==Release==
The album was announced alongside the video release for "[[The Loop Closes]]," one of four tracks to be featured on both this album and the band's previous release, ''[[An Omen EP]].'' The first single , released November 2012, served as a precurosor to be released from the album (that was not already , 6 of the 4 tracks featuring on ''An Omen'') was "[[How Long?]]" on January 31stWelcome Oblivion, accompanied by its three of which had a music video and an announcement of the tracklisting and the vinyl's album art.
The album was announced alongside the video release for "[[The Loop Closes]]," one of four tracks to be featured on both this album and An Omen EP. The first single to be released from the album (that was not already on ''An Omen'') was "[[How Long?]]" on January 31st, accompanied by its music video and an announcement of the tracklisting and the vinyl's album art. On February 19th, HTDA made "[[And The Sky Began To Scream]]" available for free via text service Maebe, the first song to be released on the service.
The full CD/Digital version of the album was made available to stream in its entirety for free via Pitchfork on February 20th, and on the same day the band released pre-orders through their own website, and some new t-shirt designs linked to the album's artwork.
==Tracklisting==
The vinyl release of the album comes with two bonus tracks, "''The Province Of Fear''" and "''Unintended Consequences''", plus the CD of the vinyl version album within the sleeve.
CD/Digital:
Written, arranged, programmed, performed, <br>produced and packaged by How to destroy angels_
[[Mariqueen Maandig]]<br>[[Trent Reznor]]<br>[[Atticus Ross]]<br>[[Rob Sheridan]]
Mixed by [[Alan Moulder]]<br>Mastered by Tom Baker at precision mastering, Hollywood, CA<br>Recorded by Blumpy with additional engineering by Dustin Mosley and Jun Murakawa
Thank you:<br>Mark Williams, Scott Greer, Erika Alfredson, Rob Stringer, Ashley Newton, Bryan younce and the rest of the Columbia team, Christina Lum, Selene Yen, Irina Volodarsky, Karen Ciccone, Ross Rosen, Claudia Sarne, Tamar Levine, Tara Dowburd-Luftman, Iowa Wong, David A. Sitek, Factory Floor, The Soft Moon, Deadmau5, Claudia Lagan, Angela Sidlow, John Hillcoat, Jonathan Pavesi, everyone at Skunk, Elise Velasco, Johnny Stuntz, Andreas and everyone at NI, Olaf and everyone at Ableton, Mitch and everyone at Soundtoys, everyone at Shynola, Matt Mahurin, Elena Dickstein and preferred travel, Rockit Cargo, Nicki Goldstein and Midway
==Tour dates==
HTDA's first live shows are to be played at Coachella 2013, and they will also have a short tour to promote Welcome Oblivion afterwards.
{{Sigil
|number= 4