Comes out on the 17th, gonna be interesting. :greg:
Crazy chit going on about it.
Reznor is a genius
Year Zero blog
Crazy chit going on about it.
Reznor is a genius
Year Zero blog
So as you’ve all heard, Nine Inch Nails has a new album coming out April 17th called Year Zero. What most people don’t know is this is concept album spanning two records, the second coming out sometime in 2008.
Ready to jump down the rabbit hole? Okay, here we go.
The year is year zero. The year is referenced as 0000 instead of the current Roman calendar. Through this image, we can see that 0000 is 2022.
The campaign started with a new NIN tour shirt with some of the letters brighter than others. Production malfunction? No, a clue to lead listeners to the first website. The letters spelled “I AM TRYING TO BELIEVE”, where iamtryingtobelieve.com is an actual site.
http://iamtryingtobelieve.com/
This site introduces us to a drug called Parepin, which the government has added to our water that will boost our immune system against the bioterrorist attacks that are currently occurring. However there are some that feel the drug has side affects resulting in hallucinations, twitches and placidness.
If you try to e-mail the webmaster of this website to talk about the side affects of the drug you get a very eerie auto-reply like someone was holding a gun to his head:
Auto-reply from water@iamtryingtobelieve.com wrote:
“Thank you for your interest. It is now clear to me that Parepin is a completely safe and effective agent developed to protect us from bio-terrorism. The Administration is acting purely in the best interests of its citizens; to suggest otherwise was irresponsible and I deeply regret it.
I'm drinking the water. So should you.”
Anyone thirsty?
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/
Second website was unlocked by a concert goer finding a USB flash disk in the bathroom with a link to http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/. The website appears to be a propaganda page for a “New America” but with some drags of the mouse reveals a desolate landscape and a link to a very gloomy message board. A few mp3 files are found on this site:
1. opalo.mp3 - discussing the drug Opal
2. ballgameOver.mp3 – Recorded by an "angry sniper." This angry sniper is probably the same sniper found on Consolidated Mail Systems' site, as well as Be the Hammer.
3. nohurry.mp3 – Audio from a police raid and revealing the disturbing truth of the raid
http://bethehammer.net/
The third website to be found was http://bethehammer.net/, linked to at the anotherversionofthetruth.com message board. This seems to be a personal website of the sniper from the ball game over mp3. Shows how people in the future are trying to take matters into their own hands through violence. A lot of interesting stories about his activities and thoughts on those in charge.
http://105thairbornecrusaders.com/
Soldiers of God under the US flag. Not a lot is known about these guys just yet. Hoping more will develop with these guys. The angry sniper claims to be a sniper who served the 105th Crusaders.
http://churchofplano.com/
The Church of Plano. Not much is known about this site of yet, either. They have meetings/discussions about those who seem to have visions of the Presence. More soon I hope.
http://www.consolidatedmailsystems.com/nooneimportant/
http://www.consolidatedmailsystems.com/citizen_unknown/
There seems to be a monopoly on mail service and this would be the website we’d have to use. This certain users mail features a description of Opal stolen from a police officer and his reference handbook, as well as numerous crude drawings, including one of the Presence. Make note that the page reads "ANGRY SNIPER sent you this message on Thursday, Feb 10, 0000”, same angry sniper from Be The Hammer? If you try to click any link on this page, it gives you a warning:
The page at http://www.consolidatedmailsystems.com/ wrote:
WARNING CODE 24.10.4 (All page functionality disabled): You are not the citizen assigned to this account. Close this window immediately and stay where you are. Authorities will be in contact shortly for appropriate reeducation.
http://www.uswiretap.com/case_number_required/
http://www.uswiretap.com/71839J/
This site was discovered through the phone number revealed to us in a spectrograph image of 2432.mp3, a file that was contained inside the .rar that "Me, I'm Not" came in at a concert. Calling this number reveals a straight up frightening conversation. The phone conversation can be heard by calling the number (216) 333-1810, which is found in the 2432.mp3 file as well as on the text of the actual site.
Most frightening part of the conversation is when the receiver of the call says “I’ll call the cops” the caller says in a distressed voice, “The cops are already here, they are the ones that locked us in.”
http://www.artisresistance.com/
A flyer was passed out at a concert promotion art as resistance. This seems to be a page detailing resistance using art, instead of violence like the angry sniper/Be The Hammer website. According to the thread that links to the site, they speak of World War Four, thus insinuating a World War Four will occur in the next 15 years. The website itself has stencils and wallpapers for the movement.
http://www.hollywoodinmemoriam.org/
This one was found through this image, found along with "In This Twilight" on a USB thumb drive the same night as the 79th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony. The main page reads:
“The first dirty bomb went off at the Kodak Theater during the 81st Annual Academy Awards Ceremony. Over the next half hour, eight more dirty bombs deployed by Islamic extremists spread a pall of radioactive dust across Greater LA. Three days later a Presidential order required the entire city to be evacuated.
The City of Angels had become a city of ghosts.
This site is dedicated to the people of Los Angeles who lost their homes, their loved ones, and their lives in Hollywood's last fade to black.”
There is also a link for a very emotional message board with strong resemblance to bills posted near Manhattan after 9/11.
http://www.securebroadcastinformatics.com/
This is the latest of the links. The URL for this website was found as a loosed text securebroadcastinformatics on Blu-ray edition of Beside You In Time booklet. If you re-arrange the image on the page you get a log in box that looks like this.
When arranged in a different way, the password field from the above image reveals "matt26:45-46" which is “Then he returned to the disciples and said to them, 'Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour is near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us go! Here comes my betrayer!'"
One the puzzle is together, a click takes you to http://www.solutionsbackwardsinitiative.net/pilgrims/
Search around the links and find an eerie real time conversation between a group of the IT technicians.
Second Tour Shirt with Clue
On this tour shirt, like the other tour shirt, some dates were highlighted, revealing the following number: 13102951040. Calling it reveals a new "sound clip," featuring a small sample of "Survivalism."
SONG LEAKS
"My Violent Heart" - A flash drive was found on the stall floor of one of the restrooms at two Nine Inch Nails shows on February 13th and February 14th in Lisbon, Portugal and Madrid, Spain. These two flash drives had references to anotherversionofthetruth.com and contained "My Violent Heart".
"Me, I'm Not" – Found again in a stall on the floor of a concert on February 19th. This time it came with a second file which, when put through a spectograph, revealed yet another site, the US Wiretap site.
"In This Twilight" – This was leaked on another USB drive on the evening of February 25th, 2007. The drive contained an image. Thus users being led to Hollywood in Memoriam.
