Trent Reznor Sets Line-Up For Inaugural Future Ruins Festival Spotlighting Film & TV Score Composers

Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor has announced the lineup for his first-ever Future Ruins Festival, a one-day event on Nov. 8 at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center that will feature an impressive lineup of film and TV score composers.

According to a release, the event that will have some of the “world’s most influential film and television composers step[ping] out from behind the screen and onto the stage” will take place on three stages and feature performances from Danny Elfman (Batman, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure), John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing), Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (Stranger Things, Spheres), Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh (The Royal Tennenbaums, Cocaine Bear) and the Roots’ Questlove, who will perform the score compositions of late soul icon Curtis Mayfield.

Future Ruins “is designed to feel thoughtful and immersive, bringing this music to light in an environment where it has never been heard before,” according to the release. “Every artist is a headliner, each with their own specially curated moment. Each artist is encouraged to take big swings and reimagine their work for a live audience. Ranging from electronic sets and live bands to orchestral performances, fans have the chance to experience live debuts from composers who rarely appear onstage.”

It’s a fitting side quest for Reznor, who has created an award-winning side hustle as a film composer along wit his NIN bandmate Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Challengers), who co-created and co-curated the lineup with Reznor. “It’s about giving people who are, literally, the best in the world at taking audiences on an emotional ride via music the opportunity to tell new stories in an interesting live setting,” said Reznor in a press release about the one-time gathering.

“There’s no headliner. There’s no hierarchy. This is a stacked lineup of visionaries doing something you might not see again,” Reznor and Ross added.

Among the other acts on the bill are: Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Babygirl, The White Lotus), Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow (Ex Machina, Black Mirror), Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin (Suspiria, Dawn of the Dead), Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker, Women Talking), a performance of Howard Shore’s score for David Cronenberg’s Crash, Isobel Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Sweetpea), Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Candyman, Seeds), Tamar-Kali (Mudbound, Shirley), Terence Blanchard (Malcolm X, Inside Man) and Volker Bertelman (aka Hauschka) (All Quiet on the Western Front, Conclave).

Reznor and Ross will also perform selections from their expansive catalog of TV and movie compositions, including Watchmen, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Empire of Light, Waves, Mank, The Killer and more. Tickets for the festival will go on sale on May 21 at 12 p.m. PT.; click here for ticketing information.

In the meantime, NIN will be on the road for their 2025 Peel It Back arena tour, which is slated to launch on kick off on June 15 in Dublin and hit Manchester, London, Germany, Belgium, Milan and 10 more European cities before hopping over to North America for shows in Oakland (August 6), as well as Vancouver, Denver, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Boston, New York, Nashville and Phonenix before winding down on Sept. 19 in Los Angeles.

Check out the Future Ruins lineup poster below.