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Nine Inch Nails – TRON: Ares (Target Exclusive) – Double Red Translucent Vinyl Records
TRON: Ares marks a genuine first in the history of Nine Inch Nails: although Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have built one of modern cinema’s most distinctive scoring partnerships, this is the first feature-film score officially credited to the band itself. That distinction matters. The music retains the pair’s gift for atmosphere and psychological detail, but it also carries the physical force, serrated electronics, and confrontational pulse associated with Nine Inch Nails. More than seventy minutes of music give the digital world of TRON a darker, more human sense of danger.
The opening sequence establishes that tension immediately. “INIT” and “FORKED REALITY” feel like systems awakening under stress, while “AS ALIVE AS YOU NEED ME TO BE” translates the film’s collision of code and consciousness into a full-scale vocal centerpiece. Tracks such as “ECHOES,” “PERMANENCE,” and “INFILTRATOR” are more architectural, building momentum through processed percussion, low-frequency pressure, and synth lines that seem to bend light. The score works as narrative music, yet its strongest passages also stand independently as a concentrated Nine Inch Nails listening experience.
Across the second record, the emotional stakes grow alongside the action. “WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER?” frames immortality as a threat rather than a promise, and “EMPATHETIC RESPONSE” introduces an unexpectedly vulnerable current beneath the machinery. “GHOST IN THE MACHINE,” “NEMESIS,” and “NEW DIRECTIVE” return to harsher movement, but the album never settles for anonymous blockbuster bombast. Reznor and Ross use distortion, silence, repetition, and tonal decay as storytelling devices, keeping the score intimate even when its scale becomes enormous.
This Target-exclusive edition was designed as a complete physical presentation rather than a simple color swap. The twenty-four selections are spread across two red translucent vinyl records, matching the film’s charged visual palette. An exclusive cover distinguishes the jacket from standard editions, and an exclusive poster extends the artwork beyond the sleeve. The longer running time is given room across four sides, allowing the shifts between ambient suspense, vocal material, and large rhythmic set pieces to unfold with the pacing intended for the full album.
UPC 602478702402 identifies this exact Target configuration. It is the two-record red translucent pressing with exclusive artwork and poster, issued by The Null Corporation and Interscope Records in 2025. The combination of an important Nine Inch Nails milestone, a substantial complete score, and edition-specific packaging gives the release appeal well beyond soundtrack collecting alone. For listeners who follow Reznor and Ross’ film work, it connects that acclaimed career directly to the band name; for TRON collectors, it is the most visually distinctive version of the Ares soundtrack.
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic
Track Listing
1. Disc 1, Side A: INIT
2. FORKED REALITY
3. AS ALIVE AS YOU NEED ME TO BE
4. ECHOES
5. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
6. Disc 1, Side B: IN THE IMAGE OF
7. I KNOW YOU CAN FEEL IT
8. PERMANENCE
9. INFILTRATOR
10. 100% EXPENDABLE
11. STILL REMAINS
12. Disc 2, Side A: WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER?
13. BUILDING BETTER WORLDS
14. TARGET IDENTIFIED
15. DAEMONIZE
16. EMPATHETIC RESPONSE
17. Disc 2, Side B: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
18. A QUESTION OF TRUST
19. GHOST IN THE MACHINE
20. NO GOING BACK
21. NEMESIS
22. NEW DIRECTIVE
23. OUT IN THE WORLD
24. SHADOW OVER ME
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