Year Zero is the fifth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. Conceived while touring in support of the band’s previous album, With Teeth, the album was recorded in late 2006. It is a concept album that criticizes contemporary policies of the United States government by presenting a dystopian vision of the year 2022. The album reached number two in the US, number six in the UK, and the top 10 in various other countries.
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Year Zero is the fifth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. Conceived while touring in support of the band’s previous album, With Teeth, the album was recorded in late 2006. It is a concept album that criticizes contemporary policies of the United States government by presenting a dystopian vision of the year 2022. Year Zero received positive reviews from critics, who complimented its concept and production, as well as the accompanying alternate reality game. The album reached number two in the US, number six in the UK, and the top 10 in various other countries. A song cut from the album included vocal work by Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme. The same year, Reznor contributed vocals to their song ‘Era Vulgaris’, which was also cut from their album of the same name. The band’s last album for Interscope, following Reznor’s departure the same year due to a dispute over overseas pricing. It was produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and was the group’s first studio album since 1994’s The Downward Spiral that was not co-produced by long-time collaborator Alan Moulder. Most of Year Zero’s musical elements were created solely by Reznor on his laptop, as opposed to the instrument-heavy With teeth. The music features the styles of industrial rock, electro-industrial, electronic, and digital hardcore, and it was mixed in January 2007, and Reznor stated on his blog that the album had been finished as of February 5.
In a 2005 interview with Kerrang!, Reznor expressed his intentions to write material for a new release while on tour promoting With Te teeth. He reportedly began work on the new album by September 2006, and said that it was a shift in direction in that it \”doesn’t sound like WithTeeth \”. 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. This time, however, is not a particularly friendly record” The album’s budget was a reported US$2 million, but since Reznor composed most of the album himself on hisaptop and in his home-studio, much of the budget instead went toward the extensive accompanying promotional campaign. The song ‘Capital G’ was released as a single on April 17, 2007, with two singles: ‘Survivalism’ and ”Capital G’, which were considered for inclusion in the original original album ‘With Teeth’ It was part of a larger Year Zero project, which included a remix album, an alternate realitygame of thesame name, aswell as a conceived television or film adaptation. The game expanded upon the album’s storyline, using websites, pre-recorded phone messages, murals, among other media in promotion of the project. It has been described as a ‘collage of cool type of sound type of thing of early Public Enemy records, specifically the production techniques of The Bomb Squad’
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