Nine Inch Nails to release new material after all
Nine Inch Nails will not release new material anytime soon
Recently we got a few questions in from readers regarding a new Nine Inch Nails album and if we knew something. So, here’s the status on Nine Inch Nails, for the moment that is. Trent Reznor, the frontman of Nine Inch Nails, discussed the future of the band on the Tetragrammation with Rick Rubin podcast which was published in June 2023. In the podcast he expressed a lack of interest in writing, releasing, and touring with new albums for Nine Inch Nails.
“I don’t want to be away from my kids,” Reznor said. “I don’t want to miss their lives to go do a thing that I’m grateful to be able to do, and I’m appreciative that you’re here to see it, but I’ve done it a lot, you know?”
However, in January 2025 it was revealed that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were composing the score for “Tron: Ares”, the upcoming third installment in the Tron franchise, under the Nine Inch Nails flag. Scheduled for release on October 10, 2025, this project marks the first time Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have composed a film score under the Nine Inch Nails name.
Nine Inch Nails versus collaborating with Attic Ross
The past few years, Reznor showed a preference for continuing to compose film scores with his long-time collaborator Atticus Ross. That resulted in the original score for the (excellent) film “The Killer”, directed by David Fincher. The film, starring Michael Fassbender, was released on Netflix on November 10th, 2023.
Note that the film included a lot of tracks from The Smiths. The plot starts with an unnamed skillful professional assassin (credited as “The Killer”) who stakes out a Parisian hotel room. He prepares to use a sniper rifle to kill a target who will check into the hotel room at an unspecified time. While waiting for the target, he eats, practices yoga, and listens to the Smiths.
Trent Reznor, 58 years old, founded Nine Inch Nails in 1988, he was the sole official member until 2016. The last Nine Inch Nails album was 2020’s “Ghosts VI: Locusts”, the eleventh studio album for the project. It was released as a free download on March 26, 2020, as a show of solidarity with the band’s fans during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was released simultaneously with the tenth Nine Inch Nails album, “Ghosts V: Together”, and is the third release of the ‘Ghosts’ series.
The podcast with Trent Reznor
You can check the full podcast below in case you haven’t done so yet..
About Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1988 as the recording project of Trent Reznor. Working as an assistant engineer at Right Track Studios and inspired by Prince’s practice of playing every instrument himself, Reznor recorded demos alone, programming drums and playing the rest, and performed under a band name despite being its sole permanent member. Nine Inch Nails played its first live show on 27 October 1988 in Pittsburgh, and released its debut album, “Pretty Hate Machine,” through TVT Records in 1989.
After a contractual dispute with TVT, Reznor signed with Interscope Records and founded his own imprint, Nothing Records, releasing “The Downward Spiral” in 1994 and “The Fragile” in September 1999. The band left Interscope after “Year Zero” (2007) and self-released the instrumental “Ghosts I-IV” (2008) through the Null Corporation before returning to major-label releases with “Hesitation Marks” (2013), “Bad Witch” (2018) and the companion albums “Ghosts V: Together” and “Ghosts VI: Locusts” (both 2020).
English musician Atticus Ross became an official member in 2016 after years of production work with Reznor, including their Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning score for David Fincher’s “The Social Network” (2010). Guitarist Robin Finck first joined in 1994 and has rejoined the touring band multiple times since; drummer Josh Freese first joined in 2005. Nine Inch Nails was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 7 November 2020, alongside Ross, Finck and other past members. Nine Inch Nails has released studio albums on an irregular schedule since “The Downward Spiral” (1994), most recently the paired “Ghosts V: Together” and “Ghosts VI: Locusts” (2020).
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