Photo by John Crawford

Trent Reznor is keeping his word to release new Nine Inch Nails music this year.

The band, along with previous collaborator and newly official bandmate Atticus Ross, will self-release a new EP called Not the Actual Events on next Friday (Dec. 23).  

"It's an unfriendly, fairly impenetrable record that we needed to make," Reznor said in a statement released Friday. "It's an EP because that ended up being the proper length to tell that story."

Two formats are now available for pre-order, including a vinyl and limited edition digital-plus-physical version. Additionally, Nine Inch Nails is releasing a special limited vinyl edition of their 1999 album The Fragile, which is also available for pre-order. The four-disc version will include 37 instrumental, alternate and unreleased tracks, many of which are previously unheard.

"The Fragile occupies a very interesting and intimate place in my heart," Reznor said. "I was going through a turbulent time in my life when making it and revisiting it has become a form of therapy for me. As an experiment, I removed all the vocals from the record and found it became a truly changed experience that worked on a different yet compelling level."

Furthermore, Reznor and NIN art director John Crawford have begun crafting "definitive editions" of all the major NIN releases on vinyl. The first three (Broken, The Downward Spiral and The Fragile) are available now for pre-order, with vinyl deliveries set for sometime in the spring.

Additional information can be found here.