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Who needs AI when you have Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross who constantly write film compositions? Nine inch nails show up “As alive as you need me to be”her first publication under the band name for five years, on your cinematic side.
The song can be found on the 24-track soundtrack for “Tron: Ares”, which appears on September 19 before the theatrical release of the science fiction film about the first encounter between people and AI in October.
While Nine Inch Nails herself have largely been out of business since the album series “Ghosts” from 2020, Reznor and Ross were still busy behind the scenes. Last year the two composed the music to Luca Guadagninos “Queer” and created a seductive, techno-heavy soundtrack for his tennis triangle film “Challengers”. You will also support him in his upcoming film “After the Hunt”, which is scheduled to appear in October.
Reznor and Ross also composed the music for the Apple TV+film “The Gorge”, which was released at the beginning of this year. In all of these projects, the musicians were named under their own names and not under the name Nine Inch Nails.
Oscars for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Reznor and Ross have composed dozens of film music for cinema and television and have already received Oscars for their work on “The Social Network” and “Soul”. With the soundtrack for “Tron: Ares” you have the chance to win further awards, this time the name of your band is in the foreground.
The latest part of the “Tron” series, “Tron: Legacy”, came into cinemas with a soundtrack from Daft Punk in 2010. In 2020, Mitchell Leib, head of the music and soundtrack department at Disney, expressed his interest in recovering the duo for the sequel. Leib stepped back in the same year, just two months before Daft Punk announced her separation after 28 years.
Nine Inch Nails on tour 2025
Last month, Nine Inch Nails started her “peel it back” tour, her first concert tour in three years, with a setlist full of songs that they had been performed live for a decade or for a longer.
Reznor played “Right Where It Belongs” solo on the piano and thus presented the song live for the first time since 2009. With the rest of the band, Nine Inch Nails “Ruiner” and “Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)” revived for the first time in 16 years.