9 Inch Nails kicked off the North American leg of their “Peel It Again World Tour” on Wednesday night time (August sixth) in Oakland, California, delivering a 20-song setlist that includes the return of drummer Josh Freese and the dwell debut of the brand new tune “Alive As You Want Me to Be.”
The stateside outing follows a European/UK leg that ran from mid June by means of mid July. Much like the exhibits on that run, the live performance on the Oakland Area featured a principal stage and a B-Stage.
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This time round, although, Freese is behind the drum package, having changed Ilan Rubin, who reportedly left NIN after the European leg to affix Foo Fighters (who fired Freese earlier this yr). It marks Freese’s second stint with NIN, and his first present taking part in with the legendary industrial band since December 2008.
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Beginning out on the B-Stage, frontman Trent Reznor and firm provided stripped-down and/or reworked variations of “Proper The place It Belongs,” “Ruiner,” and “Piggy.” Transferring over to the primary stage, NIN hit followers straight away with the one-two punch of the explosive favorites “Want” and “March of the Pigs,” amongst different tunes.
Shifting again to the B-Stage, NIN have been joined by help act Boys Noize for 4 songs, together with the aforementioned dwell debut of “Alive As You Want Me to Be,” the brand new tune from the upcoming movie Tron: Ares, for which NIN are offering all the soundtrack.
9 Inch Nails closed out the present with seven songs on the primary stage, together with classics like “The Excellent Drug” (with some nifty drumming by Freese), “Nearer,” “Head Like a Gap,” and the set-closing “Damage.”
Total, 1994’s The Downward Spiral was essentially the most represented album on the career-spanning setlist, with a complete of six songs, with not more than two songs from another launch.
NIN’s North American tour, which marks the band’s first stateside outing in three years, continues Friday night time (August eighth) in Portland, Oregon, and runs by means of a two-night stand September 18th and nineteenth on the Kia Discussion board in Los Angeles. Decide up tickets right here.
See fan-filmed video of the Oakland present, in addition to 9 Inch Nails’ setlist, beneath.
Setlist:
B-Stage:
Proper The place It Belongs (piano acoustic; with “Considerably Broken” outro snippet)
Ruiner (partially acoustic model)
Piggy (Nothing Can Cease Me Now)
Primary Stage:
Want
March of the Pigs
Reptile
Heresy
Copy of A
Gave Up
B-Stage (with Boys Noize):
Vessel (with Boys Noize) (Remix)
As Alive as You Want Me to Be (with Boys Noize) (Dwell debut; Prolonged)
Sin (with Boys Noize) (Remix)
Got here Again Haunted (with Boys Noize) (Remix)
Primary Stage:
Considerably Broken
Much less Than
Nearer (with “The Solely Time” breakdown)
The Excellent Drug
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like a Gap
Damage