Nine Inch Nails have a rich history of compelling music videos (“ Only ” immediately comes to mind). They’ve added to it today (September 3) with the release of the visual for “ As Alive As You Need Me To Be ,” from their Tron: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) .

The Maxime Quoilin-directed video mirrors the sense of tension in the song, quickly cycling through high-contrast, black-and-white imagery of Reznor and Ross as well as anything else that looks visually interesting in this context.

Reznor recently told Empire of the score, “I’ll give a few spoilers: there’s not one second of orchestra in our score. It sounds precise and unpleasant at times. It’s not an atonal, punishing score, but we spent a lot of time thinking about the undertones of what’s happening in th

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