Nine Inch Nails: 'Year Zero' Not First Attempt At Concept Album

Nine Inch Nails' upcoming album, "Year Zero", is reportedly the first of two concept records about a future religious dictatorship taking over the U.S. amid signs that the apocalypse is near. But this isn't bandleader Trent Reznor's first attempt at telling a story through music. Reznor told Launch Radio Networks that he originally intended the group's 2005 release, "With Teeth", to be a conceptual piece as well. "I'd come up with this kind of elaborate storyline, and the record was gonna be a concept record that had a number of pretentious elements to it," he said. "I was gonna talk about multi-layered reality and waking up in a dream you can't wake up out of, and eventually finding acceptance after you go through this period of trying to fight it. It was all kind of a big analogy for me getting sober."

"Year Zero" is scheduled for release on April 17.

Nine Inch Nails has posted the video for "Survivalism", the first single from "Year Zero", on YouTube. The clip was first revealed on computer USB drives left behind after the band's recent show in London. Fans also spotted letters in the video that, when spelled out, led to yet another in the series of web sites connected to the album's concept, thewaterturnedtoblood.net.

According to The NIN Hotline, a complete list of the web sites relating to the album can be found at ninwiki.com.

Reznor recently told England's Kerrang! Radio that he's already in talks about a film version of "Year Zero".

Thanks for the info to Blabbermouth.net.

Comments

[Guitar_Poet]

cool, NIN is alright

[f1sk]

cool, when you go to their sights if you highlight the text it seperates it from the images and you can read it

looking forward to the album

[f1sk]

like with most movies and stuff like this the scriptures are not from the bible as they are usually sold to be

[astheniago]

wasnt the downward spiral a concept album? Seems odd tht it came out in 1994 but gets no mention here

[electric7]

the website is quite freaky. hope the video is good.

[catchtherainbow]

it was mentioned as one of the two concept albums...With Teeth isn't the concept album mentioned

[Ackj]

Another hidden site might be around too. Reading the paragraphs, certain letters are capital, and certain are lowercase. They spell out:

FRANCE CA
france scarancesca

[Ackj]

Ackj wrote:

err... France SCA France SCA France SCA

Checked.

[Caustic]

Ackj wrote:

Ackj wrote:

err... France SCA France SCA France SCA

Have you followed that up? Francesca is a character in one of the multitude of Year Zero websites. I found a blog about it and did it the easy way, some of this shit is creepy as hell.

["Tele" Steve]

I like concept albums. This concept isn't all that far-fetched.

[CanCan]

Jesus, this is amazing.

[Biohazard]

film version of Year Zero? this i gotta see.

[LynchMobster]

wasnt the downward spiral a concept album? this didnt really amaze me, and it wasnt really news at all

[jdsarge91]

The Fragile > All NIN albums.

It was also a concept.

[drugless_stoner]

yeah, i was readiing last night how the downward spiral is about this guy who is getting depressed, he turns to drugs and sex to get away from it all and eventually kills himself

[Nybb]

A film version? Hmm...I'm a bit skeptical of that. The songs that are out so far from YZ are good though, and I'm looking forward to the album. The alternate reality game is cool, but they're starting to be kind of overdone...

That reminds me...wasn't American Idiot supposed to be made into a movie? What happened to that? I'm not really big into Green Day, I was just kind of curious as to how that would turn out.

[jahyarain]

f1sk wrote:

like with most movies and stuff like this the scriptures are not from the bible as they are usually sold to be

*sigh*
man, don't do this.

Checked.

[f1sk]

jahyarain wrote:

f1sk wrote:

like with most movies and stuff like this the scriptures are not from the bible as they are usually sold to be

*sigh*
man, don't do this.

im not trying to start anything just an interesting note, most people dont think about it and automatically assume they are

[Mx023]

this isn't new, it's a whole conspiracy so i've seen on a lot of different nin msg boards, but i'm real drunk and i can't remember the main site i went to read up on all of this. it's somewhat complicated for a drunk simple minded person like me at this hour.

but i did hear for the first USB stick found, there was a single on it and when played through some visualation where you see the music wavelengths, there are numbers that complete a phone number. when that phone number is called there is a recording of a screaming girl and another girl trying to understand what she's saying.

it was a while ago i saw this but i can't remember it too clearly now.. :O

[Caustic]

Yeah, this explains it.

http://yearzero-nin.blogspot.com/2007/03/nin-year-zero_07.html

[Muddy_Banks]

"Year Zero", is reportedly the first of two concept records about a future religious dictatorship taking over the U.S.

LMAO

[mr.sublime]

Nybb wrote:

That reminds me...wasn't American Idiot supposed to be made into a movie? What happened to that? I'm not really big into Green Day, I was just kind of curious as to how that would turn out.

i heard that about American Idiot too, and (even crazier) that it was supposed to be a Broadway musical.

back to NIN, i just got Beside You In Time and it is incredible. they put on the best show i have ever seen, and i have been to quite a few shows. counting down the days to YZ...

[tralala13]

"The Black Parade" is supposedly going to be a musical too... not that it makes any sense, since there are only about 5 characters, tops.

[brantlymurphy]

I knew he was doing somthing crazy like that... The new CD is amazing... I heard it in SLC.