Nine Inch Nails have dropped “As Alive as You Need Me to Be,” the lead single from the forthcoming soundtrack to TRON: Ares, the third installment within the TRON movie franchise, due in theaters on October 10. The tune is the band’s first single in 5 years.
Although bandmates Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have scored 20 movies collectively, successful Academy Awards for his or her work on 2010’s The Social Community and 2020’s Soul, TRON: Ares marks the primary movie rating credited to Nine Inch Nails. The album, set for launch on September 19 through Interscope Information, will function totally unique music from the band.
Pushed by sharp drums, jagged synths, and (natch) the distant sound of revving engines, “As Alive as You Need Me to Be” delivers the entire vaguely outlined angst we’ve come to anticipate from Reznor. “Give me one thing to imagine in/All these arms have gotten a maintain of me,” he sneers on the monitor’s refrain, recalling With Tooth’s “Love Is Not Sufficient.”
Watch the lyric video for “As Alive as You Need Me to Be” beneath:
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