Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize Confirm Collaborative Album ‘Nine Inch Noize’

A billboard in the Coachella Valley desert has materialized into a confirmed release. Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize’s Alexander Ridha have announced a joint album, ‘Nine Inch Noize’, arriving next Friday, April 17.

The project follows a year of Ridha touring with Nine Inch Nails and a series of studio collaborations that began in 2024. Ridha was initially brought on to rework segments of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score for ‘Challengers’. He later contributed to ‘Tron Ares: Divergence’, the full album remix of their soundtrack for the upcoming film.

This formal album collaboration suggests a deeper synthesis than prior remix work. The title itself, a portmanteau of the two acts’ names, points to a blended identity rather than a featured appearance. It signals a fusion of Ridha’s precise, high voltage club mechanics with the textured, atmospheric dissonance that defines Reznor and Ross’s recent compositions.

The announcement, made via Instagram, strategically precedes the acts’ scheduled back to back sets at Coachella this weekend, where previews of the material are likely. The album’s abrupt release date indicates a finished body of work, potentially developed during the extensive tour period.

For Ridha, whose career has navigated between underground techno credibility and mainstream electronic production, this partnership represents a significant alignment with compositional heavyweights. For Nine Inch Nails, it marks a rare full length collaborative venture outside the duo’s own work, channeling their evolving sonic interests through the lens of modern electronic music’s physicality.

‘Nine Inch Noize’ arrives as a concrete outcome from a year of shared stages and studios. It moves beyond the concept of a remix album into untested territory, merging two distinct production philosophies under a single, newly coined banner.