How To Destroy Angels

Johnny Manf · **Posted:** May, 4, 2010 - 6:32pm

Trent Reznor has teamed up with his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and frequent NIN collaborator Atticus Ross to bring this new music project called How To Destroy Angels. Their first single is online now. It sounds like more recent NIN style when they do slower songs, but with female vocals. Pretty interesting.

http://pitchfork.com/news/38686-how-to- ... -drowning/

Dante369 · **Joined:** May, 21, 2006 - 6:30pm **Posts:** 12275

Cool beans, man. I'm not that into NIN's slower stuff, but I'll definitely check out whatever they put out.

Johnny Manf · **Posted:** May, 14, 2010 - 8:28pm

Pretty cool video for a new song.
The Space In Between (Null)
http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/musicvideo/55 ... tween-null

phantomspiker · **Posted:** May, 14, 2010 - 8:44pm

Johnny Manf wrote:

Pretty cool video for a new song.
The Space In Between (Null)
http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/musicvideo/55 ... tween-null

That video was great, but it cut off at the end...did it do the same for you?

Johnny Manf · **Posted:** May, 14, 2010 - 8:46pm

I think it was supposed to end like that.

phantomspiker · **Posted:** May, 14, 2010 - 8:50pm

Oh ok, it was just a little strange.

Dr Gaius Baltar · **Joined:** July, 29, 2008 - 9:56pm **Posts:** 3759

I was all set to make a forum thread for this topic and a quick search proved that once again Johnny Manf is a goddamn ninja legend.

I'll just embed the video for those people who are too lazy to click links.

Either way this entire project sounds amazing, and my ween is hard. Nine Inch Nails until I die... and before anyone says it, from the 1989 release of Pretty Hate Machine, "Nine Inch Nails is Trent Reznor," as far as I'm concerned that makes this also a NiN project haha.

Dr Gaius Baltar · **Joined:** July, 29, 2008 - 9:56pm **Posts:** 3759

Fuck it, a few more words from the good doctor.

1) I like how Trent has been really trying to downplay his role with this project, even in press shots and music videos he just sticks to the background, like in The Spaces In Between vid he's just lying dead on the floor for the whole vid, and in a lot of band shots most of the focus is on his wife.

2) I am worried about how well his wife can really perform vocal-wise. Anytime she needs to have a bit of range in a song they have to auto-tune her, and any other time she's basically just softly "singing" into the mic. I have a feeling we've already seen everything she can do in two songs.

3) That said, Trent's wife is a goddamn hottie. Hell, I'd bang her in a goddamn heartbeat. Good for Trent.

Frank · **Posted:** May, 25, 2010 - 8:04pm

yeah my buddy sent links to these last week. the video for spaces in between is pretty awesome. its basically the antithesis of what goes on in a video today: well contructed shots that are allowed to play out.

im not sure if im a total fan of her vocals, but im defiantely going to be checking it out.

Dr Gaius Baltar · **Joined:** July, 29, 2008 - 9:56pm **Posts:** 3759

Honestly, I don't think her vocals are shnazzy either. I'm sure what we've heard so far will basically be more of the same for the rest of the album.

I'm more hyped about the instrumentation which is practically 100% Trent Reznor melt-in-your-mouthness. Some of it even brings me back to the Fragile era stuff.

Dante369 · **Joined:** May, 21, 2006 - 6:30pm **Posts:** 12275

Dr Gaius Baltar · **Joined:** July, 29, 2008 - 9:56pm **Posts:** 3759

I actually really dig that. This band might just be shaping up into something fantastic.

phantomspiker · **Posted:** May, 27, 2010 - 8:50pm

She is pretty much going to just be whispering through this whole album isn't she?

Dr Gaius Baltar · **Joined:** July, 29, 2008 - 9:56pm **Posts:** 3759

phantomspiker wrote:

She is pretty much going to just be whispering through this whole album isn't she?

haha, that has been my speculation for quite some time. Anytime she deviates from the whispering in the slightest way they have to autotune her voice, which makes me think she is not a strong singer.

Either way the songs are still pretty awesome.

Johnny Manf · **Posted:** June, 1, 2010 - 7:52am

from theprp.com

Quote:

How To Destroy Angels have released their self-titled debut EP online for free digitally over at their official website, www.howtodestroyangels.com. An upgraded high definition version of the effort is also available in lossless audio for $2 USD and features a bonus 1080p/480p download of the bands video for their track “The Space In Between“.

A physical edition of the EP is slated for a July 06th release date while a vinyl version will follow with more details TBA. As previously reported, How To Destroy Angels is the new collaborative project between Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor, his wife Mariqueen and frequent Nine Inch Nails collaborator Atticus Ross.

Dr Gaius Baltar · **Joined:** July, 29, 2008 - 9:56pm **Posts:** 3759

This could be cool, I'll check it out later. Seems like the basic hookup is free though right? Or am I reading this wrong?

Johnny Manf · **Posted:** June, 1, 2010 - 7:58am

You enter your email address and they send you a link in your email with another link to the zip file with all the songs. Yes, for free.

Dr Gaius Baltar · **Joined:** July, 29, 2008 - 9:56pm **Posts:** 3759

I love Trent Reznor

phantomspiker · **Posted:** June, 1, 2010 - 12:42pm

That was kinda boring to be honest, as suspected she whispered throughout the whole thing. The first and last songs are the standouts for me, but we already heard those before.

Frank · **Posted:** June, 1, 2010 - 2:21pm

i dug it. i thought it had some good stuff in there. she's the weakest part for me.

Frank · **Posted:** June, 1, 2010 - 6:45pm

"parasite" is pretty damned good.

Frank · **Posted:** July, 27, 2010 - 12:03am

i've given this one a few listen through, and its pretty good. its got trent written all over it. BBB is pretty great.

Johnny Manf · **Posted:** November, 2, 2012 - 7:35am

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