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'''''Year Zero''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 24]]''''' or ''Year Zero: Zero-Gen-Ten'' in Japan) is the sixth studio album by [[Nine Inch Nails]], due for release released on April 1613, 2007 in the UK and Europe, and April 17, 2007 worldwide, by [[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.
==Trent on ''Year Zero''Alternate Reality Game=="''This record began as an experiment [[Image:artisresistance.jpg|thumb|77px|Art Is Resistance Poster]]An alternate reality game was constructed by Trent Reznor and [[Rob Sheridan]], then run in partnership with noise on a laptop in a bus on tour somewhere. That sound led and developed by [[wp:42 Entertainment|42 Entertainment]] to provide listeners with a daydream about the end greater understanding of the worldalbum's concept. That daydream stuck with me and over time revealed itself Reznor paid for the ARG himself, trying to be keep it a secret from his record company as much moreas possible[http://www.wired. I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_args], stating: ''"What you choose are now starting to follow and other times you really donexperience IS 'year zero't. This It's not some kind of gimmick to get you to buy a record is - it IS the latterart form.. Once I tuned into it, everything fell into place.and we're just getting started.Hope you enjoy the ride. as if it were meant "'' The game ran from roughly February 12, 2007 to be. With May 2007, beginning when a framework established, string of mysterious websites was discovered around the songs were very easy internet related to writethe album; the game has since been nominated for two Webby Awards[http://www.theninhotline. Things started happening in my "real" life that blurred net/news/#1207737486]. Learn more at the [[Year Zero Research]] page and view the lines [[Timeline of Year Zero Discovery|timeline of discovery]] for an explanation of how things unfolded, also, 42 Entertainment has a complete overview of what was fiction and what wasn'tthe project [http://www.42entertainment.com/work/yearzero here]. The record turned out A glossary of terms related to the world of ''Year Zero'' can be more than a just a record in scale, as you will see over timefound [[Year Zero Glossary|here]].''
==Trent Reznor on ''Year Zero''==<blockquote>"This record began as an experiment with noise on a laptop in a bus on tour somewhere. That sound led to a daydream about the end of the world. That daydream stuck with me and over time revealed itself to be much more. I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't. This record is the latter. Once I tuned into it, everything fell into place... as if it were meant to be. With a framework established, the songs were very easy to write. Things started happening in my "real" life that blurred the lines of what was fiction and what wasn't. The record turned out to be more than a just a record in scale, as you will see over time.<br>Part one is year zero. Concept record. Sixteen tracks. All written and performed by me, produced / programmed by me and Atticus Ross, mixed by Alan Moulder, mastered by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner. Release date: April 17, 2007.<br><br>What's it about? Well, it takes place about fifteen years in the future. Things are not good. If you imagine a world where greed and power continue to run their likely course, you'll have an idea of the backdrop. The world has reached the breaking point - politically, spiritually and ecologically. Written from various perspectives of people in this world, "year zero" examines various viewpoints set against an impending moment of truth. How does it sound? You will hear for yourself soon enough, but given the point of this document is to provide information...<br><br>This record is much more of a "sound collage" than recent efforts from me.<br><br>A lot of it was improvised.<br><br>It is very tedious describing your own music.<br><br>It's not just music.<br><br>It's probably too long, but it felt like the right thing to do was to paint the complete picture.<br><br>It will sound different after a few listens.<br><br>You can think about it and it will reveal more than you were expecting.<br><br>You can dance to a lot of it.<br><br>You can fuck to a lot of it (maybe all of it depending on what you're into)."[http://www.xtaster.co.uk/feature_detail.php?id=13688]</blockquote>
