Trent Reznor: 'Nine Inch Nails' UK shows will be aggressive, low-key'

Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has promised fans the band's upcoming UK arena tour will be "aggressive and low-key".

The rockers will be playing six huge shows across the UK in May, and Reznor says the band will be far more compact than the "elaborate" set up previously seen in their Reading and Leeds slots.

"Back then, we had extremely elaborate eight-piece bands for a deep exploration of the new album," said Reznor, reports NME. "What we’re doing in Australia and New Zealand now with Queens Of The Stone Age has tended to be much more aggressive. Not as new album heavy. A bit more low-key, with generally only four band members."

"When we committed to this cycle of touring, we knew it would be about a year, so we decided that each leg would have its own feel to it," he continued. "People are able to tune in around the world more than they used to be, whether that be cell phones or live streams, so we wanted to keep more of a unique identity for each phase of the tour."

Reznor also promised fans the band will keep the shows as "intimate" as possible, despite the band's dates taking place in massive arenas such as London's The O2 and Glasgow's Hydro. 

"All of those soulless big arenas that are built mainly for other purposes than music - they all start to look the same. So people ask, 'Why are you playing them?' And the straight answer is that, if we play 10 club shows in a city, there’s still a chorus of fans pissed off they didn’t get tickets," he explained.

"So, for us, the question becomes one of, 'How do you take a big place designed for sports shows and find a way to turn it into something intimate and interesting?' That’s a question we’re constantly trying to deal with. And, I think we’re quite successful at it right now."

The full tour dates are as follows:

MAY 2014:

18 Birmingham, LG Arena
20 Glasgow, Hydro Arena
21 Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena
23 London, The O2
24 Nottingham, Capital FM Arena
25 Manchester, Phones 4u Arena