Nine Inch Nails

[von]

Survivalism video has been leaked on yet another USB drive.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiE1d96oe3w

It's pretty cool! Miles and mniles better than the piss poor video of Only atleast*shiver*
Wonder if the yet to be released music  videos  tell a story of their own when they are all put together.Ending of survivalism could be seen as "to be continued" type of a thing.

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=44001.0

[GnFnR87]

that music video was great.

[anythinggoes]

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=137449&uploaded=1&reqdl=1

ok this is my first ever torrent upload

its for the Brixton Show Last night

sorry i it does not work 

[tim_m]

thanks man  they banned it

[Doc Emmett Brown]

Survivalism video has been leaked on yet another USB drive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiE1d96oe3w

Good stuff.  It reminds me of a scene from the Bowie movei, The Man Who Fell to Earth, where he's sitting in a house watching a whole bunch of televisions all at once.



And just for shits & giggles, I decided to pull up these quotes from the Tori Amos interview on pg 3 of this thread:

". T: Well, look, he's so anorexic sometimes. I just look at him and go, baby, you need my cooking honey. And he was very open to the idea because, you know, I don't think he gets much nurturing, that guy.

Fast forward to 2007..... Trent looks GREAT. He's been getting that nurturing from somewhere 

And....

"that tongue! ...if he became a eunuch, it wouldn't even matter!"  :devil:  :devil:

....my absolute favorite quote of all time 

[GnFnR87]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-lx576HDis

well The Beginning of The End has been played live. i still haven't heard it, still debating whether to check it out or just wait. i'd like the rest of the songs to be a surprise since we've other heard a quarter of the album with the other leaks...

[anythinggoes]

thanks man? they banned it

have faith i wil have it up tonight just had to sort some details out and get all the tracks split

if you cant waith that long here is an mp3 of the full show 85mb to keep you going
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VSZ3N4C9

[tim_m]

cool thanks, that will hold me over until you can get the ban lifted.

[GeraldFord]

Who here thinks Year Zero will be the best NIN yet?

I've been listening to "Me, I'm Not," "In this Twilight" and "My Violent Heart" pretty much nonstop, and I feel that this is some of Trent's best work. These songs may not be radio-friendly or have hooks the way "Closer" and "Gave Up" do, but they still grab you, and get only more interesting with repeated listens. As much as I liked every NIN release, I'm glad Trent is stepping outside himself and mixing it up, in terms of lyrical content.

[LeftToDecay]

Who here thinks Year Zero will be the best NIN yet?

Loving them, and much more so than I thought I would!Me, I'm not and Violent Heart just rox0r my sox0r.
I doubt TR, or anyone else for that matter, will ever release anything that challenges TDS,Fragile or Still-era rearrangements in my books but ay, Year Zero will be something extreemely great.

...I will always be a bit bitter about With Teeth..mainly because i really, really, really hoped/believed/expected he'd explore the stipped man,piano an freaky bass drum quiet-ish stuff a bit more, instead of doing something that at times is so damn close to straightforward hard rock.
 I was hoping to see a very music oriented, maybe even a full instrumental  album.
Some 10-12 tracks of something similiar to The day the world went away(still version)..holy fuck how much that would have ruled. That's by far the best album out there that has never been made or released!!

[anythinggoes]

cool thanks, that will hold me over until you can get the ban lifted.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/613267

cant figure dimes uploading system

[GnFnR87]

Nine Inch Nails release new album Year Zero on April 16, but Gigwise had a sneaky listen today in the bowels of a Soho bar.

The playback was organised ahead of our exclusive online interview with Trent Reznor next week.

The first half of a concept album based on 'a daydream about the end of the world', it is a 16-track opus that sees Trent Reznor returning to his electronic, DIY roots.



Here's our track by track sneak preview...

1. Hyperpower!
Instrumental introduction to the album. The drum and electronica opening salvo set the pace for what's to come...

2. The Beginning of the End
Heavy guitars, swirling synth and driving bass over a melodic backdrop. The rockier direction of the last album is scarcely apparent as electronica once again dominates the world of NIN.

3. Survivalism
The first single, and a good taster for the album as a whole. A pounding chorus and angry vocals sums up Trent Reznor's disquiet with the state of the world.

4. The Good Soldier
Drums and bass combine with the sounds of gunfire while a dreamlike synth line weaves its way through the track. It winds down to a near-stop before exploding back with a vengeance. A possible future single.

