Nine Inch Nails - Not The Actual Events flac album

The second Nine Inch Nails EP of original material following Broken (1992), it marks longtime collaborator Atticus Ross's first appearance as an official member of the band.

Not The Actual Events is the first new NIN music since Hesitation Marks (2013). He also explained his decision to not release a full album as this was the length of the complete story he wanted to tell. At the time of release, there have been five different versions of the album cover art released.

Nine Inch Nails’ surprise-release new EP Not the Actual Events is slight, but at moments it delivers the kind of visceral fury that NIN hasn’t recreated since its mid-’90s Downward Spiral heyday. It’s the least essential non-instrumental album the band has released. But with the subsequent announcement that two major events for NIN in 2017 are now also promised, perhaps Reznor himself knows this already, and it will turn out that that this slight record was in fact, not the actual event.

A decade ago Nine Inch Nails unleashed fifth album ‘Year Zero’ on their baying audience. Marking the last time Trent Reznor’s project had created an album as a cohesive entity, rather than the free-for-the-fans playground of ‘The Slip’, instrumentals ‘Ghosts I-IV’, or the impeccably curated career-revisiting of ‘Hesitation Marks’. Year Zero’ was a concept album, set in 2022, surrounding an increasingly militarised police-state of future America, blighted by terrorism with its populace subjected to invasive surveillance and inescapable brainwashing.

The surprise release of Not the Actual Events accompanies an anticlimactic expansion of Trent Reznor’s one-man empire to include composer Atticus Ross, with whom he’s collaborated on numerous film scores and standard musical releases over the past decade.

It has been pressed on a single sided 180 gram vinyl. Made to be played loud. Originally meant for release in December 2016, which is also the date printed on the hype sticker. Printed inner sleeve with lyrics is included however the vinyl is in a separate plain white poly lined sleeve from the factory

His addition to Nine Inch Nails does give Not the Actual Events a hint of cinematic sweep, but Reznor always excelled at painting with electronics, a strength that does not fail him here. Largely aggressive and noisy, the EP benefits from tight arrangements; squalls of fury might arrive out of nowhere but they're precisely timed

Band Name Nine Inch Nails. Album Name Not the Actual Events. Type EP. Released date 23 December 2016. Labels The Null Corporation. Members owning this album5. 2. Dear World, 3. She's Gone Away. 4. The Idea of You. 5. Burning Bright (Field on Fire). Other productions from Nine Inch Nails. The Fragile: Deviations 1. Hesitation Marks.

The EP finds Reznor and now official bandmate Atticus Ross taking an unexpected left turn from 2013’s Hesitation Marks and sounding unrecognizable from their current film work. It’s an unfriendly, fairly impenetrable record that we needed to make says Reznor  .