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There's a Way to Destroy Angels? (New EP out!)

Baroque And RollBaroque And Roll Every spark of friendship and loveWill die without a homeRegistered User regular
edited June 2010 in Social Entropy++
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Pitchfork wrote:
Last year, Nine Inch Nails played their final show as a touring entity, and mastermind Trent Reznor married former West Indian Girl frontwoman Mariqueen Maandig. Now, Reznor and Maandig have formed the group How to Destroy Angels. They'll release a self-titled, six-song EP this summer.

The new group has a website, as well as a Twitter, a MySpace, and pages on Facebook, YouTube, and Vimeo. But all the information we've seen on them is in the 40-second video below. The clip features a hand, presumably Maandig's, tweaking a knob while some fuzzed-out and evil-sounding electro blares. Other than that, all we know is that they appear to be named after a 1984 album by industrial pioneers Coil. For the moment, that's all we need to know.

That's right, ladies and gentlemen, Reznor makes his return to music with HOW TO DESTROY ANGELS.

I, for one, am pretty stoked. I've always been a huge fan of Reznor's work with Nine Inch Nails.

Talk about how awesome this is going to be. Or about how much Nine Inch Nails kicked ass.

EDIT: Download their new six track EP from http://howtodestroyangels.com/

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  • WimbleWimble Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    oh woo I love Reznor

    gonna check dis mother out

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I wish Trent Reznor would go away

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  • FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    When I think of Trent Reznor, I think about how he should just stick to producing or doing movie music.

    But then I think how I would just rather have Nick Cave be my rock musician that does movie scores

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    First I've heard of this. Sounds rad.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I wish Trent Reznor would go away

    You and me both

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  • mcpmcp Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I hope he puts more effort into this than he did The Slip.

    His recent stuff just sounds so... lazy compared to his older work.

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  • Baroque And RollBaroque And Roll Every spark of friendship and love Will die without a homeRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Faricazy wrote: »
    First I've heard of this. Sounds rad.

    I checked Pitchfork on a whim and there it was!

    t mcp - How do you feel about Ghosts I-IV?

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  • FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    but yeah, this sounds cool. he's pretty cool as a dude who makes music happen. i just hope he isn't the one singing

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  • WimbleWimble Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Ghosts was amazing

    I liked the slip a lot too, especially the four of us are dying

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  • mcpmcp Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Baroque And Roll wrote: »
    Faricazy wrote: »
    First I've heard of this. Sounds rad.

    I checked Pitchfork on a whim and there it was!

    t mcp - How do you feel about Ghosts I-IV?
    Mostly used it for background noise when I was working on something.

    It's pretty good.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I liked the bit where Johnny Cash made Trent Reznor look like a blubbering little pussy.

    Johnny Cash - Hurt

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Jedoc wrote: »
    I liked the bit where Johnny Cash made Trent Reznor look like a blubbering little pussy.

    Johnny Cash - Hurt

    :^:

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  • WimbleWimble Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    so why do some of you dislike reznor so much (or at least, to the point where you want him to go away?) Is he extremely saturated by the media/other people where you are from, or are you just really bothered by the music?

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  • Caulk Bite 6Caulk Bite 6 One of the multitude of Dans infesting this place Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I've never heard Reznor's version of Hurt.

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  • spazmojackspazmojack Hangin on the corner of 52nd and BroadwayRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    i've enjoyed most of his stuff, will be interesting to see how this project of his turns out.

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  • babyeatingjesusbabyeatingjesus Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    To be fair, Johnny Cash makes everyone look like a blubbering little pussy.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Wimble wrote: »
    so why do some of you dislike reznor so much (or at least, to the point where you want him to go away?) Is he extremely saturated by the media/other people where you are from, or are you just really bothered by the music?

    Nah, I couldn't care less about media saturation. Plenty of great artists get a lot more attention.

    Just genuinely can't stand any of his music that I've heard.

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  • MonstyMonsty Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    NIN kids made fun of them in middle school. They made fun of us all. :( Damn that cool John Carmack.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    babyeatingjesus wrote: »
    To be fair, Johnny Cash makes everyone look like a blubbering little pussy.

    Seriously. Every time I see a video of him in his later days I feel like I need to go build a home in the woods by gnawing logs into planks and punching the nails in with my fists. Just to catch up with how grizzled he is.

