Atticus Ross

Instruments:Keyboards, samples, programming, backing vocals

Active:2017-

Tours:I Can't Seem To Wake Up 2017-present

Atticus Ross (born January 16, 1968) is a producer, engineer and musician who collaborated with Trent Reznor on the Nine Inch Nails albums With Teeth, Year Zero, Ghosts I–IV, The Slip and Hesitation Marks, as well as making a guest appearance at the final show of NIN's Wave Goodbye Tour, before officially joining NIN in late 2016[1]. On November 7, 2020, Ross and NIN were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Ross (alongside Reznor) has won two Academy Awards and two Golden Globes. In 2024, Reznor and Ross also formed a company called With Teeth, which is a production venture dealing in multiple disciplines.

Ross has collaborated with Reznor on numerous film scores, and frequently collaborates on scores with wife Claudia Sarne and his brother, Leopold. Ross also founded the band 12 Rounds, with Sarne and Adam Holden, who were signed to Nothing Records for a period. He has also been involved with Trent Reznor and Mariqueen Maandig on the How To Destroy Angels project. He is also involved in some capacity with virtual band supergroup WitchGang.

In 2017, he appeared as part of Nine Inch Nails (in this case consisting of Trent Reznor, Robin Finck, Maandig, Ross, Alessandro Cortini and Joey Castillo of Queens Of The Stone Age) in an episode of the reboot of Twin Peaks. Reznor and Ross covered David Bowie's "Fantastic Voyage" and "Fashion" (with Mariqueen Maandig Reznor on "Fashion") for A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day! in 2021.

Body Of Work

Work with Nine Inch Nails

• Production and programming
  • With Teeth
  • Year Zero
  • The Slip
  • "Zoo Station"
• Production
  • "Theme For Tetsuo: The Bullet Man"
  • NINJA 2009 Summer Tour EP - "Non-Entity" and "Not So Pretty Now"
• Songwriter, production and programming
  • Ghosts I–IV
• Production, programming, arranging and engineering
  • Hesitation Marks
• As official band member
  • Not The Actual Events
  • Add Violence
  • Bad Witch
  • Ghosts V: Together
  • Ghosts VI: Locusts

Member of

• 12 Rounds
• Tapeworm
• Error
• How To Destroy Angels
• Nine Inch Nails

Score

With Trent Reznor

• The Social Network Soundtrack - 2010
• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Soundtrack - 2011
• Gone Girl Soundtrack - 2014
• Visions Of Harmony - 2016 (short film for NASA)
• Before The Flood Soundtrack - 2016 (Also on score: Mogwai and Gustavo Santaolalla)
• Patriots Day Soundtrack - 2017
• The Walled Off Hotel - 2017 (mechanical piano art installation)
• The Black Ghiandola - 2017 (short charity film)
• The Vietnam War Original Score - 2017
• John Carpenter's Halloween - 2017 (voluntary cover, not commissioned)
• The Fourth Estate - 2018 (Main Title Theme)
• Mid90s (Original Music From The Motion Picture) - 2018
• Bird Box Original Score - 2019
• The Woman in the Window Score - 2019 (Unused and unreleased)
• Watchmen (Music From The HBO Series) - 2019
• Waves (Original Score) - 2019
• Mank (Original Musical Score) - 2020
• Soul (Original Score) - 2020
• Soul Of The City - 2021 (short)
• 22 vs. Earth - 2021 (short)
• Bones and All (Original Score) - 2022
• Empire of Light (Original Score) - 2022
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Original Score) - 2023
• The Killer (Original Score) - 2023
• The Bear - 2024 (Season 3, Episode 1)
• Challengers (Original Score) - 2024
• The Franchise - 2024 (Main Title Theme and first episode score)
• Queer (Original Score) - 2024
• The Gorge (Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film) - 2025

