Nine Inch Nails sign to Columbia, to release new album this year

Nine Inch Nails have announced they've completed their forthcoming album, and are scheduled to release the album later in the year through Columbia Records.

The popular Trent Reznor-fronted industrial rock group went on hiatus following the release of 2008 album 'The Slip', with Reznor forming new band How to Destroy Angels with wife Mariqueen Maandig and collaborators Atticus Ross and Rob Sheridan.

It now appears that Nine Inch Nails is Reznor's primary creative project once more, with a new live band lineup formed, and a world tour on the cards. 

Reznor had the following to say regarding the new album: 

"I’ve been less than honest about what I’ve really been up to lately. For the last year I’ve been secretly working non-stop with Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder on a new, full-length Nine Inch Nails record, which I am happy to say is finished and frankly fucking great. This is the real impetus and motivation behind the decision to assemble a new band and tour again. My forays into film, HTDA and other projects really stimulated me creatively and I decided to focus that energy on taking Nine Inch Nails to a new place. Here we go!"

The new record will be the band's eighth studio album.