Nine Inch Nails Announce Art Book Cargo In The Blood, Featuring One-Of-A-Kind Paintings

Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor has announced an art book entitled Cargo In The Blood, presented in collaboration with artist Russell Mills. The 320-page hardback book, which is limited to 2000 copies, details Mills’ artwork for 2013′s Hesitation Marks. Each copy of the book will come packaged with a framed, mixed-media painting composed by Mills specifically for the project. Pre-orders for the book will be available tomorrow.

In tandem with the announcement, a new mini-documentary directed by Charles Leek explores Mills’ project and artistic process, as well as the work he did on Hesitation Marks and 1994′s The Downward Spiral. Check it out below, and view samples from the book here. 

Here’s what Mills had to say about the book in a press release:

Our renewed collaboration on Hesitation Marks very quickly suggested massive potential for the strange and the familiar to collide and collude in works that I hoped would encapsulate, by allusion, suggestion, metaphor and association, the conceptual ideas imbued in the album as well as in the undertow of its sonic world.

I created a total of 30 pieces for Hesitation Marks and they chose Cargo In The Blood for the cover of the deluxe CD. The title seemed to sum up everything I’ve been working on for the last 5 – 10 years, this whole idea of something that can be carried in the blood and it could be good or bad, something that could be character-building, something that could be destructive, something that could be positive.

Read our interview with Reznor about Apple Music.

Check out the video for the Hesitation Marks single “Came Back Haunted”:

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