With other artists or solo

Composed with Claudia Sarne and Leopold Ross except where noted

• Touching Evil - 2004 (all 12 episodes)
• New York, I Love You - 2008 (Allen Hughes segment)
• The Book Of Eli (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 2010
• Days Of Grace (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 2011 (Also on score: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and Shigeru Umeyabashi)
• Broken City (Original Movie Soundtrack) - 2013
• Water Stories - 2013 (The National Dance Company of Wales production)
• Music from Love & Mercy - 2014 (with Leopold Ross)
• Blackhat - 2015 (with Harry Gregson-Williams, Leopold Ross, Ryan Amon, and Mike Dean)
• Almost Holy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 2015 (with Leopold Ross and Bobby Krlic)
• Fear the Walking Dead - 2015 (Main Title Theme) (solo)
• Triple 9 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 2016 (with Claudia Sarne, Leopold Ross, and Bobby Krlic)
• Outcast - 2016-2017 (all 20 episodes)
• FIFA 17: The Journey - 2016
• The Defiant Ones (Original Score) - 2017 (all 4 episodes)
• Manhunt: Unabomber - 2017 (Main Title Theme) (with Nick Chuba)
• Death Note - 2017 (with Leopold Ross)
• Black Mirror - 2017 (Season 4, Episode 3: "Crocodile")
• Corazón - 2018 (short film)
• A Million Little Pieces (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - 2018
• Earthquake Bird (Original Music from the Netflix Film) - 2019
• Dispatches from Elsewhere (Music from the Elsewhere Society) and (Music from the Jejune Institute) - 2020 (all 10 episodes)
• Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal - 2021 (with Leopold Ross and Nick Chuba)
• Dr. Death (Original Series Soundtrack) - 2021 (Season 1) (with Leopold Ross and Nick Chuba)
• Dear Mama - 2023 (all 5 episodes)
• Shōgun (Original Soundtrack) and Shōgun (Vol. 2) (Original Soundtrack) - 2024 (with Leopold Ross and Nick Chuba, all 10 episodes)

Remixer for

• The Transplants
• From First To Last
• Dillinger Escape Plan
• Neneh Cherry
• Notorious B.I.G.
• Telepathe
• Todd Rundgren (as member of NIN)
• Puscifer

Music for advertising

• DirecTV
• Jordan Brand
• Mercedes-Benz
• ESPN/NASCAR

Selected other works

• Bad Religion, "Beyond Electric Dreams" (programming)
• Barry Adamson, Oedipus Schmoedipus (programming, additional sounds) The Negro Inside Me (additional beats and sounds), assorted other works
• Coheed & Cambria, "Year of the Black Rainbow" (producer)
• From First To Last, The Levy (programming)
• Korn, See You on the Other Side (co-writer, co-producer) "Untitled" (co producer); (remix)
• Loverman, "Human Nurture" (co-producer)
• No Jahoda, Jahoda Witness (producer, programmer, co-writer)
• Pink, Try This (programmer and musician)
• Janes Addiction, NINJA 2009 Summer Tour EP (production, programming)
• Saul Williams, The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of NiggyTardust! (programming, engineering)
• Todd Rundgren, "Deaf Ears" (co-writer, co-performer; with Trent Reznor)
• Multimedia project for Banksy (The Walled Off Hotel), "Green Lines" (co-writer, co-performer; with Trent Reznor)
• Theme for Animal Kingdom, "Welcome To The Jungle" (co-writer, co-performer; with Claudia Sarne)
• Halsey, If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power (producer, programmer, engineer; with Trent Reznor)
• Antonio Sanchez & Bad Hombre, Shift (Bad Hombre Vol II) (featured performer, "I Think We're Past That Now"; with Trent Reznor)
• Fever Ray, Radical Romantics (co-producer, "Even It Out" and "North"; with Trent Reznor)
• Fever Ray, "Even It Out" (appeared in music video; with Trent Reznor)
• Bryan Ferry, "Star" (co-writer, drum programming and bass; with Trent Reznor)

External Links

• Atticus Ross on Apple Music
• Atticus Ross on Spotify
• Reznor & Ross on Bandcamp