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=== 12 Rounds ===
[[12 Rounds (band)|12 Rounds]] is a British rock band formed by [[Atticus Ross]], Claudia Sarne and Adam Holden, after being introduced by mutual friends at a carnival.  The trio first began collaborating musically on the 1995 [[Bomb The Bass]] album, ''[[Clear (Bomb the Bass album)|Clear]]''.  Through their time in the studio together, they decided to form their own band, originally named '''12 Rounds With Jesus'''.  After appearing with a demo of their song "Holed" for a cassette compilation for [[NME|NME Magazine]], entitled ''Past Forward'', the band was offered a deal with [[Polydor Records]].  The band then shorted their name to 12 Rounds and brought on drummer Andy Crisp.

The band's first release came in 1995, in the form of their self-titled ''12 Rounds E.P.'' (also known as the ''Something's Burning E.P.'').  The E.P. featured four tracks from their debut album, ''Jitter Juice'', while the 12" version also featured an additional remix of "Something's Burning," entitled "Something Dub."  The band followed with the album ''Jitter Juice'' in 1996.  The ''Personally E.P.'' arrived later that year, which featured two album tracks and two exclusive songs; "Happy Hour" and "Feel My Beard."  12 Rounds would also release a double single from the album; ''Business / Pleasant Smell''.  Music videos were filmed for three tracks from the album; "Holed," "Business" and "Personally," the latter of which was helmed by acclaimed director [[Chris Cunningham]].  The track "Something's Burning" was also featured on the soundtrack to the film [[All Over Me (film)|All Over Me]].

12 Rounds toured the UK in support of ''Jitter Juice'', opening for [[Sneaker Pimps]].  The band also played the UK festival circuit.  Despite their touring and support from a major label, the band failed to attain much commercial success in their native country and received no international distribution, therefore remaining largely unknown outside of the UK.  The band were ultimately dropped from Polydor and member Adam Holden parted ways with the band.  Claudia Sarne recalled, "We were the antithesis of everything [[Britpop]] represents.  So we didn't go down a treat here in England when our first record came out.  Our first album was rather punk and raw and in the environment of Britpop and [[trip hop]], it really didn't stand a chance."<ref name="Ashare, Matt">{{cite web| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_CoEAAAAMBAJ&q=%2212+rounds%22+cmj&pg=PA32| title = 12 Rounds: Second Shot | author = Ashare, Matt| work = CMJ New Music Monthly| date = October 1997| access-date = April 6, 2017}}</ref>

During the summer of 1997, the band recorded an album's worth of material in their basement studio, with Atticus's brother [[Leopold Ross]] splitting guitar duties with keyboardist / guitarist Mark De Lane Lea, as well as Stanley Adler on cello. [[Trent Reznor]] would hear this material and offer them a deal with Nothing Records.  However, 12 Rounds was courted by numerous other labels as well.  Claudia stated, "We were shocked by the influx of offers, but Nothing was so right for us because it's so artist-led.  It's really the difference between feeling like a handmade Bristol and being on a Ford conveyor belt."<ref name="Ashare, Matt"/> Their sophomore album, ''My Big Hero,'' featured eight new tracks, alongside two songs from ''Jitter Juice''; "Something's Burning" and "Pleasant Smell" (though both would have minor differences from their original versions).  ''Pleasant Smell'' was released as a single on Nothing ahead of the album on June 9, 1998, featuring remixes from Trent Reznor, [[Charlie Clouser]] and Keith Hillebrandt of [[Nine Inch Nails]], as well as Nothing Records label-mate [[Clint Mansell]].  A music video was also released for "Pleasant Smell."  The single was followed by the release of ''My Big Hero'' on July 14, 1998.  The band then went on their first tours of the United States, with Kirk Hellie joining the band to take over guitar duties.  They took opening slots for [[VAST]] and Nothing Records label-mates [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]], as part of the first leg of their [[Mechanical Animals]] tour.