==Album Credits==*Writing and performance: Trent Reznor*Production: Trent Reznor, [[Atticus Ross]]*Mix: [[Alan Moulder]]*Engineering: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Alan Moulder, Brett Bachemin, Doug Trantow, Alan Mason*Recorded all over the world*Mixed at Chalice Studios (Los Angeles, CA)*''What"Hyperpower!"'s it about? Well' drums and "Capital G" drums/brass/winds recorded at Capitol Studios (Hollywood, CA) with assistant engineer Steve Genewick*Mastering: Brian Gardener at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, CA)<br><br>*World building: Trent Reznor, it takes place about fifteen years in the future. Things are not good. If you imagine a world where greed [[Rob Sheridan]]*World integration and power continue to run their likely courseenhancement: 42, Alex Lieu, Jordan Weisman, Sean Stewart, Elan Lee, Johnny Rodriguez, Susan Bonds<br><br>*Art direction: Rob Sheridan, Trent Reznor<br><br>*"The Presence," "The Great Divide, you'll have an idea of the backdrop. " "The Scorched Earth" by Hydraulx*Artist: Matthew Santoro*"The world has reached the breaking point - politicallyHand Of Faith, spiritually " "The Hand Of Desperation" by Rob Sheridan*Hair and ecologicallymakeup: Cori Bardo<br><br>*Management: Rebel Waltz, Inc. Written from various perspectives of people in this world<br><br>*Booking: William Morris Agency*Business management: Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman*Legal: David Altschul, Zia Modabber*Sounding board: Marc Geiger*Coordination: Brett Bachemin*Assistance: Shaynee Lee Gordy<br><br>Thank you very much: Tiffany Andrews, Thavius Beck, Jeremy Berman, Brandi Booth, Steve "Coco" Brandon, Gus Brandt, Andrew "year zeroHans" examines various viewpoints set against an impending moment of truthBuscher, Brad Child, Trevor Cole, Willie Cole, [[Alessandro Cortini]], Jerome Crooks, CX Kidtronik, [[Zack de la Rocha]], Robert Dorian, Vanessa Freebairn-Smith, [[Josh Freese]], Valerie Geller, Andrew Grad, Jeff Greenberg, [[Queens Of The Stone Age|Josh Homme]], Alissa Juarez, Pete Keppier, [[Darren Kroupa]], Ana Lenchantin, Tamar Levine, Marie Lewis, Chandra Lynn, Jackie McPherson, Jessyca Estrada Meyer, Dustin Mosley, Pablo Motta, Jamie Myers, April Napier, Sara Newkirk, [[Aaron North]], Valerie Pilinski, Nyke Prince, Michael Prowda, Stephen Rehage, Martin St. How does it sound? You will hear for yourself soon enoughPierre, Claudia Sarne, Chris Schleyer, The [[Solutions Backwards Initiative]], Mark Stephen, Michael Sullivan, Todd Tiedemann, John Van Eaton, [[Jeordie White]], [[Saul Williams]], Irit Zarutsky<br>Ableton, Activision, Analogue Haven, Big City Music, DigiDesign, Guitar Center Hollywood, Izotope, Soundtoys, Line 5, Ohm Force, Metasonix, Native Instruments, [[The NIN Hotline]], but given the point Nintendo of this document is America, Rock-It Cargo, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.<br><br>Special thanks to provide informationJimmy Iovine and everyone at Interscope.<br><br>Thank you for the extra effort: Eric Fermin, Larry Tull<br><br>*©2007 Leaving Hope Music/TVT Music, Inc.(ASCAP)*Administered by Leaving Hope Music, Inc.''
==Touring==''This record is much For more of a "sound collage" than recent efforts from me.information, see [[Performance 2007]]''
==Track listing=The CD===# * When the CD is warmed up, the thermocrome covering on the CD reveals a string of binary numbers that when translated into ASCII read "exterminal.net"'', leading to the website [[Hyperpower!Exterminal|http://www.exterminal.net]]''". ===The Case=== * The characters printed on the gun on the panel left of the CD spell out the wreckage and shard for Mailstrom wreckage Scorpion. # "[[==Regarding The Beginning Of Leak==On April 1, 2007, a bootleg recording of the Chicago, Illinois listening party of March 18, 2007 surfaced on several peer-to-peer networks. The End]]" quality of the recording is very low and it is apparent that whoever made the recording did not have very good sound capturing equipment, presumably a cellphone. On April 4, 2007, a high-quality leak of the promotional disc supplied to listening parties was also leaked onto peer-to-peer networks. Perhaps to counteract and discourage any piracy of the leak, the entire album was made available for free streaming on the album's official website later that afternoon. Shortly after the stream was made available, high- 2:47quality leaks found their way to various sites and P2P networks. Perhaps in another response to the leak, Reznor commissioned Q101 in Chicago to play the entire album on their radio station. # It is widely rumored, however, that Reznor himself was responsible for leaking the album as a result of his unappreciation for RIAA's Cease & Desist warrants issued to various websites that hosted free downloads of the 4 USB "leaks". Reznor's own involvement with the leak, however, will always be speculation at best due to his own legal liability. ==Multitrack Files==In March 2007, the [[Survivalism (song)Multitracks|Survivalismmultitrack audio files]]of the first single, " – 4:23# Survivalism,"[[were released in Garageband format on the official ''Year Zero'' website for fan remixing. The Good Soldier]]multitrack files for "Capital G,"# "[[Vessel]]My Violent Heart"# and "[[Me, I'm Not]]" – 4:52were then released on April 26; those for "The Beginning of the End," "Vessel" and "God Given" were released on June 12. The formats were for Garageband and Logic Pro, and there were also WAV files for other applications, with the latter distributed through BitTorrent. These files are also available in all three formats on remix.nin.com. The entire album was released in multitrack form as part of the ''Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D'' package. ==Film/Television Project==Reznor has stated that ''Year Zero'' is "part of a bigger picture of a number of