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- edit 8 The album is out. Go buy and show the record company who you support.

- edit Survivalism video found on a USB drive.

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R87-iZpiW40[/MEDIA]

- edit 6 In This Twilight was found on a USB thumbdrive at last night's concert.

- edit 5 Me, I'm Not was found on a USB thumbdrive at last night's concert.

- edit 4 Survivalism has been played on KROQ.

- edit 3 My Violent Heart was found on a USB thumbdrive in the bathroom at the first concert.

A clip of Survivalism can be heard if you dial 1-310-295-1040

- edit 2 Release date has been confirmed to be April 17th.

Tracklist:

01 Hyperpower!
02 The Beginning Of The End
03 Survivalism
04 The Good Solder
05 Vessel
06 Me, I'm Not
07 Capital G
08 My Violent Heart
09 The Warning
10 God Given
11 Meet Your Master
12 The Greater Good
13 The Great Destroyer
14 Another Version Of The Truth
15 In This Twilight
16 Zero-Sum

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- edit Video for the upcoming single, Survivalism, will shoot in Feburary.

NINE INCH NAILS is scheduled to film a video for the new track entitled "Survivalism" beginning Monday, February 5 in the Los Angeles area. The song comes off the group's new album, "Year Zero", which is slated for an April release.
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This was posted on the Spiral today by TR himself.

01/10/07 : new record info

nine inch nails: year zero
coming april 2007.
it could be about the end of the world.
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So not only do we have a definite date but we now have a title and the basic idea behind the album. Mixing began in January.

Here's some past statements TR has released about Year Zero.

Another little piece in Kerrang, this week:


"I'VE GOT MY CONFIDENCE BACK!"
Trent Reznor predicts forthcoming album will be NIN's finest work.

NIN frontman Trent Reznor has revealed to Kerrang! that making the band's forthcoming fifth studio album has resulted in him feeling stronger and more self-assured thatn ever before.

Reznor is currently working on the follow-up to 2005's With Teeth in his home studio in LA but recorded a lot of new songs in hotel rooms around the world on laptops and a portable studio. Although remaining tight-lipped about the album's title and new song titles, Reznor did confess that writing and recording on the move has been "fun and inspiring."

"I feel a lot more confident recording this record than I did 'WIth Teeth'," Reznor reveals. "With Teeth was me kind of wondering if I could still even do this and being pretty cautious. And this one, I've got my confidence back. I feel stronger abaout what I have to say as an artist and I feel a lot less concerned about what people think about it. I feel personally that my best work's ahead of me," he adds. "I don't know if that's going to be the case in the public's opinion but that's out of my control, what I can do is try to make the best shit I can and push myself and that's what I think this record is right now."

Reznor is not, however, feeling quite so optimistic about the rest of the current rock scene..........

"If I happen to accidentally turn the radio on and hear, for example, an emo type screamo band, I literally can't tell the difference between one of 20 bands," he sighed. "I think either I'm getting old, which is a fact, or I'm turning into my dad! I wonder about the person that's in a band, the young kid who just got signed or is trying to get signed - why is he doing it?," Reznor muses. "Is he trying to change the world and do something different and express himself, because that is why he wanted to do it. Or is it because they want to fuck Paris Hilton and be photographed outside trendy restaurants?"

NIN's new album is expected for release in April. The band also release a live DVD 'Live: Beside You In Time' on Feb 26.
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In the Kerrang article reported below, Trent mentions the possibility of guest vocals on the new album. Greg Reason recently attended Saul Williams' New Year's day show at the Beats on the Beach festival in Australia, and tells us that Saul mentioned at the show "that he has recorded backing vocals for the new NIN album."
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In this week's kerrang!

NINE INCH NAILS

A new NIN album already? Oh go on then...

Your last album took six years. We've only had to wait 18 months for this one.
Trent Reznor (vocals): "It's been pretty interesting, I'm probably as surprised as some fans are (laughs). But really it's just a matter of discipline. When i was on the last tour, to keep myself busy i was just really hunkered down and was working on music the whole time, so this kept me in a creative mode and when i finished the tour i felt like i wasn't tired and wanted to keep at it."

