Nine Inch Nails Release Heavy New Track 'Burning Bright'

Earlier this week Nine Inch Nails announced a new EP, Not the Actual Events, set to be released this week and on Wednesday the band released a track from the new disc called 'Burning Bright'.

The new Nine Inch Nails song goes back to the bands Industrial-Metal roots, and puts that into overdrive. Kinda like Ministry. The song itself is pretty cool and simple and could easily be mistaken for the ending credits of a horror movie, or a leftover from the movie Blade.

Sweet.

The video itself is reminiscent of something you might see as background during a NIN concert during it's performance, though it's just a bunch of static.

Regardless, it's good to see Nine Inch Nails going back to their roots. The group created a niche in the late eighties/early nineties with their blend of industrial metal. Albums like Pretty Hate Machine (which featured the single Head Like a Hole) and The Downward Spiral (featuring songs like March of the Pigs) and their live concerts made the group one of the most innovate acts of the nineties.

The groups millenial records such as Hesitation Marks featured less heavy guitars, if at all.

Nine Inch Nails To Release New EP 'Not The Actual Events'

Nine Inch Nails announced today that a new EP, Not the Actual Events, would be released on Friday, December 23rd. The five track EP will be their first release since Hesitation Marks, which was released in August of 2013.

Cool.

Nine Inch Nails became both the face of Industrial Metal and one of the iconic bands of the nineties after releasing The Downward Spiral in 1994. The single Closer is one of the decades most popular songs and Hurt was eventually covered by Johnny Cash.

Around 2009 frontman Trent Reznor announced Nine Inch Nails would be going on hiatus. Between the announcement and the release of Hesitation Marks in 2013, Reznor and new NIN member Atticus Ross worked on the score for films like The Social Network, for which they were nominated for a Golden Globe and Oscar award, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

“It’s an unfriendly, fairly impenetrable record that we needed to make, said Trent Reznor, "It’s an EP because that ended up being the proper length to tell that story.”

Nine Inch Nails also announced they will be reissuing their catalog in the upcoming months.

First the band will be releasing a limited edition vinyl of The Fragile and a 4 LP set called The Fragile: Deviations 1, which includes 27 tracks featuring instrumental versions, alternate versions, and unreleased tracks from the 1999 release The Fragile.


H/T - TeamRock