Watch Nine Inch Nails play Closer, Head Like A Hole and Hurt on the opening night of their Peel It Back world tour

Nine Inch Nails played their first live show since 2022 when they launched their Peel It Back world tour at the 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland last night, June 15. And their setlist featured a number of songs that Trent Reznor’s band haven’t performed live in over a decade.

The Los Angeles-based band announced their summer European tour, mixing festival headline shows with their own arena shows, in January. And they re-introduced themselves last night with three songs that haven’t been on a NIN setlist since 2009, Right Where It Belongs, from 2005’s With Teeth, Ruiner, from 1994’s The Downward Spiral, and Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now) from 1995’s Further Down The Spiral. The opening three songs were performed on a ‘B’ stage, before the band transferred to the arena’s main stage to continue the show with the Broken EP track Wish.

The band later returned to the arena’s ‘B’ stage to collaborate with support act Boys Noize on Vessel (played for the first time since 2014), Came Back Haunted, and a cover of How To Destroy Angels’ Parasite.

How To Destroy Angels was a Trent Reznor side-project fronted by his wife Mariqueen Maandig.