Nine Inch Nails preview new live show with behind-the-scenes teaser video

To coincide with the release of their new album, Nine Inch Nails have debuted an elaborate new live show based on Talking Heads’ 1983 world tour, as documented in the live concert film Stop Making Sense.

And as Rolling Stone points out, the studio responsible for creating a “wide variety of pre-rendered and real-time content for mobile LED screens” has shared some behind the scenes production footage, which you can watch below.

“We’re always pushing the envelope,” Roy Bennet, the band’s lighting and production designer, told The New York Times. “We’re always trying to make people think and keep them on edge and keep them wondering what’s going on.”

NIN’s Trent Reznor did however reveal that the live show will completely change for their US tour, saying,“The fact that we’re doing all this only for these few shows, and then we have to do it over again, throwing all this out to do a completely new thing, with new things that won’t work, that feels a little insane.”

Here’s the video:

Hesitation Marks is due out September 3rd via Columbia (pre-orders are ongoing).

You can also check out their full tour schedule below, for which they will occasionally be supported by the likes of Explosions in the Sky, Tomahawk, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Nine Inch Nails 2013 Tour Dates:

15/8 – Kiewit, BE @ Pukkelpop
16/8 – Biddinghuizen, NL @ Lowlands Festival
18/8 – Hockenheim, DE @ Rock ‘n’ Heim
21/8 – Belfast, IE @ Belsonic Festival
23/8 – Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
24/8 – Saint-Cloud, FR @ Rock en Seine
25/8 – Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
28/8 – Milan, IT @ Mediolanum Forum
31/8-1/9 – Philadelphia, PA @ Made in America
28/9 – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center
30/9 – Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center
1/10 – St. Louis, MO @ Chaifetz Arena
3/10 – Montreal, QC @ Centre Bell
4/10 – Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre
5/10 – Cleveland, OH @ Wolstein Center
7/10 – Auburn Hills, MI @ The Palace of Auburn Hills
8/10 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Petersen Events Center
11/10 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden
14/10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
15/10 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
18/10 – Washington, DC @ Verizon Center
19/10 – University Park, PA @ Bryce Jordan Center
21/10 – Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
22/10 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
24/10 – Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena
26/10 – Asheville, NC @ Mountain Oasis Electronic Summit
30/10 – Sunrise, FL @ BB&T Center
31/10 – Orlando, FL @ Amway Center
1-3/11 – New Orleans, LA @ Voodoo Experience
5/11 – San Antonio, TX @ AT&T Center
8/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ Staples Center
9/11 – Phoenix, AZ @ US Airways Center
11/11 – El Paso, TX @ Don Haskins Center
13/11 – Broomfield, CO @ 1st Bank Center
15/11 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint
16/11 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint
18/11 – Portland, OR @ Rose Garden Arena
19/11 – Spokane, WA @ Spokane Arena
21/11 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
22/11 – Seattle, WA @ KeyArena
24/11 – Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place
25/11 – Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome

[via Consequence of Sound]