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  • FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    how does he make Reznor look like a pussy? he's covering the dude's song. he is playing homage to Trent Reznor's talent

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Baroque And Roll wrote: »
    Faricazy wrote: »
    First I've heard of this. Sounds rad.

    I checked Pitchfork on a whim and there it was!

    t mcp - How do you feel about Ghosts I-IV?

    Ghosts is the only stuff I've gotten into since, uh, Still? But I thought With Teeth was better than Year Zero, so...

    Hey, this should really be a Coil thread.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZhpIDs_VQ4

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  • Caulk Bite 6Caulk Bite 6 One of the multitude of Dans infesting this place Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Caulk Bite 6 wrote: »
    I've never heard Reznor's version of Hurt.

    just remedied this. Took a while to find a video of it on youtube that wasn't either a fan video, or a fan video with fucked up sound.

    Frankly, I like the Cash one way better.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    NEW NEWS LIQUID SWORDS DOS

    http://pitchfork.com/news/38636-gza-rza-at-work-on-iliquid-swords-2i/

    FUCK
    YES

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  • XyyzXyyz Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Silly Trent.

    Everyone knows you can't destroy Angels due to the quantum lock.

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  • Caulk Bite 6Caulk Bite 6 One of the multitude of Dans infesting this place Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Futore wrote: »
    he is playing homage to Trent Reznor's talent

    paying homage.

    no "L".

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2010
    Futore wrote: »
    how does he make Reznor look like a pussy?

    This should become apparent immediately after hearing Cash play the song.

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  • babyeatingjesusbabyeatingjesus Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    Futore wrote: »
    how does he make Reznor look like a pussy?

    This should become apparent immediately after hearing Cash play the song.

    Yeah the NIN version is, by comparison if nothing else, very whiny.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Futore wrote: »
    how does he make Reznor look like a pussy? he's covering the dude's song. he is playing homage to Trent Reznor's talent

    When Reznor performs the song, it sounds like the poems the goth kid in high school wrote after the girl next door went to the prom with the captain of the basketball team even though he saw her first. It's meant to conjure sympathy between the singer and listeners whose outcast status is largely self-constructed and likely to vanish entirely as soon as they get to college and reinvent themselves as someone who matters. Major thematic ingredients: mascara, black cargo pants, and the day-to-day agony that is suburban upper-middle-class teenagehood.

    When Cash sings it, it's a genuine callback to a life that has seen some tremendous lows and whose high points are all in the past. Deep regret rather than impotent rage, and a gulf of unimaginable experience between the performer and the listener. Thematic ingredients: whiskey, grit, and the blackened remnants of youthful idealism.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2010
    I heard the Cash version before I heard the original, so I thought the line "The needle tears a hole" was referring to a record-player.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Faricazy wrote: »
    NEW NEWS LIQUID SWORDS DOS

    http://pitchfork.com/news/38636-gza-rza-at-work-on-iliquid-swords-2i/

    FUCK
    YES

    must i emphasize

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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Sweet, NiN. Gonna listen to this and write in my pain journal. I'll have to light some of my dragon candles though, I just painted my walls black and it's really dim in here.

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  • FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Futore wrote: »
    how does he make Reznor look like a pussy? he's covering the dude's song. he is playing homage to Trent Reznor's talent

    When Reznor performs the song, it sounds like the poems the goth kid in high school wrote after the girl next door went to the prom with the captain of the basketball team even though he saw her first. It's meant to conjure sympathy between the singer and listeners whose outcast status is largely self-constructed and likely to vanish entirely as soon as they get to college and reinvent themselves as someone who matters. Major thematic ingredients: mascara, black cargo pants, and the day-to-day agony that is suburban upper-middle-class teenagehood.

    When Cash sings it, it's a genuine callback to a life that has seen some tremendous lows and whose high points are all in the past. Deep regret rather than impotent rage, and a gulf of unimaginable experience between the performer and the listener. Thematic ingredients: whiskey, grit, and the blackened remnants of youthful idealism.

    first off, are other NIN songs not goth kid poems? yeah, they're good musically, but the lyrics are never anything that endearing

    second, do you guys really think Reznor has not gone through highs and lows similar to Cash? They're both pretty big superstars who have gone through that whole rollercoaster.

    I agree that Cash's version is a hell of a lot better, but you have to realize that when a musician as legendary as Johnny Cash covers your fucking song, there is a reason.

