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Year Zero (also known as Halo 24) is the sixth studio album by Nine Inch Nails and was created as a concept album of a dystopian future:

What’s it about? Well, it takes place about fifteen years in the future. Things are not good. If you imagine a world where greed and power continue to run their likely course, you’ll have an idea of the backdrop. The world has reached the breaking point – politically, spiritually and ecologically. Written from various perspectives of people in this world, “year zero” examines various viewpoints set against an impending moment of truth.

The album was released with an alternative reality game, and together they paint a picture that draws heavily on the works of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, the film Soylent Green and the Book of Revelation in the Bible.


  1. “Hyperpower!” – Instrumental
  2. “The Beginning Of The End”
  3. “Survivalism”
  4. “The Good Soldier”
  5. “Vessel”
  6. “Me, I’m Not”
  7. “Capital G”
  8. “My Violent Heart”
  9. “The Warning”
  10. “God Given”
  11. “Meet Your Master”
  12. “The Greater Good”
  13. “The Great Destroyer”
  14. “Another Version Of The Truth” – Instrumental
  15. “In This Twilight”
  16. “Zero-Sum”

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Nine Inch Nails is an industrial rock project led by multi-instrumentalist Trent Reznor, the only constant member for many years until Atticus Ross officially joined in 2016, often selecting a cast of different band members for live performances. It is known for producing several highly influential records during the 1990s encompassing a wide array of genres, including industrial and electronic rock. After eight studio releases, the project was put on hiatus by Reznor to focus on other projects in 2009 before returning with announced tour dates stretching across the United States and foreign countries on March 11, 2013.

Nine Inch Nails has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning twice for “Wish” and “Happiness In Slavery.” Leading member Trent Reznor was also featured in Time magazine’s list of the year’s most influential people, and Spin magazine has described him as “the most vital artist in music.”

The band has released nine studio albums since their debut in 1989, alongside four original EP’s and were one of the first artists to have an independently released record go platinum. They’ve had two U.S. #1 albums with The Fragile and With Teeth and four other top 5 charting releases.

Each official Nine Inch Nails release is given a Halo number; a list of all Halo numbered releases can be found here.

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Continuing down the rabbit hole, the whispers slowly begin to usurp power from yourself, the drug taking more and more ahold of your mental and overpowering you as you continue to breathe it in.

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Meant as a droning chant, while suffering the side-effects of the many government-issued new age drugs bound to dilute your whole being, including Parepin, it becomes clear, even if just for a moment, what the true intent of these suppressed thoughts are meant to do; turn you into something just like the rest of your near-mindless and easily controlled peers.

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The ancient case of “Divine Right” brought into the 21st century where their acts are considered holy in the eyes of their “God” but in the eyes of others of course may be considered…. less than moral, such as the ancient religious crusades taken to forcefully spread a dominant religion across the country.

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The customers of a diner are going to be more or less considered in a calm state, the last thing they’re probably going to expect is someone trying to rob the entire place & therefore caught off-guard with no real way to escape the situation or protect themselves.

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Inferring that the busboy is a Latino immigrant who gets paid below minimum wage with no personal involvement or favor with the diner therefore making him feel as if he owes nothing to the place if it gets robbed.

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Most people at a morning diner an restaurant wouldn’t necessarily be considered best for any acts of heroism or trying to save someone from a gun blast, just normal civilians; unless this happens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZQFJ6hZNJc

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During that time period there was a recent influx of foreign convenient and alcohol store owners, most of which couldn’t speak a fluent amount of English, noted in several movies, songs & otherwise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsFjlLXP9GU

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Of course the easy part of robbing a federal bank is getting in and getting the money, the hard part is getting out alive with the bound force of federal officers bound to come and hunt you down, and probably willing to execute on sight. Funnily enough, a main example of this would be another movie Quentin Tarantino directed with Tim Roth also as a actor in revolving around a diamond heist entitled Reservoir Dogs.

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