Trent Reznor announced in February he would be taking a "reinvented" version of NIN on the road, four years after he brought the curtain down on the previous incarnation's career. The lineup includes King Crimson frontman Adrian Belew.

"It's with very mixed emotions I tell you all that I'm pulling out of Nine Inch Nails," Avery says. "It's been a tough call � and I don't know if it's the right one. But I really want to focus on my musical life here in Los Angeles, on film work in particular. As the tour dates kept growing I just got overwhelmed."