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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]] 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 subsection of [[nin.com]], [[yearzero.nin.com]], was created and contains various things Year Zero-related. An alternate reality game was constructed by Trent Reznor and [[Rob Sheridan]], then run in partnership and developed by [[wp:42 Entertainment|42 Entertainment]] to provide listeners with a greater understanding of the album's concept. Reznor paid for the ARG himself, trying to keep it a secret from his record company as much as possible[http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_args], stating: ''"What you are now starting to experience IS 'year zero'. It's not some kind of gimmick to get you to buy a record - it IS the art form... and we're just getting started. Hope you enjoy the ride."'' The game ran from roughly February 12, 2007 to May 2007, beginning when a string of mysterious websites was discovered around the internet related to the album; the game has since been nominated for two Webby Awards[http://www.theninhotline.net/news/#1207737486]. Learn more at the [[Year Zero Research]] page and view the [[Timeline of Year Zero Discovery|timeline of discovery]] for an explanation of how things unfolded, also, 42 Entertainment has a complete overview of the project [http://www.42entertainment.com/yearzero/ here]. ==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 more information, see [[Performance 2007]]''

For full details The album was supported by a tour that visited Europe, Asia and Australia, with an emphasis on all hints found through 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 retail release of 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 CD see [http://wwwsetlists after a long absence.echoingthesoundAs the tour progressed, more ''Year Zero'' songs were added to the setlists.org/phpbbx/viewtopic ==Live==All songs from ''Year Zero'' have been played live except "My Violent Heart" and "Zero-Sum".php?t ==Regarding The Leak=22943&highlight=year+zero++lyric+booklet this ETS thread]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 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 Perhaps in another response to the front 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 booklet the words 4 USB "THE MAILSTROMleaks" can . Reznor's own involvement with the leak, however, will always be read in the top left corner. This leads speculation at best due to the website [[The_Mailstrom|http://www.themailstrom.com/]]his own legal liability.

* Highlighted characters ==Multitrack Files==In March 2007, the [[Multitracks|multitrack audio files]] of the first single, "Survivalism," were released in Garageband format on the lyrics official ''Year Zero'' website for fan remixing. The multitrack files for "Capital G," "My Violent Heart" and notes throughout "Me, I'm Not" were then released on April 26; those for "The Beginning of the booklet spell out the wreckage End," "Vessel" and "God Given" were released on June 12. The formats were for Garageband and Logic Pro, and shard 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 Mailstrom wreckage Usurp''Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D'' package.

* Numbers scattered throughout ==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 led soundtrack to the discovery of the wreckage and shard for the Mailstrom wreckage Flooda movie that doesn’t exist."

* The white bars In March of 2007, ''Kerrang! Radio'' reported that "Reznor admitted he's already in the bottom left talks about a movie version of the Meet Your Master lyrics page are different his upcoming album, a concept piece, with part two scheduled next year." Reznor said that he was more interested in the Metropolis Records release a television project rather than a film and that he had a producer and Interscope release of the CD. When combined had met with similar lines found on an [[Open Source Resistance]] flier the words "VIABILITY INDEX" can be read, leading to [[Viability_Index|http://www.viabilityindex.com]]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."'' [http://www.dose.ca/music/story.html?id=ead25b9c-b7f0-44aa-92c7-d083b6c83e1a&k==The CD===48608]

* When the CD is warmed upOn June 8, 2008, the thermocrome covering on the CD reveals a string of binary numbers ''The New York Times'' reported that when translated into ASCII read "exterminalMr.net"Reznor has been working with Lawrence Bender, Quentin Tarantino’s longtime producing partner, leading to create a cable TV series to tell the website entire story." [[Exterminal|http://www.exterminalnytimes.com/2008/06/08/arts/music/08pare.nethtml?_r=3&pagewanted=2&ref=arts&oref=slogin#]].

