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Nine Inch Nails have officially announced their new EP “Not The Actual Events.” The effort will be released on December 23, and the cover art/track listing can be seen below:

“Not The Actual Events” Track Listing:

01. “Branches/Bones”
02. “Dear World.”
03. “She’s Gone Away”
04. “The Idea Of You”
05. “Burning Bright (Field Of Dreams)”

It is also necessary to note that Atticus Ross is now a full-time member of the band. Trent Reznor said the following about the EP:

“It’s an unfriendly, fairly impenetrable record that we needed to make. It’s an EP because that ended up being the proper length to tell that story.”

In other news, the band will also release a special limited edition four LP version of “The Fragile” called “The Fragile: Deviations 1.” This set will only be available once. According to the official description “this unique version of NIN’s classic record was created by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and [it] features 37 instrumental, alternate and unreleased tracks, many of which have never been heard before anywhere” Reznor commented:

“‘The Fragile‘ occupies a very interesting and intimate place in my heart. I was going through a turbulent time in my life when making it and revisiting it has become a form of therapy for me. As an experiment, I removed all the vocals from the record and found it became a truly changed experience that worked on a different yet compelling level. ‘The Fragile: Deviations 1‘ represents Atticus and I embellishing the original record with a number of tracks from those sessions we didn’t use before. The result paints a complimentary but different picture we wanted to share.”

“The Fragile: Deviations 1” Track Listing:

Side 1A:

01. “Somewhat Damaged” (Instrumental)
02. “The Day the World Went Away” (Instrumental)
03. “The Frail” (Alternate Version)
04. “The Wretched” (Instrumental)

Side 1B:

01. “Missing Places”
02. “We’re in This Together” (Instrumental)
03. “The Fragile” (Instrumental)
04. “Just Like You Imagined” (Alternate Version)
05. “The March” (Instrumental

Side 2A:

01. “Even Deeper” (Instrumental)
02. “Pilgrimage” (Alternate Version)
03. “One Way to Get There”
04. “No, You Don’t” (Instrumental)
05. “Taken”

Side 2B:

01. “La Mer” (Alternate Version)
02. “The Great Below” (Instrumental)
03. “Not What It Seems Like” (Instrumental)
04. “White Mask”
05. “The New Flesh” (Instrumental)

Side 3A:

01. “The Way is Out Through” (Alternate Version)
02. “Into the Void” (Instrumental)
03. “Where is Everybody?” (Instrumental)
04. “The Mark Has Been Made” (Alternate Version)

Side 3B:

01. “Was It Worth It?” (Instrumental)
02. “Please” (Instrumental)
03. “+Appendage” (Instrumental)
04. “Can I Stay Here?” (Instrumental)
05. “10 Miles High” (Instrumental)

Side 4A:

01. “Feeders”
02. “Starfuckers, Inc.” (Instrumental)
03. “Complication” (Alternate Version)
04. “Claustrophobia Machine” (Raw)
05. “Last Heard From”

Side 4B:

01. “I’m Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally” (Instrumental)
02. “The Big Come Down” (Instrumental)
03. “Underneath It All” (Instrumental)
04. “Ripe with Decay” (Instrumental

If that’s not enough you can also preorder “definitive editions” of “The Fragile,“ “The Downward Spiral,” and “Broken“ Those will come out in the spring. Reznor added the following about those:

“We want to present the catalog as it was intended to be, with no compromises. That means a careful remastering of the audio from the original sources, a painstaking recreation of the artwork, pristine materials, some surprises and an insane attention to detail that you probably won’t notice…but it matters to us. No extra bullshit and gimmicks – the ‘real’ records in their truest form.”

Head to http://www.nin.com for preorders.