading about Psychedelic Furs as a bunch of students that all picked instruments and learned enough to make a record. As someone that had studied his ass off how to play an instrument, I thought, "CONCLUSIONYou can do that?" Some people worried about technique or if it’s in tune, or if it’s played well. [For ''Bad Witch'', I thought] let’s just use it and add to the mayhem and message we are trying to convey. All this time [the sax] had been just sitting in my studio staring at me. SHADOWS ON THE CAVE WALLTaunting me."</blockquote> ==LP Title==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.

In an interview with Lizzy Goodman posted on nin==Artwork==[[Image:Bad_Witch_Back_Cover.jpg|thumb|''Bad Witch'' back cover]][[Image:Despair.com, Reznor explains jpeg|thumb|"Despair" by Perham Nahl]]The "scratch marks" seen in the trilogy’s concept ''Not The Actual Events'' and ''Add Violence'' cover artworks appear in detail:a different form on the right border of the back cover of this album.

<blockquote>"But to be clearAn alternate front cover was found, the record isn’t about Trumpdepicting different hues and contrasts on all five boxes, it’s about making sense of the world. The first record, ''Not the Actual Events'', was more of an internal fantasy of what if I lit as well as a match to my life and just embraced burning the whole fucking thing down. You know? All of this is an illusion different hand and I really should be dead or lying in a ditch somewheredifferent computer chip. 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 The alternate cover appeared on a pleasant thing, but it felt like, that’s a story to tell. And if felt like something I needed to internally processCaroline Records promo CD.

And that supported other things that were interesting to us like aggressive music and The middle bottom row image is adapted from 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 was thinking about those recordspainting entitled "Despair" by Perham Nahl. 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[https://archive. Listening back and goingorg/details/artincalifornias00port/page/n175/mode/2up] The computer chip, you know what? That was a good song from 25 years agowithin the fifth box, it’s not bad appears to play something like thatbe an image of the [https://en. There are no ruleswikipedia. That was the first recordorg/wiki/Intel_4004 Intel 4004 CPU].


It wasn’t fully mapped out but it was meant to feel like if we broke up one big record – if it was 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 ''Downward SpiralRolling Stone'', which has acts, if Atticus commented: "There's a primitive aspect or reflection of who we do an album are in these times on there. It seems like we've been led. And I think we implied thatin the cover, but release one act staring at a time, it will be more immediate and shadows on 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 anymorewall."

With the second one, ''Add Violence'', the idea was, loosely, to zoom out, to be more global ==Credits==*Nine Inch Nails: Trent Reznor and 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. Atticus Ross<br>

By the time we got to the third one*Written, we had an idea in mind but it felt … rehearsed. Predictable. In the endarranged, what felt true was to say that we as a society and as a species are probably an accidentproduced, 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 programmed 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 performed by Trent Reznor 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 reality, and this is the opposite of that, this is dirt and a broken computer chip 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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