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Album: How to Destroy Angels (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is the second single from How to Destroy Angels, a group which comprises Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor along with his wife Mariqueen Maandi (who was frontwiman in the band West Indian Girl) and English musician Atticus Ross, who has been credited as a producer and programmer on a number of Nine Inch Nails albums.
  • How to Destroy Angels is named after a 1984 Coil single of the same name.
  • Rupert Sanders directed the dark video, which shows gunshot victims Reznor and Maandig lying bloodied in a hotel room.

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  • Snufftherooster from UkI love you Maandig. Sorry Trent.
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