Nine Inch Nails Share New Live Video of 'Wish' Ft. Original Members

Nine Inch Nails have shared a video of a live performance of Wish featuring original band members Richard Patrick (Filter), Chris Vrenna, Danny Lohner and Charlie Clouser.

The professionally shot and edited video is branded as Nine Inch Nails Alumni and was captured during Nine Inch Nails' recent hometown show in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. 

The Wish performance was part of a six-song encore which saw the four former members join the current lineup headed up by frontman Trent Reznor and mainstays Atticus Ross, Robin Finck, Alessandro Cortini and Ilan Rubin for a run of '90s era Nine Inch Nails songs. 

The six songs performed were Eraser, Wish, Sin, Gave Up and Head Like A Hole as well as a Patrick-fronted version of Filter's Hey Man, Nice Shot. It is not known yet if the rest of the set was filmed for release.

The day before the Ohio show, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame held a Nine Inch Nails Fan Day where all of the members that played in the six-song mini-set (including Patrick, Vrenna, Lohner and Clouser) took part in a Q&A speaking about the induction of Nine Inch Nails into the hall and looking back on the 30 years that passed since the release of their groundbreaking EP Broken, on which Wish appears.

Back in July, Reznor joined forces with The Simpsons theme composer  Danny Elfman and GHOSTMANE on a remix of Elfman's 2021 track Native Intelligence. The remix serves as a reimagining of Reznor’s version of the song that debuted earlier this year, making for a molotov cocktail that combines the one-of-a-kind styles of three musical heavyweights. Alongside the song, Elfman has also shared an official Manga-inspired music video. Produced by the cyber collective TRASH GANG, the video is a rabbit hole of monochromatic, manga-inspired animation that channels the track’s mesmerising electronic glitches and breakneck percussion.