REZNORWATCH: HOW TO DESTROY ANGELS EP AVAILABLE THIS TUESDAY FOR FREE

I will switch teams for Trent Reznor right now and I don’t care who knows it. He really is just making a strong play for the title of “Coolest Dude EVER.”

It was exactly a month ago today that we first heard about How to Destroy Angels, Renzor’s new project with his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and frequent Nine Inch Nails collaborator Atticus Ross; and it was just a few days ago that we heard that the group’s debut EP would be coming out July 6. Well, that release date either only applies to physical copies of the album, or has been scrapped, or was never real to begin with, ’cause now HTDA have announced that they will be GIVING THE EP AWAY FOR FREE in 320 kbps mp3s THIS TUESDAY, June 1. If you “pre-order” the album right now – pre-ordering in this instance basically amounting to joining an e-mail list – you can download a new song, “The Believers,” right now.

Or, for a whopping two bucks, you can get a hi-def upgrade, which comes with your choice of lossless audio formats available in 24-bit WAV (44.1 kHz), FLAC, or Apple Lossless, plus 320 kbps mp3, plus the gorgeous music video for “The Space in Between” in a range of video formats up to 1080p.

(Of course, super-fans can also spend anywhere from twenty to fifty bucks on packages that include t-shirts and posters and blah blah blah.)

So, to review, in the time-span of a month, HTDA have announced their existence to the world, and let everyone hear half of their EP so that we all know that they have the goods and are worth caring about. And in just another few days, we can all hear the rest of that EP.

Did I mention I’d switch teams for Trent Reznor right now if he asked me to?

Go here to pre-order the EP and get your free “Believers” download. It still sounds very much like NIN with a female vocalist, although it has a cool kinda tribal feel that I can’t recall ever hearing on a NIN track.

-AR