Nine Inch Nails announced they'll play a pair of shows in Vegas in June and revealed these will be the band's only North American dates this summer. Presales kick off March 28th at 1pm ET and the general onsale is March 30th at 1pm ET.
The Vegas gigs take place prior to NIN's previously announced dates in the U.K., which means the deadline for the final installment in the Nine Inch Nails EP trilogy has moved up by nine days. Trent Reznor told the BBC earlier this month that the band was finishing up work on the third EP and they plan to release it sometime prior to their shows in June. In the same interview he revealed the final EP took a bit longer than originally planned due to an unexpected creative roadblock:
"We started out with a pretty rigid concept of what the three EPs were going to be, having not written them all, but had a kind of blueprint for the trajectory and the sound. And then as we finished the last one, Add Violence, and started work on what we thought was going to be the third EP, we found ourselves - it felt too predictable. It felt like what we originally -- the map we'd kind of drawn out, the plot line -- felt like we were forcing things musically and storytelling-wise, just the whole trajectory.
We thought it was a brief phase and we kept at it and it still inherently felt wrong, so we -- the reason it's been a little bit delayed, is it took us awhile to, for what has become the third EP, to reveal itself to us. It was kind of a left turn, a surprise, it took us awhile to wrap our heads around it, but we're in the process of finishing that right now and that should be out before these shows take place."
Nine Inch Nails - World Tour
Jun 13 -- Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint/Hard Rock Cafe Hotel & Casino
Jun 15 -- Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint/Hard Rock Cafe Hotel & Casino
Jun 22 -- London, UK @ Meltdown
Jun 24 -- London, UK @ Royal Albert Hall
Jun 25 -- Paris, FR @ L'Olympia
Jun 27 -- Amsterdam, NL @ AFAS
Jun 29 -- St. Gallen, CH @ Open Air St. Gallen
Jun 30 -- Prague, CZ @ Aerodrome Festival
Jul 02 -- Berlin, DE @ Zitadelle
Jul 04 -- Roskilde, DK @ Roskilde
Jul 06 -- Belfort, FR @ Les Eurockéennes
Jul 08 -- Werchter, BE @ Rock Werchter
Jul 12 -- Lisbon, PT @ Nos Alive
Jul 14 -- Madrid, ES @ Mad Cool Festival
Aug 17 -- Tokyo, JP @ Sonic Mania
Aug 19 -- Osaka, JP @ Summer Sonic
Published March 26th, 2018