Nine Inch Nails Release New Single ‘God Break Down The Door’

Nine Inch Nails will issue a new studio album entitled Bad Witch on June 22. Today, the band unveiled “God Break Down The Door,” one of six tracks on the LP and its first single.

DJ Zane Lowe premiered the single this morning on Beats 1. Frontman Trent Reznor joined Lowe to talk about “God Break Down The Door” and touring with Nine Inch Nails. Reznor spoke with the DJ about his experience recording the track and the approach he took with collaborator Atticus Ross:

We find if we don’t watch ourselves we tend to try to get some more comfortable with because it feels better. And from the sound of the drums to the kind of frantic drumbeat to looking around the studio and seeing the untouched baritone tenor and alto sax that are sitting there. They’re there because they remind me that I can’t play them as well as I used to be able to. For 20 years, I’ve been saying I’m going of really get my technique back because it would be fun to do. And there they sit taunting me in the corner. We pulled them out and we just started fucking around really, led with Atticus arranging. I was just kind of going, an hour performance kind of turned into this thing that felt like we hadn’t been there before and that started to reveal a whole different character. The space changed and then we felt motivated. When it came time to sing I was really just trying things out, just to see. I never had the courage to sing like that, I didn’t know I could sing.

Bad Witch is the third installment of a three-part trilogy that started with Not The Actual Events in 2016 and continued with last year’s Add Violence. Both Not The Actual Events and Add Violence were EPs. The forthcoming release was expected to be an EP but grew into a full-length album. Bad Witch is available for pre-order here in variety of formats.

Stream “God Break Down The Door” below:

Nine Inch Nails will embark on a North American Tour this fall. Tickets will be put up for sale at The Physical World presale events on Saturday, May 19 (with the exception of tickets for a run at Red Rocks as tickets go for sale on May 20 at the Denver Coliseum box office).

Bad Witch Tracklist

1. Shit Mirror
2. Ahead of Ourselves
3. Play The Goddamned Part
4. God Break Down The Door
5. I’m Not From This World
6. Over & Out