Halo 28
Hesitation Marks
Hesitation Marks was the first full-length Nine Inch Nails album in five years and grew from a year of work Trent Reznor initially kept private. Developed with Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder, it revisits familiar subjects through spare arrangements, electronic grooves, and a more measured vocal performance.
The title and Russell Mills artwork deliberately echo The Downward Spiral, but the music examines survival and identity from the other side of that earlier record's collapse. Led by “Came Back Haunted,” the album moves between clipped rhythm, low-frequency weight, moments of brightness, and dense detail hidden beneath an unusually restrained surface.
- Label
- Columbia Records
- Formats
- CD, deluxe CD, double vinyl, digital
Release Guide
Release Details
- Release type
- Studio album
- Artist
- Nine Inch Nails
- Primary catalog
- Halo 28 / halo 28v
- Contents
- 14 tracks
Track Listing 2013 original track listing
Credits & Production Principal release credits
- Written and performed by
- Trent Reznor
- Produced by
- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder
- Mixed by
- Alan Moulder
- Artwork
- Russell Mills
- Release label
- Columbia Records
Major Editions Documented release formats
2013 / Standard edition
The principal fourteen-track album was issued in CD, digital and vinyl formats.
2013 / Deluxe edition
The expanded program adds three bonus tracks and extends the release beyond the standard sequence.
2013 / Audiophile vinyl program
The vinyl edition uses a format-specific mastering path and physical presentation.
2015 / Cargo in the Blood
Russell Mills’ wider artwork became a limited book and original-art object connected to the album.
About the Release Recording, artwork, and release history
Return and reconstruction
The release reopens Nine Inch Nails after the Wave Goodbye period and frames recovery, identity and control through a deliberately reduced electronic surface.
Artwork as parallel record
Russell Mills developed an extensive body of work around chaos, order, control and surrender; only part of that body appears in ordinary packaging.
Tour translation
The album moved through the 2013 festival band, the expanded Tension ensemble and smaller 2014 configurations, producing several distinct live arrangements.