How to Destroy Angels is a musical group featuring Mariqueen Maandig, her husband and Nine Inch Nails frontman, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Rob Sheridan. The group is named after a 1984 Coil song of the same name. Alessandro Cortini joined the lineup for the duration of the 2013 tour.
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The band’s first release was a self-titled EP, released on June 1, 2010. The band released a single from the album, “A Drowning”, as digital downloadable content, and a second song, “The Space in Between,” debuted as a music video on Pitchforkon May 14, 2010. A third track, “The Believers,” was made available throughWired magazine’s iPad application, along with a dissection and breakdown of the song, and through a free digital download from the official website. “The Believers”, is also featured on the soundtrack of the 2011 film Limitless.
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The band recorded a cover of the Bryan Ferry song “Is Your Love Strong Enough?” which was released December 9, 2011 onthe soundtrack for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
On September 21, 2012, Trent Reznor announced that the band’s second EP, An Omen EP would be released on Columbia Records in November 2012. They had also confirmed that a few of the songs from the EP would later appear on the band’s first full-length album in 2013. The song “Keep It Together” from the EP was released as a single on October 9, 2012. A music video was released for the song and directed by the band themselves. Two other songs from An Omen EP were also given music videos: “Ice Age”, directed by John Hillcoat, and “The Loop Closes”, which was also directed by the band.
On January 10, 2013, it was announced that the band’s debut studio album, Welcome Oblivion, would be released on March 5 through Columbia Records. It includes the tracks “Keep It Together”, “Ice Age”, “On the Wing”, and “The Loop Closes” from An Omen EP. A deluxe edition of the album also includes the How to Destroy Angels EP.
The first single from Welcome Oblivion, “How Long?”, was released on January 31, 2013, along with a music video directed by Shynola.