NINE INCH NAILS "As Alive As You Need Me To Be" from TRON: Ares

TRON: ARES (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) BY NINE INCH NAILS SET FOR SEPTEMBER 19 RELEASE VIA INTERSCOPE RECORDS   Stream First Single, "As Alive As You Need Me To Be," HERE   Sold-Out North American Leg Of “Peel It Back” World Tour Launches August 6

TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), featuring all original music by Nine Inch Nails, will be released on September 19 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 own names, winning two Oscars, three Golden Globes, a GRAMMY® and an Emmy in the process. In this exclusive Empire feature, Reznor delves into why they approached TRON: Ares as a Nine Inch Nails project. Pre-order / pre-save TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) HERE. See below for track listing.   Today, Nine Inch Nails dropped "As Alive As You Need Me To Be" – the album’s first single and the first official music from the band in five years. Listen to "As Alive As You Need Me To Be” and view the visualizer HERE. The track is featured in the new trailer for TRON: Ares, which was unveiled today. View HERE. Disney’s TRON: Ares releases in U.S. theaters on October 10.   Nine Inch Nails will kick off the North American leg of their acclaimed “Peel It Back” world tour on August 6 at Oakland Arena in Oakland, CA. The 26-date, sold-out run will include two-night stands at United Center in Chicago (August 19 and 20), Barclays Center in Brooklyn (September 2 and 3) and the Kia Forum in Los Angeles (September 18 and 19). Boys Noize will support on all dates. See below for itinerary. Due to fan demand and overwhelming response to the production debuted on the European tour, a number of limited view tickets will be released across all dates this Friday, July 18, at 9AM PT/12PM ET at NIN.com.   The arena tour, which marks the band’s first live outing since 2022, launched at Dublin’s 3Arena in June. The Times, in an opening night review, said, "The show was a revelation — a thrilling onslaught that combined angst, sincerity and a nightmarish otherworldliness…" NME noted, “[The band] delivered a stacked setlist of huge hits and rarities.” Kerrang hailed the tour as “mind-blowing” while Evening Standard proclaimed, “Trent Reznor is the last great art rock star.”   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. Nine Inch Nails’ multi-Platinum studio albums include their 1989 debut, Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral (1994) and The Fragile (1999), which was their first album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200, a feat repeated by With Teeth (2005).   In 2008, Reznor and Ross launched a prolific career in composing music for film. Their first project, David Fincher’s The Social Network, earned the pair an Oscar and a Golden Globe. They’ve gone on to compose music for a diverse array of film and television projects, including the Watchmen series for HBO, which earned the duo an Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for a series. Their score for the 2020 animated Pixar film Soul. won numerous awards, including an Oscar, GRAMMY, Golden Globe and British Academy Film Award. In the same year, their score for Fincher’s MANK received nominations for many of the same awards. Recent projects have included Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light, Fincher’s The Killer and a trio of projects with director Luca Guadagnino – Bones and All, Challengers and Queer.   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 8, 2025, 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.

 Track Listing – 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. NEMESIS 22. NEW DIRECTIVE 23. OUT IN THE WORLD 24. SHADOW OVER ME   NINE INCH NAILS – PEEL IT BACK WORLD TOUR 2025 – NORTH AMERICAN LEG   Wed Aug 06 - Oakland, CA - Oakland Arena Fri Aug 08 - Portland, OR - Moda Center Sun Aug 10 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena Tue Aug 12 - Seattle, WA - Climate Pledge Arena Thu Aug 14 - West Valley City, UT - Maverik Center Fri Aug 15 - Denver, CO - Ball Arena Sun Aug 17 - Saint Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center Tue Aug 19 - Chicago, IL - United Center Wed Aug 20 - Chicago, IL - United Center Fri Aug 22 - Detroit, MI - Little Caesars Arena Sat Aug 23 - Toronto, ON - Scotiabank Arena Tue Aug 26 - Baltimore, MD - CFG Bank Arena Wed Aug 27 - Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center Fri Aug 29 - Boston, MA - TD Garden Sun Aug 31 - Cleveland, OH - Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse Tue Sep 02 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center Wed Sep 3 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center Fri Sep 05 - Raleigh, NC - Lenovo Center Sat Sep 06 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena Tue Sep 09 - Duluth, GA - Gas South Arena Wed Sep 10 - Tampa, FL - Amalie Arena Fri Sep 12 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center Sat Sep 13 - Fort Worth, TX - Dickies Arena Tue Sep 16 - Phoenix, AZ – PHX Arena Thu Sep 18 - Los Angeles, CA - Kia Forum Fri Sep 19 - Los Angeles, CA - Kia Forum Nine Inch Nails  Photo Credit: John Crawford