Nine Inch Nails Returns After Four Years, Releases New Single

Nine Inch Nails has cemented its surprise return to music after a four-year hiatus with the release of a new single, “Come Back Haunted.”

The single was released on Wednesday, the first offering from the industrial-rock group since the Wave Goodbye Tour ended in 2009.

The song is the first sample from the new studio album for Nine Inch Nails, Hesitation Marks. Produced by frontman Trent Reznor along with Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder, the album will be released in the late summer. It is the first disc released by the bank since 2008’s The Slip.

“For the last year I’ve been secretly working non-stop with Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder on a new, full-length Nine Inch Nails record, which I am happy to say is finished and frankly f***ing great,” Reznor said in a recent statement.

He continued, “This is the real impetus and motivation behind the decision to assemble a new band and tour again. My forays into film, How to Destroy Angels and other projects really stimulated me creatively and I decided to focus that energy on taking Nine Inch Nails to a new place.”

Nine Inch Nails returns to the stage this summer, playing at Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival in late July and hitting up other summer events, including Lollapalooza in Chicago, England’s Reading Festival, and Jay-Z’s Made in America Festival in Philadelphia.

“I was working with Adrian Belew on some musical ideas, which led to some discussion on performing, which led to some beard-scratching, which (many steps later) led to the decision to re-think the idea of what Nine Inch Nails could be, and the idea of playing a show,” Reznor had said previously. “Calls were made to some friends, lots of new ideas were discussed, and a show was booked – which led to another, which somehow led to a lot of shows.”

The new Nine Inch Nails album will be released September 3.