Nine Inch Nails will return in 2016, Trent Reznor revealed via Twitter this week. The legendary industrial rock icon also promised "Other stuff, too."
New NIN coming in 2016. Other stuff, too.
— Trent Reznor (@trent_reznor) December 18, 2015
Earlier this month, Reznor announced the release of an art book titled Cargo in the Blood, which, as Pitchfork reports, is presented in collaboration with visual artist Russell Mills. The book is something of a companion to Nine Inch Nail's last album, 2013's Hesitation Marks. It highlights Mills' original artwork for the album.
Only 2,000 copies of the 320-page hardcover book will be printed. Each copy comes with a framed mixed-media work of art made by Mills specifically for Cargo in the Blood .
In a press release about the book, the visual artist said:
"Our renewed collaboration on Hesitation Marks very quickly suggested massive potential for the strange and the familiar to collide and collude in works that I hoped would encapsulate, by allusion, suggestion, metaphor and association, the conceptual ideas imbued in the album as well as in the undertow of its sonic world.
"I created a total of 30 pieces for Hesitation Marks , and they chose "Cargo In The Blood" for the cover of the deluxe CD. The title seemed to sum up everything I've been working on for the last five to 10 years, this whole idea of something that can be carried in the blood, and it could be good or bad -- something that could be character-building, something that could be destructive, something that could be positive."
The book's release will be accompanied by a short film directed by Charles Leek that documents Mills' creative process and his work featured on Hesitation Marks as well as on NIN's 1994 album, The Downward Spiral.
After Nine Inch Nails dropped 2013's album and toured in support of it, the band went on hiatus. Reznor became music curator for Beats Music, and then Apple Music, Consequence of Sound reports. During the break, he also scored the soundtrack to the movie Gone Girl.
Watch the video for "Came Back Haunted" from 2013, below.
