Just ahead of their global debut performance as Nine Inch Noize at Coachella on Saturday (April 11), Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize have announced a collaborative album that appears to be self-titled.
The project is out April 17, six days after the legendary band and the pioneering German techno producer play the Sahara Tent at Coachella. The group will return for a repeat performance the following weekend, with both shows presumably set to include music from the new album.
News of the collaborative album isn’t necessarily surprising, given that Boys Noize has been the opening act for Nine Inch Nails’ 2025/26 Peel It Back tour, a 63-date international run during which the two acts also played a segment of the show together.
Sharing the news of the album on social media Wednesday (April 8), the two artists posted what appears to be the album’s cover art, an orange-ish square with a sticker that says “Nine Inch Nails” with “oize” scrawled vertically under the latter N.
The Peel It Back tour concluded in March in Sacramento, Calif., a show at which frontman Trent Reznor clarified a statement he’d made at an earlier show in Tulsa, Okla., that suggested the band might no longer tour.
In a fan YouTube video from the show, Reznor said it was the last show on the Peel It Back Tour and added, “To be clear, I think I said something the other day that then got misconstrued into something that is not intentionally, necessarily true. What I said was, ‘This is the last show of this tour and we don’t have any shows booked and we don’t have any plans to book any shows anytime in the future, so far.’”
“That doesn’t mean we may not tour again,” he continued. “We may tour again. It won’t be next month, it won’t be this year. I never said we were intentionally stopping, and I never meant that.”
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