Where Is My Mind?

     Industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails have released a new single: the eerie, saxophone heavy, electro-jazz charged “God Break Down the Door”. This comes ahead of their newly announced Cold and Black and Infinite Tour, in which 80’s alternative icons The Jesus and Mary Chain serve as special guests and in advance of Nails’ ninth studio album, Bad Witch, due out June 22 on Trent Reznor’s The Null Corporation label.      “God Break Down the Door” plays like a lost David Bowie track off his concept album Outside , and with Nine Inch Nails’ musical growth (2013’s Hesitation Marks had moments of delicious funk and groove), it’s clear that Trent Reznor has long established his legacy and takes his music in any direction he pleases. Vocally, there is an uncanny resemblance to Bowie at times throughout the four-minute tune, which adds an otherworldly feel to things. Whether the vicarious delivery is in fact an homage to Bowie or mere coincidence...

     Wes Borland, Limp Bizkit’s eccentric guitarist, returns with a new solo effort, the excellent Matadors and Daughters EP. Ahead of his Astral Hand full length, due out later this year, the 20-minute, two-song EP (or single, depending on how you slice it) offers a sampling of what to expect from Astral, which will surely be an entirely soundtrack-esque offering full of experimentation.      Borland, known for his onstage flamboyance and unconventional musicianship, has long shed Limp Bizkit’s douchebaggery and continues to explore his dynamic methods beautifully, having ventured into solo and collaborative territory with Black Light Burns, Big Dumb Face, The Damning Well, and was previously offered positions in Nine Inch Nails and A Perfect Circle. Aside from the obvious pocket-filling to fund his other work, Borland mysteriously remains in Bizkit, a 90’s nu-metal frat-bro machine whose fans are forever adolescents with backwards Yankees...