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| length = 3:17

| BPM = 150

| live = [[Performance 2007]] through [[Lights In The Sky Tour]]

}}'''"The Great Destroyer"''' is the thirteenth track on the 2007 release ''[[Year Zero]].''

===The Great Destroyer===

This is the original album version. Consisting of two distinct but interrelated sections, the song begins with a drum loop similar in structure to that of "[[Every Day Is Exactly The Same (song)|Every Day Is Exactly The Same]]," also possibly sharing beat and sounds with "[[Reptile#Reptilian|Reptilian]]." A simple guitar riff, panned right, and Reznor's vocals enter after four measures, playing the first verse. A loud synthesizer rings in the chorus, played with the same instrumentation but with different chords. The second verse features an additional e-bow guitar line in the left channel which drops out for the second chorus, after which the climax is reached when the title is sung in a multi-layered vocal harmony. It quickly builds in intensity and leads into the second section, which features much louder beat loops that were heard earlier underneath the verses and choruses as they are manipulated, crunched, and destroyed. By the end of this coda, its beats have been so mashed that the decaying delay effect sounds nothing like anything else in the song. The opening noise layers of "[[Another Version Of The Truth (song)|Another Version Of The Truth]]" quietly fade in underneath.

===The Great Destroyer: modwheelmood===