Journal # 29: Year Zero

Alright I'm here to tell YOU about my personal favorite album, an album by the name Year Zero by one of my favorite artists who is miles better than any crappy band known as the Millionaires. He is known as Trent Reznor, and more popularly known as Nine Inch Nails, or NIN. Year Zero is his 5th album which was much more experimental than his previous material. It is categorized as an Industrial Metal album, but in my opinion Year Zero is much more similar to an electronic type of music known as Glitch. Starting off with an instrumental track called Hyperpower we're given a great intro to the album with booming drums and an eerie backdrop. Next we have The Beginning is the End which is an awesome track altogether and we see the shift towards erratic elctro music. Next we have Survivalism and The Good Soldier which kind of reveals the story behind the album (It's a concept album.) We get a few more songs in and all of them are very different, but similar in lyrical theme and basic music behind them until we get to the last two songs, In This Twilight and Zero-Sum which are slower and are used to basically summarize the entire album up. Actually they are in the process of making an HBO series based on the album's storyline, and it is a very interesting storyline. The entire album came out with this ARG, Alternate Reality Game, that helped to reveal the story behind the album, and it's really quite the mindbending story if I do say so myself. It's hard to explain but if you are into Sci-Fi story's and are a fan of Reznor's past material I would highly recommend it. The coolest thing is that he was able to make an kind of elctro album without ostracizing his Industrial fans who have been with him since the very beginning. Year Zero. Go buy it.