Nine Inch Nails share TRON: ARES (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) out today via Interscope Records
TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – featuring all original music created by Nine Inch Nails for the third installment in the groundbreaking TRON film franchise – was released today via Interscope Records. The album marks the first-ever film score by the pioneering group. As a work by Nine Inch Nails, TRON: Ares is a bracing departure from the acclaimed scores that bandmates Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have composed under their own names, winning two Oscars, three Golden Globes, a GRAMMY and an Emmy in the process. TRON: Ares’ architecture in sound: pulsating synths, distorted textures, and haunting melodies. Not one second of orchestra. Instead, the album erupts with the full force of Nine Inch Nails, breaking boundaries and humming with menace, melancholy and momentum as analog soul and digital dread collide. Listen HERE. See below for track listing. Disney’s TRON: Ares releases in U.S. theaters on October 10. Reznor and Ross served as Executive Producers on the film.
The New York Times hailed lead single ‘AS ALIVE AS YOU NEED ME TO BE’ as “a return to the buzz-bomb synthesizers, stomping march beat, stereo ricochets and gut-wrenching vocals of the band’s heyday.” The track debuted at No. 1 on both the Official Physical Singles and the Official Vinyl Singles charts in the UK earlier this month. Stateside, with the single’s ascent into the top 10 of Billboard’s Alternative Airplay tally, Nine Inch Nails has the distinction of charting top 10 hits across four decades – from the 1990s to the 2020s.
Reviewing the official video for ‘AS ALIVE AS YOU NEED ME TO BE’, Rolling Stone noted, “[Director Maxime Quolin] centers the clip around a close-up performance from Trent Reznor, while using an array of different effects to bend space and warp reality. For all the mesmerizing technical wizardry on display, there’s something distinctly tactile about the look of the video, especially as the tension in the visuals builds alongside the music.”Watch HERE.
Founded in 1988 by Reznor, Nine Inch Nails is widely considered one of the most innovative, influential acts in modern music. Known for fusing industrial, electronic, rock and ambient sounds into emotionally raw and sonically aggressive compositions, the band has won two GRAMMY® Awards and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.
Track Listing
Nine Inch Nails – TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1. INIT
2. FORKED REALITY
3. AS ALIVE AS YOU NEED ME TO BE
4. ECHOES
5. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
6. IN THE IMAGE OF
7. I KNOW YOU CAN FEEL IT
8. PERMANENCE
9. INFILTRATOR
10. 100% EXPENDABLE
11. STILL REMAINS
12. WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER?
13. BUILDING BETTER WORLDS
14. TARGET IDENTIFIED
15. DAEMONIZE
16. EMPATHETIC RESPONSE
17. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
18. A QUESTION OF TRUST
19. GHOST IN THE MACHINE
20. NO GOING BACK
21. NEMSIS
22. NEW DIRECTIVE
23. OUT IN THE WORLD
24. SHADOW OVER ME
