the sweetest price he'll have to pay...

Here's the latest scoop about Nine Inch Nail's upcoming album, Bleed Through:

Nine Inch Nails are at work on their fourth album, Bleed Through, in Los Angeles. Trent Reznor and Co. hope to finish it by summer and release it later this year.

"It's more song-oriented [than 1999's The Fragile]," says NIN mastermind Reznor. "It's much more lean. It's going to be twelve good punches in the face -- no fillers, no instrumentals, just straight to the point."

It's funny to read that this is only NIN's fourth album. While this is technically true, all NIN fans know better. When you add And All That Could Have Been, Broken, Fixed, Things Falling Apart, Further Down the Spiral, and The Perfect Drug single, it seems more like their eighth album. In any event, NIN plan to hit the road in the next few months. Ah, life is sweet again...