Very quick for Trent this time around. I still dig these guys and the tour last year was amazing, but "With Teeth" pretty much sucked. Hope this is an improvement.
The scoop from Blabbermouth.net-

NINE INCH NAILS has set "Year Zero" as the title of its new album, which is due out in April and follows up 2005's "With Teeth". "It could be about the end of the world," the band's mastermind Trent Reznor wrote on the official NIN fan club web site The Spiral.

In a recent interview with England's Kerrang! magazine, Reznor described the upcoming album's as "a collage of sound type of thing, not heavy in a metal guitar kind of way." He added, "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." Reznor also revealed that the new effort is a concept album and "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."

Reznor said that most of the album was recorded "in hotel rooms around the world on laptops," with very few musicians beside himself and "maybe some surprise vocalists that pop up here and there."

When asked why the new record took less than two years to arrive when the last one took six, Reznor said, "I'm probably as surprised as some fans are (laughs). But really it's just a matter of discipline. When I was on the last tour, to keep myself busy I was just really hunkered down and was working on music the whole time, so this kept me in a creative mode and when I finished the tour I felt like I wasn't tired and wanted to keep at it."

NINE INCH NAILS will release a DVD called "Beside You In Time" on February 27. The disc documents the band's tour in support of "With Teeth".

I'll definitely check this out. I always have to check out whatever Trent does.

More news and a release date for the album from Blabbermouth.net:

NINE INCH NAILS has set an April 17 release date for its new album, "Year Zero". A special "Year Zero" page has been launched at yearzero.nin.com, featuring new photos from the studio. The site has also revealed the title of the second song on the 16-track album: "The Beginning of the End".

As BLABBERMOUTH.NET first reported on January 31, NINE INCH NAILS is currently filming a video in the Los Angeles area for the new track "Survivalism". The song is expected to be the third cut on "Year Zero", which mainman Trent Reznor descrbed in a recent interview with England's Kerrang! magazine as "a collage of sound type of thing, not heavy in a metal guitar kind of way." He added, "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." Reznor also revealed that the new effort is a concept album and "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."

Reznor said that most of the album was recorded "in hotel rooms around the world on laptops," with very few musicians beside himself and "maybe some surprise vocalists that pop up here and there."

When asked why the new record took less than two years to arrive when the last one took six, Reznor said, "I'm probably as surprised as some fans are (laughs). But really it's just a matter of discipline. When I was on the last tour, to keep myself busy I was just really hunkered down and was working on music the whole time, so this kept me in a creative mode and when I finished the tour I felt like I wasn't tired and wanted to keep at it."

NINE INCH NAILS will release a DVD called "Beside You In Time" on February 27. The disc documents the band's tour in support of 2005's "With Teeth".

With Teeth did not suck. It was pretty damn good, actually. That said, looking forward to the new album.

And the tracklisting is...

According to FMQB, NINE INCH NAILS' new single, "Survivalism", will arrive at radio on February 27, with an add date of March 6. The group's new album, "Year Zero", which is due on April 17, will reportedly be the first of two concept albums, with the second CD expected sometime in 2008.

"Year Zero" track listing:

01. Hyperpower!
02. The Beginning of the End
03. Survivalism
04. The Good Soldier
05. Vessel
06. Me, I'm Not
07. Capital G
08. My Violent Heart
09. The Warning
10. God Given
11. Meet Your Master
12. The Greater Good
13. The Great Destroyer
14. Another Version of the Truth
15. In This Twilight
16. Zero-Sum

NINE INCH NAILS filmed a video in the Los Angeles area last week for "Survivalism". Mainman Trent Reznor described the new album in a recent interview with England's Kerrang! magazine as "a collage of sound type of thing, not heavy in a metal guitar kind of way." He added, "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." Reznor also revealed that the new effort is a concept album and "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."

NINE INCH NAILS will release a DVD called "Beside You In Time" on February 27. The disc documents the band's tour in support of 2005's "With Teeth".

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There is currently an alternate reality game / viral marketing thing for the album going on right now. Websites, audio files, images embedded inside audio files, a leak of a song...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_ ... g_websites

and

http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/v ... m.php?f=23

They also debuted Last as a live song at a recent show.

This sounds fantastic!

I'm gonna agree with Scot as well - I really enjoyed with_teeth

(I do believe this is my first post ever in the ICE forums - thanks to Andrew for pointing out this thread to me )

And here it is ...



>> 122 minutes total running time, 24 songs from the LIVE: With Teeth 2006 Tour, including: "The Hand That Feeds" "Only" "Closer" "Head Like A Hole" "Hurt" "Wish" "Terrible Lie" "March Of Pigs"

Additional features include 3 tracks live from rehearsals, music videos for "The Hand That Feeds" and "Only."

Plus still gallery and body of work.

Presented in 16x9 anamorphic widescreen DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound <<

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000LXH3BK?tag ... SBCKNMP4Y&

(HD-DVD and Blu-ray versions are also available at Amazon.)

The live DVD is pretty good - did a great job of capturing what I saw at the concert (though at another location, of course).

Very much enjoying the marketing for Year Zero, though the DC spin-offs did not seem to add much to the concept

I also enjoyed "With Teeth" except for the cliche-ridden "Collector" track.