Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize Announce Collaborative Album

Album Release and Visual Identity

The upcoming collaborative project is scheduled to arrive on April 17, exactly six days after the two acts perform together at Coachella. The announcement was shared on social media on Wednesday, April 8, following the appearance of a teaser billboard in the Indio, California desert. While Billboard reports the project appears to be self-titled, other sources provide conflicting titles for the release. According to Pitchfork, the LP is titled “Nine Inch Noize,” whereas Spanish-language reports identify the record as “HALO 38,” noting it serves as the 38th official release for Nine Inch Nails. Fans can currently pre-save the album at the official nin.com website.

The artists accompanied the announcement with an image of the album’s cover art, which features an orange-ish square. The artwork includes a sticker that displays the name “Nine Inch Nails” with the letters “oize” scrawled vertically beneath the final “N.” This collaboration brings together Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails with the pioneering German techno producer Alexander Ridha, known professionally as Boys Noize.

Live Debut at Coachella and the Peel It Back Tour

The collaborative entity will make its global debut as Nine Inch Noize on Saturday, April 11, at the Sahara Tent during the Coachella festival. The group is slated to return for a repeat performance the following weekend on April 18. Both festival sets are expected to include music from the new album.

The announcement of a full-length project follows an extensive period of live collaboration. Boys Noize served as the opening act for Nine Inch Nails’ 2025/26 Peel It Back tour, a 63-date international run. During this tour, the two acts frequently played a segment of the show together. In the summer of 2025, during the British leg of the tour, Ridha presented remixes from a small second stage located in the middle of the audience.

History of Artistic Collaboration

The partnership between the American rock band and the German producer began in 2024 when Reznor and Ross tapped Ridha to deconstruct the initial version of their soundtrack for the film “Challengers.” The artists collaborated again on the soundtrack for the Disney film “TRON: Ares,” which was released in 2025. Additionally, Ridha contributed to “Tron Ares: Divergence,” a full-album remix of the Reznor and Ross score. On October 6, 2025, Reznor, Ross, and Ridha appeared together at the World Premiere of “Tron: Ares” at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

Nine Inch Nails was formed in 1988 by Reznor and Ross and has published more than a dozen albums. Boys Noize, who founded his own record label in 2005, has released nine albums and over twenty remixes, including work with Lady Gaga. He is also a member of the duo Dog Blood alongside the American DJ Skrillex.

Reznor Clarifies Future Touring Plans

The Peel It Back tour concluded in March with a final show in Sacramento, Calif. During this performance, frontman Trent Reznor took a moment to clarify statements he had made at a previous show in Tulsa, Okla., which had led to speculation that the band was retiring from touring. In a video of the Sacramento show, Reznor addressed the audience regarding the band's future:

“To be clear, I think I said something the other day that then got misconstrued into something that is not intentionally, necessarily true. What I said was, ‘This is the last show of this tour and we don’t have any shows booked and we don’t have any plans to book any shows anytime in the future, so far.’”

— Trent Reznor

Reznor emphasized that the end of the current tour did not mark the end of the band’s live career, stating:

“That doesn’t mean we may not tour again. We may tour again. It won’t be next month, it won’t be this year. I never said we were intentionally stopping, and I never meant that.”

— Trent Reznor