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[[Image:Ntae_cover.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 29: ''Not The Actual Events'' (Official cover from NIN.com)<br />[https://store.nin.com/collections/music/products/not-the-actual-events-ep Find on nin.com] - [http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb%5Fsb%5Fnoss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dnine%2520inch%2520nails%2520not%2520the%2520actual%2520events%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&tag=thniinnawi-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 Find on Amazon]]]- [[Imagehttp:Ntae_backart//rover.jpg|thumb|Back album art]][[Image:Ntae_alt_1ebay.jpg|thumb|Alternate artwork #com/rover/1 /711-53200- Origin: Instagram19255-0/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574848848&toolid=10001&campid=5336384580&customid=&icep_uq=nine+inch+nails+not+the+actual+events&icep_sellerId=&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=&icep_minPrice=&icep_maxPrice=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg Find on eBay]]][[Image:Ntae_alt_2NTAEvinyl.jpg|thumb|Alternate artwork #2 - Origin: Facebook200px|Vinyl cover art]][[Image:Ntae_alt_4Ntae_physical_component.jpg|thumb|Alternate artwork #3 - Origin: Embedded in digital MP3 files]][[Image:IMG_1017.JPG200px|thumb|Alternate artwork #4 - Origin: Apple MusicPhysical component]]'''''Not The Actual Events''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 29]]''''') is the second proper EP from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was released digitally on December 23, 2016, though pre-orders through [[nin.com]] allowed for a download one day early. This EP acts as the first installment of a trilogy, preceding the 2017 release of ''[[Add Violence]]'' and the 2018 release of ''[[Bad Witch]]''. This is the first release to include [[Atticus Ross]] as an official member of NIN.

==Formats==In addition June 2017, it was announced that ''Not The Actual Events'' is the first in a trilogy of related EPs to a wide digital be released 6-8 months apart. The second EP, ''Add Violence'', was announced the following month. The third release, the EP now album-length ''Bad Witch'', was offered through announced in May 2018. The official nin.com website description states:<blockquote>"PART ONE OF A THREE EP TRILOGY OF RECORDS. UNAPOLOGETIC, UNFRIENDLY, DENSE, LYRICALLY COMPLEX, SO-FAR-BEHIND-THE-TIMES-IT’S-AHEAD-OF-ITS-TIME, HIPSTER-REPELLING UNCOMPROMISING MUSIC SMART PEOPLE CAN FUCK TO. IT MAY NOT BE FOR YOU."</blockquote> In an interview with Zane Lowe[http://itunes.apple.com/us/post/sa.24db9a20-59e3-11e8-8359-8a5db8dbb4ce?app=music&ign-itsct=be1_con_zan&ign-itscg=10703], Reznor somewhat explained the concept underlying each piece of the trilogy:<blockquote>"Let me drop some cryptic information on you. The idea of this three EP thing was all to find truth in two other formatsus figuring out who we are now and how we fit into the world. One The first EP, ''Not The Actual Events'', was meant to be from a singlepersonal angry self-sided vinyldestructive 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 other first EP through anger and self-destruction and setting a match to your life. The second EP, ''Add Violence'', was meant to the same question. But looking for answers externally. Maybe it’s because of this and there’s comfort in that. Maybe there’s a reason things feel kind of crazy and it’s not that I’m insane, that I’m in a situation that’s insane.<br>And with the third EP which has grown into an LP (''Bad Witch''). It was coming to one final look at that question from rejecting what EP number two says, and it wasn’t an easy answer… The entire system has a digital + "physical component for much more bleak and pessimistic outlook and I want to say too much because it gives away kind of the what the thing is. But it wasn’t necessarily what we thought it was going to be when we started. I thought it was going to go more science fiction. I don’t really want to overwhelm you to deal withcleverness and deep diving and part of that felt like an arms race and it also felt like a cop out." version with further details not yet known</blockquote> ==EP title==The EP's title, ''Not The Actual Events'', is derived from the descrambled lyrics found within "Branches/Bones": ''Allowing myself to feel a sense of comfort in the past. Not the actual events but the way I choose to remember them and you. ''

The cover artwork harks back to that of ''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'' and ''[[Still]]''. There are five seven known variantsof the digital art, including the final version. <gallery>Image:Ntae_alt_1.jpg|Alternate digital artwork #1 - Origin: InstagramImage:Ntae_alt_2.jpg|Alternate digital artwork #2 - Origin: FacebookImage:Ntae_alt_4.jpg|Alternate digital artwork #3 - Origin: Embedded in first 2016 digital filesImage:IMG_1017.JPG|Alternate digital artwork #4 - Origin: Apple MusicImage:Ntae_alt_6.jpg|Alternate digital artwork #5 - Origin: Embedded in corrected early 2017 digital filesImage:IMG_1252.JPG|Alternate digital artwork #6 - Origin: hidden in nin.com websiteImage:Ntae_backart.jpg|Digital and physical component credits sheet</gallery>

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