Yesterday, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Score for their contribution to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo*; it’s their second nomination in as many years and would seem to suggest that the duo will probably get a second Oscar nod, too, although it’s not clear yet if they’ll be able to repeat the success of last year’s The Social Network. Still, pretty crazy to see the guy who once sang “I wanna fuck you like an animal” being all respectable n’ shit.

And since he is Mr. Respectable now, Reznor has granted a long interview to The Hollywood Reporter, a trade mag which I can’t imagine would have been interested in him even just a few years ago. But it’s a fun read, and they got some pretty good dish out of the dude — like the fact that he has no idea where his Grammy statuettes are:

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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo score was released this past Friday, and I spent a good chunk of my weekend listening to it; I’m glad to report that, yes, it’s pretty fuckin’ great. But if, for some reason, you’re still not sold, here are two more things which will hopefully entice you:

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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ score for  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was supposed to come out today… but I guess it’s been delayed for some reason, and now won’t come out until next Friday, December 9. That’s the poopy news. The good news is not only that the cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” that the duo recorded with Karen O. from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (and which appeared in the film’s first teaser trailer back in May) is now available on iTunes, but Reznor and Ross are giving away six tracks from the score for free download right now. Here are all the details, via a statement Reznor has posted on Nine Inch Nails’ official website:

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And, according to Nine Inch Nails’ official website, that release date is December 2. Mute Records will release the album internationally, while Null will handle distribution in North America.

As fot the album art… It’s pretty sparse, but I’m digging it; bright white is not the color you’d usually associate with the character of Lisbeth Salander, but her simple, stark, silhouetted image seems all the more striking for being presented in such an unexpected manner. It almost feels like an x-ray without being an x-ray; it’s that extreme of a vibe. Check it out below and see what you think…

-AR

Nine Inch Nails may be done as a touring band, but it lives on as a recording project — which makes sense, since it’s really just Trent Reznor, and pretty much anything he does, be it How to Destroy Angels or film scores, sounds like NIN. So, um, yeah.

Nine Inch Reznor’s latest release is a cover of “Zoo Station” from U2′s last good album, Achtung Baby. The good news is, Reznor did not make a rote re-recording of the original song, and instead attempted to put his own unique spin on the material. The bad news is, the results are actually kind of boring, if not at all terrible. It’s interesting to note that his version of the tune is a full two minutes longer than the original; I guess Reznor felt like he really, really need extra time for all the semi-ambient computer noise.

Nine Inch Nails’ cover of U2′s “Zoo Station” is part of Q magazine’s tribute to Achtung Baby, which you can stream here.

-AR

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Mouth Taped Shut, a viral site created to promote the upcoming English-language film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, debuted a video about the manufacturing of the movie’s posters last night, and while that’s not very interesting (at least to me), the inclusion of even more of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ film score certainly is. Check it out below.

And lemme just say that I know I’ve been babbling on and and on about this score a lot, but, uh, can ya blame me? It’s only aspect of the film that’s pretty much guaranteed to be interesting. Director David Fincher is pretty brilliant, but I haven’t been too keen on his last couple of films, and I’ve tried reading Stieg Larsson’s book multiple times now, and I keept giving up — ’cause despite selling endless amounts of copies, I’m sorry to say, the story telling is pretty poor. But at the very least, Reznor music is always provocative.

There’s still no word on the soundtrack’s release date, but presumably it will be sometime before the movie’s December 21 opening.

-AR

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Because film scores are generally one of the last aspects of a movie to be completed (makes sense when you think about it — scoring a film is a very precise science, and it’s pretty much impossible to do correctly until the film is completely edited), and because marketing for a film needs to begin months in advance of its release, movie trailers often use temp music that’s either from another movie (e.g., Hans Zimmer’s score for Crimson Tide, which was in seemingly every action movie trailer during the 90s) or was written just for the trailer and will never be used again (like Zack Hemsey’s awesome “Mind Heist” music for the Inception trailer).

But I guess director David Fincher got his shit together fast, ’cause apparently the music in the new trailer for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (below) is from the actual score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. It’s not hard to believe, either — if I hadn’t been told that it was real Reznor/Ross material, I’d have to compliment whomever composed it on doing a bang-up job of imitating that duo’s signature sound. Check it out and see what you think… sounds pretty intense to me:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo comes out at Christmas. There’s no official release date for the score yet, but presumably it will be sometime in the week or two prior.

