Just a few minutes ago, Trent Reznor, founder and frontman for Nine Inch Nails (one of my favorite bands) has taken another step toward ending his public persona and moving toward a private life. He deleted his Twitter account.

Reznor posted a message on Twitter saying, “I believe I’ve done all I care to do here at this point.” Minutes later, his Twitter account (fomerly @trent_reznor), which had over 600,000 followers, vanished.

It was previously announced that with Reznor’s recent finding of a serious love interest, he planned on stopping work on Nine Inch Nails. Over the past few years, Reznor has set out in his own unique path with his band, releasing albums and high-definition concert footage for free online, and even giving free access to the group’s complete catalogue of albums through their iPhone app. It appeared to be in an effort to begin to change the way that music is released to the masses.

Now, all that may be coming to an end while Reznor seeks to remove himself from the public eye. The final Nine Inch Nails tour, appropriately called “Wave Goodbye,” has been announced:

Getting right to the point, we’re going to play a handful of shows in NYC, Chicago and LA starting August 22nd. They will be informal affairs in medium to small venues with longer set-lists, possible special guests, cool openers and other surprises. Upon reflection, the NIN/JA tour felt like we had to rush through sets due to a limited allotted set length and many shows were in daylight – it just didn’t feel right to end NIN that way. An offer to headline a festival (being announced soon) set the idea in motion to play some FUN shows to end this up with. If we can get it together we’ll film these shows, too.In NYC we’ll be playing Bowery Ballroom, Webster Hall and Terminal 5. In Chicago, the Aragon Ballroom. In LA we’ll be at The Wiltern, The Henry Fonda, The Palladium and The Echoplex. These should be cool, unusual and unique shows and I hope you come out – this is it.So far, The Horrors will be joining us for some shows in NYC, Mew will be with us at other shows in NYC, Chicago and LA, and perhaps more.Details and ticket info will be announced shortly, so check back.Thanks,Trent

Tickets for these final tour dates go on sale today at 5 p.m. EST for registered nin.com members. Unfortunately, I won’t make any of these shows, so I’m glad I had the chance to see NIN in concert three times in my life.

Nine Inch Nails’ Twitter account is still active, for the moment.

To Trent: Thanks for all the great music and incredible shows. It’s been wonderful following your efforts from the past 20 years. Here’s hoping for a return some day.