Nine Inch Nails speculated to announce world tour in 2025 as dates go viral online 

Nine Inch Nails is speculated to announce a new world tour in 2025. The speculation began on Reddit and other social media after purported tour schedule screenshots, which have been collated into a thread on the platform as of the writing of this article.

The speculated dates included shows at the Scotiabank Center in Toronto on August 23, 2025, at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio on August 31, 2025, and at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida on September 10, 2025.

Nine Inch Nails has since then confirmed that the tour is real but they are holding off on announcing its schedule and dates in order not to detract attention from the ongoing wildfire disaster in Southern California:

"Since dates and information about the world tour have leaked, we are confirming that Yes, we will be touring and will provide details soon. We are all watching the devastation that is unfolding in California and have paused our announcement while people try to deal with all that is happening."

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Nine Inch Nails have not toured since 2022

Nine Inch Nails have not toured since 2022 when they went on their US and UK tour. The tour was preceded by the band's latest studio album, Ghosts VI: Locusts, in 2020.

Nine Inch Nails founder, Trent Rezno,r and fellow band member, Atticus Ross, recently talked about the future of the band in an exclusive interview with GQ magazine on April 4, 2024, stating how working on soundtrack albums has now made them eager to make another album for the band:

"It’s like, Why are we doing this? The idea comes from what we think is a good place of ‘Let’s break it up. Let’s get sent down the rabbit hole on certain things and feel like we’ve got tasks being assigned to us rather than us just blindly seeing what happens creatively. I think coming out of a stretch of a number of films in a row -"

Reznor continued:

"I want some time of seeing where the wind blows versus: there’s a looming date on a calendar coming up and we’d better get our shit together. And certainly in the last few weeks I’ve been itching to do what we often do, which is just come in and let’s start something that we’re not even sure what it’s for."

Reznor and Ross stated:

"Reznor: "Doing soundtrack work has managed to make Nine Inch Nails feel way more exciting than it had been in the past few years. I’d kind of let it a trophy a bit in my mind for a variety of reasons." Ross: "I do feel excited about starting on the next record. I think we’re in a place now where we kind of have an idea.""

Trent Reznor started Nine Inch Nails as a solo project back in 1987, releasing the first album subsequently in 1989. The album titled, Pretty Hate Machine, was successful and was followed by the band's EP Broken. The project released its second album, titled The Downward Spiral, in 1994.

The Downward Spiral is critically acclaimed for its take on suicidal ideation, and the destruction of a person, and was influential in the music scene in the 1990s and later on. The album also remains the band's most successful commercial release.

Nine Inch Nails's third studio album, The Fragile, was released on September 21, 1999. The album is the band's second most successful album to date and music from the album has been featured on shows such as Person of Interest, Terminator Salvation, and the video game Spec Ops: The Line.