This time last month, Nine Inch Nails were touring Australia in a massive co-headline tour of the country’s arenas with Queens Of The Stone Age.
Keen-eyed punters who caught Trent Reznor and his industrial rock juggernaut live may have spotted a figure with a camera wandering around on-sage during the shows and now the band have released the results of that footage… and it’s nothing short of incredible.
Nine Inch Nails have released super high definition footage of them performing ‘March of the Pigs’ at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena, from the first of the band’s two shows at the venue, and your typically fuzzy, casually filmed smartphone footage, this ain’t.
The performance is in stunning 4K resolution, which in layman’s terms is two steps above the usual 1080p resolution setting you’ll find on your typical YouTube link, and along with the stunning sound and visuals, the whole thing is shot in a roving first-person perspective taking you as close as you’ll get to being a NIN member as you weave your way between the monstrous light show to get behind the sweaty, muscular frame of Reznor.
The whole thing was filmed by regular NIN associate and filmmaker Rob Sheridan (who you might remember as the ‘man who played light’ in How To Destroy Angels) on a Blackmagic Production Camera 4k to deliver the insanely top-tier concert footage.
There’s no word on whether this is a teaser for something more or simply a one-off, but just from the clip of the The Downward Spiral single, we speak for most fans when we say we want more.
Speaking of more… Nine Inch Nails continue their world tour this year with dates across Europe, the UK, and a co-headline North American tour with grunge-era veterans Soundgarden. Meanwhile, Reznor’s moonlighting career as an Oscar-winning film composer also continues as the first trailer for David Fincher’s new movie Gone Girl is released. The teaser doesn’t feature any of of Reznor and Atticus Ross’ atmospheric score, but the official interactive website for the film does, as Antiquiet points out.
In the meantime, watch the epic ‘March of the Pigs’ footage below. Switch to 4K, let it buffer, hit fullscreen. Be blown away.
