Year Zero

by Nine Inch Nails

Year Zero cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 17 April 2007
  • Label: Interscope
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:03:34
  • Community rating: 3.92/5 from 24 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A dystopian concept album about the US government in the year 2022, 'Year Zero' is glitchy, political, and aggressive. Trent Reznor abandons personal angst for global paranoia, using distorted electronics to create a bleak future soundscape. It was accompanied by an elaborate alternate reality game.

Genres

Descriptors: political, conceptual, science fiction, industrial, glitchy

Tracklist

  1. HYPERPOWER! (01:42)
  2. The Beginning Of The End (02:47)
  3. Survivalism (04:22)
  4. The Good Soldier (03:23)
  5. Vessel (04:51)
  6. Me, I'm Not (04:51)
  7. Capital G (03:49)
  8. My Violent Heart (04:13)
  9. The Warning (03:38)
  10. God Given (03:50)
  11. Meet Your Master (04:08)
  12. The Greater Good (04:50)
  13. The Great Destroyer (03:17)
  14. Another Version Of The Truth (04:06)
  15. In This Twilight (03:33)
  16. Zero Sum (06:14)

Credits

  • Trent Reznor - art direction
  • Atticus Ross - engineer
  • Trent Reznor - Member
  • Charlie Clouser - Member
  • Danny Lohner - Member
  • Bill Rieflin - Member
  • Jerome Dillon - Member
  • Atticus Ross - Member
  • Rob Sheridan - art direction
  • Matthew Santoro - artwork [" the presence", " the great divide", " the scorched earth" by hydraulx artist:]
  • Hydraulx - artwork [" the presence", " the great divide", " the scorched earth" by]
  • William Morris Agency - booking
  • Brett Bachemin - coordinator
  • 42 Entertainment - design [world integration and enhancement]
  • Alex Lieu - design [world integration and enhancement]
  • Elan Lee - design [world integration and enhancement]
  • Johnny Rodriguez - design [world integration and enhancement]
  • Jordan Weisman - design [world integration and enhancement]
  • Sean Stewart - design [world integration and enhancement]
  • Susan Bonds - design [world integration and enhancement]
  • Alan Mason - engineer
  • Alan Moulder - engineer
  • Doug Trantow - engineer
  • Cori Bardo - hair, make-up [makeup]
  • David Altschul - legal
  • Zia Modabber - legal
  • Rebel Waltz - management
  • Shaynee Lee Gordy - management [assistance]
  • Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman - management [business management]
  • Marc Geiger - management [sounding board]
  • Brian Gardner - mastered by
  • Amy Hall - stylist

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