Nine Inch Nails Delay Tour Announcement Due To LA Fires

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Yes, Nine Inch Nails, Johnny Cash's favorite nu-industrial hardcore goth emo '90s act recently announced their new tour in a fascinating way: by not announcing it.

Several weeks ago the Internet was abuzz because it appeared a few dates of a forthcoming tour for the group centered around Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross had been leaked.

Dubbed the Peel It Back Tour, some of those dates that were prematurely leaked included a gig at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, FL, on September 10th, as well as two gigs in August over in Cleveland and Toronto, Canada.

Instead of letting the buzz fester, the Oscar- and Grammy-winning duo put out a tweet on Monday confirming, in part, the premature announcements.

“Since some dates and information about our world tour have leaked, we are confirming that yes we will be touring and will provide more details soon,” the tweet began in ALL CAPS for some reason.

“We are all watching the devastation that is unfolding in California and have paused our announcement while people try to deal with all that is happening.”

Giant rock bands not being able to keep their staff from spoiling the surprise is nothing new as leaks of both music and tour dates have become so common, a cynical person may assume it's now part of the marketing playbook.

In November of last year, someone in AC/DC's social media team accidentally published a Facebook Event page for an upcoming show in April of 2025 in Minnesota. Unfortunately the North American Power Up 2025 Tour wouldn't officially be announced until December and the FB page was quickly deleted.

Once Angus & Company formally announced the tour the leaked date turned out to be accurate. Upon reading what Trent & Atticus wrote, they sure don't seem to be denying the summer dates, they just appear to want to unveil them when LA isn't a smoldering mess.

The second tweet they chained to their non-announcement announcement was a list of ways fans could help those affected by the record-breaking fire damage that has displaced tens of thousands of Angelenos and killed at least two dozen.

Reznor and Ross haven't performed as NIN since 2022, a year they booked 26 gigs after taking three years off during the plague.

When they tour they typically do serious, worldwide excursions of at least 50 shows in a year, although the last two years they played 50+ gigs was in 2018 and 2014.

NIN at the Hollywood Palladium in 2018, the last year they did a big, worldwide tour.

The pair seem to be quite satisfied making music for movies. Earlier this month they took home the Golden Globe for composing the score for the Zendaya film, Challengers.

“What we’ve come to realize is, why we really do this is the joy of collaboration with people that makes our lives better,” Reznor told The Wrap last December of the fun of working with filmmakers to create a vibe.

Trent and Atticus on the Globes red carpet shortly before they won for Best Score.

“Of course, we want to do the best work we can, and we would hope that it finds an audience, and we hope that we are pushing ourselves. But it really is the feeling of mind melding and being assigned a situation to see if we can work within this structure of what we’re being asked to do."

"It’s refreshing as a difference from Nine Inch Nails, where everything is up to us, figuring out what we want to do. Working in service to something is surprisingly rewarding. I think it’s the companion career,” the singer explained.

A smidge more than 30 years ago NIN delivered an iconic performance at Woodstock '94

So will NIN come to your town and rock you with a downward spiral of hits, deep cuts and new music? It seems likely. But we won't know until things cool down, literally in the city of angels.

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Last updated: 19 Feb 2025, 21:30 UTC

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