* On September 28, 2010, ''The characters printed on LA Times'' reported that the gun on ''Year Zero'' television series detailed in the panel left of 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 CD spell out the wreckage miniseries would be handled by BBC America and shard for Mailstrom wreckage Scorpionbroadcast on HBO. [http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/09/28/trent-reznor-and-hbo-moving-forward-with-year-zero-sci-fi-series/]

==Regarding the leak==On April 1March 10, 2007 a bootleg recording of the Chicago2011, Illinois listening party of March 18, 2007 surfaced Trent confirmed on several peer-to-peer networksthe nin. The quality of the recording is very low and it is apparent com board that whoever made work on the recording did not have very good sound capturing equipmentTV series was still in progress. [http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?59,1227855, presumably a cellphone.1227855#msg-1227855]

On April 4June 24, 2007 2011, ''Pitchfork Magazine'' had a high-quality leak section of news stating that Jim Uhls, the man who had written the promotional disc supplied to listening parties was also leaked onto peer-to-peer networks. Perhaps to counteract screenplay for ''Fight Club'' and discourage any piracy of the leak, the entire album was made available screenplay for free streaming on the album2008 film ''Jumper''s official website later that afternoon. Shortly after the stream , was made available, high-quality leaks found their way chosen to various sites and P2P networkswrite the script for the series.

Perhaps On December 23, 2011 in another response to an interview by ''The Guardian'' Trent is quoted as follows about the leak10-part HBO mini-series, Reznor commissioned Q101 in Chicago which is based on ''Year Zero'': "''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 play the entire album on their radio stationdo it, right? How hard can it be?''" [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/dec/21/trent-reznor-dragon-tattoo-soundtrack?newsfeed=true]

It is widely rumored, howeverOn January 11, 2012 [http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/members/433-Euphemism a user on Echoingthesound] said that Jim Uhls confirmed him via Facebook that Reznor himself he was responsible for leaking working on the album as a result of his unappreciation ''Year Zero'' TV series ("''I've been away from FB for RIAAawhile. Now that I see it, I can answer. I am currently working on Year Zero. [...]''s Cease & Desist warrants issued to various websites that hosted free downloads of the 4 USB "leaks"[http://www. Reznor's own involvement with the leak, however, will always be speculation at best due to his own legal liabilityechoingthesound.org/community/threads/139-Random-NIN-Thoughts?p=13642#post13642])

==Multitrack Files==On November 13, 2012, Reznor has stated during an [[November 2012 Reddit AMA|"ask me anything" session with Reddit]] that multitrack files for all the songs on the album will be released, making them available for fans to remix for free. In March 2007, the multitrack audio files of the first single, "Survivalism,: " were released in Garageband format on the official ''Year Zero'' website for fan remixingThis is currently in a holding state. The multitrack files for "Capital G," "My Violent Heart" and "Me, IWe didn'm Not" were then released on April 26; those for "The Beginning of t find the Endright match with a writer," "Vessel" and "God Given" were released on June 12really have been avoiding doing what we should have done from the beginning: write it ourselves. The formats were for Garageband We = Rob and Logic Pro, myself. This project means a lot to me and there were also WAV files for other applications, with will see the latter distributed through BitTorrent. The entire album was released light of day in multitrack one form on the or another.''[[Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D]]'' album."

==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 August of 20072013, ''Kerrang! Radio'' reported that "Reznor admitted he’s already it was stated 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 that he has a producer and has met with writers." On August 10 2007, he announced that he and his creative team would soon be taking an article by the concept to television networks to try and make some sort of deal: ''"WeNME're about to pitch it to the network, so we're a couple of weeks away from meeting all of that HBO had rejected the main people, and we'll see what happens."'' [http://www.dose.ca/music/storyseries.html?id=ead25b9c-b7f0-44aa-92c7-d083b6c83e1a&k=48608]

==See Also==* It was revealed by Rob Sheridan in a 2019 episode of the ''Pod Like A Hole'' NIN [[podcasts|podcast]] that he and Reznor had at one point considered making a comic book based on ''Year Zero Research]]''.

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