things I’m working on. Essentially, I wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn’t exist." # In March of 2007, ''Kerrang! Radio'' reported that "Reznor admitted he's already in talks about a movie version of his upcoming album, a concept piece, with part two scheduled next year."Reznor said that he was more interested in a [[Capital GYear_Zero_TV_Series|television project]]rather than a film and that he had a producer and had met with writers. On August 14, 2007, Reznor announced that he and his creative team would soon be taking the concept to television networks to try and make some sort of deal: ''"# We're about to pitch it to the network, so we're a couple of weeks away from meeting all of the main people, and we'll see what happens."'' [[My Violent Heart]http://www.dose.ca/music/story.html?id=ead25b9c-b7f0-44aa-92c7-d083b6c83e1a&k=48608] On June 8, 2008, ''The New York Times'' reported that "Mr. Reznor has been working with Lawrence Bender, Quentin Tarantino’s longtime producing partner, to create a cable TV series to tell the entire story." – 4[http:19//www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/arts/music/08pare.html?_r=3&pagewanted=2&ref=arts&oref=slogin#]# On April 2, 2009, Reznor announced via a short Twitter post that "YZ is alive". On September 28, 2010, ''The LA Times'' reported that the ''Year Zero'' television series detailed in the above ''NY Times'' article was going into pre-production, with Daniel Knauf as a writer and Lawrence Bender's team as staff, and that the miniseries would be handled by BBC America and broadcast on HBO. [http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/09/28/trent-reznor-and-hbo-moving-forward-with-year-zero-sci-fi-series/] On March 10, 2011, Trent confirmed on the nin.com board that work on the TV series was still in progress. [http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?59,1227855,1227855#msg-1227855] On June 24, 2011, ''Pitchfork Magazine'' had a section of news stating that Jim Uhls, the man who had written the screenplay for ''Fight Club'' and the screenplay for the 2008 film ''Jumper'', was chosen to write the script for the series. On December 23, 2011 in an interview by ''The Warning (Guardian'' Trent is quoted as follows about the 10-part HBO mini-series, which is based on ''Year Zero song)|The Warning]]'': "# ''I chose not to write it myself because I don't know how to do that. But now I'm thinking I should have. Somebody's got to do it, right? How hard can it be?''"[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/dec/21/trent-reznor-dragon-tattoo-soundtrack?newsfeed=true] On January 11, 2012 [God Givenhttp://www.echoingthesound.org/community/members/433-Euphemism a user on Echoingthesound]said that Jim Uhls confirmed him via Facebook that he was working on the ''Year Zero'' TV series ("''I've been away from FB for awhile. Now that I see it, I can answer. I am currently working on Year Zero. [...]''"[http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/139-Random-NIN-Thoughts?p=13642#post13642]) # "On November 13, 2012, Reznor stated during an [[Meet Your Master]]November 2012 Reddit AMA|"# ask me anything"[[The Greater Goodsession with Reddit]]that: "''This is currently in a holding state. We didn't find the right match with a writer, and really have been avoiding doing what we should have done from the beginning: write it ourselves. We = Rob and myself. This project means a lot to me and will see the light of day in one form or another.''" In August of 2013, it was stated in an article by the ''NME'' that HBO had rejected the series. ==External Links==# "*[[The Great Destroyerhttp://vimeo.com/3554852 ''Year Zero'' teaser trailer]]"# "*[[Another Version Of The Truth http://portraitofdecay.net/yearzero.nin.com/index.html yearzero.nin.com (songarchived at Portrait of Decay)|Another Version Of The Truth]*[http://www.42entertainment.com/work/yearzero 42Entertainment's summary of the ARG]"# "*[http://robsheridan.tumblr.com/post/45355542834/trent-reznor-london-2007-promo-photos-by-rob ''Year Zero'' promo photos by Rob Sheridan, part 1]*[In This Twilighthttp://nineinchnails.tumblr.com/post/45437416550/robsheridan-part-two-continued-from-yesterday ''Year Zero'' promo photos by Rob Sheridan, part 2]*[http://nineinchnails.tumblr.com/post/52064675258/halo-twenty-four-year-zero-2007-artwork-by ''Year Zero'' album imagery]" – 3*[http:33//nincatalog.com/year-zero/ ''Year Zero'' at nincatalog.com]# "*[http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb%5Fsb%5Fnoss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dnine%2520inch%2520nails%2520year%2520zero%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&tag=thniinnawi-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 ''Year Zero'' at Amazon] *[http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574848848&toolid=10001&campid=5336384580&customid=&icep_uq=nine+inch+nails+year+zero&icep_sellerId=&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=&icep_minPrice=&icep_maxPrice=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg ''Year Zero-Sum]'' at eBay]"
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