After touring ''My Big Hero,'' the band began work on a third album, produced by Ben Hiller.  After completing initial recording in England, Claudia and Atticus moved to Los Angeles in 2000 and began to do further production work on the album with Trent Reznor and former Nine Inch Nails drummer [[Jerome Dillon]].  During this time, however, Nothing Records was beginning to face an uncertain future as a record label.  Nothing's parent label, [[Interscope Records|Interscope]], was moved under new management as part of the [[Vivendi]] / [[Universal Music Group|Universal]] merger.  12 Rounds found themselves lost in the shuffle of these corporate mergers.  The band completed the album, but to date it has never been released.  Meanwhile, the band remained under contract with Nothing, unable to release the music elsewhere at that time.

However, in 2002, signs of an album release did briefly arise, when artwork for a promo EP surfaced, entitled ''Select New Recordings 2002''.  The promo featured four tracks; "Dead Man," "Conspiracy," "Ring Pull" and "Could U Be," while the artwork featured reused designs from ''My Big Hero''.  Claudia Sarne stated on the 12 Rounds website that the band sent fifteen tracks for mastering from the third album, twelve of which would compose the final tracklist.  Though a title for the third album was never revealed, the final track list was later published on the 12 Rounds website; 1. High Times, 2. Conspiracy, 3. Could U Be, 4. Big Love, 5. Ring Pull, 6. Still Water, 7. Xocet, 8. Sioux '86, 9. Chicane, 10. Bits & Pieces, 11. Dead Man, 12. Shine On.

Two additional tracks mentioned by Claudia as part of these sessions, but not included on the album, were "Everything I Want (Drown)" and "Another Day With My Friend."  The latter would be released in 2000 on the soundtrack to the [[Tom Tykwer]] film [[The Princess and the Warrior]], under the name "Just Another Day."  Despite being a 12 Rounds-penned track, the song was credited to composers Pale 3 (a band which included director Tom Tykwer), "featuring" 12 Rounds.  The song "Dead Man" also briefly appeared in the 2007 film [[Rise: Blood Hunter]].  Another track from the band's time on Nothing, "Freddy's Dead," was recorded for a proposed Nothing Records compilation, but the project never materialized.  The track has never been officially released, however a live version recorded in 1998 can be found on the internet.

With 12 Rounds stuck in limbo, due to the eventual collapse of Nothing Records, the band began working on outside projects.  Atticus Ross began recording on the [[Tapeworm (band)|Tapeworm]] project, alongside Reznor, [[Danny Lohner]], [[Charlie Clouser]] and [[Maynard James Keenan]], alongside a host of guest collaborators.  Photos surfaced on the short-lived Tapeworm website, showing Atticus in the studio with the band.  However, the Tapeworm material would likewise never see the light of day.

In 2004, Atticus joined his brother [[Leopold Ross]] in forming the noise rock band [[Error (band)|Error]], though it would be short-lived, with a one-off E.P. being released on [[Epitaph Records]].  Atticus also made contributions to another of Leopold's rock bands, [[Nojahoda]], although that project would also be short-lived.  Atticus began to deepen his musical collaboration with Trent Reznor, beginning with the Nine Inch Nails album ''[[With Teeth]]'' in 2005.  Meanwhile, Claudia Sarne would collaborate with Nothing label-mate Clint Mansell, to provide vocals to the main theme to the film [[The Hole (2001 film)|The Hole]] in 2001.  She later joined former Nine Inch Nails member [[Jerome Dillon]]'s band [[nearLY]] in 2006.  After the completion nearLY's debut album ''Reminder,'' the band played a handful of select live performances.  These performances were recorded as a live CD/DVD, entitled ''Reminder Live'', which was self-released by the band.  It included a performance of "Chicane," one of the songs from 12 Rounds' unreleased third album.  After the release of ''Reminder Live'', Claudia announced her departure from nearLY, with the band as a whole quietly dissolving shortly after.

