[52], In a post on the official Nine Inch Nails website, Reznor condemned Universal Music Group—the parent company of Interscope Records—for its pricing and distribution plans for Year Zero. I should also include the Year Zero remix album, Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D, which I … Reznor drew inspiration from his concern at the state of affairs in the United States and at what he envisioned as the country's political, spiritual, and social direction. When the number is called, a recording from the USBM is played, claiming "By calling this number, you and your family are implicitly pleading guilty to the consumption of anti-American media and have been flagged as potential militants.      A2  "The Beginning Of The End" - 2:47 Publication date 2007-04-17 Topics nin, nine inch nails, multitracks, multi-tracks Collection opensource_media Language English. Reznor announced in October 2007 that Nine Inch Nails had fulfilled its contractual commitments to Interscope and could proceed "free of any recording contract with any label", effectively ending the band's relationship with its record label.[60]. It was produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and was the band's first studio album since 1994's The Downward Spiral that was not co-produced by long-time collaborator Alan Moulder. [8] Reznor later described Year Zero as "the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist". 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". Owners of websites hosting the files soon received cease and desist orders from the Recording Industry Association of America, despite Interscope having sanctioned the viral campaign and the early release of the tracks. On April 2, 2009, Reznor announced via a short Twitter post that "YZ is alive". [3] CD: 1732423: 2007: year zero: Canadian version with inverted sticker placement. ABONNEE EN WIL JE VERDER LEZEN? The tour spanned 91 dates across Europe, Asia, Australia, and Hawaii. [39] In response to an early leak of the album, the entire album became available for streaming on Nine Inch Nails' MySpace page a week before the album's official release. Engineering: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Alan Moulder, Brett Bachemin, Doug Trantow, Alan Mason, Mixed at Chalice Studios (Los Angeles, CA), Mastering: Brian Gardener at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, CA), World building: Trent Reznor, Rob Sheridan, World integration and enhancement: 42, Alex Lieu, Jordan Weisman, Sean Stewart, Elan Lee, Johnny Rodriguez, Susan Bonds, Art direction: Rob Sheridan, Trent Reznor, "The Presence," "The Great Divide," "The Scorched Earth" by Hydraulx, "The Hand Of Faith," "The Hand Of Desperation" by Rob Sheridan, Business management: Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman, ©2007 Leaving Hope Music/TVT Music, Inc. (ASCAP). For the Flobots song, see. The production for this tour was scaled back and setlists became very fluid as a result. Year Zero‘s strange life started in February, when a fan noticed that his NIN concert shirt had the words I AM TRYING TO BELIEVE encoded on the back. Year Zero Calendar. Release date: April 17, 2007. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. "[5], By the end of the tour, Reznor began work on the album's lyrical concepts, attempting to break away from his typically introspective approach. "[75] In 2008, 42 Entertainment won two Webby Awards for its work on the Year Zero game, in the categories of "Integrated Campaigns" and "Other Advertising: Branded Content". You can dance to a lot of it. When referring to the past, the years are subtracted from the date of the calendrical reconstruction. NIN Year Zero. [82] Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B+, comparing it to The X-Files and calling it "A sci-fi concept album whose end-of-days, paranoia-drenched storyline has been disseminated via the Internet". [42][43], Between tour legs Nine Inch Nails gave a performance as part of the Year Zero game. INLOGGEN. On December 23, 2011 in an interview by The Guardian Trent is quoted as follows about the 10-part HBO mini-series, which is based on Year Zero: "I chose not to write it myself because I don't know how to do that. Essentially, I wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn’t exist.". 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. ", "Nine Inch Nails Mainman On New CD: 'I Wrote The Soundtrack To A Movie That Doesn't Exist, "Frustration and Fury: Take It. For the most part, "Year Zero" is comprised of under five minute tracks that certainly are intended to flow together but in the final analysis sound disjointed and desperately unconventional. On April 4, 2007, a high-quality leak of the promotional disc supplied to listening parties was also leaked onto peer-to-peer networks. A glossary of terms related to the world of Year Zero can be found here. lekker winkelen zonder zorgen. De Amerikaanse band Nine Inch Nails zette een groot mysterie op touw om sympathisanten te werven voor een verzetsbeweging. "[4], The limitations of devising the album's musical direction on a tour bus forced Reznor to work differently from usual. It was part of a larger Year Zero project, which included a remix album, an alternate reality game of the same name, as well a conceived television or film adaptation. What's it about? What’s it about? Reznor has stated that Year Zero is "part of a bigger picture of a number of things I’m working