Is there anyone else playing on the album?
"It's all me, mostly recorded in hotel rooms around the world on laptops. There maybe some surprise vocalists that pop up here and there - although i don't want to say who since the final mix hasn't been determined yet, and Josh Freese is playing the drums on one song, but it's not like a big guest star-type record. It feels a bit more focused in a certain direction than 'With Teeth' did,"

What's the concept?
"I'm trying to avoid getting too detailed about this but i will tell you that this is a concept record, and it's part of a bigger picture of a number of thing's I'm working on. Essentially i wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist. This album is a bit more electronic and I'd say rhythm plays a bigger element in it than in the past and it's veering away from concern about song structure and getting played on the radio."

Are you talking about some kind of multimedia event?
"My goal is that the music can be interpreted with the richest context. So what I'm immersed in is a way to achieve that. Now that albums have gone from 12 inches of real estate with artwork and a whole aesthetic, to CDs, which are ugly and disposable, to nowadays just being a file on a computer, it's led me to putting a lot of thought in to ways to present music that still makes it feel important and that has depth and purpose."

Will it be a heavy album?
"It's not heavy in any kind of metal type sense, I'd say a big inspiration sonically would be early Public Enemy records, a collage of sound type of thing, not heavy in a metal guitar kind of way."

On 'The Downward Spiral' and 'The Fragile' you blended together an extreme amount of disparate sounds and layers - is this moving further in that direction?
"Well Alan Moulder (long-time collaborator) was stunned when he first heard it. Normally a Pro-Tools session has alot of tracks and this time he was like 'You're kidding me, it's only this much stuff?'. The end result has a bit of racket to it, it's much more improvisational, less refined. With this record i feel alot less concerned about what people think about it - espcially the dying record industry. I couldn't care less about that right now."
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Usually when I finish a record, I have to go into battle with the people who's job is to figure out how to sell the record. The only time that didn't happen was "with teeth". This time however I'm expecting an epic struggle. This is not a particularly friendly record and it certainly doesn't sound like anything else out there right now. Artists these days are not encouraged to experiment or take risks, and my punishment is on it's way.
Feeling physically rundown and emotionally insecure at this moment, and baffled as to why I feel the need to share this with you!
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Is it possible I am actually finished writing and recording a new nine inch nails record? Apparently so. We begin mixing in January!

Juggling fifteen all-new tracks around. Testing sequences. No leftovers from "with teeth". Highly conceptual. Quite noisy. fucking cool.
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Should be fantastic. I have nothing but faith in Trent.
 
What is this, a music related thread WITHOUT 10+ "Your band sucks!" replies? Amazing. Where's SneakyPenguin to thumb his nose at you when you need him?
 
[quote name='VanillaGorilla']What is this, a music related thread WITHOUT 10+ "Your band sucks!" replies? Amazing. Where's SneakyPenguin to thumb his nose at you when you need him?[/QUOTE]

It's scientifically impossible for NIN to suck :cool:

Really though give it time. I'm sure by the time this thread is over somebody will come in here screaming "NIN isn't real industrial. You dudes need to listen to Skinny Puppy and Einstürzende Neubauten. :drool: " even though nobody has brought it up.
 
NIN frontman Trent Reznor has revealed to Kerrang! that making the band's forthcoming fifth studio album has resulted in him feeling stronger and more self-assured thatn ever before.
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Trent's best work came from when he was feeling weak and insecure... that's where the emotion in his music comes from... but hey, can't wait for the CD to come out. Big NIN fan.
 
[quote name='PhrostByte']Trent's best work came from when he was feeling weak and insecure... that's where the emotion in his music comes from... but hey, can't wait for the CD to come out. Big NIN fan.[/quote]Is that Low Ki as your avatar?
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']I can't wait. :cool:[/QUOTE]

Same.

My friend who is obsessed with NIN has been ranting about the new album since Trent's post in December.
 
[quote name='Sporadic']It's scientifically impossible for NIN to suck :cool:

Really though give it time. I'm sure by the time this thread is over somebody will come in here screaming "NIN isn't real industrial. You dudes need to listen to Skinny Puppy and Einstürzende Neubauten. :drool: " even though nobody has brought it up.[/QUOTE]What are you gassin' on about? "Scientifically impossible...", man that double album was weapons grade bolognium.
 
[quote name='jmcc']What are you gassin' on about? "Scientifically impossible...", man that double album was weapons grade bolognium.[/QUOTE]

Don't you dare talk about my beauty The Fragile like that. :bomb: That's 120 minutes of pure sex in audio form.
 
It's definitely true, it is scientifically impossible for NIN to suck...

Anyways, I have no clue how I totally missed this news, but damn, I am now excited... especially since with a new album comes a new tour and NIN is my favorite live band, hands down.

Wonder if the Tapeworm project will ever see the light of day

[quote name='Sporadic']Don't you dare talk about my beauty The Fragile like that. :bomb: That's 120 minutes of pure sex in audio form.[/QUOTE]

100% agree.
 
[quote name='Sporadic']Don't you dare talk about my beauty The Fragile like that. :bomb: That's 120 minutes of pure sex in audio form.[/QUOTE]

100% agree.
 
[quote name='Sporadic']Don't you dare talk about my beauty The Fragile like that. :bomb: That's 120 minutes of pure sex in audio form.[/QUOTE]It's an EP of good material stretched into two albums. It's made of penises that are themselves made of farts.
 
[quote name='Sycowulf']It's definitely true, it is scientifically impossible for NIN to suck...

Anyways, I have no clue how I totally missed this news, but damn, I am now excited... especially since with a new album comes a new tour and NIN is my favorite live band, hands down.[/QUOTE]

You heard about the live DVD they are releasing on February 28th right? Doesn't get much better then HD NIN

[quote name='Sycowulf']Wonder if the Tapeworm project will ever see the light of day[/QUOTE]

Never, it has been offically dead since 2004
 
I remember one time when Trent was going to produced Zack De La Rocha's new album. I was like "whoa, bossome." Then Zack transformed himself into pure energy, I think, and the project never came about. That was kind of sad.
 
[quote name='jmcc']I remember one time when Trent was going to produced Zack De La Rocha's new album. I was like "whoa, bossome." Then Zack transformed himself into pure energy, I think, and the project never came about. That was kind of sad.[/QUOTE]

If I remember right, they had something like 13 songs in the can and then De la Rocha scrapped it because it "wasn't up to his standards" or some bullshit like that.

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Good news is that he is producing Saul Williams' 2007 album.

Saul also performed two tracks from his unreleased, Reznor-produced album, "Convict Colony" and "Revenge," which Greg describes as: "The former had slammin live sounding drums and a looped metal guitar riff while the later was a funkier tune with cool NIN sounding effects."
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[quote name='Sporadic']If I remember right, they had something like 13 songs in the can and then De la Rocha scrapped it because it "wasn't up to his standards" or some bullshit like that.

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Good news is that he is producing Saul Williams' 2007 album.[/QUOTE]Then he shopped it around to Dan the Automator and DJ Shadow also, I think. It was shaping up to be a production super-group and it just disappeared. Boo to that.
 
[quote name='jmcc']I remember one time when Trent was going to produced Zack De La Rocha's new album. I was like "whoa, bossome." Then Zack transformed himself into pure energy, I think, and the project never came about. That was kind of sad.[/QUOTE]I think they released one track from that. It sounds about how you'd expect.

Zach was always the weak link in RatM anyway.
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']I think they released one track from that. It sounds about how you'd expect.

Zach was always the weak link in RatM anyway.[/QUOTE]Reznor and him? Or Shadow? I have the Shadow one.
 
[quote name='jmcc']Reznor and him? Or Shadow? I have the Shadow one.[/QUOTE] Reznor. I believe it was on the Fahrenheit 9/11 "soundtrack". I don't know that I even have it anymore.

Yeah, I have the Shadow one as well.
 
Oh man, I can't wait. For this and for the DVD next month. I wish the HD-DVD was a hybrid disc that played on DVD players. Not really anxious to jump into this new format war yet, so standard DVD for now and double-dip later.
 
I've been listening to Pretty Hate Machine since I was a kiddo, but honestly, the stuff Reznor pumps out nowadays is just alright. It seems really uninspired.
 
[quote name='Mr. Anderson']I've been listening to Pretty Hate Machine since I was a kiddo, but honestly, the stuff Reznor pumps out nowadays is just alright. It seems really uninspired.[/quote]
When I first heard With Teeth, I felt the same way... I was thinking.. this just isn't as raw as the old stuff. But after giving it a few listens, it really grew on me. I wouldn't say it's better than Downward Spiral, but I still think it's a great album.. probably on par with the Fragile and PHM.
 
[quote name='PhrostByte']When I first heard With Teeth, I felt the same way... I was thinking.. this just isn't as raw as the old stuff. But after giving it a few listens, it really grew on me. I wouldn't say it's better than Downward Spiral, but I still think it's a great album.. probably on par with with Fragile and PHM.[/QUOTE]

See, it was the exact opposite for me. When I first listened to With Teeth, I enjoyed it. But the more I heard it and took it all in, the more medicore it became. It's just not substantial. Doesn't last. Didn't even seem like Reznor was trying.
 
OK, here's the official list from best to worst (with PHM still being awesome) - not including remixed discs or live shit:

1. The Fragile
2. The Downward Spiral
3. Broken
4. With Teeth
5. Pretty Hate Machine

I can't wait for the new CD!
 
[quote name='javeryh']OK, here's the official list from best to worst (with PHM still being awesome) - not including remixed discs or live shit:

1. The Fragile
2. The Downward Spiral
3. Broken
4. With Teeth
5. Pretty Hate Machine

I can't wait for the new CD![/QUOTE] The fucks?

I'd say: TDS > Broken > PHM > The Fragile > With Teeth

And I really enjoy With Teeth overall, but there are just a few tracks I always skip and that just doesn't happen on any of the others.
 
I guess I'm just sick of PHM - I listened to it pretty much from when it came out (in the 80s!) until about 1996 about once a day - I was obsessed with it even after TDS came out probably because I was dating some crazy chick off and on and every song really hit home - especially Sin. I tried listening to it not too long ago and for some reason I just couldn't. I don't know...
 
Pretty Hate Machine might be showing it's age a little these days, but keep in mind it was pretty mind-blowing in 1989.

(edit: not in response to you, Javeryh - you posted that as I was typing mine.)
 
I'd say my list goes as follows:
1. Downward Spiral
2. With Teeth
3. Fragile
4. Pretty Hate Machine
5. Broken

I think I'm younger than a lot of you (20)... Maybe that has some correlation with WT being higher up on my list? My favorite tracks off of it are All The Love In the World, Only, Sunspots, and Right Where It Belongs.
 
[quote name='javeryh']OK, here's the official list from best to worst (with PHM still being awesome) - not including remixed discs or live shit:

1. The Fragile
2. The Downward Spiral
3. Broken
4. With Teeth
5. Pretty Hate Machine

I can't wait for the new CD![/QUOTE]

Bump TDS down to #5, and move 3-5 up a notch, and that's my list. Yea, I'm strange, but I say TDS is Trent's weakest work to date. It's just too inconsistant. It has a few moments of brilliance, but too much "filler" for my taste.

Broken is quite possibly the pissy-est album ever released by anyone. If it had been longer than an EP, it probably would have been impossible to listen to in one sitting. As it is, it's near perfect. Knowing where Trent was coming from during that time period helps, too.

I had no idea a new album was on the way, so that's great news. New Nails & Pumpkins in the same year? Be still, my heart. ;)
 
[quote name='PhrostByte']I'd say my list goes as follows:
1. Downward Spiral
2. With Teeth
3. Fragile
4. Pretty Hate Machine
5. Broken

I think I'm younger than a lot of you (20)... Maybe that has some correlation with WT being higher up on my list? My favorite tracks off of it are All The Love In the World, Only, Sunspots, and Right Where It Belongs.[/QUOTE] Could be. I didn't really start listening to NIN until about ... '97, but I still started out with PHM. My gf didn't really get into them until With Teeth IIRC, but she still loves it all. So who knows.

[quote name='argyle']Bump TDS down to #5, and move 3-5 up a notch, and that's my list. Yea, I'm strange, but I say TDS is Trent's weakest work to date. It's just too inconsistant. It has a few moments of brilliance, but too much "filler" for my taste.[/QUOTE] The only tracks that aren't "perfect", to me, are Ruiner and Big Man With a Gun.
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']I think they released one track from that. It sounds about how you'd expect.

Zach was always the weak link in RatM anyway.[/quote]

Bullshit. Not only was Zack an amazing poet and a great vocalist but with him in the band you know they were going to put out a fanatastic product each time. Sure, he might have been difficult to work with, but he took pride in his work and he really made a difference in music as a whole.
 
[quote name='Rozz']Bullshit. Not only was Zack an amazing poet and a great vocalist but with him in the band you know they were going to put out a fanatastic product each time. Sure, he might have been difficult to work with, but he took pride in his work and he really made a difference in music as a whole.[/QUOTE] Meh. I don't have a problem with his song writing, but as for being a "great vocalist", well I think that's highly debatable.

The first album was great, but the others were just more of the same. Of course, that didn't stop me from buying them all. :lol:

The first album is the only one I still listen to though.
 
I can say with absolute certainty that while I liked Rage against the Machine, I hate Audioslave. So boo to Chris Cornel and woot to Zach de la Rocha (we miss ya, homie).
 
[quote name='Kunikos']I can say with absolute certainty that while I liked Rage against the Machine, I hate Audioslave. So boo to Chris Cornel and woot to Zach de la Rocha (we miss ya, homie).[/QUOTE]

I hated Audioslave at first since I was and still am a hardcore Rage fan, but I've grown to enjoy AS's stuff. I wish Zach would just release some music already, but I've given up on that.
 
[quote name='trent']Artists these days are not encouraged to experiment or take risks, and my punishment is on it's way.[/quote]lol, that's awesome. I am incredibly stoked for this!

New NIN, Queens of the Stone Age, Korn (opening up myself for major criticism but screw it), Type O Negative... it's gonna be a good year for me!
 
eclipse9 posted this over at SA

Trent's posted in his blog over at the Spiral. I can't post the entire thing because I know someone will get a hissy fit, but to summarize:

The album is not a hip hop album. When Trent mentioned the Public Enemy influence, he was talking about the use of samples and loops. He also mentioned that he doesn't consider Saul Williams' new album to be a hip hop album, either.

He also mentioned that some people will love the sound of the new album, and some will hate it. He said that this album is the best work he is capable of right now, and he's putting his heart and soul into it.
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Man, I was going to buy this regardless (I'm a bit of a NIN completist) but he's really got my interest piqued with some of the things he's saying. Can't wait to hear it.
 
[quote name='Rozz']Bullshit. Not only was Zack an amazing poet and a great vocalist but with him in the band you know they were going to put out a fanatastic product each time. Sure, he might have been difficult to work with, but he took pride in his work and he really made a difference in music as a whole.[/quote]

Why has he gone pretty much nowhere since the breakup? Audioslave has become successful and has released 3 albums with another due this year. Don't get me wrong, I like RATM, but if he was as amazing and great as you say he is, I think we'd have seen some more of his work by now.
 
[quote name='Trakan']Why has he gone pretty much nowhere since the breakup? Audioslave has become successful and has released 3 albums with another due this year. Don't get me wrong, I like RATM, but if he was as amazing and great as you say he is, I think we'd have seen some more of his work by now.[/quote]
Maybe his work was good... we just haven't heard much of it yet ;)

And none of Audioslave's albums could be considered classics really, any of the RATM releases blew them out of the water.
 
I really didn't like With Teeth.. it was ok for a little bit, but seemed a little aimless and more geared at commercial success than the other albums. As for the Fragile.. now that was a great album.

On a side note, if any of you have never heard it, try to get ahold of the second disc in the All That Could Have Been CE. I remember showing up at CC the day it came out to pick it up.. that disc was fucking amazing. Basically in studio sessions of a few songs from The Fragile. The CE is fairly hard to find (it came in a grey box, with a grey double album CD case). Somebody stepped on my second disc and cracked it... fucking slut. I lost her number fast....
 
[quote name='Skylander7']I really didn't like With Teeth.. it was ok for a little bit, but seemed a little aimless and more geared at commercial success than the other albums. As for the Fragile.. now that was a great album.

On a side note, if any of you have never heard it, try to get ahold of the second disc in the All That Could Have Been CE. I remember showing up at CC the day it came out to pick it up.. that disc was fucking amazing. Basically in studio sessions of a few songs from The Fragile. The CE is fairly hard to find (it came in a grey box, with a grey double album CD case). Somebody stepped on my second disc and cracked it... fucking slut. I lost her number fast....[/QUOTE]

You're talking about Still.

It's 4 instrumentals (that were made for One Hour Photo), 4 songs that were reimagined and 1 new song.

You can buy it from nin.com

http://www.merch.com/nineinchnails/prodinfo.asp?number=NIN.CD.STL
 
I'm incredibley excited about this, although I hate the name. I became a fan about a year ago and NIN shot up into my top 5 favorite bands. I can't wait for the DVD too, I like the song selection they picked. Hopefully they have some stuff (Non-Entity!) from Camden, NJ.
 
New info: Year Zero will be 16 tracks, the first single is titled Survivalism, track 2 of 16 is titled The Beginning Of The End, release date is officially April 17th and TR posted on his blog yesterday that the album is complete.

http://yearzero.nin.com

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I can't wait for this disc and the hd-dvd coming out. I saw them a couple of times during the last tour and am always amazed how good they sound live.

As far as ranking albums goes, I'd say:

1. broken
2. the fragile
3. the downward spiral
4. pretty hate machine
5. with teeth
 
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