The soundtrack to TRON: Ares, composed totally of authentic music by 9 Inch Nails, will likely be launched on September nineteenth through Interscope Information. Although bandmates Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have composed 20 movie scores as a duo below their very own names, Tron: Ares marks the primary soundtrack launched with 9 Inch Nails’ title. The Disney movie releases in U.S. theaters on October tenth, 2025.
The Tron: Ares soundtrack will function 24 songs, together with the one “As Alive As You Need Me To Be,” launched for streaming alongside the album announcement. The unique 1982 Tron movie was scored by synth pioneer Wendy Carlos and author/director Steven Lisberger, whereas the rating for its 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy was composed by now-retired digital icons Daft Punk. Now, 9 Inch Nails are up for the duty. “It’s different [from the previous Tron scores]”, Ross shared with Empire, “and in places, perhaps takes a bigger swing for what music can do in cinema… You know, if you’re going to do it, then you may as well take a big swing.”
When Disney requested the duo to attain Ares, they have been shocked by the request to compose below the 9 Inch Nails title. With that imaginative and prescient, the group channeled the band’s vitality into the soundtrack. Reznor teased the end result: “I’ll give a few spoilers: there’s not one second of orchestra in our score. It sounds precise and unpleasant at times. It’s not an atonal, punishing score, but we spent a lot of time thinking about the undertones of what’s happening in the story. The concept of artificial life infused with feelings and a sense of questioning their purpose and their replaceability… We kind of riffed on that.”
In 2008, Reznor and Ross launched a prolific profession in composing music for movie. Their first undertaking, David Fincher’s The Social Community, earned the pair an Oscar and a Golden Globe. They’ve gone on to compose music for a various array of movie and tv tasks, together with the Watchmen collection for HBO, which earned the duo an Emmy for Excellent Music Composition for a collection. Their rating for the 2020 animated Pixar movie Soul received quite a few awards, together with an Oscar, GRAMMY, Golden Globe and British Academy Movie Award.
9 Inch Nails will kick off the North American leg of their acclaimed “Peel It Back” world tour on August sixth in Oakland, CA. As a consequence of fan demand, a variety of restricted view seats are being launched for the 26-date, sold-out run. Ticket data will be discovered on the band’s web site.
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