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==About==
''Bad Witch'' was officially announced on May 10, 2018. The official [[nin.com]] website description states: <blockquote>"CONCLUSION. SHADOWS ON THE CAVE WALL.<" This is likely a reference to Plato's allegory of the cave.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/blockquote>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.
==Artwork==
[[Image:Bad_Witch_Back_Cover.jpg|thumb|''Bad Witch'' back cover]]
[[Image:Despair.jpeg|thumb|"Despair" by Perham Nahl]]
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.
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.
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, within the fifth box, appears to be an image of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004 Intel 4004 CPU]. In an interview with ''Rolling Stone''[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nine-inch-nails-atticus-ross-talks-stage-fright-and-trent-reznors-musical-genius-702117/], Atticus commented: "There's a primitive aspect or reflection of who we are in these times on there. It seems like we've been led. And I think we implied that in the cover, staring at shadows on the wall." In an interview with Covet The Cover on Instagram[https://www.instagram.com/covet_the_cover/p/C4OmwiFLpJo/?img_index=1], designer Hassan Rahim elaborated more on the design process:<blockquote>"Trent provided two key words: primitive spirituality," says Rahim. The NIN frontman Reznor went on to say that ''Bad Witch'' represented "not literally witchcraft but the unexplainable, magic, nature, belief… not in the scientific kind of way but the unknowable, what’s beyond the threshold of death." After researching hundreds of public domain photos around the themes, the final creative solution was to make the cover "a sequential puzzle of images. More cryptic than explanatory. Alluding to unidentified aerial phenomena, fear, superstition, collapse of civilisation, and ultimately rebirth."
==Credits==