Year Zero

album by Nine Inch Nails

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Year Zero is a concept album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released in 2007. The album was accompanied by an ambitious viral marketing campaign. Nine Inch Nails is primarily the stage name for singer and multi-instrumentalist Trent Reznor, who began the project in 1988 in Cleveland. The band is known for its dark and tortured industrial rock songs.12

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The concept album Year Zero (2007) was accompanied by an ambitious viral marketing campaign, and instrumental samples used in its creation were collected in Ghosts I–IV (2008). Having become dissatisfied with the traditional music-distribution model, Reznor released both Ghosts I–IV and the song-oriented The Slip (2008) as free…
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The concept album Year Zero (2007) was accompanied by an ambitious viral marketing campaign, and instrumental samples used in its creation were collected in Ghosts I–IV (2008). Having become dissatisfied with the traditional music-distribution model, Reznor released both Ghosts I–IV and the song-oriented The Slip (2008) as free…
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