"Promises" is a song by British EDM trio Nero that appears on their debut studio album, Welcome Reality (track No.

A music video to accompany the release of "Promises", directed by Ben Newman, was uploaded to YouTube on 7 July 2011 at a total length of four minutes and sixteen seconds.

[3] It shows a woman in a dystopian regimented future society with mandatory drug consumption, similar in style to the film Equilibrium.

Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the song a positive review, stating: "Promises, and they still feel oh so wasted on myself," she admits with her high-wired vocals over a thick, head-banging melody, fuzzy synths and pulsating basslines wobblier than our man's dodgy left knee.

The result is the sharpest, most head-spinning of their releases to date – and given that we're in the year of dubstep-goes-pop, should leave fans fully equipped to handle the g-force levels of their first long player.