Nine Inch Nails are active, and on the road. But the end might be closer than we realize.
NIN spearhead Trent Reznor gave fans an unexpected warning when the industrial rock heavyweights visited Tulsa, OK last Friday night, Feb. 27.
“I don’t know if we’re going to be touring anymore after this,” he remarked in a video filmed from the BOK Center crowd, “but I’m proud of the show that we’re doing right now. And I’m f—ing grateful that you’ve chosen to spend your evening with us tonight. Thank you very much.”
Reznor shared his thoughts as he recounted a performance in Tulsa “many years” ago when NIN was the support act for Peter Murphy at Cain’s Ballroom, a room capped at 1,800. That night, Reznor had a life-affirming moment, as he watched a member of the audience scream back the lyrics to “Head Like a Hole,” a classic early NIN song from the 1989 album Pretty Hate Machine.
On the same day that Reznor hinted at the end of the road for his Rock And Roll Hall of Fame-inducted band, another surprise: NIN released a companion album to its Tron: Ares soundtrack, titled Tron Ares: Divergence. It’s the followup to TRON: Ares, the first-ever film score from Oscar-winning composers Reznor and Atticus Ross, credited as Nine Inch Nails, which debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
NIN ensured the 1980s were buried under a ton of metal with Pretty Hate Machine. Although it only peaked at No. 75 on the Billboard 200, the album marked ground zero in a new movement of heavy-edged music, with the synth in its stable. It’s one of 18 NIN appearances on the all-genres albums chart, a tally that includes two leaders: 1999’s The Fragile (one week at No. 1) and 2015’s With Teeth (one week).
Reznor and Co. are currently on the second leg of the Peel It Back tour, which is scheduled to wrap up March 16 at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, CA. The first leg got underway June 15, 2025, in Dublin, and ended with two shows at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles last September.
Check out the remaining 2026 dates for NIN’s Peel It Back North American tour below.
March 3: American Airlines Center — Dallas, Texas
March 6: Desert Diamond Arena — Glendale, Arizona
March 7: MGM Grand Garden Arena — Las Vegas, Nevada
March 9: Pechanga Arena — San Diego, California
March 10: Honda Center — Anaheim, California
March 13: Delta Center — Salt Lake City, Utah
March 15: Chase Center — San Francisco, California
March 16: Golden 1 Center, Sacramento, California
