The soundtrack features 24 new songs by the band
Tron: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), featuring all original music by Nine Inch Nails, will be released on September 19th via Interscope Records. Created for the third installment in the groundbreaking Tron film franchise, Tron: Ares stands among Nine Inch Nails’ most compelling albums, humming with menace, melancholy and momentum as analog soul and digital dread collide. It also marks the first-ever film score by the pioneering band, although bandmates Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have composed 20 scores under their names, winning two Oscars, three Golden Globes, a Grammy and an Emmy in the process.
The group drops “As Alive As You Need Me To Be” – the album’s first single and the first official music from the band in five years. The track is featured in the new trailer for Tron: Ares, for the film that opens in the US theaters on October 10th.
Nine Inch Nails will kick off the North American leg of their acclaimed Peel It Back World Tour on August 6th at Oakland Arena in Oakland, California. The 26-date, sold-out run will include two-night stands at United Center in Chicago, Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and the Kia Forum in Los Angeles. Boys Noize will support on all dates. Due to fan demand and overwhelming response to the production’s debut on the European tour, several limited-view tickets will be released across all dates this Friday, July 18th.
Earlier this year, Reznor and Ross announced Future Ruins, a one-day music festival created and curated by the duo. Celebrating the visionary composers shaping the sound of modern cinema and television, the event features live performances across three stages, including select sets with full orchestra. Held on November 8th at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, Future Ruins invites audiences to experience the duo’s groundbreaking score work—and that of their peers—not as background, but as the main event. The music tells the story. Tickets are on sale now at FutureRuins.com.
As a work by Nine Inch Nails, Tron: Ares is a bracing departure from these acclaimed scores. Its 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 redefining what a score can be.
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. NEMESIS
22. NEW DIRECTIVE
23. OUT IN THE WORLD
24. SHADOW OVER ME
