Changes

The album began life as a couple of tracks that were meant to be included in a forthcoming greatest hits package for [[Interscope Records]]. The sessions gave way to more songs and ended up yielding an entire album.[http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=6190] The two songs originally written and recorded for the hits package were revealed to be "Everything" and "Satellite".[http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/08/the-nine-lives-of-trent-reznor]

This album marks a return to the artwork of [[Russell Mills]], whose work was previously used for ''[[March Of The Pigs (halo)|March Of The Pigs]]'', ''The Downward Spiral'', ''[[Further Down The Spiral]]'' and ''[[Closure]]''. There is a different cover for each of the five editions.  The cover of the Japanese standard edition is a variation on the cover of the US standard edition, with the painting oriented sideways and photographed from a slightly different vantage point. Reznor stated in a radio interview[http://soundcloud.com/q877/walt-talks-with-trent-reznor] that he couldn't choose between the various covers and decided to use them all. He also stated that Mills had suggested the album title.