Bad Witch is the ninth studio album Nine Inch Nails. Bad Witch's announcement came simultaneously with that of the Cold and Black and Infinite North America 2018 Tour, for which Nine Inch Nails will be touring with The Jesus and Mary Chain. The album incorporates jazz aspects, most notably with saxophone appearing alongside the more characteristic industrial rock sound of Nine Inch Nails' previous works. Influenced by and reminiscent of the album Blackstar (2016) by David Bowie, who Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor had worked with in the past, Bad Witch is the band's shortest studio album at thirty minutes long.