Nine Inch Nails will hammer Minnesota fans for the first time in 12 years this August

Perhaps Trent Reznor thinks it’s a good year to ride the pigs again, finally hitting the road with Nine Inch Nails in 2025 and set to perform in Minnesota for the first time in a dozen years.

The seminal industrial rock band of “Head Like a Hole,” “Hurt” and “March of the Pigs” fame have confirmed an Aug. 17 date at Xcel Energy Center on their Peel It Back tour, which kicks off June 15 in Dublin and continue into September.

Tickets for the Sunday night show in St. Paul will be put on sale from January 29 via Ticketmaster.com. Prices will reportedly drop under $200 and start around $50 before fees (very reasonable for band of this size). No presale options or opening acts are listed for the tour.

Reznor, 59, has never permanently sidelined his Cleveland-bred group, which was voted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022 three decades after the release of its debut, “Pretty Hate Machine.” However, the bandleader has been very busy in the 21st century creating film and television music with collaborator Atticus Ross. Highlights included their Oscar-winning work for “The Social Network” and “Soul,” as well as last year’s film “Challengers,” for which they just won a Golden Globe.

NIN has toured sporadically in the meantime, playing as recently as 2022, but its last foray into Minnesota was a 2013 tour-opening date at X. The band also hasn’t released an album since 2020, but has a new record coming this fall in the form of of the “Tron: Ares” soundtrack.