Nine Inch Nails has slowly been coming back to life over the past year. Nine Inch Nails – not Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross as they're usually billed when it comes to soundtracks – is working on the soundtrack to Disney's new movie Tron: Ares, which we've been told is pretty industrial and gritty.
Then in a April 2024 interview with GQ, Reznor and Ross revealed that they were starting to think about a new Nine Inch Nails record. In part, Reznor said: "Let's try some stuff. We're bored. We are. You know what I mean? We're grateful. We enjoy doing films. We can write a better Nine Inch Nails record, I think. We can put on a cooler tour. We are aimed to do that. But man, what if we try to do that?
"What if we could take what we're good at, like we did with film? We identified something I think we're good at and we figured out how to apply it to something else. What if we take that theory and try it on some other things? And that's led us into: We're not beaten down completely yet. And it feels exciting. That's what matters to us right now."
Now in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Reznor revealed that Nine Inch Nails is actively working on new material and that they're excited to be back. "We're taking the inspiration we've garnered and funneling it into a Nine Inch Nails project, which we're working on now. We're ready to be back in the driver's seat."
The next Nine Inch Nails record will be their first since Bad Witch in 2018, or their first since the double ambient project of Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts in 2020, depending on how you wanna look at it.
