Tron Ares: Divergence arrives as a surprise release from Nine Inch Nails, shadow-dropped on February 27, 2026, right in the middle of the band’s North American arena tour. Framed as a remix companion to their score for Tron: Ares, the album feels less like a simple reworking and more like a parallel universe to the original soundtrack — darker in places, more club-oriented in others, and fully committed to pushing the digital dystopia of the Tron world into new sonic territory.
The release is currently digital-only, but it’s presented as a two-disc set that reflects two distinct moods. Disc 1 reimagines the Tron: Ares material through new compositions and remix collaborations with a range of electronic artists, pulling the score toward industrial techno, distorted electro, and cinematic ambient. The remixes don’t flatten the original themes—instead, they stretch them, fragment them, and reassemble them into tracks that feel built for neon-lit warehouse floors as much as for headphones. It’s a space where Nine Inch Nails’ cold mechanical pulse meets the energy of contemporary electronic production.
Disc 2 brings things back to the source, presenting the full TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) in its original form. Hearing the score alongside its remixed counterpart highlights how flexible and durable the core compositions are. The melodies and textures hold up under heavy manipulation, which speaks to the strength of the original writing. This dual presentation turns TRON: Ares: Divergence into both a remix project and a curated listening experience—part recontextualization, part archive.
What makes this release especially compelling is the timing. Dropping the album mid-tour gives it a sense of immediacy, as if Nine Inch Nails are using the momentum of live performance to fuel this alternate vision of the TRON universe. The remixes carry the same tension and controlled chaos that define the band’s live shows, translating that energy into club-ready forms without losing the cinematic scope of the source material.
As a listening experience, TRON: Ares: Divergence rewards fans of the soundtrack and electronic music heads alike. It doesn’t just recycle familiar cues—it reframes them, opening up new emotional and physical spaces for the music to exist in. Whether you approach it as an expansion of the TRON: Ares world or as a standalone remix album, it plays like a bold, immersive extension of Nine Inch Nails’ ongoing fascination with technology, dystopia, and sound as architecture.
Tracklist:
Disc 1 1. Converge (1:37)
2. I Know You Can Feel It (Mark Pritchard Remix) (5:32)
3. Godmode (3:02)
4. A Question Of Trust (Boys Noize Remix) (3:35)
5. Operand (3:30)
6. Zero State (3:00)
7. Empathetic Response (Lanark Artefax Remix) (3:57)
8. 100% Expendable (Chilly Gonzales Remix) (2:33)
9. Who Wants To Live Forever? (Danny L Harle Remix) (3:06)
10. Infiltrator (Jack Dangers Remix) (7:01)
11. A Framework (3:38)
12. Ghost In The Machine (Boys Noize Remix) (5:06)
13. What Have You Done? (Boys Noize Remix) (4:44)
14. As Alive As You Need Me To Be (Pixel Grip Remix) (4:47)
15. The First Betrayal (2:43)
16. I Know You Can Feel It (Working Men's Club Remix) (6:18)
17. Shadow Over Me (The Dare Remix) (3:07)
18. Terminal (3:02)
19. Forked Reality (Schwefelgelb Remix) (4:40)
20. As Alive As You Need Me To Be (Arca Remix) (2:51)
Disc 2
1. Init (2:08)
2. Forked Reality (1:50)
3. As Alive As You Need Me To Be (3:57)
4. Echoes (3:46)
5. This Changes Everything (2:59)
6. In The Image Of (1:33)
7. I Know You Can Feel It (5:21)
8. Permanence (1:29)
9. Infiltrator (2:47)
10. 100% Expendable (3:54)
11. Still Remains (1:54)
12. Who Wants To Live Forever? (5:50)
13. Building Better Worlds (2:11)
14. Target Identified (3:24)
15. Daemonize (5:09)
16. Empathetic Response (2:09)
17. What Have You Done? (2:14)
18. A Question Of Trust (1:20)
19. Ghost In The Machine (1:29)
20. No Going Back (1:55)
21. Nemesis (1:45)
22. New Directive (2:45)
23. Out In The World (1:05)
24. Shadow Over Me (3:55)
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