Year Zero

215 words published on Apr 11, 2007

Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails created this awesome backstory for the new album Year Zero. The story has been told via a viral marketing campaign with secret messages written in T-Shirts and chains of websites to Thumb drives left in the bathrooms at concerts with mysterious messages and song samples on them.

Anyways, I put together the sites I’ve found that tell the story:

Another Version of the Truth
I Am Trying To Believe
Be The Hammer
105th Airborne Crusaders
Church of Plano
Art is Resistance
Solutions Backwards Initiative
Cedocore
Hollywood in Memoriam
The Price of Treason
One Country At A Time (hit TAB, Enter to turn pages)

Some consolidated info:
http://www.ninwiki.com/Year_Zero_Research

* A general suggestion for perusing the Year Zero websites: when reading the text, highlight it with your cursor and you can then read it clearly without any of the distortions or discolorations.
* Also try pressing your ‘Tab’ key on the keyboard to reveal any hidden links within a Year Zero related webpage.
* If you are using Firefox you can right click on the page and select “View Page Info”. Select the “Links” tab to see the name, address, and type of all links on the page.

Listen to the entire album online!
http://yearzero.nin.com