Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have created their own rendition of the theme from John Carpenter’s classic ’70s horror flick Halloween, full of spiralling, sharp synthsand it couldn’t be a better fit for the eerie duo.

Carpenter commented, saying “[it’s] moody and dark. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ version of ‘Halloween’ does amazing justice to the original. I’m impressed.”

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“I clearly remember my friends and I at 13 years old conning our parents into letting us see ‘Halloween’ when it came out in 1978. We left the theatre forever changed,” says Reznor on Bravewords.com. “We were damaged and scarred, with the shit genuinely scared out of us and that theme stuck firmly in our heads. John Carpenter  it’s your fault that I turned out the way I did.”

The cover is a teaser for the release of Carpenter’s Anthology: Movie Themes 1974 – 1998, a 13-track album due out October 20 through Sacred Bones Records.

Reznor and Ross released their own five-track EP last year that coverts their new direction. “[Not The Actual Events] is an unfriendly, fairly impenetrable record that we needed to make. It’s an EP because that ended up being the proper length to tell that story.”

NIN fans can look forward to the release of a limited edition LP of the 1999 album The Fragile, retitled as The Fragile: Deviations 1, and only available on vinyl, with no digital release.

“The Fragile occupies a very interesting and intimate place in my heart. I was going through a turbulent time in my life when making it and revisiting it has become a form of therapy for me. As an experiment, I removed all the vocals from the record and found it became a truly changed experience that worked on a different yet compelling level,” said Reznor.

This will be followed with a reissue project, wherein definitive editions of major NIN releases, including Broken and The Downward Spiral, will be released on vinyl.

“We want to present the catalog as it was intended to be, with no compromises. That means a careful remastering of the audio from the original sources, a painstaking recreation of the artwork, pristine materials, some surprises and an insane attention to detail that you probably won’t notice…but it matters to us. No extra bullshit and gimmicks – the ‘real’ records in their truest form.”

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