Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails

...a more poppy sound. With Year Zero, coming just two years after With Teeth, Nine Inch Nails have achieved a spectacular return to form, going back to the Industrial roots of The Downward Spiral but combining it with more modern break beats and undeniably hooky melodies. Full marks to the marketing team behind this, as the unique campaign that ran ahead of the launch of this album made it one of the most hotly anticipated albums of 2007. Like all ...
...set in the year 2020 in a dystopian, apocalyptic, Orwellian world - Los Angeles has been destroyed by a nuclear terrorist attack, the government are adding drugs to the water supply supposedly to protect against bio-terrorism but there are indications that this may be a more sinister method of population control religious fundamentalists are at war and a resistance movement is gathering. Let's just say the future is not bright. What was really clever ...

bubblegum_princess 26.06.2009 · Read full review
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This is the first nine inch nails album that I have listened to and I was thouroughly impressed with their unique style of industrial metal. I found it very difficult to listen to at first, since I am used to listening to more melodic, faster metal and this came as a bit of a shock, as I wasn't expecting this style of music. At first, my favourite songs were "The Beginning of the End" and "Survivalism". Now, the songs that I more frequently listen ...
...of the songs contain a sort of white noise, which put me off at first but then I got used to it and now it sets a very disturbing mood, to say the least. Some of the instruments are difficult to make out in songs, which will put some people off because of the obscurity of having music which doesn't seem to be music at all. Its difficult to explain, but after a while, you get the feel of it and its messages of humanity and human struggle ring true. ...

Jeeves42 17.08.2007 (14.08.2007) · Read full review
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I have been a ninei nch nails fan science my friend neil morrisey told me about them. i went to hmv andgo everyday is egzaclery the same ep. i suddnley fell in love with the band, they are amazing. trent is in my opinion the einstine of industriel music. if there is anyone out there who is looking to buy any cds then i would recomend them to rundown to thnearest cd shop and get it. the first nine inch nails album i owned was with teeth. at first ...

smudge33 03.06.2007 (30.05.2007) · Read full review
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