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Hear Trent Reznor's 'Tetsuo: The Bullet Man' Theme

2:50 p.m. · May 25, 2010 · by Kiran Aditham

In between shutting down NIN (for now) and revealing How to Destroy Angels, Trent Reznor found the time to pen the theme for the end credits of Shinya Tsukamoto's latest cyberpunk saga Tetsuo: The Bullet Man, which made its American debut at last month's Tribeca Film Festival. Though you can finally download the schizophrenic-turned-ambient track at Some Kind of Awesome, it was a hell of a journey getting Reznor's submission committed to tape. 

According to fansite The NIN Hotline, Reznor and Tsukamoto's relationship dates back 20 years, when the former was still in Pretty Hate Machine mode and sent a letter to the latter about his desire to collaborate on a music video. While nothing ever came to fruition, Tsukamoto apparently kept Reznor's note in the back of his mind.Thanks to the latest chapter in his Tetsuo series, though, things finally started taking shape early last year. TNH regales us with the rest: 

The producers spoke with Trent Reznor on the phone in January of last year, and Trent was eager to create the track. However, he did not send a song for a long time. When the Tetsuo camp heard about the Wave Goodbye shows, they had all but given up on this track. They continued editing for 7 or 8 months, and showing it at film festivals around the world, finally finishing the film on October 2009 — without NIN song. But in February of 2010, Trent suddenly sent the song – and the song was, of course, fantastic! They were more than happy to redo the ending again and include the song!

In case you were curious, the trailer for the film is below:

[via Consequence of Sound]