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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 became the second official member of Nine Inch Nails in late 2016.[1] He had previously collaborated with Trent Reznor on the NIN 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. 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. It was during the production of the second 12 Rounds album that Ross first met Reznor. He has been involved with Reznor and Mariqueen Maandig on the How To Destroy Angels project, and 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 Twin Peaks: The Return. 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. Reznor and Ross are credited as executive producers on Tron: Ares, as well as having on-screen cameos as the two fighter pilots.

Body Of Work

Work with Nine Inch Nails

Member of

Score

With Trent Reznor

With other artists or solo

Composed with Claudia Sarne and Leopold Ross except where noted

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)
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