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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]], released on April 13, 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.

In a 2005 interview with A subsection of [[nin.com]], [[http://enyearzero.wikipedianin.org/wiki/Kerrang%21 Kerrang!com]], Reznor expressed his intentions to write material for a new release during the ''With Teeth'' tour, was created and it was confirmed that he was working on it by September 2006. contained various things ''Year Zero'' began its mixing stage in January of 2007, and Reznor stated on his blog on -related. A companion piece to the album with [[The SpiralRemixes|remixes]] blog that the album of nearly every track was finished released as of February 5''[[Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D]]'' on November 20, 2007. The album marks a new style of lyric writing for Reznor:

'' “...for the first time in my life, I wanted to break away from the idea of opening up my journal and transferring that into song lyrics. 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.” '' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr8FXnur5Z4] A string of mysterious websites have been discovered around the internet related to the album. Learn more at the [[Year Zero Research]] page. ==Trent Reznor on ''Year Zero''Track List=="''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.'' ''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.'' ''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...'' ''This record is much more of a "sound collage" than recent efforts from me. ''A lot of it was improvised.'' ''It is very tedious describing your own music.'' ''It's not just music.'' ''It's probably too long, but it felt like the right thing to do to paint the complete picture.'' ''It will sound different after a few listens.'' ''You can think about it and it will reveal more than you were expecting.'' ''You can dance to a lot of it.'' ''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]." ==Track listingCD/Digital===

*Production: Trent Reznor, [[Atticus Ross]]*Mix: [[Alan Moulder]]

*Mastering: Brian Gardener at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, CA)<br><br>*World building: Trent Reznor, [[Rob Sheridan]]*World integration and enhancement: 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," "The Scorched Earth" by [[Hydraulx]]*Artist: [[Matthew Santoro]]

*Hair and makeup: Cori Bardo<br><br>*Management: Rebel Waltz, Inc.<br><br>

*Assistance: Shaynee Lee Gordy<br><br>Thank you very much: Tiffany Andrews, Thavius Beck, Jeremy Berman, Brandi Booth, Steve "Coco" Brandon, Gus Brandt, Andrew "Hans" Buscher, 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. Pierre, 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]], Nintendo of America, Rock-It Cargo, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.<br><br>Special thanks to Jimmy Iovine and everyone at Interscope.<br><br>Thank you for the extra effort: Eric Fermin, Larry Tull<br><br>

==Year Zero HintsArtwork==The man holding the bible and the gun on the two interior panels is the prop man who provided the guns for the "Survivalism" video. The video shoot and the photos were done on the same day.[https://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/1118552461487116288/photo/1]

The typeface used on the album and its associated releases is Foundry Gridnick. ==Touring==''For full details more information, see [[Performance 2007]]'' The album was supported by a tour that visited Europe, Asia and Australia, with an emphasis on locations never or seldom played by NIN. The production for this tour was scaled back and setlists became very fluid as a result. More of the NIN catalog was able to be covered on this tour, as several songs were played live for the first time and several songs were brought back to the setlists after a long absence. As the tour progressed, more ''Year Zero'' songs were added to the setlists. ==Live==All songs from ''Year Zero'' have been played live except "My Violent Heart" and "Zero-Sum". ==Regarding The Leak==On April 1, 2007, a bootleg recording of the Chicago, Illinois listening party of March 18, 2007 surfaced on all hints found through several peer-to-peer networks. The 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 retail release promotional disc supplied to listening parties was also leaked onto peer-to-peer networks. Perhaps to counteract and discourage any piracy of the CD see [http://wwwleak, the entire album was made available for free streaming on the album's official website later that afternoon.echoingthesoundShortly after the stream was made available, high-quality leaks found their way to various sites and P2P networks.org/phpbbx/viewtopic Perhaps in another response to the leak, Reznor commissioned Q101 in Chicago to play the entire album on their radio station.php?t=22943 It is widely rumored, however, that Reznor himself was responsible for leaking the album as a result of his unappreciation for RIAA's Cease &highlight=year+zero++lyric+booklet this ETS thread]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 [[Multitracks|multitrack audio files]] of the first single, "Survivalism," were released in Garageband format on the official ''Year Zero'' website for fan remixing. The multitrack files for "Capital G," "My Violent Heart" and "Me, I'm Not" were then released on April 26; those for "The Beginning of the End," "Vessel" and "God Given" were released on June 12. The Booklet===formats were for Garageband and Logic Pro, and there were also WAV files for other applications, with the latter distributed through BitTorrent. These files were also available in all three formats on remix.nin.com. The entire album was released in multitrack form as part of the ''Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D'' package.

* On the front ==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 booklet the words "THE MAILSTROM" can be read in the top left corner. This leads soundtrack to the website [[The_Mailstrom|http://www.themailstrom.com/]]a movie that doesn’t exist."

* Highlighted characters In March of 2007, ''Kerrang! Radio'' reported that "Reznor admitted he's already in the lyrics 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 television project rather than a film and notes throughout the booklet spell out the wreckage that he had a producer and shard for the Mailstrom wreckage Usurphad met with writers.

