Nine Inch Nails live 2025: tickets, dates, advance sales. All information about the cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Nine Inch Nails have announced the dates of their 2025 “Peel It Back Tour”. It will be Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ first live tour since 2022. The tour starts on June 15th in Dublin, Ireland. NIN also come to Great Britain, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Festival appearances are also part of the concert tour, such as at the Graspop Metal Meeting in Dessel, Belgium, at the Open’er in Gdynia, Poland, and the Mad Cool in Madrid, Spain.
Nine Inch Nails
Peel It Back Tour 2025
June 20, 2025 Cologne, Lanxess Arena
June 26, 2025 Zurich, Hallenstadion
June 27, 2025 Vienna, Stadthalle D
July 1st, 2025 Berlin, Uber Arena
General advance sales start:
Wed., January 29, 2025, 12:00 p.m
The 100 Best Musicians: Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails – Essay by David Bowie
When the gods of cacophony announced a competition across the city and asked the brutes of industrial rock to fight it out for the noise crown, the little boy with the tuba was probably the last candidate they had in mind. His name was Michael Trent Reznoralso played the saxophone and piano and learned how to use a mixing console at an early age. He had produced a tremendous debut album called Pretty Hate Machine, which he had to perform live for three years due to contractual obligations. It was probably thanks to the remaining melodic fragments that he was able to make his industrial rock accessible to a mainstream audience and sold over a million copies.
Like Brian Eno before him, Reznor unpacked his synthesizer but immediately threw away the manual. When he produced “The Downward Spiral,” he encouraged his computer to deliberately misinterpret input signals—and consequently spit out haphazard, misshapen shards of sound that constantly cut, if not slashed, the listener. This music is, second only to The Velvet Underground, the best medium in rock music to flog your soul to your heart’s content.
Years ago I had a strange dream: Lou Reed, I, and a friend named Warren Peace were having dinner in Greenwich Village, in one of the long-vanished places where Jackson Pollock used to fight with other painters. Our dinner was served by a member of the Einstreichen Neuhäusern. After a while I became aware that there was music coming from the speakers that seemed strangely familiar to me, but to my annoyance I couldn’t place it.
Birthday surprise for Lou
Blixa Cash, our waiter, leaned closer to my ear and whispered, “The music is a birthday surprise for Lou. “Trent Reznor remixed ‘Metal Machine Music’ specifically for Lou.”
And as he said this, splashes and blobs from one of Pollock’s paintings flew around our ears. The music got louder and more and more drops of color shot through the air – until we fled the café, chased by disgusting purple, blue and black snakes that also uttered infernal screams. And that pretty much says everything about Trent’s music.