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Somewhere Amongst The Dust

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An anniversary. Though not as signification as a few others happening within PFB later this year, still, an anniversary. I believe it’s healthy to look back on the past but not to spend too much time analyzing it, just gotta keep marching forward towards the end.

With that said i know ive made jokes over the years but I never actually thought there’d be this long of a span of time between full lengths for me. I’ve found life often gets in the way or I’m incredibly lazy if I have free time. plus in my own mind I’ve been living under the imaginary (though maybe rooted in some reality) crushing weight of expectations of following up an album like this. I’ll probably talk about those same things later in the year, maybe next year or maybe never again because I’ll have moved past the thought.

The thing is, I’m still extremely proud of this album and the songs. I still enjoy playing this stuff live. If this were my last record I’d be going out in my eyes at a high point. I will say thanks endlessly to my wife who had to deal with me making this in our cramped living space at the time and all the support over the years. To @theflenser for believing in it and to any of you who have listened to it or grabbed it on some sort of format, came to a show, sent a message etc.

With that said, yes there will be a new LP more than likely next year as I’m currently chipping away at recording it.

Until then The Flenser has been gracious enough to do another pressing of the album and they look incredible.

#planning for burial#belowthehouse#the flenser#amplifierworship
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Hard to believe Nine Inch Nails' classic The Downward Spiral is 30 years old today! Here is some detail photography I took of the original album cover painting by Russell Mills for the 10th anniversary deluxe edition release, which I had the unique honor of designing, and somehow that is now 20 year old.

Everyone has that one album that hit at just the right moment of adolescence to change their perspective on music and get them through their teenage angst. The Downward Spiral was that album for me, released as it was in 1994, when I was a freshman in high school (and an absolute banner year for music/films/games all around). I must have stared at the artwork for hours over those years, without even much detail to draw from on its tiny 5” CD slip case. So five years later, when I found myself inexplicably working for Nine Inch Nails, it was surreal to see the actual original painting in the flesh, hanging as it was at the time in Trent Reznor’s office at Nothing Studios, New Orleans.

I was struck by how much dimension and texture there was in the artwork that never translated on that tiny slipcase printing, how much detail was happening in the physical materials of the art: Flies, moths, wires, blood… I had been staring at this “painting” for so long, yet suddenly it was like I had never seen it before. I also noticed that it had aged - the wires had wilted over the years, drooping down from their original position as captured in the original album cover (interestingly, judging by the photo posted today by NIN, the piece has since been restored); a tooth was missing from the other main piece.

That experience stuck with me and it was the first thing I thought about when the task of re-imagining the album package fell upon me in 2004. I wanted to re-photograph the artwork, subtly updating the cover to show that ten years had changed it physically, much like our perceptions of art and music and memories change over time with perspective. I also wanted to dig into the previously unseen details of the work and explore it with my macro lens, so that fans like me, old and new, could have new layers of texture to pore over for hours while listening to a legendary album.

Happy birthday, old friend.

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