CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — Nine Inch Nails' long-awaited homecoming in Northeast Ohio will finally happen this fall.
On Monday, the band announced that they will be playing a limited series of shows in the U.S. in the spring and fall of this year. Highlighting the tour will be an appearance at Blossom Music Center on Saturday, September 24. The "exclusive, one night only" event will feature special guests Ministry and Nitzer Ebb.
Tickets will go on sale to the public this Friday, February 11 at 10 a.m. ET. Click here for more information.
Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020, Nine Inch Nails will be back on the road for the first time in four years. They were set to play two shows at Jacobs Pavilion last fall, but canceled their tour due to the uncertainty of COVID-19.
As our Ryan Haidet wrote in his profile of the band, Nine Inch Nails began in Cleveland in the late 1980s as a studio project for Trent Reznor but blossomed onstage with his live band during the first Lollapalooza tour in 1991, which found them laying waste to its instruments in the afternoon sun as dismayed fellow musicians and converted fans looked on. The 1994 breakthrough album The Downward Spiral combined the mechanized funk and discordant noise of industrial rock with Reznor’s belief in melody and song structure. It debuted at number two on the Billboard album chart and spawned the Top 40 hit “Closer” — with its promises of animalistic sex as a way of being nearer to God — as well as “Hurt,” later covered by Johnny Cash.
A mud-splattered, star-making performance at Woodstock ’94 delivered Nine Inch Nails to the arena level. A series of carefully wrought tours — including a co-headlining trek with David Bowie in 1995 — followed, accompanied by visuals as transformative as they were simple. In recent years, Reznor’s penchant for futurism has included distributing music for free on the Internet as well as working for Beats Music to find a way to restore value to purchasing music. Nine Inch Nails returned in 2013 with Hesitation Marks and reissued new instrumental versions of The Fragile and With Teeth as exclusive Apple Music streams. The creativity of Trent Reznor has penetrated myriad aspects of the entertainment world. From music to film to management and streaming, NIN continues to be an influential force in our world.
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