9 Inch Nails have introduced the a brand new pageant that celebrates movie and tv composers.
The rock icons began dropping hints for Future Ruins on social media in a single day, main followers to a new web site. Now, particulars of the inaugural occasion – which is the primary of its type – have been revealed. Created and curated by award-winning composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, the pageant is introduced by Reside Nation will see among the world’s most influential movie and tv composers step out from behind the display screen and onto the stage.
The day-long occasion shall be held on November 8 and set throughout three phases on the Equestrian Heart in Los Angeles.
It’s designed to be an immersive expertise, bringing the music from movie and tv to an setting the place it has by no means been heard earlier than, and encourages the artists to “take huge swings and reimagine their work for a reside viewers – with performances starting from digital units and reside bands to orchestral performances.
The idea comes as Ross and Reznor have a wealthy historical past writing scores for movie, in addition to working collectively in 9 Inch Nails. Their award-winning work has included the composition for music in Watchmen, Gone Lady, The Lady with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Community, Soul, Challengers and extra.
The latter three noticed them bag wins on the Golden Globes in 2010, 2020 and 2025 respectively, and the Luca Guadagnino film Challengers additionally noticed them shortlisted for each Greatest Unique Rating and Unique Track on the 2025 Academy Awards. Since then, they’ve teamed up with Guadagnino once more for the Daniel Craig-featuring movie Queer, and likewise signed on as composers for the upcoming Disney sci-fi flick Tron: Ares.
Talking about Future Ruins, Reznor mentioned it was “about giving people who find themselves, actually, one of the best on the planet at taking audiences on an emotional trip by way of music the chance to inform new tales in an fascinating reside setting”.
He added: “There’s no headliner. There’s no hierarchy. It is a stacked lineup of visionaries doing one thing you won’t see once more.”
The road-up contains Danny Elfman – the composer behind movies together with Batman, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas, Beetlejuice, Males in Black and Good Will Looking – in addition to John Carpenter (Halloween, They Reside, The Factor), Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker, Chernobyl, A Haunting in Venice), Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Smile, The White Lotus, Black Mirror) and Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein (Stranger Issues, Misplaced within the Evening).
Questlove is on the invoice too – presenting the rating works of Curtis Mayfield – as are Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor themselves.
The Future Ruins line-up is:
Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Babygirl, Smile, The White Lotus, Black Mirror, Utopia (UK), Philip Ok. Dick’s Electrical Goals, Ponyboi, The Third Day, Nationwide Treasure (UK), The Lady With All The Presents, People)
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow (Ex Machina, Civil Struggle, Males, Drokk, Annihilation, Luce, Free Fireplace, Black Mirror, Devs)
Danny Elfman (Batman, Pee-Wee’s Large Journey, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas, Beetlejuice, Males in Black, Good Will Looking, Charlie & The Chocolate Manufacturing unit, Large Fish, Alice In Wonderland, Spider-Man, Milk)
Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin (Suspiria, Profondo Rosso/Deep Crimson, Daybreak of the Lifeless, Demons, Tenebrae, Phenomena, Opera)
Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker, Chernobyl, A Haunting in Venice, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Mary Magdalene, Tár, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Ladies Speaking, Hedda)
A efficiency of Howard Shore’s rating of David Cronenberg’s Crash
Isobel Waller-Bridge (Munich: The Fringe of Struggle, Emma., Black Mirror, I Got here By, Depraved Little Letters, Fleabag, The Lesson, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Magpie, Sweetpea)
John Carpenter (Halloween, They Reside, The Factor, Christine, Escape From New York)
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (Stranger Issues, Misplaced within the Evening, The Gap within the Fence, Spheres, Native Son, Butterfly, Retaliators, Valley of the Growth)
Mark Mothersbaugh (The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Rugrats, The Lego Film, A Minecraft Film, Cocaine Bear, Thor: Ragnarok)
Questlove (presents the rating works of Curtis Mayfield)
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Candyman, Grasp, Telemarketers, The Coloration of Care, Grasshopper Republic, Energy, Unvion, Seeds, Life After)
Tamar-kali (Mudbound, Shirley, The Assistant, The Fireplace Inside, The Final Factor He Wished, Come Sunday, Palmer, The Lie, Little Richard: I’m The whole lot)
Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman, Malcolm X, Inside Man, Da 5 Bloods, When the Levees Broke, One Evening in Miami, The Lady King, Perry Mason)
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Community, Watchmen, Gone Lady, Soul, The Lady with the Dragon Tattoo, Challengers, Empire of Gentle, Waves, The Vietnam Struggle, Mank, The Killer)
Volker Bertelmann AKA Hauschka (All Quiet on the Western Entrance, Conclave, Lion, The Beginner, Dune: Prophecy, The Day of the Jackal, Hollywoodgate, Adrift, Struggle Sailor, The Outdated Guard, Stowaway, Patrick Melrose)
Tickets for the pageant shall be out there subsequent Wednesday (Might 21) at 12pm PT. Go to right here for tickets and extra data.
The announcement comes after 9 Inch Nails introduced an enormous ‘Peel It Again’ tour again in January. These reveals will mark their first reveals since 2022 and see them take to the stage within the UK, Europe and North America this summer time. For the tour, they’ll be supported by Boys Noize and you’ll go to right here to search out remaining tickets.
In different NIN information, final yr Trent Reznor introduced that the band had been within the studio engaged on new materials, including that they had been “able to be again within the driver’s seat.” A brand new document would mark their first because the shock 2020 ambient double album ‘Ghosts V-VI’, which adopted 2018’s ‘Dangerous Witch’.
