History Music / YearZero

* ExcitedShowTitle: ''"HYPERPOWER!"''

* OminousMessageFromTheFuture: The entirety of the Year Zero ARG is this, with the earliest quantum computers suddenly receiving a bunch of websites from their future selves, depicting a dystopic future and the end of the world in 2025. Unfortunately, the messages sent back were partially corrupted by the future computers being damaged during the upload, either by government agents or The Presence. Nonetheless, [[FridgeBrilliance the implication remains that]] [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong having received the messages has changed the timeline and averted the events of Year Zero.]]

* OminousMessageFromTheFuture: The entirety of the Year Zero ARG is this, with the earliest quantum computers suddenly receiving a bunch of websites from their future selves, depicting a dystopic future and the end of the world in 2025. Unfortunately, the messages sent back were partially corrupted by the future computers being damaged during the upload, either by government agents or The Presence. Nonetheless, the implication remains that having received the messages has changed the timeline and averted the events of Year Zero.

'''Year Zero''' '''I'''s a concept '''A'''lbu'''M''' released in 2007 by Music/NineInchNails. Se'''T''' in the yea'''R''' 2022 (dubbed 0000 or '''Y'''ear Zero), the album tells the story of the corrupted government bent on absolute control on the rema'''I'''ning people of the world. by usi'''N'''g the drug, known as parepin as an alle'''G'''ed belief '''T'''hat it w'''O'''uld protect the people from future '''B'''iot'''E'''rrorist, the government added the drug into the drinking and water supp'''L'''y of all the general publ'''I'''c. However, the side '''E'''ffects from parepin came at a much higher threat instead of a use of help, some reporting a '''V'''ision of a ghostly hand, call'''E'''d "The Presence".

What of the most special things about Year Zero was the usage of AudienceParticipation and AdapationExpansion through an alternative reality game, using variations of websites that were scattered through the album/concerts/''USBs left at concerts'' and slew of creative ways to create the world of Year Zero. While the websites aren't active anymore (Due to the websites expiring with the ARG company that worked on them), fans still consider them to be the key element behind the album's success.

* AdaptationExpansion: The album was accompanied by a video game with the same themes: ''VideoGame/YearZero''. A remix album, ''Year Zero Remixed'' was also released in 2007, with remixes from artists such as Music/TheFaint, Music/{{Ladytron}}, Music/BillLaswell, Music/SaulWilliams, Olof Dreijer (''Music/TheKnife'') and Music/SamFogarino (''Music/{{Interpol}}''). A TV miniseries is also in development, with involvement of Creator/{{HBO}} and Creator/{{BBC}}.

'''Personnel'''

'''Another Version of the Tropes''':

* EarthShatteringKaboom: "In This Twilight".
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "In This Twilight" and "Zero-Sum".

* LargeHam: "I am the '''GREAT DESTROYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH'''"

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: "The Great Destroyer" has a speech like that printed in the liner notes: ''"I hope they cannot see the limitless potential / living inside of me to murder everything / I hope they cannot see I am the [[LargeHam GREAT]] [[BigWordShout DESTROYERRRRRR]]..."'' Coming out of the guy who created ''[[CreatorBreakdown The Downward Spiral]]'' and wallowed in angst and depravity for much of TheNineties, this is kind of a triumphant moment for Trent Reznor.

'''Year Zero''' '''I'''s a concept '''A'''lbu'''M''' released in 2007 by Music/NineInchNails. Se'''T''' in the yea'''R''' 2022 (dubbed 0000 or '''Y'''ear Zero), the album tells the story of the corrupted government bent on absolute control on the rema'''I'''ning people of the world. by usi'''N'''g the drug, known as parepin as an alle'''G'''ed belief '''T'''hat it w'''O'''uld protect the people from future '''B'''iot'''E'''rrorist, the government added the drug into the drinking and water supp'''L'''y of all the general publ'''I'''c. However, the side '''E'''ffects from parepin came at a much higher threat instead of a use of help, some reporting a '''V'''ision of a ghostly hand, call'''E'''d "The Presence"