In 2005, Claudia and Atticus were married.  Atticus continued to emerge as an in-demand producer and programmer, working with the likes of [[Barry Adamson]], [[Coheed And Cambria]], [[Pink (singer)|Pink]], [[Bad Religion]], [[Korn]], [[Saul Williams]] and more.  Claudia and Atticus also continued to collaborate musically, shifting their focus to the film world.  The couple began composing music for the cable television drama ''[[Touching Evil (U.S. TV series)|Touching Evil]]'', which was produced by the [[Hughes Brothers]].  Allen Hughes subsequently invited Atticus to compose music for his segment of the film ''[[New York, I Love You]]'' in 2008, followed by his feature film ''[[The Book of Eli]]'' in 2010.

That same year, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross composed their first collaborative film score together, for the [[David Fincher]] film ''[[The Social Network]]'', for which the pair won the [[Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]].  The duo has gone on to recorded numerous additional film scores together to critical acclaim, including ''[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]'', for which the pair won the [[Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media]], ''[[Gone Girl (film)|Gone Girl]]'', ''[[Before the Flood (film)|Before The Flood]]'', ''[[Patriots Day (film)|Patriots Day]]'', the [[Ken Burns]] documentary ''[[Vietnam (film)|Vietnam]]'' and more.  Atticus likewise garnered acclaim as a solo film composer, composing scores to [[Love & Mercy (film)|Love & Mercy]], ''[[Blackhat (film)|Blackhat]]'', ''[[Triple 9]]'', the TV series ''[[Outcast (TV series)|Outcast]]'' and more, all of which featured contributions from Claudia Sarne as well.  The 2013 Allen Hughes film ''[[Broken City (film)|Broken City]]'' was a particularly noteworthy 12 Rounds reunion of sorts, featuring contributions from the entire current line-up of Atticus Ross, Claudia Sarne, Leopold Ross and Kirk Hellie.

Outside of their film compositions, Atticus continued his close musical partnership with Trent Reznor, recording on the Nine Inch Nails albums ''[[Year Zero (album)|Year Zero]]'', ''[[Ghosts I–IV]]'', ''[[The Slip (album)|The Slip]]'' and ''[[Hesitation Marks]]''. In 2010, Ross was announced as a member of [[How to Destroy Angels (band)|How to Destroy Angels]], a project with Trent Reznor and his wife [[Mariqueen Maandig|Mariqueen Mandig-Reznor]].  The band derived their name from a song by fellow Nothing Records act [[Coil (band)|Coil]]. They released a [[How to Destroy Angels (How to Destroy Angels EP)|self-titled EP]] in 2010, followed by ''[[An Omen EP]]'' in 2012 and finally a full-length album, ''[[Welcome Oblivion]]'' in 2013. The band also did a small tour in support of the album. In 2016, after over a decade of musical partnership with Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross was announced as an official member of Nine Inch Nails, with the arrival of the ''[[Not the Actual Events]]'' EP.

After finally reacquiring the rights to their unreleased third album, in 2009, 12 Rounds released two tracks from the album, "Xecot" and "Shine On," as digital downloads on their website, followed by a third track, "Sioux 86," in 2010.  Trent Reznor was credited with additional recording for the track "Shine On."  In 2014, the members of 12 Rounds reunited for a performance at the [[Grammy Museum at L.A. Live|Grammy Museum]] in Los Angeles, California, as part of a Q&A event with Atticus Ross and [[Elvis Mitchell]] for the [[Los Angeles Film Festival]].  It marked the first ever live performance by the current line-up of the band, featuring Atticus Ross, Claudia Sarne, Leopold Ross and Kirk Hellie, as well as the first performance of any kind by the band in over a decade.  While not officially billed as a 12 Rounds show, the band played a short set of assorted material from their film scores, before closing their set with a performance of the song "Chicane" from their unreleased third album.

12 Rounds was one of the few acts to remain with Nothing Records until the demise of the label, with their third album becoming one of the most oft-requested, unreleased works of the Nothing Records era.  Atticus has stated the album will likely one day be released in digital format, but has described it a slow process, due to his full-time commitments to Nine Inch Nails and film composing.  While 12 Rounds has never officially disbanded, the members continue to primarily focus their musical collaborations on film compositions, mostly refraining from crediting themselves under their band name.