5. Vessel
Dirty electronica similar to the classic 'Closer', complete with rushes reminiscent of gasps of breath. "Oh my god, could we go any faster!?" groans Trent towards the end.

6. Me, I'm Not
A slow burner that recalls elements of Massive Attack's 'Angel'. The instruments creep in and out, before it breaks down into an edgy mix of scratching and bleeps suggesting impending doom.

7. Capital G
With an intro eerily similar to Michael Jackson's 'The Way You Make Me Feel', this is NIN at their most danceable. The music is strident and bassy, while Trent delivers a vocal diatribe over the top.

8. My Violent Heart
The menacing intro leads into spoken vocals, with Reznor playing the role of prophet. It builds up to an explosion of squealing synth, electronic strings and heavy guitars before fading and dying.

9. The Warning
With the concept in full flow, Trent's vocals are yet more prophetic and foreboding here. "You're Time is Ticking Away", is essentially the warning offered in a resigned fashion that suggests he could be singing to himself as much as the listener.

10. God Given
As with 'Capital G', this is a grooving, melodic track that belies the undertones present throughout the album. And you never expect to hear the line, "C'mon, sing along, everybody now!" on a record so full of disquiet.

11. Meet Your Master
From the poppiness of the last track, back to a darker tone. "Come on down", he repeatedly sings, summoning the listener back to the bigger picture.

12. The Greater Good
Like Kid A-era Radiohead, a sparse track flavoured with barely audible vocals. The pounding drums are the focal point of a mysterious, dark tune.

13. The Great Destroyer
Casting himself in the title role, Reznor's melodic vocals offer a lament that began a few tracks ago with 'The Warning'. Again, we are reminded that "The end is near" over a collage of electronica.

14. Another Version of the Truth
An instrumental in two parts; the first half a distant piano is heard through a haze of static, but it builds and grows into a clear melody, while a lurking noise constantly haunts the background

15. In This Twilight
A rockier effort than most of the album, this highlights Reznor's underrated vocal dexterity, as he soars in the choruses and drops down to a darker growl for the verses.

16. Zero-Sum
A fitting climax to the first half of this dual concept record. The booming bass and sparse drum compliment Trent's muffled spoken word lines. The track and album sign off with a swirl of sparse piano and noise, an end that suggests more to come.

Keep your eyes on Gigwise for a full review and, of course, the exclusive interview with Trent Reznor coming soon!

http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=29016

[SLCPUNK]

Who here thinks Year Zero will be the best NIN yet?

I've been listening to "Me, I'm Not,"

I can not stop listening to this song!!!!

[GeraldFord]

I was feeling down in the dumps tonight. I was thinking of my (ex) girlfriend and I was missing her so much. I put on 69 songs by the Magnetic Fields but I only felt worse. And then I put on some Nine Inch Nails and that is the one thing that really did the trick. I feel that only Trent can feel my pain and perfectly articulate the feeling of a broken heart, by both his words and music. This is my favorite, as of now:
 
And All That Could Have Been

breeze still carries the sound
maybe i'll disappear
tracks will fade in the snow
you won't find me here

ice is starting to form
ending what had begun
i am locked in my head
with what i've done
i know you tried to rescue me
didn't let anyone get in
left with a trace of all that was
and all that could have been

please
take this
and run far away
far away from me
i am
tainted
the two of us
were never meant to be
all these
pieces
and promises and left behinds
if only i could see
in my
nothing
you meant everything
everything to me

gone fading everything
and all that could have been
could have been

please
take this
and run far away
far as you can see
i am
tainted
and happiness and peace of mind
were never meant for me
all these
pieces
and promises and left behinds
if only i could see
in my
nothing
you meant everything
everything to me

[GnFnR87]

I was feeling down in the dumps tonight. I was thinking of my (ex) girlfriend and I was missing her so much. I put on 69 songs by the Magnetic Fields but I only felt worse. And then I put on some Nine Inch Nails and that is the one thing that really did the trick. I feel that only Trent can feel my pain and perfectly articulate the feeling of a broken heart, by both his words and music. This is my favorite, as of now:
 
And All That Could Have Been

breeze still carries the sound
maybe i'll disappear
tracks will fade in the snow
you won't find me here

ice is starting to form
ending what had begun
i am locked in my head
with what i've done
i know you tried to rescue me
didn't let anyone get in
left with a trace of all that was
and all that could have been

please
take this
and run far away
far away from me
i am
tainted
the two of us
were never meant to be
all these
pieces
and promises and left behinds
if only i could see
in my
nothing
you meant everything
everything to me

gone fading everything
and all that could have been
could have been

please
take this
and run far away
far as you can see
i am
tainted
and happiness and peace of mind
were never meant for me
all these
pieces
and promises and left behinds
if only i could see
in my
nothing
you meant everything
everything to me

awesome. fucking. song. good choice. i hope u feel better, i can relate.

[redx]

I'm looking for ward to getting this new NIN album. Check out this:
http://yearzero.nin.com/yearzero_hi.html - scared me a little 

[tbizzle]

I'm almost looking forward to this more than I am for CD. Almost!

Trent has a great concept for the record and from the 5 songs I've heard its going to kick ass.  I'll probably download the entire thing when it finally leaks, but I'll buy it also.

[GeraldFord]

Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero Preview: Beginning To Solve The MysteryA track-by-track tour through the album, due April 17.
By James Montgomery

Send Print You Tell Us

For weeks, we've been feverishly following the ever-twisting web of promotion surrounding Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero.

From a simple message encoded on the back of a T-shirt, that web ? or, more specifically, an Alternate Reality Game ? has grown to encompass eerie voice mail, Web sites, Morse code clues hidden in MP3s and messages buried deep within music videos, all building an impressive (and generally terrifying) back story of a future society poised on the brink of spiritual, moral, political and environmental Armageddon.

And we're not the only ones hooked by it all. The buzz surrounding Zero is seemingly growing daily, with every blog write-up and each clue revealed (see "Weird Web Trail: Conspiracy Theory ? Or Marketing For Nine Inch Nails LP?"). And while a certain amount of that interest can no doubt be attributed to the unbelievable thoroughness of the Year Zero ARG, even more of it is due to the harrowing believability of the concept Reznor's cooked up for the album.

It's not a stretch to say that the pressure is squarely on Reznor to deliver. After all, you'd be hard-pressed to think of another musician who's released an album backed by this much self-imposed, carefully crafted hype. With each week that passes, the stakes grow a little bit higher, the chances of Reznor falling flat on his face a little greater. How could Zero ? which is due April 17 ? be expected to support such an epic and far-reaching story line, one spanning 15 years and three continents, involving a cast of hundreds? How could it possibly live up to the brilliantly labyrinthine promotional scheme from whence it came?

You get the feeling Reznor sort of wanted it that way. It's probably the most adventurous, experimental and ballsy album released on a major label since Green Day's revelatory American Idiot, which also happens to be its closest kin, in spirit at least. Because for all its growling electronics, squelching guitars and plinking African kalimbas, Year Zero is essentially a punk-rock album, one born of the same bold attitude that drove Green Day to jettison traditional thinking while making Idiot.

But that's about as far as those comparisons can go. Because there's no jaunty, nine-minute rock-opera pieces to be found on Zero, nary a ballad on par with "Wake Me Up When September Ends." Shoot, there are barely any discernable guitars. Instead, almost every sound you hear on the album has been chopped, ripped, pulled, flayed, destroyed, flattened, squeezed or smashed beneath the massive, ominous bit-mapping of Reznor and co-producer Atticus Ross. Sixty-four minutes of disorienting, pummeling Sturm und Drang roiling atop a rumbling, certifiably bone-chilling layer of white noise that recalls the wind whipping through a war zone.

Album-opener "Hyperpower!" is all piston-like drums and bit-crushed power chords, a doom-laden instrumental that builds and builds to a snarling frenzy before falling away into silence. "The Beginning of the End" follows that with a fog of spooky synths and Reznor's order of "On your knees," all hidden behind a wall of feedback and guttural, demonic growls.

The first single, "Survivalism," is next, a certified stomper powered by a startling loud/soft dynamic and a menagerie of electronic baubles (fans of modern-rock radio are already well acquainted with this one). "The Good Soldier" snakes along atop a meaty bass line and squawking guitars, recalling NIN's "Closer." The verses are filled with Reznor moaning/singing couplets like, "Blood hardens in the sand/ Cold metal in my hand." The chorus makes mention of "I am trying to believe" (the first Web site revealed in the Year Zero ARG), and the whole thing dissolves into a bizarrely lounge-y composition featuring vibraphones and synths.

"Vessel" is a dissonant, dead-ringer for a Shocklee Bros. track, featuring blaring, siren-like synths and thudding drums. The chorus seems to make reference to the drug Opal (another cog in the Year Zero ARG) as Reznor's voice rasps, "My God/ Can it go any faster?/ Oh my God/ I don't think I can last here," and the song features another lengthy, somewhat dancey outro.

"Me, I'm Not" is a down-tempo excursion through howling, barely discernable guitar wails and electronic bleep-bloop that bubbles up like air escaping from an undersea vent. "Capital G" takes swings at American pig-headedness ("Don't give a sh-- about the temperature in Guatemala/ Don't really see what all the fuss is about") and a holier-than-thou commander in chief who just might be George W. Bush ("Traded in my God for this one/ And he signs his name with a capital G"). And "The Warning" tells the tale of a visitation from the Presence, who delivers a warning about mankind's selfish destruction of the environment (one of the earliest discovered sites in the ARG makes mention of a police manual that describes Opal users feeling as though they had been visited by a Presence, where they "feel the rape of Gaia").

"God Given" kicks off with a tribal, electronic spook show, then steadily quickens to a rush of guitars and a huge build that disappears as quickly as it came, leaving a glaring moment of silence and a sharply whispered, machine-gun missive from Reznor. "Meet Your Master" is a raucous, unsettling exercise in crunching chords, backed by animalistic howls and bellows and a supercharged chorus, all of which stop on a dime for a spindly, electro solo that builds again before slipping away into "The Greater Good," the album's most disparate track.

Starting off with Reznor imploring us to "Breathe" in barely there pants, the track slithers around on a sinewy bed of electronic noise and synthetic whispers, bringing to mind a windswept desert-scape. Through the subtle noise, a twinkling kalimba builds and builds, until being swallowed by a scraped and scratched ball of noise, which in turn is quickly eclipsed by a gently plucked guitar line. Then it's all submerged in inky blackness, while a looped vocal repeats the mantra "Slowly ... breathe ... a sin."

That's followed by "The Great Destroyer," which features drums that stomp like a mythical behemoth and Reznor singing, "Oh, they cannot see/ I am the Great Destroyer," in a lilting upper register. It crashes about until the second chorus, when Reznor's vocals are suddenly lifted through the stratosphere, and the whole song collapses into a grinding, shockingly placed drill-'n'-bass section that would make Richard D. James (a.k.a. the Aphex Twin) crack an evil smile.

And then we enter the homestretch. "Another Version of the Truth" follows all that clanging with an equally deafening mass of sonic fuzz and the sound of a piano being played in the other room. Perhaps in the haze, there's the buzz of a fly or the drone of a dial tone. The somber piano line is slowly brought to the forefront, as the instrumental track slows to a beautiful maudlin halt. It all falls away, save a single held note, then another wash of white noise and we're on to "In This Twilight," a grandfather-clock creaker spotted with respirator breaths. Reznor sings about what appears to be the detonation of a nuclear device ("And the sky is filled with light/ Can you see it?/ All the black is really white/ If you believe it").

And finally, we stumble into "Zero Sum," all wobbly, fuzzed-out bass and breathy whispers, sounding much like wind trying to move through ash-filled atmosphere. It all gradually rises, the clanging increases, and a multi-voiced army chants, "God have mercy on us." Then there's the slow washout, more somber piano and finally, the slow, low drone of hornets or the whispering wind. And then, nothing.

And in the end, we're left with a whole new series of questions. Has Reznor detonated the world, or are we to believe ? as the title implies ? that this is the beginning of something new? Has mankind ignored the warnings for too long, or is there still a faint glimmer of hope in the ashes? And, wildly switching gears, will Year Zero have the same effect on Reznor that Idiot did on Green Day? Will it lead a new generation of fans to rediscover his gloriously dissonant body of work?

As with all great art, there are more questions than answers.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1554530/20070313/id_0.jhtml

[GnFnR87]

this is insane, i hope it leaks soon cuz i'm in the middle of nowhere at college so it would be the only way for me to listen to it.

[Timothy]

I can't fucking wait for this album.

If the hole thing leaks it's going to be hard to to check it out before the release.