It looks like the retirement of Nine Inch Nails isn’t quite over. Trent Reznor’s iconic group has penned the theme song to Shinya Tsukamoto’s third entry in his “Tetsuo” franchise, “Tetsuo: The Bullet Man.”
The track (which you can listen to below) sounds pretty much what you might expect a Nine Inch Nails song to sound like. The pulsating, metal scraping, instrumental electronic track is solid enough. While the song is edited for use in the trailer (also below), it will actually play during the film but over the end credits instead. As for the film, it made its premiere last year at the Venice Film Festival and debuted on North American shores last month at the Tribeca Film Festival. It’s been more than two decades since the original “Tetsuo” and just under that number since the sequel “Tetsuo II: The Body Hammer.” You can read the full synopsis for the new film below:
Anthony is an ordinary American businessman living in Tokyo, without knowing his happy life with wife Yuriko and 3-year-old son Tom would end suddenly. One day, out of the blue, Tom gets killed by a mystery man. Despair turns him to start searching for the reason. What he finds out is a fact that Ride, Anthony’s father, used to work for the US military forces as an anatomist and was involved in a secret experiment. He gradually begins to find out the truth hidden deep in his family’s past, and his own body. Anthony has been disciplined by Ride not to get caught by his own anger, but when he loses himself in his wrath against his father’s words for the first time, his body starts to eject steam and oil, and his muscles turn into deadly metallic weapons…
There is no word yet on if the Nine Inch Nails song will be officially released nor is there any North American distribution for the film at this time. We’re presuming it will continue to make a run of festival dates throughout the year, and given the fanbase behind the franchise, it should see some kind of release, even if its just on DVD.
Nine Inch Nails “Theme For Tetsuo: The Bullet Man”