Nine Inch Nails Drop Music Video For ‘Alive As You Need Me To Be’ From Tron: Ares

Nine Inch Nails have shared a new music video for their track ‘Alive As You Need Me To Be’ from the upcoming Tron: Ares soundtrack.

Nine Inch Nails have released a sinister, digitised music video for their new track ‘As Alive As You Need Me To Be‘ from the upcoming Tron: Ares soundtrack.

Maxime Quoilin directed the video and focuses on close-ups of singer Trent Reznor and fellow bandmate Atticus Ross, accompanied by a variety of body-horror-like visual effects. Hands reach from the walls to pull Reznor back in, which could be a hint at the themes of the movie regarding the AI from Tron escaping into the real world.

‘As Alive As You Need Me To Be’ is the first single from the band in five years. Reznor revealed in an interview with Empire that it was the President of Walt Disney Music who had asked the band to reform following their work on Pixar’s Soul.

“Do you think you guys would be interested in scoring Tron?’ He didn’t even finish the sentence, I was like, ‘Fuck yes, we’d want to do that’,” Reznor told Empire. “He said, ‘How would you feel about if it was credited as Nine Inch Nails, versus Trent and Atticus?’ We weren’t expecting to hear that question.”

In the same interview, Reznor teased more about what the upcoming album will sound like: “I’ll give a few spoilers: there’s not one second of orchestra in our score,” Reznor shared. “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 emotions and a sense of questioning their purpose and their replaceability, their lack of soul, in some ways. We kind of riffed on that.”

Previously, Tron: Legacy, released in 2010, was scored by the now-disbanded Daft Punk and reinvented what many presumed a movie’s soundtrack could be. With such a high bar set, tapping in Nine Inch Nails for the follow-up only makes sense.

TRON: Ares arrives October 10, however the soundtrack will be released a few weeks earlier on September 19. The film stars Jared Leto, Jeff Bridges, Evan Peters, Greta Lee and more.