Ares’ Soundtrack to Rock Out To

Hope you weren’t sick of 9 Inch Nails’ music for Tron: Ares, as a result of the band’s gone and shock dropped a brand new album for it.

Subtitled “Divergence,” the 20-song assortment options remixed takes on the movie’s original score from digital artists Boys Noize (“Ghost within the Machine,” “What Have You Carried out?”), Mark Pritchard (“I Know You Can Really feel It”), and Arca (“As Alive as You Want Me to Be”), amongst others. And if that weren’t sufficient, there’s additionally a number of beforehand unreleased songs from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ scoring classes. If you happen to’ve been hoping to listen to Boys Noize’s remix of “Alive” throughout NIN’s Peel It Again tour, that’s not within the album. The remixes will not be to everybody’s tastes, however the brand new tracks are good (and lean additional into online game territory, which could clarify why they weren’t within the preliminary launch), and if you happen to preferred the unique Ares rating (bundled in as a second “disc”), this could make for a stable companion piece and good hear in its personal proper.

Tron: Ares was Ross and Reznor’s first movie rating the place they have been credited beneath their band title, and singled out as a key (or actually, solely) purpose to see the movie it was hooked up to. “Alive,” its key single, took house Greatest Rock Track on the 2026 Grammys and nominated for Greatest Track Written for Visible Media. Again when it launched, it was the band’s first album to hit High 10 in Billboard’s Top 200 in over a decade.

For the bodily followers, 9 Inch Nails will launch the CD and 2XLP variations of Tron Ares: Divergence on June 5.

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