[[Image:The_slipYearzero_cover.jpg|left|150px120px]]'''''Year Zero''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 24]]''''' or ''Year Zero: Zero-Gen-Ten'' in Japan) is the sixth studio album by [[Nine Inch Nails]], released on April 13, 2007 in the UK and Europe, and April 17, 2007 worldwide, by [[Interscope Records]]. It was produced by [[Nine Inch Nails]] frontman [[Trent Reznor]] in collaboration with [[Alan Moulder]] and engineer [[Atticus Ross]], both of whom worked in a similar capacity on Nine Inch Nails' previous major studio release, ''[[With Teeth (halo)|With Teeth]].'' Mastering was done by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner.
In a 2005 interview with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerrang%21 Kerrang!], Reznor expressed his intentions to write material for a new release during the ''With Teeth'''The Slip''''' (also known as 'tour, and it was confirmed that he was working on it by September 2006. ''Year Zero''began its mixing stage in January of 2007, and Reznor stated on his blog on [[Halo numbers|Halo 27The Spiral]]''''') is that the eighth and latest studio album from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was released finished as a free download on May of February 5, 2008, and contains the previously released Web-only singles "[[Discipline]]" and "[[Echoplex]]2007."The album marks a new style of lyric writing for Reznor:
The album is available '' “...for download the first time in a variety my life, I wanted to break away from the idea of opening up my journal and transferring that into song lyrics. And I really thought about what was at the forefront of formatsmy concern, and, at the state I'm at right now, including MP3at the age I'm at, lossless FLAC and high-quality WAV files. When playing just the MP3 files in state of being an MP3 player American citizen, a different piece lot of artwork is displayed for each songconcern I have about the direction the country's headed in, and uh, [[The_Photography_of_Ghosts_I%E2%80%93IV|as was kind of the case with]] erosion of freedoms that seems like we''[[Ghosts I–IV]]re experiencing, and the way we treat the world and our own citizens felt like something I needed to comment on.” ''. '''(([[The SlipYear Zero|More...]]))'''
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