Nine Inch Nails‘ collaborations with Boys Noize began in 2024, when the German EDM producer remixed Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ Challengers soundtrack, and it blossomed last year when NIN made a short set of songs with Boys Noize a centerpiece of their Peel It Back Tour.
Now, they’re releasing a unique, “purely electronic” full-length Nine Inch Noize album recorded “all over the place – some of it’s live, some in studios, hotels, planes, etc.”
“The creative fulfillment of working on the Challengers and Tron scores with Boys Noize led me to think that including him in the Peel It Back tour could be an interesting way to express NIN in more purely electronic terms live – a concept I’ve wanted to explore for some time”…
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Tron Ares: Divergence arrives as a surprise release from Nine Inch Nails, shadow-dropped on February 27, 2026, right in the middle of the band’s North American arena tour. Framed as a remix companion to their score for Tron: Ares, the album feels less like a simple reworking and more like a parallel universe to the original soundtrack—darker in places, more club-oriented in others, and fully committed to pushing the digital dystopia of the Tron world into new sonic territory.
The release is currently digital-only, but it’s presented as a two-disc set that reflects two distinct moods. Disc 1 reimagines the Tron: Ares material through new compositions and remix collaborations with a range of electronic artists, pulling the score toward industrial techno…
Nine Inch Nails returns with over 70 minutes of new music for the motion picture Tron: Ares, the first soundtrack / score work from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross that will live under the Nine Inch Nails moniker; consisting of all original music, complete at 24 tracks.
Reznor and Ross bring their Grammy and Oscar-winning sonic vision to the Grid, crafting a soundtrack that hums with menace, melancholy, and momentum. More than an album, its architecture in sound: pulsating synths, distorted textures, and haunting melodies that rewire the Tron universe from the inside out. It is the collision of analog soul and digital dread – a score that doesn’t just accompany the film, it possesses it. This release marks the first official film…