* Numbers scattered throughout On August 14, 2007, Reznor announced that he and his creative team would soon be taking the booklet led concept to television networks to try and make some sort of deal: ''"We're about to pitch it to the discovery network, so we're a couple of weeks away from meeting all of the wreckage main people, and shard for the Mailstrom wreckage Floodwe'll see what happens."'' [http://www.dose.ca/music/story.html?id=ead25b9c-b7f0-44aa-92c7-d083b6c83e1a&k=48608]

* On June 8, 2008, ''The white bars in the bottom left of the Meet Your Master lyrics page are different in the Metropolis Records release and Interscope release of the CDNew York Times'' reported that "Mr. When combined Reznor has been working with similar lines found on an [[Open Source Resistance]] flier Lawrence Bender, Quentin Tarantino’s longtime producing partner, to create a cable TV series to tell the words "VIABILITY INDEXentire story." can be read, leading to [[Viability_Index|http://www.viabilityindexnytimes.com/2008/06/08/arts/music/08pare.html?_r=3&pagewanted=2&ref=arts&oref=slogin#]].

* When the CD is warmed upOn September 28, 2010, ''The LA Times'' reported that the thermocrome covering on ''Year Zero'' television series detailed in the CD reveals above ''NY Times'' article was going into pre-production, with Daniel Knauf as a string of binary numbers writer and Lawrence Bender's team as staff, and that when translated into ASCII read "exterminalthe miniseries would be handled by BBC America and broadcast on HBO.net", leading to the website [[Exterminal|http://wwwherocomplex.exterminallatimes.netcom/2010/09/28/trent-reznor-and-hbo-moving-forward-with-year-zero-sci-fi-series/]].

* The characters printed on On June 24, 2011, ''Pitchfork Magazine'' had a section of news stating that Jim Uhls, the man who had written the gun on screenplay for ''Fight Club'' and the panel left of screenplay for the CD spell out 2008 film ''Jumper'', was chosen to write the wreckage and shard script for Mailstrom wreckage Scorpionthe series.

==Regarding the leak==On April 1December 23, 2007 a bootleg recording of 2011 in an interview by ''The Guardian'' Trent is quoted as follows about the Chicago10-part HBO mini-series, Illinois listening party of March 18, 2007 surfaced which is based on several peer-''Year Zero'': "''I chose not to-peer networks. The quality of the recording is very low and write it is apparent myself because I don't know how to do that whoever made the recording did not . But now I'm thinking I should have very good sound capturing equipment. Somebody's got to do it, presumably a cellphoneright? How hard can it be?''" [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/dec/21/trent-reznor-dragon-tattoo-soundtrack?newsfeed=true]

On April 4January 11, 2007 2012 [http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/members/433-Euphemism a high-quality leak of user on Echoingthesound] said that Jim Uhls confirmed him via Facebook that he was working on the promotional disc supplied to listening parties was also leaked onto peer-to-peer networks''Year Zero'' TV series ("''I've been away from FB for awhile. Perhaps to counteract and discourage any piracy of the leakNow that I see it, the entire album was made available for free streaming I can answer. I am currently working on the albumYear Zero. [...]''s official website later that afternoon" [http://www.echoingthesound. Shortly after the stream was made available, highorg/community/threads/139-Random-NIN-quality leaks found their way to various sites and P2P networks.Thoughts?p=13642#post13642])

Perhaps On November 13, 2012, Reznor stated during an [[November 2012 Reddit AMA|"ask me anything" session with Reddit]] that: "''This is currently in another response to a holding state. We didn't find the leakright match with a writer, Reznor commissioned Q101 in Chicago 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 play me and will see the entire album on their radio stationlight of day in one form or another.''"

It is widely regarded however that Reznor himself In August of 2013, it was responsible for leaking stated in an article by the album as a result of his unappreciation for RIAA's Cease & Desist warrants issued to various websites 'NME'' that hosted free downloads of the 4 USB "leaks". Reznor's own involvement with HBO had rejected the leak, however, will always be speculation at best due to his own legal liabilityseries.

==Film/Television Project==Trent Reznor has stated that ''Year Zero'' is “part of a bigger picture of It was revealed by Rob Sheridan in a number 2019 episode of things I’m working on. Essentially, I wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn’t exist.” In March, ''Kerrang! RadioPod Like A Hole'' 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 has said that he is currently more interested in a television project rather than a film and NIN [[podcasts|podcast]] that he has a producer and has met with writers. On August 10 2007, Trent Reznor announced that they would soon be taking the concept to television networks to try and make some sort of deal: had at one point considered making a comic book based on ''"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." Year Zero'' [http://www.dose.ca/music/story.html?id=ead25b9c-b7f0-44aa-92c7-d083b6c83e1a&k=48608]

==See AlsoExternal Links==* [http://vimeo.com/3554852 ''Year Zero'' teaser trailer]*[http://portraitofdecay.net/yearzero.nin.com/index.html yearzero.nin.com (archived at Portrait of Decay)]*[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 Research'' promo photos by Rob Sheridan, part 1]*[http://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]*[http://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'' at eBay]

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