on. It was the band's last album for Interscope, following Reznor's departure the same year due to a dispute over overseas pricing. Part one is year zero. The United States has suffered several major terrorist attacks, and in response the government has seized absolute control on the country and reverted to a Christian fundamentalist theocracy. Ann Powers of the Los Angeles Times, praised the album and game concept as "a total marriage of the pop and gamer aesthetics that unlocks the rusty cages of the music industry and solves some key problems facing rock music as its cultural dominance dissolves into dust. Sometimes, it's a matter of dropping the volume [...] Even his use of electronics has shifted to a new level [...] Is the truth in here? "Survivalism", the lead single has all the classic touches IE: choppy synths, heavily processed guitar bits and breathy almost spoken vocals, but I'm sorry Trent, I've heard you do this sort of thing several times … Lees alle inter­views, achter­grond­verhalen, album­recensies en columns van OOR nu ook op OOR.NL. in a later interview, "When I was on the Live: With Teeth tour, to keep myself busy I just really hunkered down and was working on music the whole time, so this kept me in a creative mode and when I finished the tour I felt like I wasn't tired and wanted to keep at it. This record is much more of a "sound collage" than recent efforts from me. 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." Year Zero (also known as 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. On April 1, 2007, a bootleg recording of the Chicago, Illinois listening party of March 18, 2007 surfaced on several peer-to-peer networks. Nine Inch Nails Year Zero Label: Interscope US Release Date: 2007-04-17 UK Release Date: 2007-04-16 Amazon iTunes. The formats were for Garageband and Logic Pro, and there were also WAV files for other applications, with the latter distributed through BitTorrent. 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. What angst, this is fun, interesting, dark, and entertaining. Sixteen tracks. Nine Inch Nails: Year Zero multitracks by Nine Inch Nails.      A6  "Me, I'm Not" - 4:51, B1  "Capital G" - 3:50 The whole concept is really interesting, especially how it was put together with the websites, leaked songs and the whole story behind it. This project means a lot to me and will see the light of day in one form or another.". [49][50][51] The album's lead single, "Survivalism" peaked at number 68 on the Billboard Hot 100, and topped the Modern Rock and Canadian singles charts. In February 2007 fans discovered that a new Nine Inch Nails tour t-shirt contained highlighted letters that spelled out the words "I am trying to believe". [9], On March 10, 2011, Trent confirmed on the nin.com board that work on the TV series was still in progress. Share. The years following Year Zero are denotated as "0000". [8] He also said that when he finishes a new album, he has to "go into battle with the people whose job it is to figure out how to sell the record. The fragile soul behind NIN scrutinizes a greater existence beyond his own torture with a concept disc that runs like CliffsNotes for 1984-- ones that have been sealed with rage and stomped through Trent Reznor-patented machinery.In Reznor's mad scientist treatment, sci-fi gets kinky with modern reality and a dystopia ripens in 2022 (Year Zero). Things are not good. And he does it better then he has in nearly 15 years. The album reached number two in the US, number six in the UK, and the top 10 in various other countries. Year Zero is a music studio album recording by NINE INCH NAILS (Crossover Prog/Progressive Rock) released in 2007 on cd, lp / vinyl and/or cassette. This leads to the website. In Year Zero, the calendar has been altered from the traditional BCE-AD structure. [6], For more information, see Performance 2007. By Veronica Emilyn Last updated Aug 25, 2017. "[69] In 2017, during an interview promoting new Nine Inch Nails EP Add Violence, Reznor said that "They got so far as hiring a writer for it, but then it fell to shit because we never had the right writer. [3] It was later reported that 42 Entertainment had created these websites to promote Year Zero as part of an alternate reality game. - 1:42 Example: Thirteen years prior to 0000 is listed as "-13 BA," or "Born Again". 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. If the greedy record industry would embrace that concept I truly think people would pay for music and consume more of it. Year Zero. Angst? "[28][23], It was named one of the best album covers of 2007 by Rolling Stone. Well, it takes place about fifteen years in the future. 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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. Stream songs including "Hyperpower! It's pretty to look at and listen to, but it's a gigantic mess. The article went on to describe individual tracks: "And as usual the music is packed with details: "Meet Your Master" goes through at least three cycles of decay and rebirth; part of the fun of "The Warning" is tracking the ever-mutating timbres."