{"id":164513,"date":"2025-06-05T15:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T19:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/05\/heres-our-dream-setlist-for-nine-inch-nails-peel-it-back-tour\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T19:11:13","slug":"heres-our-dream-setlist-for-nine-inch-nails-peel-it-back-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/05\/heres-our-dream-setlist-for-nine-inch-nails-peel-it-back-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Our Dream Setlist for Nine Inch Nails\u2019 Peel It Back\u00a0Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tHey, pigs! All of our dreams practically came true when Nine Inch Nails<\/a> announced in January that the band was hitting the road for the Peel It Back<\/a> world tour in 2025. (\u201cPractically,\u201d because some of us are still awaiting that new album announcement.)<\/p>\n

\n\tIt didn\u2019t take long after the news arrived for fans to start speculating as to who might open for the Grammy-winning band, who hasn\u2019t released a proper NIN album since March 2020\u2019s surprise drops of the instrumentals Ghosts V: Together<\/em> and Ghosts VI: Locusts<\/em> \u2014 and going farther back, to 2018\u2019s Bad Witch<\/em>, if we\u2019re talking music with lyrics. Potential openers that were floated on forums such as Reddit have ranged from the industrial (Health, Youth Code) to synth-pop(Gary Numan) to dance\/electronic (Boy Harsher). But it was electro-house veteran Boys Noize \u2014 Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross\u2019 Challengers<\/em> soundtrack collaborator \u2014 who NIN revealed<\/a> in March had landed the coveted gig.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut what discussion of the Peel It Back Tour ahead of its June 15 launch in Dublin would be complete without a massive \u201cWish\u201d list of tracks fans are hoping to hear live? With an impressive catalogue that includes 10 studio albums (plus three EPs, a live set and multiple film soundtracks) since 1989\u2019s Pretty Hate Machine<\/em>, that\u2019s a heck of a lot of hits and fan-favorite deep cuts to consider fitting into a set.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat said, NIN might\u2019ve offered some not-so-subtle hints about where the focus may be. After all, the critically lauded The Downward Spiral<\/em> marked its 30th anniversary last year, and the name of this tour comes from the lyrics off the album\u2019s lead single, \u201cMarch of the Pigs,\u201d so it wouldn\u2019t be a surprise if the setlist was TDS<\/em> heavy. (Perhaps the 14-track album will even be played front to back? It\u2019s not exactly a pie-in-the-sky wish, since NIN performed the Broken<\/em> EP from beginning to end at several shows during its 2018 tour, a year after the 1992 release marked its 25th anniversary.) Or maybe given Reznor\u2019s harsh criticisms during the first Trump Administration, things will take a political bent, with a heavier-than-expected focus on 2007\u2019s Year Zero<\/em>. With the band\u2019s penchant for regularly changing up the setlist from night to night, who knows what fans will be treated to!<\/p>\n

\n\tBut for the sake of discussion, let\u2019s assume TDS<\/em> will not be played in full. So what will make it to the stage while other worthy songs are set aside to fit into the allotted time for what could be a best-of trek? With the tour kickoff quickly approaching, nothing can stop us now from coming up with our dream setlist.<\/p>\n