Atticus Ross

Instruments:Keyboards

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].

Ross has also 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 is also involved with Trent Reznor and Mariqueen Maandig Reznor on the How To Destroy Angels project. 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.

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
• Songwriting and mixing
  • Not The Actual Events
  • Add Violence

Member of

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

Score

• Touching Evil (with Claudia Sarne and Leopold Ross)
• The Book of Eli (credited as solo, performance and writing with Claudia Sarne and Leopold Ross)
• New York, I Love You (Allen Hughes segment, with Claudia Sarne and Leopold Ross)
• The Social Network (with Trent Reznor)
• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (with Trent Reznor)
• Días de Gracia (with Claudia Sarne and Leopold Ross). Also on score: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and Shigeru Umeyabashi.
• Broken City
• Water Stories (composition for National Dance Company Wales)
• Gone Girl (with Trent Reznor)
• Love and Mercy (with Leopold Ross)
• Crocodile Gennadiy (with Leopold Ross and Bobby Krlic)
• Blackhat (with Harry Gregson-Williams)
• Triple Nine (with Claudia Sarne, Leopold Ross and Bobby Krlic)
• Outcast (with Claudia Sarne and Leopold Ross)
• Juno (with Trent Reznor)
• Before The Flood (with Trent Reznor, Gustavo Santaolalla, Mogwai)
• Patriots Day (with Trent Reznor)
• Almost Holy (with Leopold Ross and Bobby Krlic)
• The Defiant Ones (with Claudia Sarne and Leopold Ross)
• The Vietnam War (with Trent Reznor)

Remixer for

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

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) (with Trent Reznor)