That's trents voice at the end alright.
That's trents voice at the end alright.
I wonder if this is intentional like when TR asked Levi/eatyourblud/me to leak "Break" through torrent sites back in '07.
Looking at it full size it's definitely a screen print shirt or fabric of some sort. The N is a different font from typical NIN, not going to dig a bunch has he used the chunky bold font outside of the NIN logo? Possible NIN logo above it though.
I think it's just Trent paying homage to The Hustler.
Now "ASHES" has been posted.
Edit: https://streamable.com/ok34j
Last edited by somewhat_; 07-08-2017 at 10:17 PM.
Friendly footnote (before everyone gets too crazy): Trent has made his disappointment pretty clear in the past when tracks have leaked out via shitty recordings. (i.e. The Perfect Drug, The Hand That Feeds)
I sincerely doubt that the stuff that's hitting reddit right now is in any way linked to any official source.
I can wait a week for the actual EP instead of going crazy over either a) shitty leaks or more likely b) fake shit.
The lettering is nothing like what's on Trent's instagram. Not to mention the lettering is clean compared to the NTAE album cover. confirmed fake.
How can that image on Trent's instagram not be related to the new EP when the blacked out top secret album on the site spells something beginning with THE and ending with 8 letters that end with an E ? People have guessed it to be THE EVIDENCE or THE PRESENCE. Trent's instagram image shows this explicitly.
Because the only known fact is that both happen to end with an "E." We don't know for a fact that the preceding two letters are "N" and "C." That is only seen in the instagram photo. The only thing that nin.com gave away is the final letter. I think people are jumping to conclusions because the last letter on that shirt happens to be an "E."
EDIT: It (the official page) doesn't specify that the first three letters are "The" either. That's more of a common assumption by fans.
It's bonkers that you think that, on the same day Trent teases the new album, his Instagram post prominently showing a partial word ending in E is just an unrelated coincidence that has nothing to do with anything. Like Trent said, "ooh, this album that already exists on vinyl is on vinyl again- I should probably take to Instagram for the first time in six months to show everybody! Ugh, there's something under the record that'll be in the picture, though; maybe I should move it. SCREW IT THERE'S NO TIME."
Last edited by Toadflax; 07-09-2017 at 02:58 AM.
Yeah, that dude definitely knows how crazy his fanbase is. There's no way he isn't at least thinking about what he's doing when leaving those letters in the picture. Even if it's just a troll.
The Instagram picture is definitely not an album cover, it's some kind of cloth... perhaps an Art is Resistance flag? A Presence shirt? What else would have the words "It lives!" said about it aside from the Year Zero story? Not to mention the blacked out/glitched out text on the NIN website. We all know that reoccuring themes are prevalent throughout the entire NIN discography so why not Year Zero?
Hey, maybe I'm wrong or maybe I'm right? Who the hell knows? The only thing I know for sure is that we're all gonna enjoy the music or atleast complain about the music then enjoy it later.
Last edited by nooneimportant; 07-09-2017 at 06:30 AM.
If that "cloth thing" is a shirt, the text would be kind of weirdly placed, don't you think? It ends just above the hem of the shirt. I think it would be hilarious though if it were just a bag that said "THE/NEW EVIDENCE" and held the new EP.
I wonder if this EP will be played on Beats 1 again in full with an interview. Does anyone actually listen to Beats 1?
The thing is, the ARG started out with something pretty obvious that led to a website which was very clearly connected (I was there for the whole thing and was a participating member on the old version of ETS back then). Plus, he's already done the ARG thing and why would he start a new one with the second EP and not the first one? Some of you guys just want to believe so badly you have blind faith in something that seems like a stretch to me. But I guess we'll see soon enough...
The official page breaks it down in blocks 3 blocks space 8 blocks with the last being E. What else could the first 3 blocks be other than THE? It would make no sense for it to be anything else. THE EVIDENCE and THE PRESENCE seem to be the best damn guesses at this point.
LOL, I was just having fun with you; no one thinks this is another ARG. We're just very very confident that Trent knows his fanbase and wouldn't put out a partially obscured word ending in an E in a post on the same day he teases the new EP by accident. He's done teasy things like this with almost every album since The Fragile; it's almost par for the course at this point.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm still rooting for IT'S COCKLIKE, but just don't be surprised when we're back here in the next few days discussing ___ ____ENCE.