Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize Unleash Nine Inch Noize: A Controlled Detonation of Industrial Sound
Nine Inch Nails have never exactly been known for subtlety—but Nine Inch Noize doesn’t just push the volume. It rewires the system entirely.
Arriving Friday, April 17 via Interscope Records, the new collaborative release between Nine Inch Nails and electronic provocateur Boys Noize feels less like a side project and more like a parallel universe Nine Inch Nails has been threatening to break into for years.
And now it’s here.
From score sessions to sonic overload
What started in the world of film scoring—Challengers, TRON, and beyond—became something stranger, heavier, and more kinetic. Trent Reznor and Boys Noize found themselves locked into a shared language: texture over tradition, tension over structure, chaos carefully engineered into shape.
That chemistry didn’t stay in the studio.
It migrated to the stage.
The Peel It Back tour turned into a proving ground—Nine Inch Nails performing across two stages, including an intimate B-stage embedded in the crowd, where Boys Noize would join Reznor and company to tear familiar material apart and rebuild it in real time. Songs didn’t just get performed—they got reprogrammed.
At a certain point, it stopped feeling like a collaboration.
It started feeling like a mutation.
“Careful what you wish for…”
Then came Coachella.