Nine Inch Nails have announced a new collaborative album with Boys Noize ahead of their show together at Coachella 2026.
The two artists have a history of working together – including on the soundtracks to Challengers and TRON: Ares – and they had already been announced on the bill for Coachella under the name Nine Inch Noize.
Now, it has been revealed that they are releasing a full-length album together under the same name. Writing on their Instagram accounts tonight (April 8), they revealed the record will be released on April 17, and is tagged as ‘HALO 38’, in keeping with the sequentially-numbered releases from throughout Nine Inch Nails’ career.
A billboard has also popped up on the route into Indio, California for those on their way to Coachella, with the Nine Inch Noize set scheduled for Saturday (April 11) on the Sahara stage.
Nine Inch Nails enlisted German producer and DJ Boys Noize to “deconstruct and subsequently reimagine” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ score for Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers in 2024, and they went on to work together on the soundtrack to TRON: Ares last year.
Boys Noize also joined NIN for shows on the UK leg of their mammoth ‘Peel It Back’ tour last summer, delivering remixes from a small second stage in the middle of the audience.
At the final show of that tour, Reznor spoke about the future of the band, clarifying previous remarks that had suggested the band would never play again. “I think I said something the other day that then got misconstrued into something that is not intentionally necessarily true,” he explained.
“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 any time in the future so far. That doesn’t mean we may not tour again.”
Drummer Ilan Rubin departed Nine Inch Nails last year to join Foo Fighters, with Josh Freese moving the other way, and Rubin recently said the swap was “an obvious great fit”.