-AR

The official website for David Fincher’s new cinematic adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (not to be confused with Niels Arden Oplev’s adaptation of the same novel) launched yesterday afternoon, and with it came the first samples of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ score for the film (much as they debuted their score for The Social Network via that film’s website). No shock — it’s kinda drone-y and very cool. Check it out below:

You may recall that a Reznor and Rossified cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” featuring vocals by Karen O. from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, has already debuted in the movie’s trailer. You can check that out here.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo comes out December 21. Presumably, the score will be released sometime beforehand.

-AR

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Trent Reznor has been talking about doing a Year Zero television series on HBO for so long that, frankly, I had pretty much given up on the thing ever happening. But I guess Trent is a persistent dude — and that Oscar win probably didn’t hurt his ability to get shit done — so now the proposed series is taking a serious step towards becoming a reality: Jim Uhls, who was credited with writing the screenplay for the film version of Fight Club, has been hired to script the show, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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The new red band (read: NSFW) trailer for David Fincher’s cinematic adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s everyone-but-me-has-read-it international bestseller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is out in the world. And, holy shit, someone filmed it on their cell phone because they were so desperate to share it and/or watch it on a loop that they couldn’t be bothered to wait until it officially appears online later this week. This is the world which we now inhabit.

ANYWAY, the trailer is of interest to the metal community because a) as you probably already know, Oscar-winning composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are scoring the film, and b) the trailer features a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” recorded by Reznor and Karen O from Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It seems safe to assume that Ross probably had more than a little something to do with the track, too, but Ross still doesn’t get any credit for all the work he does (check out the documentary about the making of the music for The Social Network on that film’s DVD if you want to get a better sense of how vital he has become to shaping Reznor’s sound), so as of yet he involvement hasn’t been officially confirmed.

Check out the trailer/song below. Hopefully a better version will turn up online soon.

-AR

I like doing MetalSucks, in part, because I really do learn something new each and every week. You know what I learned this week, for example?

FUCK VAMPIRES.

Here are some other things we learned this week:

• The dudes in Lazarus A.D. like MetalSucks.
• Swamp Thing and Indian have awesome new music coming out.
• The Human Abstract’s A.J. Minette and Travis Richter know a lot about music theory, Mr. Big’s Eric Martin knows a lot about Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and Vicious Rumors’ Geoff Thorpe knows a lot about line-up changes.
• The new Rotten Sound album is choice.
• Earache Records is a good label.
• Kittie are bad at making music videos.
• TesseracT are tardy to the djent party.
• Joey Belladonna still can’t sing.
• Rites of Darkness III is gonna be a great festival for bands no one has ever heard of.
• Losing someone you admire still sucks.

I’ll be flying solo for much of next week as Vince and Kip head down to Austin for SXSW and I stay behind to ensure you are as irritated as possible. Won’t you come back and learn some more with me?

-AR

When word got out that Academy Award Winner Trent Reznor would be working on the upcoming film adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, some of us fans were understandably a little bummed. For one thing, FUCK VAMPIRES, and for another, for Reznor to follow-up working on back-t0-back film projects with the makers of Fight Club, No Country for Old Men, Schindler’s List and The West Wing with a project being made by the dude who made a movie about how bullets don’t have to fly in a straight line and Angelina Jolie’s ass, well… it felt kinda like Trent disbanding Nine Inch Nails to go join Orgy.

Well, hey, guess what? Turns out Trent isn’t working on that movie after all, in any capacity. Here’s the explanation he gave on the official NIN message boards:

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So recently word got out that Trent Reznor is not only going to be scoring, but will apparently also be acting in, a retarded-sounding new movie called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, from the same idiot who brought you Wanted. (And please allow me to take a moment to give credit where credit is due, something too many of our fellow bloggers/web journalists/whatever fail to do — Badass Digest, and no one else, originally broke this story. It’s a huge scoop, and they deserve a pat on the back.) And a lot of fans — like me! — were, well, concerned about that project, to say the least.

But Trent, ever the diplomat and not dipshit, has taken a moment out of his busy schedule to confirm the story on the Nine Inch Nails forums — and clear up a few things. I’ll post his full statement at bottom of this post, but here’s the Reader’s Digest version:

• Yes he’s acting in the movie but it’s just a cameo, not a leading or even supporting role.
• The whole thing was supposed to be a surprise, but now that’s ruined.
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is gonna be awesome.
• He’s working on new music for How to Destroy Angels.
• He’s also working on new Nine Inch Nails music.

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Hey Trent Reznor: You just won the Oscar! What are you gonna do now? Are you going to Disneyland???

“Fuck no! I’m gonna jump on the vampire bandwagon, that’s what I’m gonna do!”

