Best-selling industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails' latest album, Year Zero,
delves into new ground. For the first time,
the group's front man and primary writer, Trent Reznor, focuses mainly on
politics. He seems to be jumping headfirst into a game of politics with the
resistance party. However, he does so not just with the album's music, but also
numerous accompanying multimedia-- Reznor has thrown a private concert,
scattered random tracks in random locations, made websites, all above and beyond
the album itself. And it's all about his message of resistance. Reznor covers
nearly all the bases: The war on terror, the military industrial complex, the
death of America from the loss of liberty, and the resultant New World Order.
Reznor even had a flag made to represent the NWO.
The video to the album's first single, Survivalism, shows, in all its Orwellian
glory, cameras in black and white strategically located around town displaying
people in the bathroom, watching TV, having sex, preparing to vandalize a wall
with graffiti, and finally, there's Nine Inch Nails performing the song in a
dingy room. There are CCTV cameras everywhere now, not just in public places.
What should be private is public and worse, the people either don't realize they
are being watched or have become accustomed to living without privacy.