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Futore wrote: »
    how does he make Reznor look like a pussy? he's covering the dude's song. he is playing homage to Trent Reznor's talent

    When Reznor performs the song, it sounds like the poems the goth kid in high school wrote after the girl next door went to the prom with the captain of the basketball team even though he saw her first. It's meant to conjure sympathy between the singer and listeners whose outcast status is largely self-constructed and likely to vanish entirely as soon as they get to college and reinvent themselves as someone who matters. Major thematic ingredients: mascara, black cargo pants, and the day-to-day agony that is suburban upper-middle-class teenagehood.

    When Cash sings it, it's a genuine callback to a life that has seen some tremendous lows and whose high points are all in the past. Deep regret rather than impotent rage, and a gulf of unimaginable experience between the performer and the listener. Thematic ingredients: whiskey, grit, and the blackened remnants of youthful idealism.

    When Cash sings it, it's not a genuine anything. He didn't write the lyrics, the melodic construction is awkward for him, and it sounds like stilted karaoke. His cover of Rusty Cage was substantially better, but nothing on that album is at the top of his oeuvre.

    The original isn't really one of Reznor's best either, but the analogy you made is along the lines of saying System Shock reminds you of BioShock.

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  • mcpmcp Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Aneurhythmia wrote: »
    Baroque And Roll wrote: »
    Faricazy wrote: »
    First I've heard of this. Sounds rad.

    I checked Pitchfork on a whim and there it was!

    t mcp - How do you feel about Ghosts I-IV?

    Ghosts is the only stuff I've gotten into since, uh, Still? But I thought With Teeth was better than Year Zero, so...

    Hey, this should really be a Coil thread.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZhpIDs_VQ4

    :^:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJTYIa1X06U&feature=PlayList&p=54717BE1DC88331D&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=43

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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Wait a second. Somebody else that doesn't slobber over the Cash cover? Marry me, Any.

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  • cadmunkycadmunky One hand on the bottle, The other a shaking fist.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    damn, thought this was a bayonetta thread.

    interesting, nonetheless.

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  • FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Aneurhythmia wrote: »
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Futore wrote: »
    how does he make Reznor look like a pussy? he's covering the dude's song. he is playing homage to Trent Reznor's talent

    When Reznor performs the song, it sounds like the poems the goth kid in high school wrote after the girl next door went to the prom with the captain of the basketball team even though he saw her first. It's meant to conjure sympathy between the singer and listeners whose outcast status is largely self-constructed and likely to vanish entirely as soon as they get to college and reinvent themselves as someone who matters. Major thematic ingredients: mascara, black cargo pants, and the day-to-day agony that is suburban upper-middle-class teenagehood.

    When Cash sings it, it's a genuine callback to a life that has seen some tremendous lows and whose high points are all in the past. Deep regret rather than impotent rage, and a gulf of unimaginable experience between the performer and the listener. Thematic ingredients: whiskey, grit, and the blackened remnants of youthful idealism.

    When Cash sings it, it's not a genuine anything. He didn't write the lyrics, the melodic construction is awkward for him, and it sounds like stilted karaoke. His cover of Rusty Cage was substantially better, but nothing on that album is at the top of his oeuvre.

    The original isn't really one of Reznor's best either, but the analogy you made is along the lines of saying System Shock reminds you of BioShock.

    Annie, you want a good cover?

    "Green Grass" cover by Agathe & Fine

    these girls got on the Female Tribute to Tom Waits album and I'm pretty sure it was entirely because of their youtube video. they've started making more music, but god I would pay so much for them to just cover a hundred Tom Waits songs

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  • Valentin SeleznyovValentin Seleznyov __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2010
    There are some biblical accounts of God destroying angels for singing out of tune.

    If poorly performed music all it takes, Trent is in trouble.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2010
    Valentin Seleznyov wrote: »
    There are some biblical accounts of God destroying angels for singing out of tune.

    If poorly performed music all it takes, Trent is in trouble.

    If Trent Reznor smokes a blunt on a full moon, does it make him slightly sharper?

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I am not the biggest NIN fan in the world but I would be up for trying on for size some of his new group's stuff.

    And mcp, h5 on Teeth > YZ, I just could not get into YZ enough to enjoy it as much as With Teeth.

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