Trent Reznor is living the nerd dream. Sure, he's one of the coolest motherfuckers on the planet, but the dude is ultimately a nerd at heart. He likes playing with gadgets and video games, keeps up with rising computing technologies and yet manages to maintain his cool, marrying a smoking hot wife, having one of the best rock/industrial bands ever and now working completely on his own terms.
His next project is now known. Reznor has scored the new Call Of Duty: Black Ops II game. This won't be Reznor's first foray into gaming music, as he worked on music for Quake and Doom 3 and he's created an "aggressively sounding" track for the new video game. Here is a quote he gave to USA Today about working with the COD people:
"I have always looked to that franchise as the cutting edge of what seemingly unlimited budgets and full-on not cutting any corners can do in the current day and age," he says.
The Black Ops II story envisions a new Cold War between the U.S. and China, and an international villain plays them off each other. "There is a lot of reservation and angst and sense of loss and regret and anger bubbling under the surface," Reznor says. "So it didn't make sense to have a gung-ho patriotic feeling kind of theme song. It has to feel weighty."
Now that he's done with the song for the game, he is setting his sites on his collaboration with his wife and Atticus Ross, How To Destroy Angels. The music is done, and they are doing their final tweaks, with Reznor promising a different distribution model for the album. As for Nine Inch Nails, Reznor also has some NIN music up his sleeve but tells USA Today that material is "in its gestation period."
While we wait for new music from Trent, here is the trailer for the video game:
