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Year Zero
Rock · 2007 · 16 tracks

Year Zero

Nine Inch Nails

A paranoid, glitch-heavy transmission from a crumbling future. Industrial rock stripped of its organic warmth and replaced with cold, digital defiance.

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It's like a cyberpunk thriller for your ears, but the bad guys are winning.

A high-tension blend of paranoid defiance and resigned apocalyptic sorrow.

Year Zero · vs · Nine Inch Nails
Political+4.0σ

The writing leans far further into political than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 16 Tracks
01
HYPERPOWER!
1:42
02
The Beginning of the End
2:47
03
Survivalism
4:24
04
The Good Soldier
3:23
05
Vessel
4:53
06
Me, I’m Not
4:52
07
Capital G
3:50
08
My Violent Heart
4:14
09
The Warning
3:39
10
God Given
3:51
11
Meet Your Master
4:09
12
The Greater Good
4:52
13
The Great Destroyer
3:19
14
Another Version of the Truth
4:08
15
In This Twilight
3:34
16
Zero‐Sum
6:14
Moments Worth Waiting For
The rhythmic glitching at the end of The Great Destroyer that sounds like a computer hardware failure.
The haunting, static-drenched piano melody that anchors the apocalyptic finale of Zero-Sum.
The sudden, jarring transition from the driving rock of Survivalism into the claustrophobic electronics of Vessel.
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