How to Destroy Angels has got much more of its identity on than it did in it's first offering. They've had time to let it grow and develop into sonic aesthetic of its own.
"We were influenced by early Cabaret Voltaire – it’s very deconstructed rhythmically and more textural. Mariqueen found her place; we used her in a quite interesting way, I think," said Trent Reznor when speaking to Rolling Stone.
"When we did the first EP, it was the result of six weeks in the studio, just kind of seeing what happened. We didn’t have a lot of time to explore that much and figure out what our sound is. It felt very close to other projects I’ve been involved in or direct influences, let’s say. [This] sounds like How to Destroy Angels now, instead of sounding like other stuff, so I’m proud of that and I’m excited to unleash it into the wild here."
Which could give a new How To Destroy Angels album more of an old school industirial vibe akin to Skinny Puppy, Coil, early-era Ministry and even Bauhaus than was evident on the How To Destroy Angels EP that came out in 2010. Trent Reznor said last week that the new album is done and being mixed by Alan Moulder.
The band Cabaret Voltaire was named after a nightclub in Zürich, Switzerland that was a focal point the Dada art movement. Dada was a hyperactive artistic movement in World War I Europe that focused on idealistic manifestos, literature, graphic design and the deconstruction of everything. In other words, the chaos of war-torn Europe combined with an obsessive focus on stylizing and identifying everything worked its way into the movement. Remind you of a any ways in which Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have worked in the past? It sounds exciting.
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