Albums : How To Destroy Angels : Welcome Oblivion

Albums : How To Destroy Angels : Welcome Oblivion

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Who Are How To Destroy Angels?
How to Destroy Angels (stylized How to destroy angels_) is a musical group featuring Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, his wife Mariqueen Maandig, Atticus Ross, and Rob Sheridan (who is also the group's art director). The group is named after a 1984 Coil single of the same name.

The band's first release was a self-titled EP, released on June 1, 2010. The band released a track from the album, "A Drowning", as a digital single, and a second song, "The Space in Between", debuted as a video on Pitchfork on May 14, 2010. A third track, "The Believers", was made available through Wired magazine's iPad application, along with a dissection and analysis of the song, and through a free digital download from the official website. "The Believers" is also featured on the soundtrack of the 2011 film Limitless.

The entire EP can now also be downloaded directly from Destroy Angel's website. The band recorded a cover of the Bryan Ferry song "Is Your Love Strong Enough?," which was released December 9, 2011 on the soundtrack for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. On September 21, 2012, Trent Reznor announced that the band's second EP, An omen EP_ would be released on Columbia Records in November 2012, and that some of the songs on the EP would later appear on the band's first full length album in 2013. On January 10, 2013, it was announced that the band's debut studio album, Welcome Oblivion, would be released on March 5 through Columbia Records. They have been confirmed to play both weekends of Coachella 2013.

The first track from Welcome oblivion, "How long?", was released on January 31, 2013, along with a music video directed by Shynola.

Welcome Oblivion Review
No matter what Trent Reznor does—scores a bestselling videogame, wins an Oscar, forms a new band with his wife—he’ll never completely shake Nine Inch Nails. The ghost of his recently off-hiatus group haunts every one of his non-NIN projects, from his soundtrack work with filmmaker David Fincher to the theme song he wrote and performed for Call Of Duty: Black Ops II to How To Destroy Angels, the band he put together with spouse Mariqueen Maandig, longtime collaborator Atticus Ross, and art director Rob Sheridan.

Welcome Oblivion, How To Destroy Angels’ debut album, follows a pair of EPs that attempted to distance Reznor from his past. But it’s not like he strayed too far from the electronic-industrial wastelands that made Nine Inch Nails one of the ’90s’ most influential bands. Both 2010’s self-titled free-download EP and 2012’s An Omen built slightly menacing art out of various blips and beeps. Basically, they sounded like Nine Inch Nails records with a female singer.

Four of An Omen’s half-dozen tracks show up on Welcome Oblivion, nestled comfortably within the corridors of the whirring, rattling, humming machine work. Reznor still manages to extract melody and an occasional hook from all the noise—a trait that goes all the way back to Nine Inch Nails’ first album. The stripped-down and bubbling “Ice Age” is welcoming in ways that NIN never was, and the slow-build intensity of the semi-instrumental “The Loop Closes” sounds like it was scooped up from The Downward Spiral’s editing-room floor.

But the album’s landscape is mostly littered with bits and pieces of scattered NIN-style electronic debris, like that found on the brief, abrasive opener “The Wake-Up” and the skittering “And The Sky Began To Scream.” Maandig softens the space previously occupied by Reznor’s howls, here tamed to occasional backing growls. Her breathy, often sultry coos add cloudlike tranquility to the hard rain spilling around her. It makes How To Destroy Angels’ music more outgoing and less exciting than Nine Inch Nails’. It also makes Reznor’s clean break all the more impossible to achieve.

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