Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

One of the best

This is one of the best albums from NIN, is a big step beyon Fragile and With Teeth. June 26, 2008

Best since Downward Spiral

Being a big NIN fan I was always going to buy the album, but after With Teeth I'd assumed they were in a steady decline so didn't have my hopes too high. Luckily for me I was horribly misguided; Year zero is a magnificent album from start to finish. A very welcome return to form. June 22, 2008

The Perfect Balance

Being a huge Nine Inch Nails fan for so long, i have come to love every album and every song. When i first picked up Year Zero ill admit it didnt catch me at first like every other one had, but after a few listens i was blown away. This album has the perfect balance for all the electronic you could want along with the rock and guitars needed to satisfy any rock fan. The concept alone is great itself. Best songs: Me Im Not, God Given, Meet Your Master, The Greater Good, and In This Twilight. June 21, 2008

Impressed!!!

My first NIN CD and I wasn't dissappointed. Great sound, very creative, must listen to entire CD. May 20, 2008

Electronic sounds with some mildly catchy beats

This is a phenomenal occurrence... where the viral advertising is actually better than the actual product.

The viral advertising for this set up the stage for a phenomenally well-thought out post-apocalyptic futuristic 1984-ish scenario, where the past is a mystery and always being re-written, people are constantly being drugged with drugs like "Parepin", and the appearance of ghostly hand-like figures called The Presence which bring very anti-government messages to people they appear to. The viral websites included a highly visually complex site acting like a secretive expose' on the truth behind Parepin, another being a hidden forum with people posting about their everyday lives, and even the activity within the forum, like "Those pictures (of The Presence) are hoaxed! Lay off the Parepin, dude" and such.

The websites are IAmTryingToBelieve.com, BeTheHammer.net, AnotherVersionOfTheTruth.com, and potentially more.

But that's just the story... the concept... the music falls flat on its face compared to the excellent concept.

The songs are almost all just electronic noise replacing much of what would've been guitars, bass, drums, and other instruments. And as with some of the songs in "With Teeth", they really have little substance to them other than a mildly catchy beat. Some of the only standouts have been "The Good Soldier" and "Capital G". The rest are much the same, lacking a lot in both substance and beautiful instrumentation that I so loved about Nine Inch Nails from "The Fragile" and "The Downward Spiral" etcetera.

Over a year after first buying the album, I almost never listen to it anymore, save for a few of the songs, especially The Good Soldier and Capital G. May 18, 2008

More reviews at Amazon.com ...