Non-Urban Music Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero [all discussion here]

[Casey]

http://yearzero.nin.com

http://boss.streamos.com/download/interscope/nin/yearzero/yearzero_lo.mov


can't wait!!!!!

 

[Dogmatic187]

new NIN album 'Year Zero' dropping in April!!

Yeah, can't wait!

 

[PuffnScruff]

new NIN album 'Year Zero' dropping in April!!

i just read about the whole stealth marketing thing and all the website to go along with it. it is fucking crazy! good shit too. i called that number 216-333-1810. WOW! fucking WOW! crazy shit. im going to watch the movie you posted righ tnow

 

[Casey]

new NIN album 'Year Zero' dropping in April!!

Yeah, Trent is a clever bastard and this whole viral marketing thing with the hidden messages revealing URLs, the phone number etc is crazy. It doesn't all make sense yet but it will over time. Basically, Trent has said that he "essentially, wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist",and that's what Year Zero is - it's a conceptual album set 15 years in the future, and the websites reflect various aspects of Trent's "vision".

Have you seen all the different sites? There's a few of them and they are very strange.

Two tracks have leaked so far:

My Violent Heart - This was apparently discovered on a USB stick in a bathroom after a NIN show in Portugal I believe. I like this track a lot.

and

Survivalism - Promo's of this have been sent out as this is supposedly the first single. Have only listened to it once so far and thought it was OK, I need to listen to it again to judge it properly.

 

[PuffnScruff]

new NIN album 'Year Zero' dropping in April!!

i think i have seen all of the sites. at least all of them that phonte had posted on his myspace and that were posted on smokingsection.net . very crazy sites. pretty cool shit. do you have any more info on this movie that this album was supposed to be a soundtrack for?

 

[Casey]

new NIN album 'Year Zero' dropping in April!!

I don't think trent ever intended to make the movie. I think he just meant that he approached making the album and the marketing campaign as if it was the soundtrack to the "movie" he had conceptualized in his head. Would be tight if he did make it but I don't think that was ever on the cards...although with mr. Reznor you never know. Prince has done similar things in the past as well.

 

[Casey]

new NIN album 'Year Zero' dropping in April!!

2 more tracks have leaked!!! "In This Twilight", and "Me, I'm Not".

All 4 tracks and all the websites can be found here - http://symphonyofnoise.com/nails/yearzero/


Also, check this article:
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid=185595

Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor may be watching too many "X-Files" reruns.
Or perhaps he’s embarked on an elaborate viral marketing strategy in the form of an alternative reality game to stir NIN fans into a frenzy of anticipation for the April 17 release of the band’s Orwellian concept album, "The Year Zero."


Either way, a conspiracy theory has erupted that’s juicy enough to keep agents Mulder and Scully busy for a whole new season. The plot combines a network of disturbing Web sites that purport to reveal frightening government cover-ups, some mysteriously leaked new songs and a series of strange, wire-tapped phone conversations. More is discovered each day.


Is it all a game? A fancy hoax? Has Reznor gone off the deep end?
You decide.
It started with the appearance of NIN European tour shirts. Seemingly randomly highlighted letters on the shirts spell out, "I Am Trying to Believe."


It wasn’t long before a NIN fan looked up the phrase on Google and discovered www.iamtryingtobelieve.com, a Web site containing information about Parepin, a drug the U.S. government supposedly is pumping into the water supply to build immunity to bioterrorist warfare. The site maintains that the drug isn’t safe, and goes on to describe a Parepin-induced hallucination of The Presence, a giant, Big Brother-like hand descending from the heavens.


An e-mail to the site results in a chilling automated response that reads as if its creator has been silenced by "X-Files" villain the Cancer Man. "It’s now clear to me that Parepin is a completely safe and effective agent developed to protect us," was the reply, noting it was irresponsible to suggest otherwise, before suggesting we all start drinking the treated water.


