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[[Image:Ntae_cover.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 29: ''Not The Actual Events'' (Official cover from NIN.com)<br />[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] - [http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?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_backartNTAEvinyl.jpg|thumb|Back album 200px|Vinyl cover art]][[Image:Ntae_physical_component.jpg|thumb|200px|Physical 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.

In June 2017, it was announced that ''Not The Actual Events'' is the first in a trilogy of related EPs to be released 6-8 months apart. The second EP, ''[[Add Violence]]'', was announced the following month. The third release, the now album-length ''Bad Witch'', was announced in May 2018.

==EP title=Trilogy concept===In an interview with Lizzy Goodman posted on nin.com, Reznor explains the trilogy’s concept in detail: <blockquote>"But to be clear, the record isn’t about Trump, it’s about making sense of the world. The EP's titlefirst 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 derived from the descrambled lyrics found within "Branches/Bones": an illusion and I really should be dead or lying in a ditch somewhere. Who I ''really''Allowing myself 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 process. And that supported other things that were interesting to feel us like aggressive music and a sense of comfort in the pastself-referential, looking back at other albums and pilfering bits of the art design to confuse people and also because I was thinking about those records. 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. Listening back and going, you know what? That was a good song from 25 years ago, it’s not bad to play something like that. There are no rules. Not That was the actual events first record. 
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'', which has acts, if we do an album like that, but release one act at a time, it will be more immediate and the level of adrenaline and momentum will be higher. And maybe it will be consumed in a way I choose that feels more digestible to remember them and youan outside world that doesn’t have long attention spans anymore.''

==Formats==[[Image:Ntae_pc.jpg|thumb|Physical component]][[Image:halo_twenty_nine_printed.jpg|thumb|Halo Twenty Nine text]]In addition to a wide digital releaseWith the second one, ''Add Violence'', the EP idea was offered through nin.com in two other formats. One was a single-sided vinyl, and the other was a digital + "physical component for you loosely, to deal with" version. The physical component includes thick card stock papers containing song lyricszoom out, various images to be more global and soot to imply that will cover your hands upon openingmaybe we’re all in a simulated reality. Many different unique variants have been reportedAnd that might introduce the concept of meaninglessness but also provide a safe container to explain why everything feels off. The warning sticker on the outer packaging reads:

<blockquote>To be read IN ITS ENTIRETY before openingBy the time we got to the third one, we had an idea in mind but it felt … rehearsed. Actions have consequences! NPredictable.TIn the end, what felt true was to say that we as a society and as a species are probably an accident, a mutation.AReally what we are is fucking animals.EAnd the illusion was enlightenment. may contain subversive elements that produce feelings of euphoria The more we’ve connected with each other the dumber we’ve gotten and may be harmful and unsettling the more we decide we want to the consumerkill each other. LikewiseWe’re not some elevated transcendent beings, this physical package may lead 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 unrealized expectations or unexpected results upon openingfigure out what it is and really there’s no nice, clean, safe scientific explanation. Caution should be exercised with bothWe’re just an accident. AND THIS IS IMPORTANTString theory and quantum physics is a fucking trick.And we’re not going to suddenly elevate ourselves into transcendent beings.We’re kidding ourselves. This I know this will make a messbe an unsatisfying conclusion for some people. It isn’t what they want. By opening this envelope in any wayThey want it to be full matrix virtual reality, you assume all risks to your person and/or propertythis is the opposite of that, this is dirt and waive any claim against [[The Null Corporation]], any of its subsidiaries or affiliated entities from any a broken computer chip and all damages or harm everything you may incurbelieve in is really just bullshit."</blockquote>

==EP title==The EP's title, ''Not The Actual Events'', is derived from the descrambled lyrics found within "Halo Twenty NineBranches/Bones" is also faintly printed on : ''Allowing myself to feel a sense of comfort in the past. Not the reverse of actual events but the final sheet, confirming its official halo number statusway 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 seven known variantsof the digital art, including the final version.

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