By: VoldtaEngler
For many years Trent Reznor has been an icon of sorts in the music industry. Regardless of what you listen to, your bound to tap your toes to any of his songs.
With the up comming release of Nine Inch Nails' new album "Year Zero", a certain phenomenon is occurring, giving fans and listeners a "I need to know what happens next!" and "I just found another piece of the puzzle"
If you haven't been keeping track, there is a trailer video posted on Nin.com showing a simple drive through the desert (as shown through a home cam in the passenger side)...passing a blue road sign....and then a mysterious "thing" appears (later fans call it "The Presence")..video cuts.. It's kinda like watching a trailer for M. Night's "Signs" movie.
Curious i wanted to see it better so i re-round my Quicktime player..and played it slow mo..and discovered the sign didn't read as a normal highway sign would..it read "I am trying to believe"
So i start looking up sites about it, and people also have discovered that piece of the puzzle. What's this puzzle anyway? (I love these type of treasure hunts by the way)
In a viral marketing campaign, clues have been left on tour t-shirts, websites, thumb/pen USB drives left in bathroom stalls containing tracks and/or images from the album and hidden phone recordings.
One of the images found on the USB drive is the following
Putting two and two together in a search engine comes up with a website
http://www.hollywoodinmemoriam.org/
A site about dirty bombs deployed in LA. With the archive a pictures of "missing persons"
More sites were to follow.
Following http://www.artisresistance.com/ looks like a site to spread your voice and opinions about these dirty bom....wait..i think the government is trying to stop me from this! (Visit the site and you'll see what i'm talking about)
So what's next? Where's the next puzzle piece going to be? I haven't personally followed NIN since the Downward Spiral album, but this time i'm sucked in.
Clever Trent...clever..
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