Nine Inch Nails is stepping up their avante garde ways planning four different pieces of LP art for their new album Hesitation Marks. All the artwork was designed by Russel Mills, who also did for the band's 1994 release The Downward Spiral along with several others.

Mills used oil and acrylic paints, sometimes even referring to blood, to materialize the paintings. Each piece even has it's own name.

The digital version of Hesitation Marks will be named "Turn and Burn". "Time and Again" [Standard CD release], Cargo in the Blood" [Deluxe CD], "Other Murmurs" [Vinyl]. Hesitation Marks is slated for a September 3 release date.  

Mills cites conversations with Nine Inch Nails frontman and showrunner, Trent Reznor as a main inspiration for the album artwork. Reznor's knowledge of the impact the industrial world has on nature, literally and figuratively, inspired the project.

"The works explore ideas of catharsis, of being into dissolution into being, both on a personal and sociological level," Mills said. "They allude to ideas about chaos and order. They deal with ways of suggesting presence in absence. They are a cross between the forensic and a pathology of the personal in which only fragments remain, in which minimal clues can suggest events that may have occurred. They attempt to harness the chaos of a situation, of now, of the personal trauma, of the human condition, into a form that is coherent, a form that accommodates the mess without disguising it as something else. It attempts to capture the essence of these ideas by implication and exclusion. Beneath the form lies the uncertainty and ceaseless flux of the mess, of the chaos."