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Saturday January 15, 2005

Out with Deitel, in with Tempesta?

It looks like Blabbermouth has the scoop on who'll possibly take Ralf Dietel's place in the Nine Inch Nails lineup. According to a post on Audio Agression, that man is Mike Tempesta, of Powerman 5000 and the Human Waste Project. It turns out this information was being reported on a Texas radio station as early as January 9.

In addition, some people have reported a brief Nine Inch Nails appearance on Ticketmaster, with a Cleveland show where tickets went on sale January 17th. Now that link is dead. The link I was given by Scott had a band called 216 listed.

Why am I telling you this? Primarily because I want to avoid further email clutter. Speculation of this type is pretty much a waste of time, you might as well wait for an official announcement from nin.com or from a popular music magazine, even if they postponed their follow-up article.