# The Beginning Of The End (2:47)

# The Good Soldier (3:23)

# Another Version Of The Truth (4:07)

'''Another Version of the Tropes'''
* AdaptationExpansion: The album was accompanied by a video game with the same themes: ''VideoGame/YearZero''. A remix album, ''Year Zero Remixed'' was also released in 2007, with remixes from artists such as The Faint, Ladytron, Bill Laswell, Saul Williams, Olof Dreijer (The Knife) and Sam Fogarino (''Music/{{Interpol}}''). A TV miniseries is also in development, with involvement of HBO and BBC.
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''G'''od '''G'''iven", "The '''G'''reater '''G'''ood".
* AlternativeCalendar: The story takes place in the United States in the year 2022; or "Year 0" according to the American government, being the year that America was reborn.
* AudienceParticipation: The project is intended as a wake-up call to the audience about the way current politics and society at the time were going. For instance: in the liner notes a warning from the fictional United States Bureau of Morality (USBM) can be found, complete with a phone number to report people who have "engaged in subversive acts." When you dial it a recording is played with the message:

* CorruptChurch: The government has installed a Christian fundamentalist theocracy.

* {{Dystopia}}: The story is set in the future year of 2022 to criticize contemporary American politics in the year the album was made.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: "In This Twilight"

* EpicRocking: The 6:14 minutes "Zero-Sum".

* FunWithAcronyms: "Capital G." Some fans have speculated that the "G" stands for UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, though Trent Reznor has explained it stands for "greed".
* HumanoidAbomination: The Presence, a giant, ghostly hand that reaches down from the sky, though to be a side effect from the drugs, Parepin and Opal. [[spoiler:But it turns out to be the cause for the end of the world.]]

* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: The album criticizes the American government, especially the administration of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush.

* TheOner: You could say that "Survivalism" could be counted as one, as it still one shot.

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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "In This Twilight" and "Zero-Sum"

* ZeroesAndOnes: Word by word on "Zero-Sum"
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# Zero-Sum )6:14)

'''Year Zero''' '''I''' 's a concept '''A'''lbu'''M''' released in 2007 by Music/NineInchNails. Se'''T''' in the yea'''R''' 2022 (dubbed 0000 or '''Y'''ear Zero), the album tells the story of the corrupted government bent on absolute control on the rema'''I'''ning people of the world. by usi'''N'''g the drug, known as parepin as an alle'''G'''ed belief '''T'''hat it w'''O'''uld protect the people from future '''B'''iot'''E'''rrorist, the government added the drug into the drinking and water supp'''L'''y of all the general publ'''I'''c. However, the side '''E'''ffects from parepin came at a much higher threat instead of a use of help, some reporting a '''V'''ision of a ghostly hand, call'''E'''d "The Presence"

# ''HYPERPOWER!''
# The Beginning Of The End
# Survivalism
# The Good Soldier
# Vessel
# Me, I'm Not
# Capital G
# My Violent Heart
# The Warning
# God Given
# Meet Your Master
# The Greater Good
# The Great Destroyer
# Another Version Of The Truth
# In This Twilight
# Zero-Sum

* DrugsAreBad: Parepin, Opal and Copper. Some side effects from the Parepin include: complacency, dulling of emotions, muscle spasms, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and not be able to reach orgasms anymore.]]Copper is worse, it could kill you if you try to kick it.

'''Year Zero''' '''I''' 's a concept '''A'''lbu'''M''' released in 2007 by Music/NineInchNails. Se'''T''' in the yea'''R''' 2022 (dubbed 0000 or '''Y'''ear Zero), the album tells the story of the corrupted government bent on absolute control on the rema'''I'''ning people of the world. The use of drugs

'''Year Zero''' is a Concept album released in 2007 by Music/NineInchNails.

'''Year Zero''' is a Concept album released in 2007 by Nine Inch Nails.

'''Year Zero''' is a Concept album released in 2007 by Nine Inch Nails

# Zero-Sum

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Year Zero is a Concept album released in 2007 by Nine Inch Nails

# HYPERPOWER!

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