Trent Reznor has expanded upon what fans can expect from the Nine Inch Noize companion album dropping later this week, as well as his future endeavours with Nine Inch Nails.
Last week, Nine Inch Nails announced a new collaborative album with Boys Noize ahead of their first-ever show together at the first weekend of Coachella 2026. The record will drop on Friday (April 17) ahead of the desert festival’s second weekend.
The two artists have a history of working together – including on the soundtracks to Challengers and TRON: Ares – and they had already been announced on the bill for Coachella under the Nine Inch Noize banner.
Boys Noize also joined NIN for shows on the UK leg of their mammoth ‘Peel It Back’ tour last summer, delivering remixes from a small second stage in the middle of the audience.
The 12-song tracklist follows the same order as Nine Inch Noize’s Coachella setlist, featuring reimaginings of hits like ‘Vessel,’ ‘She’s Gone Away,’ ‘Copy of A’, ‘Closer’ and ‘As Alive as You Need Me to Be.’ There are also reworkings of previous side project How to Destroy Angels’ ‘Parasite’ and Soft Cell’s ‘Memorabilia.’
“The creative fulfillment of working on the Challengers and Tron scores with Boys Noize led me to think that including him in the Peel It Back tour could be an interesting way to express NIN in more purely electronic terms live — a concept I’ve wanted to explore for some time,” Reznor said in a statement.
“The result was so much fun for us we felt it was worth expanding and formalizing in some way.”
“On a whim, I mentioned it would be cool to play a whole set as Nine Inch Noize in the Sahara tent at Coachella. Careful what you wish for … the next thing I knew we were designing a whole new show to present in the way it deserved.”
Reznor also mentioned that the album was recorded “all over the place – some of it’s live, some in studios, hotels, planes, etc. We had a lot of fun revisiting these songs and hope you enjoy,” encouraging fans to “listen LOUD”.
Reznor also affirmed that it wasn’t going to lead to any “surprise tour announcement”, adding that his focus would soon return to new Nine Inch Nails material.
“I’m taking Sunday off and excited to be working on new Nine Inch Nails music Monday – I’ll see you when I come up for air,” he concluded.
Amid talk of the band retiring from touring, Reznor recently clarifying previous remarks that had suggested the band would never play again. “I think I said something the other day that then got misconstrued into something that is not intentionally necessarily true,” he explained.
“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 any time in the future so far. That doesn’t mean we may not tour again.”
Meanwhile, last week, former Nine Inch Nails turned Foo Fighters drummer Ilan Rubin recalled a bizarre encounter at his wedding, when Tom DeLonge showed Trent Reznor a photo of a “dead alien”.
