Nine Inch Noize
Nine Inch Noize is a collaborative musical project between American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails and German-Iraqi electronic music producer Boys Noize. The project emerged from their collaboration on the Challengers |Challengers , TRON: Ares soundtrack and the subsequent Peel It Back Tour in 2025.
On September 15, 2025, it was announced that Nine Inch Noize will perform at the Coachella 2026.
Background
According to Boys Noize, he and Trent Reznor had previously worked on a secret project that failed to materialize. In 2024, Reznor asked Ridha to do a remix of the Challengers score, which Reznor had worked on. Ridha turned the music into a continuous dance remix called Challengers |Challengers .Subsequently they collaborated on the TRON: Ares soundtrack, with credits given to Boys Noize for "additional production" and co-production on key tracks like the single As Alive As You Need Me to Be and "Shadow Over Me."
Live performances
The collaboration emerged as a distinctive segment of Nine Inch Nails' 2025 Peel It Back Tour. The tour featured a five-act structure, with the third act showcasing Nine Inch Noize performing live, EDM-heavy remixes of NIN tracks on a B-stage for 4-5 songs.The tour kicked off on June 15, 2025, in Dublin at the city's 3Arena.
The end of Boys Noize's opening set on a side stage transitioned directly into Reznor's Act One opening piano song on the B-stage, with Boys Noize kicking off the third act already on the B-stage while Reznor and Atticus Ross transitioned from the main stage to join him.
Songs reworked and performed with Boys Noize included Only, Vessel, The Warning, Branches/Bones, She's Gone Away, Love Is Not Enough, Me, I'm Not, Sin, I Do Not Want This, Closer, and How To Destroy Angels' Parasite.
During the collaborative set, the band debuted a brand new song, "As Alive As You Need Me to Be," which became the first single from the soundtrack for the 2025 film TRON: Ares, co-produced by Boys Noize.
On October 6, 2025, during the premiere of Tron: Ares in Los Angeles, the group performed a mini set of 4 songs from the Tron soundtrack.