Yep yep. According to Badass Digest, Academy Award winner Trent Reznor will not only score, but will also act, in the upcoming movie adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which is about exactly what you think it’s about. Reznor will apparently play the vampire who kills Lincoln’s mother, thereby setting the future president (he’s being played here by 29 year-old Benjamin Walker) down his path as a, uh, y’know. Vampire hunter. Talk about giving new meaning to With Teeth! (I had to get it outta my system. Please disregard.)

Okay, so as regular readers are aware, I’m usually Pro-Reznor all the way. But this is a terrible fucking idea, for a number of reasons:

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Yes, that’s correct: last night, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won the Oscar for Best Original Score for their work on The Social Network. That’s not really a surprise — they’ve been winning awards for their score pretty much since the movie came out back in October — but still, I doubt that anyone ever really thought that this dude would some day win an Academy Award:

In any case, mazel tov to Reznor and Ross — their score really is quite brilliant, and they deserve a pat on the back.

You can download The Social Network score or just six bucks here. In case you didn’t see it last night, enjoy video of Reznor and Ross’ acceptance speech after the jump.

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If you’re reading this, then presumably the headline enticed you and you already know what you’re getting into. So why waste time? Here are some funny/interesting ways in which metal and Hollywood are currently overlapping:

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So yesterday, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross got an Oscar nomination for their score for The Social Network. I didn’t write anything about it because a) I was too busy fuming that somehow Christopher Nolan didn’t get a Best Director nod for Inception, and b) it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that Reznor and Ross would be nominated, so it didn’t really feel like news. Still, it will be great if a few weeks from now we can start referring to the Nine Inch Nails mastermind as “Oscar winning composer Trent Reznor.”

But, no, the much more interesting cinemetal story to break this week is that Slash — who announced the formation of Slasher Films, a production company devoted to creating “edgy contemporary horror fare with a nod to the thrillers of the ’70s and ’80s,” back in October — has now started to discuss his first potential projects as a movie producer. From an interview that Entertainment Weekly conducted with the guitarist at the in-progress Sundance Film Festival:

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Yep — The Social Network cleaned up at the Golden Globe Awards last night, surprising no one, and one of its shiny new statues was for the score, by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. You can watch a really, really shitty-quality clip of their acceptance speech below.

Even though I thought that The Social Network was overrated as a film, it’s hard for me to begrudge Reznor and Ross their success, ’cause the score is really fantastic. And it will be pretty funny if/when these guys take home the Osar next month; as Vince put it, “So many old goths will be so pissed!”

While you wait for that to happen, Amazon is selling the score for just five bucks, so you should go ahead and download that if you don’t already have it. There’s also a pretty lengthy, and totally fascinating, segment on how Reznor and Ross did the score on the DVD and Blu-ray release of the movie; basically, Reznor dicks around for an hour, and then Ross takes said dicking around and turns it into music. Kind of amazing.

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The Social Network has been winning pretty much every critics’ award available to it, and seems poised to score big at the Oscars, too; and the score has made composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Golden Glob Nominees, and we may yet find them thanking the Academy on February 27.

So it should shock no one to learn that, in a recent interview with The New York Times, Reznor revealed that he and Ross will re-team with The Social Network director David Fincher to score Fincher’s next movie, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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The Golden Globes, in case you don’t know, are the film awards handed out each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which is exactly what it sounds like. They’re considered to be second only to the Oscars in terms of prestige, which is wholly ridiculous, since a) as opposed to the awards handed out by the various unions (e.g., the Director’s Guild, the Screen Actor’s Guild, etc.), they are almost never a good indication of who will win an Oscar, and b) there’s only like eighty-something people on the HFPA and you’re allowed to throw them parties and buy them things, a.k.a. bribe them to vote for you.

Still, it’s hard to be mad that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have received a nomination for “Best Original Score” for their work on The Social Network. I thought the movie was pretty disappointing overall (this was the most accurate review I read of the movie), but I think Reznor and Ross’ score is pretty brilliant.

Their fellow nominees include Hans Zimmer for Inception (the score for which is going to show up multiple times on musician’s year-end “best of lists” here on MetalSucks, believe it or not), Danny Elfman for Alice in Wonderland, Alexandre Desplat for The King’s Speech, A.R. Rahman for 127 Hours. I have no idea what their chances of winning are, and, again, these awards are pretty meaningless… but it would be pretty funny if they ended up at the Oscars eventually.

You can see the full list of nominees here if you’re interested.

-AR