Released: 2026
Genres: Industrial Techno, Industrial Rock
The Musiquarium’s Nine Inch Noize Review Score: 7.5 out of 10
Having recently worked with electronic artist Boys Noize on Tron Ares and its remix album, Tron Ares: Divergence, as well as touring with him on their powerhouse Peel It Back tour (I was lucky to have seen them twice on said tour), a full collaboration between both parties seemed inevitable at this point.
Nine Inch Noize is unconventional, as it isn’t quite a remix album, nor is it a live album, or even a studio album, but a bit of all three, consisting of no original songs, but rather techno-heavy/rave-friendly remixes of various Nine Inch Nails songs from across the band’s career, as well as a couple covers.
The tracklist includes some of the more obvious choices for an album like this, with songs like Closer, Heresy, Copy of a and Came Back Haunted. There are a few deeper cuts like Vessel, The Warning and Me, I’m Not (all from Year Zero), She’s Gone Away (from Not the Actual Events) and the band’s recent Tron: Ares soundtrack hit, As Alive as You Need Me to Be.
There is also Parasite from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ side project How to Destroy Angels and a Soft Cell cover, Memorabilia. There are no songs from Pretty Hate Machine, but that album was already more dance-oriented and electronic than the band’s later work, so it would have been a fairly pointless exercise to include any of those tracks.
I wouldn’t say any of the songs here are superior to their original counterparts, but they still do them justice by bringing out new dimensions in them by swapping out the headbanging for dancing. I’m not typically fond of remix albums, but Nine Inch Noize was a cohesive and consistent project, birthed from some of the best live shows that I’ve ever witnessed.
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Written by Brett Nippard
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