Nine Inch Nails launched the second North American leg of their critically acclaimed Peel It Back Tour with a stand-out performance at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, LA. Joining Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, the Nine Inch Nails touring lineup features Robin Finck on guitar, Josh Freese on drums, and newest addition, Stuart Brooks, on bass. The tour showcases one of the band’s most ambitious productions to date—a four-act live experience that stays true to Nine Inch Nails’ signature intensity while pushing into bold new creative territory. Renowned for their groundbreaking live shows and striking visuals, the band once again raises the bar with a production conceived by Trent Reznor alongside creative director Todd Tourso and MTLA.studio, with longtime lighting designer Paul “Arlo” Guthrie returning to the fold. The show replaces traditional LED screens with translucent fabric, raw handheld cinematography, and layered projections, creating a fully immersive, three-dimensional environment unlike anything the band has presented before.
The first act began with a tour debut of “Something I Can Never Have” with Trent Reznor delivering a solo performance on the b-stage, before Atticus Ross, Robin Finck, and new bassist Stuart Brooks joined him for a rare performance of “Non-Entity,” played live for the first time in 17 years since the band’s 2009 tour.
Longtime friend and collaborator Boys Noize returns as the opening act on this leg and once again joins Nine Inch Nails onstage for Act 3 performing live renditions of “Vessel,” “Closer,” and “Parasite,” which has appeared just once on the tour so far. The third act culminated in a powerful performance of the band’s recent GRAMMY® Award–winning Best Rock Song, “As Alive As You Need Me To Be.”
The Peel It Back Tour continues tomorrow night with a show in Jacksonville, FL at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena before continuing with stops in Charlotte, Washington, DC, Boston, Montreal, St. Louis, Dallas, Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco, and more before concluding on Monday, March 16 at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, CA.
The 2025 sold-out tour drew 450,000 fans across the Europe, UK and North America dates and earned widespread praise from both critics and fans.The Times, in an opening night review, said, “The show was a revelation — a thrilling onslaught that combined angst, sincerity and a nightmarish otherworldliness…” UPROXX hailed it as “a triumph of sound, obviously, but also sight. It could have been a movie, and Nine Inch Nails were the stars.” Consequence named Nine Inch Nails “Live Act of the Year” in their 2025 Annual Report and praised the “multi-sensory spectacle” as proof that “Nine Inch Nails have long been one of music’s most innovative bands,” while Dallas Observer described each night as “a visual masterpiece” and NME noted, “[The band] delivered a stacked setlist of huge hits and rarities.”
For tickets and tour information, visit nin.com.
NINE INCH NAILS: PEEL IT BACK TOUR 2026 DATES:
Thu Feb 05 — New Orleans, LA — Smoothie King Center
Sat Feb 07 — Jacksonville, FL — VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena
Tue Feb 10 — Charlotte, NC — Spectrum Center
Wed Feb 11 — Washington, DC — Capital One Arena
Fri Feb 13 — Boston, MA — TD Garden
Sat Feb 14 — Newark, NJ — Prudential Center
Mon Feb 16 — Montreal, QC — Bell Centre
Wed Feb 18 — Hamilton, ON — TD Coliseum
Fri Feb 20 — Columbus, OH — Schottenstein Center
Sun Feb 22 — Grand Rapids, MI — Van Andel Arena
Mon Feb 23 — Milwaukee, WI — Fiserv Forum
Wed Feb 25 — St. Louis, MO — Enterprise Center
Fri Feb 27 — Tulsa, OK — BOK Center
Sun Mar 01 — Austin, TX — Moody Center
Tue Mar 03 — Dallas, TX — American Airlines Center
Fri Mar 06 — Glendale, AZ — Desert Diamond Arena
Sat Mar 07 — Las Vegas, NV — MGM Grand Garden Arena
Mon Mar 09 — San Diego, CA — Pechanga Arena
Tue Mar 10 — Anaheim, CA — Honda Center
Fri Mar 13 — Salt Lake City, UT — Delta Center
Sun Mar 15 — San Francisco, CA — Chase Center
Mon Mar 16 — Sacramento, CA — Golden 1 Center
Last year, Nine Inch Nails released TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – featuring all original music created by Nine Inch Nails for the third installment in the groundbreaking TRON film franchise – debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Dance Album charts and in the top five of the Billboard 200 in the fall. In the UK, it claimed the top spot on the Official Soundtrack Albums Chart. The soundtrack, which marked the first-ever film score by the pioneering group, is a bracing departure from the acclaimed scores that bandmates Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have composed under their own names, winning two Oscars, three Golden Globes, a GRAMMYand an Emmy in the process. Disney’s TRON: Ares released in U.S. theaters on October 10, 2025 with Reznor and Ross serving as Executive Producers on the film.
Founded in 1988 by Reznor, Nine Inch Nails is widely considered one of the most innovative, influential acts in modern music. Known for fusing industrial, electronic, rock and ambient sounds into emotionally raw and sonically aggressive compositions, the band has won two GRAMMY®Awards and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020. Nine Inch Nails’ multi-Platinum studio albums include their 1989 debut, Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999), which was their first album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200, a feat repeated by With Teeth (2005). In 2008, Reznor and Ross launched a prolific career in composing music for film. Their first project, David Fincher’s The Social Network, earned the pair an Oscar and a Golden Globe. They’ve gone on to compose music for a diverse array of film and television projects, including the Watchmen series for HBO, which earned the duo an Emmyfor Outstanding Music Composition for a series. Their score for the 2020 animated Pixar film Soul. won numerous awards, including an Oscar, GRAMMY, Golden Globe and British Academy Film Award. In the same year, their score for Fincher’s MANK received nominations for many of the same awards. Recent projects have included Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light, Fincher’s The Killer and a trio of projects with director Luca Guadagnino – Bones and All, Challengers and Queer.
Words = Ambrosia Healy / Erin Cooney – Universal Music Group
Photos = Jeff Coffman, Ian Hurdle, Jenn Devreaux, John Crawford
