From the most recent update at nin.com...
How To Destroy Angels, the new band featuring Mariqueen Maandig, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross are releasing their debut EP as a free download on June 1st. If you pre-order you'll get one new track, 'The Believers,' immediately. A selection of merchandise is also available.
The EP will be released on CD July 6th, with a vinyl release TBA. For updates, follow @destroyangels on Twitter, or on Facebook here.
If you haven't heard of this band yet, get hearin'! Their first single "A Drowning" is available on Amazon's MP3 Store as well as iTunes, and their high concept debut music video for "The Space In Between" will give you chills here.
And for an interview with the video's director, Rupert Sanders, check out this article from Pitchfork.
Did I mention the debut EP is free this Tuesday? If you wanna throw the band a few bones, there's a pleasantly surprising amount of merch already available (and ready to ship by mid-June). Also, if you're a snobby iPad owner like me, there's a brand new app from Wired magazine in which they've essentially created a very sleek electronic version of their publication specifically for the Apple product. One of the features is an interactive article on the creation of a song by How To Destroy Angels. Read it here.
While reading through each step, you can listen to the element being described, culminating in the finished version of "The Believers" which might be my favorite track by HTDA thus far. As the Wired article points out, there's an unsettling and extremely satisfying combination of electronic and organic elements that make it so enjoyable. Imagine the glitchy noise of Year Zero with the marimbas of Ghosts and you've got a rough idea. However, this is probably the least NIN-sounding track to date, and the comparison to those 2 albums is strictly to illustrate what it sounds like. Granted, I'm only going off of one listen. June 1st being mere days away, I'd rather just wait to hear the song in context rather than burn myself out on it (which I could easily do).
Anyway, the point is "The Believers", more so than any of the songs released so far, hints at the true potential of How To Destroy Angels. In other words, it starts to make sense why it's an entity separate from Nine Inch Nails, and I can't wait to hear more.
Misc. Links:
http://howtodestroyangels.com/
http://www.facebook.com/howtodestroyangels
http://www.myspace.com/howtodestroyangels
http://www.youtube.com/howtodestroyangels
http://vimeo.com/destroyangels
http://twitter.com/destroyangels
And as an added bonus, Trent/NIN recently completed a song for the foreign film Tetsuo: The Bullet Man. Check it out here.
Make sure to listen to it loud. You might die from the epic-ness of it, but it'll be a good death.
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