Nine Inch Nails returns to rock the Bay Area in concert once again
Nine Inch Nails kicked off the North American leg of its Peel It Back world tour in powerful fashion before a sold-out crowd of some 14,500 fans at the Oakland Arena back in August.
Fast forward seven months and the legendary ’90s industrial-rock outfit is set to return to the Bay Area for a gig on March 15 at Chase Center in San Francisco.
Nine Inch Nails fans should expect to hear a bunch of old favorites from the ’90s at the show. Indeed, Trent Reznor and company included a half-dozen tracks from their 1994 multiplatinum-selling blockbuster “The Downward Spiral” — including such alt-rock chestnuts as “March of the Pigs,” “Closer” and “Hurt” — during a 20-song set that ran just over 90 minutes.
Nine Inch Nails also touched upon a number of its later releases in Oakland, including both “Came Back Haunted” and “Copy of A” from 2013’s “Hesitation Marks” as well as “Less Than” from 2017’s “Add Violence.”
Reznor and bandmates also performed a nice take on “As Alive as You Need Me to Be” from “TRON: Ares,” the 2025 box office bomb that nonetheless boasted a fine soundtrack.
Electronic music act Boys Noize opens the gig.
Showtime is 8 p.m. and tickets start at $58, chasecenter.com.