Nine Inch Nails Revenge , an iPhone / iPod Touch -exclusive rhythm game developed by Tapulous , was released on March 8, 2009 (five months after the company announced the development of the game). This installment in the Tap Tap video game franchise was themed after Nine Inch Nails, and…
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At the end of March 2009, the band performed a cover of Peter Schilling ‘s ” Major Tom (Coming Home) .” Initially used in a television commercial for the 2010 Lincoln MKZ , the song was released as a single on May 5, 2009. In September, the band covered Blue…
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During the Taste of Chaos tour in March of that year, guitarist Curtis Ward left the band.
KMFDM’s sixteenth studio album, Blitz , released in March 2009, showcased further collaboration with Skold, but less input from the band members not living in Germany.
In February 2009, the band introduced their Fancorps Street Team as a way for their fans to become more involved with the band. In March, the band released their first animated video for their single, ” Ghost Town. ” The animation was completed by well-known illustrator Glen Hanson.
They also joined Thursday , Cancer Bats , Four Year Strong and Pierce the Veil on the North American leg of the 2009 Taste of Chaos tour from February to April after the tour’s organizer Kevin Lyman offered them the slot.
” Wrong ” was the first single from the album, released digitally in February 2009.
In February 2009, Reznor posted his thoughts about the future of Nine Inch Nails on his official website, stating that “I’ve been thinking for some time now it’s time to make NIN disappear for a while.”
No Line on the Horizon was released in February 2009, more than four years after How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb , the longest gap between albums of the band’s career to that point. It received generally positive reviews, including their first five-star Rolling Stone review, but critics found it…
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On 15 January 2009, the official Depeche Mode website announced that the band’s twelfth studio album would be called Sounds of the Universe .