Nine Inch Nails’ Tron: Ares Soundtrack Is Better Than It Probably Should Be

In October 2010, Nine Inch Nails bandmates Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross broke into the film-score world, doing the music for David Fincher’s The Social Network, one of this century’s great movies. The soundtrack was perfect, and it won Reznor and Ross their first Oscar. Two months later, Daft Punk dropped their own score for Disney’s franchise reboot attempt Tron: Legacy. That soundtrack wasn’t up to the standards of the canonical Daft Punk albums, but it was definitely the best thing about that movie, which was otherwise wildly forgettable. Now, Disney is trying to bring back Tron again, and they got Reznor and Ross, now fully established as film-score giants, to do the soundtrack. But the Tron: Ares soundtrack isn’t credited to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. It’s credited to Nine Inch Nails.