[21]. [2] Reznor devised much of the album's musical direction on his laptop. A1  "HYPERPOWER!" title notes format cat number yr ctr sc; year zero: Australian edition. In advance of its release, URLs were hidden in tour t-shirts, music- and image-filled USB drives were 'found' at concerts, and dozens of websites have been packed with conspiracy stories that all involve the year 2022 or 'Year Zero.' An alternate reality game was constructed by Trent Reznor and Rob Sheridan, then run in partnership with and developed by 42 Entertainment to provide listeners with a greater understanding of the album's concept. It's probably too long, but it felt like the right thing to do was to paint the complete picture. [3] Reznor told Kerrang! "[73], On the fictional world depicted in the album and promotional campaign, the Cleveland Free Times commented that the album's fictionalized world and characters "often seemed heavy-handed and forced", but also conceded that "its clotted claustrophobia suited its subject matter". The album was supported by a tour that visited Europe, Asia and Australia, with an emphasis on locations never or seldom played by NIN. Nine Inch Nails' 2007 release Year Zero will undoubtedly go down in rock history for the way the recording was marketed before its release. Things are not good. Listen to Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails on Apple Music. Reznor's own involvement with the leak, however, will always be speculation at best due to his own legal liability. [65] Reznor met with various writers and pitched the idea to television networks. [25][26] The binary sequence translates to "exterminal.net", the address of a website involved in the alternate reality game. NIN’s sixth major studio release since 1989’s Pretty Hate Machine, Year Zero was recently re-released in November as a remix by various admiring musicians and artists. Reznor and Bender collaborated with Carnivàle writer Daniel Knauf to create the science fiction epic. 'Year Zero' erinnert mich vom Noise-Level an Quake-1-Soundtrack-Zeiten. Nine Inch Nails' 2006 tour merchandise designs featured overt references to the United States military, which Reznor said "reflect[ed] future directions". [56] Reznor continued his attack on Universal Music Group during a September 2007 concert in Australia, where he urged fans to "steal" his music online instead of purchasing it legally. The same year, Reznor contributed vocals to their song "Era Vulgaris", which was also cut from the album of the same name. "[23][24], All of the artwork for Year Zero was created by Rob Sheridan, art director for Nine Inch Nails, who is also credited for artwork on With Teeth, among other Nine Inch Nails releases since 2000. Year Zero (also known as Halo 24) is the sixth studio album by Nine Inch Nails and was created as a concept album of a dystopian future:.      B5  "Meet Your Master" - 4:14, C1  "The Greater Good" - 5:03 It will sound different after a few listens. [81], Several reviewers also commented on the accompanying alternate reality game. "[75] In relation to the declining music industry, Joseph Jaffe of Brandweek commented that such "mysterious marketing measures [...] are what's desperately needed to gain attention in this uncertain era of distribution dilemmas and sagging sales",[82] also commending acts such as Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead for being "more innovative than marketers". [10]. Reznor said that he was more interested in a television project rather than a film and that he had a producer and had met with writers. Dass Trent etwas politisch geworden ist, finde ich in sofern nicht schlimm, da er wie immer auf keine reale Situation eingeht, sondern eine fiktive Welt schafft, die stark an unsere erinnert. [30] Another USB drive was found at a concert in Barcelona, Spain, containing the track "Me, I'm Not". Year Zero is a heavy concept album, and it could be argued that many NIN albums are, but this one in particular culminates in such a way that you will already be drawn in before you realize what is going on. [3] This phrase was registered as a website URL, and soon several related websites were also discovered in the IP range, all describing a dystopian vision of the fictional "Year 0". [8]. [64] Instrumental versions of the songs on Year Zero are available at the site for download in multiple formats, including MP3, WAV, GarageBand, and Ableton Live formats. Concept record. [8] The album's budget was a reported US$2 million, but since Reznor composed most of the album himself on his laptop and in his home-studio, much of the budget instead went toward the extensive accompanying promotional campaign. That daydream stuck with me and over time revealed itself to be much more...it takes place about fifteen years in the future. Year Zero is een CD (ALBUM) van Nine Inch Nails. Perhaps in another response to the leak, Reznor commissioned Q101 in Chicago to play the entire album on their radio station. Year Zero is honestly just a mess. Part of this promotional campaign involved USB drives that were left in concert venues for fans to find during Nine Inch Nails' 2007 European tour. Many of the songs on the album feature an extended instrumental ending, which encompasses the entire second half of the three-minute long "The Great Destroyer". [8] Reznor specifically cited what he labeled as the "erosion of freedoms" and "the way that we treat the rest of the world and our own citizens". Ga naar zoeken Ga naar hoofdinhoud. But now I'm thinking I should have. [40], After taking a break from touring to complete work on Year Zero, the Nine Inch Nails live band embarked on a world tour in 2007 dubbed Performance 2007. It's not just music. In March of 2007, Kerrang! 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