NIN.

Nine Inch Nail Trent Reznor has unveiled the tracklist and revealed further details about his forthcoming Nails' Disc, Year Zero, out April 17th. Reznor recently discussed the details regarding Zero in an interview with UK mag Kerrang!.

"[The album is] not heavy in any kind of metal type sense, I'd say a big inspiration sonically would be early Public Enemy records, a collage of sound type of thing, not heavy in a metal guitar kind of way." "With this record I feel a lot less concerned about what people think about it — especially the dying record industry. I couldn't care less about that right now.
The frontman also confirmed that, as per usual, the record was mostly recorded by himself and that Zero is a concept album of sorts.

"It's all me, mostly recorded in hotel rooms around the world on laptops. There maybe some surprise vocalists that pop up here and there - although I don't want to say who since the final mix hasn't been determined yet, and Josh Freese is playing the drums on one song, but it's not like a big guest star-type record. It feels a bit more focused in a certain direction than 'With Teeth' did. I'm trying to avoid getting too detailed about this but I will tell you that this is a concept record, and it's 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"

Ah, the ol' concept record. Isn't every other NIN release a concept record? My Guess on concept? It's likely political in nature with a title like Year Zero, and song titles like "The Good Soldier", "Another Version of the Truth" and "The Great Destroyer." -ED.Reznor & Co. filmed the video for the likely first single, "Survivalism", in Los Angeles last week and, as previously reported, Nine Inch Nails will release a live DVD, Beside You In Time, on February 27th.

---Has anyone followed this guy within the past 10 years or so? I pretty much gave up on him after The Downward Spiral.---