How to Destroy Angels is a musical group featuring Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...

 front man Trent Reznor

Trent Reznor

Michael Trent Reznor is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer, and leader of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. Reznor is also a member of How to Destroy Angels alongside his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross. He was previously associated with bands Option 30,...

, his wife Mariqueen Maandig

Mariqueen Maandig

Mariqueen Maandig Reznor is a musician and singer of Filipino descent, currently with the band How to Destroy Angels.- Career :Maandig was a vocalist for the band West Indian Girl from 2004 to 2009, performing on the albums West Indian Girl and 4th & Wall...

 and Atticus Ross

Atticus Ross

Atticus Ross is an English musician, composer and producer. Ross, along with Trent Reznor, won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Social Network in 2011.-Early career:...

. Rob Sheridan

Rob Sheridan

Rob Sheridan is an American graphic designer, director, and photographer best known for his extensive work with the band Nine Inch Nails....

 is the group's art director.

The group is named after a 1984 Coil

Coil (band)

Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be...

 single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 of the same name.

The band's first release, a six-song EP was released on June 1, 2010. The band released a track from the album, "A Drowning", as a digital single. A second song, "The Space in Between", debuted as a video on Pitchfork

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 on May 14, 2010. The video was directed by Rupert Sanders. Both tracks were released as multitrack audio files.

A third track, "The Believers", was made available through Wired magazine's iPad application, along with a dissection and analysis 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

Limitless

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.

According to Trent Reznor in a 2011 interview on Times Talk, the band are working on an EP of new material. Commenting on the sound of the EP, he called it "more beat oriented", "different from the first EP". He stated that this would be released sometime in 2011, possibly summer.

On the second of November, 2011, it was released via the Nine Inch Nails website that How to Destroy Angels would be coming out with a full-length album.

On the 30th of November, 2011, the band's official twitter announced that they would be releasing a cover of the Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry

Bryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...

 song "Is Your Love Strong Enough?" for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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 official soundtrack.

Releases

EPs

• How to Destroy Angels
  How to Destroy Angels (album)
  -Album Personnel:Written, Arranged, Produced, Performed and Art Directed by How To Destroy Angels*How To Destroy Angels:**Mariqueen Maandig**Trent Reznor**Atticus Ross**Rob Sheridan*Mixed by Alan Moulder*Engineering: Blumpy*Mastering: Tom Baker...
  
  (2010)

Singles

• "A Drowning" (2010)

Music videos

• "The Space in Between" (dir: Rupert Sanders) (2010)