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[[Image:Yearzero_coverGhostscover.jpg|left|160px100px]]'''''[[Year ZeroGhosts I–IV]]''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 2426]]''''' or ''Year Zero: Zero-Gen-Ten'' in Japan) is the sixth seventh studio album by from [[Nine Inch Nails]], released on April 13March 2, 2007 in 2008 over the UK and Europe, internet and April 178, 2007 2008 in stores worldwide, by . It is the first NIN material to be independently released since leaving [[Interscope Records]]. It was produced by [[Nine Inch Nails]] frontman [[Trent Reznor]] in collaboration with [[Alan Moulder]] and engineer [[Atticus Ross]], both of whom worked in a similar capacity on Nine Inch Nails' previous major studio release, ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]].'' Mastering was done by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner.  In a 2005 interview with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerrang%21 Kerrang!], Reznor expressed his intentions to write material for a new release during the ''With Teeth'' tour, and it was confirmed that he was working on it by September 2006. ''Year Zero'' began its mixing stage in January of 2007, and Reznor stated on his blog on [[The Spiral]] that the album was finished as of February 5, 2007. The album marks is a new style of lyric writing for Reznor: '' “...for the first time in my lifefour-volume, I wanted to break away from the idea 2-disc release consisting of opening up my journal and transferring that into song lyrics36 instrumental tracks. And I really thought about what was at the forefront of my concern, and, at the state I'm at right now, at the age I'm at, just the state of being an American citizen, a lot of concern I have about the direction the country's headed in, and uh, kind of the erosion of freedoms that seems like we're experiencing, and the way we treat the world and our own citizens felt like something I needed to comment on.” '' '''(([[Year ZeroGhosts I–IV|More...]]))'''