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'''''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 [[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]].'' A subsection of [[nin.com]], [[yearzero.nin.com]], was created and contains various things ''Year Zero''-related. Instrumental versions of all tracks from this album are available on [[remix.nin.com]].
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 [[Live: With Teeth|''With Teeth'' 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 [[The Spiral]] that the album was finished as of February 5, 2007. The album marks a new style of lyric writing for Reznor:
<blockquote>"...for the first time in 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 my concern, and, at the state I'm at right now, at the age I'm at, just the state of being an American citizen, a lot of concern I have about the direction the country's headed in, and uh, kind of the erosion of freedoms that seems like we're experiencing, and the way we treat the world and our own citizens felt like something I needed to comment on." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr8FXnur5Z4]</blockquote>
''For more information, see [[Performance 2007]]''
The album was supported by a tour that visited Europe, Asia and Australia, with an emphasis on locations never or seldom played by NIN. The production for this tour was scaled back and setlists became very fluid as a result. More of the NIN catalog was able to be covered on this tour, as several songs were played live for the first time and several songs were brought back to the setlists after a long absence. As the tour progressed, more ''Year Zero'' songs were added to the setlists.
==Year Zero Hints==
==Multitrack Files==
In March 2007, the [[Multitracks|multitrack audio files]] of the first single, "Survivalism," were released in Garageband format on the official ''Year Zero'' website for fan remixing. The multitrack files for "Capital G," "My Violent Heart" and "Me, I'm Not" were then released on April 26; those for "The Beginning of the End," "Vessel" and "God Given" were released on June 12. The formats were for Garageband and Logic Pro, and there were also WAV files for other applications, with the latter distributed through BitTorrent. These files are also available in all three formats on remix.nin.com. The entire album was released in multitrack form on as part of the ''[[Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D]]'' albumpackage.
==Film/Television Project==
Reznor has stated that ''Year Zero'' is “part "part of a bigger picture of a number of things I’m working on. Essentially, I wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn’t exist."
In March of 2007, ''Kerrang! Radio'' reported that "Reznor admitted he’s he's already in talks about a movie version of his upcoming album, a concept piece, with part two scheduled next year." Reznor has said that he is currently was more interested in a [[Year_Zero_TV_Series|television project]] rather than a film and that he has had a producer and has had met with writers."
On August 14, 2007, he Reznor announced that he and his creative team would soon be taking the concept to television networks to try and make some sort of deal: ''"We're about to pitch it to the network, so we're a couple of weeks away from meeting all of the main people, and we'll see what happens."'' [http://www.dose.ca/music/story.html?id=ead25b9c-b7f0-44aa-92c7-d083b6c83e1a&k=48608]
On June 8, 2008, ''The New York Times'' reported that "Mr. Reznor has been working with Lawrence Bender, Quentin Tarantino’s longtime producing partner, to create a cable TV series to tell the entire story. " [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/arts/music/08pare.html?_r=3&pagewanted=2&ref=arts&oref=slogin#]
On April 2, 2009, Reznor announced via a short Twitter post that "YZ is alive".
On September 28, 2010, ''The LA Times'' reported that the ''Year Zero'' television series detailed in the above ''NY Times '' article was going into pre-production, with Daniel Knauf as a writer and Lawrence Bender's team as staff. The , and that the miniseries is being would be handled by BBC America and will be broadcast on HBO. [http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/09/28/trent-reznor-and-hbo-moving-forward-with-year-zero-sci-fi-series/]
On March 10, 2011, Trent confirms confirmed on the nin.com board that work on the TV series is was still in progress. [http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?59,1227855,1227855#msg-1227855]
On June 24, 2011, ''Pitchfork Magazine'' had a section of news stating that Jim Uhls, the man who had written the screenplay for ''Fight Club'' and the screenplay for the 2008 film ''Jumper'', was chosen to write the script for the series.
On December 23, 2011 in an interview by ''The Guardian'' Trent is quoted as follows about the 10-part HBO mini-series, which is based on ''Year Zero'': "''I chose not to write it myself because I don't know how to do that. But now I'm thinking I should have. Somebody's got to do it, right? How hard can it be?''" [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/dec/21/trent-reznor-dragon-tattoo-soundtrack?newsfeed=true]
On January 11, 2012 [http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/members/433-Euphemism a user on Echoingthesound] said that Jim Uhls confirmed him via Facebook that he is currently was working on the ''Year Zero'' TV series ("''I've been away from FB for awhile. Now that I see it, I can answer. I am currently working on Year Zero. [...]''" [http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/139-Random-NIN-Thoughts?p=13642#post13642])
On November 13, 2012, Reznor stated during an [[November 2012 Reddit AMA|"ask me anything" session with Reddit]] that: "''This is currently in a holding state. We didn't find the right match with a writer, and really have been avoiding doing what we should have done from the beginning: write it ourselves. We = Rob and myself. This project means a lot to me and will see the light of day in one form or another.''"