Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize Drop Surprise Collab Album Ahead of Coachella
Nine Inch Nails teams up with Boys Noize for a surprise collaborative album, Nine Inch Noize, released just before their anticipated performance at Coachella.
Nine Inch Nails doesn't just arrive; it explodes onto the scene. Trent Reznor's industrial metal act consistently delivers a powerful, unforgettable experience.
At midnight, NIN unleashed a sonic assault in collaboration with Boys Noize, resulting in the surprise album Nine Inch Noize.
Clocking in at 46 minutes with 12 mashups, the collection was unveiled just before their debut performance as Nine Inch Noize at Coachella on Saturday, April 11th, where reworked NIN classics like “Heresy” received a live reimagining at the Sahara Tent.
Nine Inch Noize arrives like a sonic hammer blow before Coachella weekend 2, promising another performance from Reznor and the pioneering German techno producer on Saturday evening, April 18th.
The collaborative album strikes a balance between studio precision and concert chaos, resulting in a sound that's both a club record and a brutal metallic onslaught. Boys Noize (aka Alex Ridha) previously opened for Nine Inch Nails' 2025/26 Peel It Back tour, a 63-date international run that featured a collaborative segment.
Ridha also collaborated with Reznor and Atticus Ross last year, remixing their acclaimed techno-infused soundtrack for the film Challengers.
The Peel It Back tour concluded in March in Sacramento, CA, where frontman Trent Reznor clarified a statement he made earlier in Tulsa, OK, regarding the band's touring future. He had remarked in a fan-filmed video:
"I don’t know if we’re going to be touring anymore after this, but I’m proud of the show that we’re doing right now. And I’m f—ing grateful that you’ve chosen to spend your evening with us tonight. Thank you very much."
He later clarified: "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.’"
"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."
NIN has been prolific and full of surprises lately. The band recently released a companion album to its Tron: Ares soundtrack, titled Tron Ares: Divergence. It follows TRON: Ares, the first-ever film score from Oscar-winning composers Reznor and Atticus Ross (credited under their Nine Inch Nails moniker), which debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200.
Nine Inch Nails has charted eight songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and made 18 appearances on the Billboard 200, including two chart-toppers: 1999’s The Fragile (one week at No. 1) and 2015’s With Teeth (one week). NIN was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.
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