In Rolling Stone, Trent Reznor said that "a big inspiration [for the album's sound] would be early Public Enemy records - a collage-of-sound type of thing," and also has said that Hank Shocklee's production team, The Bomb Squad was a source of inspiration, especially its innovative construction of layered samples and loops. However, he has made it very clear that the album will not be a hip hop record. It was also said that Year Zero is "not heavy in any kind of heavy metal type sense."

Spin was able to preview some of the new album, describing it as "a more compact, immediate Trent... probably the most minimalist Nine Inch Nails has ever been. Conversely, Trent's getting outside of himself lyrically - it's a real state-of-the-union message wrapped in a sci-fi concept album about a totalitarian government in the not-too-distant future."

(taken from Wikipedia)

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. HYPERPOWER!
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
15. In This Twilight
16. Zero Sum