Nine Inch Nails is slated to kick off the second North American leg of the acclaimed Peel It Back Tour at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans on Feb. 5, 2026.

The show returns frontman Trent Reznor to the city he called home for several years, during which he lived in a grand Garden District mansion and operated a recording studio in a former funeral home.

Boys Noize will be the opening act for the Feb. 5 concert. Tickets go on sale at 12 noon on Oct. 8 at www.nin.com and www.ticketmaster.com .

Reznor was a bitter, alienated young man when he composed Nine Inch Nails’ 1989 debut album, “Pretty Hate Machine,” which established him as industrial rock’s melodic man in black. His downward spiral into drugs and alcohol, a saga that played out during his decade-long residency in New O

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