Meanwhile, three leaked tracks from "The Year Zero" have surfaced, supposedly recovered from Flash drives found on bathroom floors at two recent NIN shows in Portugal and Spain. The songs are available at http://symphonyofnoise.com/nails/yearzero.


Posts on the NIN message board, www.echoingthesound.org, claim to have pieced together additional information from the drives, which lead to more Web sites. Several phone numbers also were found on the mystery drives: callers hear what are allegedly wiretapped recordings of two people discussing The Presence.


From there it only gets weirder -- and more complicated.
In a nutshell, www.anotherversionofthetruth.com, www.bethehammer.org, www.105thairbornecrusaders.com and www.churchofplano.com purport to reveal a web of government deceit involving another drug called Opal, ethnic cleansing, racial profiling, an unsettling reunion of church and state, mind control and more.


The UK digital media magazine Digit claims the sites are all part of an alternative reality game (ARG) created by 42 Entertainment, which would explain the elaborate networking.


Both 42 Entertainment and Reznor’s label, Interscope, remain tight-lipped. The label did release a statement from Reznor in which he revealed that "The Year Zero" began as a daydream about the end of the world and takes place in 2022. But his statement does not link the Web conspiracy drama with his new CD.

Draw your own conclusions. This X-file remains open and unsolved.

This shit is getting weirder and weirder, and more interesting, by the day.

I'll listen to the new songs later on and post what I think.

 

[Casey]

new NIN album 'Year Zero' dropping in April!!

Find the email address on iamtryingtobelieve.com and send it an email (after reading through the site) - you will get a very interesting response.

I am going to sticky this topic since it seems like new information and discoveries are coming in each day.



"The Presence" is starting to freak me out already. Spmething about that hand....

The Presence - Legitimate Phenomenon or Parepin-induced Mass Psychosis?

 

[Casey]

Scratch what I said before about Survivalism being just OK. It's fucking awesome.

I love all 4 tracks. I think Survivalism is my favorite, then My Violent Heart, then Me, I'm Not, and then In This Twilight (my least favorite of what's leaked so far but I still like it).

 

[PuffnScruff]

good stuff, thanks for posting this, ill check out the songs when i get home tonight

 

[Casey]

Holy shit - I just checked eBay for the 2-track promo's of Survivalism....one sold a few days ago for over $250!!!

There's a few more there now but they're on Buy It Now for $100. That's fucking crazy.

 

[Casey]

So I didn't think there would be another song that I like EVEN MORE than what already leaked.... and then "The Beginning Of The End" got played on KROQ Radio.....I have a radio rip, and holy fucking shit, it's good.

Right click the track title and save as to D/L the song. It's fucking quality. My favorite of all the leaks so far, and by the way, my order is now this:

1. The Beginning Of The End
2. Me, I'm Not
3. Survivalism
4. My Violent Heart
5. In This Twilight

I overkilled Survivalism already so now I prefer Me, I'm Not.


Oh, and a new site has just been discovered: http://www.thewaterturnedtoblood.net

It was apparently discovered in the Survivalism video, which is on YouTube but I haven't watched it yet. Gonna take a look now.

 

[Casey]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=l-2YLS2gG6M

This video will never make it onto MTV. Watch it and you'll see why. Very controversial, but fucking cool.

 

[Casey]

check out the avy.....

 

[Dogmatic187]

^^If that's the album cover, it's awesome.

 

[Casey]

Nope.

This is the album cover. Pretty sweet, huh?

 

[Dogmatic187]

^^Oh yeah.

 

[Casey]

This is easily my favorite album of 2007 so far.

EDIT - Unstuck the topic since the album comes out tomorrow.

 

[Dogmatic187]

Defintely the best album of the year so far. I'm loving it.

 

[Casey]

Defintely the best album of the year so far. I'm loving it.

What's your favorite track man? I really like "The Warning", "Capital G", and "Meet Your Master", as well as the ones that leaked before.