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Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
Are the recent Ukrainian protests actually an ARG for Year Zero 2?



I guess that's up for you to decide.

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Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!

magiccarpet posted:

Just saw a Beats commercial. Trent's voice over some Ghosts track.

God is dead

And no ones cares.


(if there is a Hell, I'll see you there)

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
To be specific:

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
Another indication it was from a really long time ago: they're talking about Limp Bizkit.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!

Mr. Unlucky posted:

just make another ghosts album already everyone grew out of the lovely lyrics but the music is still good JUST loving DO IT ALREADY

His lyrics can be all over the place but I really like Reznor's singing voice for whatever reason.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!

echronorian posted:

sooooo is Reznor scaling up or scaling down?

He's probably moving to Cupertino or thereabouts to help with the Apple/Beats music player.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!

With_Teeth Deluxe Edition

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!

The Singing Chav posted:

Jesus that album is from almost nine years ago now. :negative:

Well of course, it was released during the Bush administration and it's currently Obama's last year in office.

Just in case you wanted to feel old.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
https://twitter.com/craigrachel/status/540638857230696449

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
Personally I can't wait for Trent's soulful rendition of Mares Eat Oats.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!


Annie, hold a little tighter I might just slip away

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!

That was a cool song and all but the intro section made me think of a JRPG boss battle

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
Good news Trent didn't lie to us

https://twitter.com/trent_reznor/status/809846884076384256

https://twitter.com/trent_reznor/status/809847946942394368


Too bad nin.com is getting hammered right now, I can't get on

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
There's also a "music video" to go along with one of the songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvyywDE67tY

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
Finally got to sit down and listen to the album all the way through. I liked it. reminded me of bits of pieces of The Downward Spiral and The Fragile but definitely its own thing.

Wouldn't be disappointed if the new album sounds like this, though it could just be that Reznor only has the one EP's worth of this sound still in him.


Gorgolflox posted:

I can't sing along if I can't hear what you're saying T-Rez

Minidust posted:

btw did anyone actually get these in MP3 format? The FLACs are basically devoid of metadata so I was wondering if anything interesting was tucked away in there.

I did! It comes with some... interestingly formatted lyrics.

Branches/Bones:
code:
still can make out pieces with the opening sewed shut yeah parts of me are slowing down and time is speeding up spiders crawling everywhere infected Japanese you can tell all your friends you’re just a tourist but you can’t understand what they’ve planned until you try to leave feels like i've been here before feels like i've been here before feels like i've been here before feels like i've been here before well i don't know anymore and i don't care anymore feels like i've been here before feels like i've been here before feels like i've been here before feels like i've been here before feels like i've been here before cold and black and infinite with nothing left to lose glassy bending flexible if you try to keep the flies away the makeup hides the bruise why are you here right now? i don't think you're supposed to be reading this her branches are the bones that break become a perfect line and no he won’t be just a man who’s Sometimes

he won't be just a man who's Sometimes

feels like i've been here before well i don't know anymore and i don't care anymore
i think i recognize
yes i have been here before yes i have been here before yes i have been here before yes i have been here before yeah i don't care anymore yeah don’t give a gently caress anymore and i don't care anymore one way or another but the way things have a way finding order almost everything of you yes i have been here before yes i guess thought i was my proven false in false in one all of you but the way actual events a way of finding mattered what i thought of finding order almost of you i guess have a way of comfort in the past events but the way like I’ve been here the past not the but the way i of myself has proven before allowing myself to almost everything i thought events but the way sense of comfort in what i thought i have a way of actual events but the mattered what i thought the actual events but the actual events but been here before allowing of myself has proven  in one way guess things have a of finding order almost my definition of myself you all of you myself to feel a feel a sense of thought i was my thought mattered what i have proven false to remember them and comfort in the past and you all of way of finding order you i guess things all of you i of myself has proven of myself has proven the way i choose in one way or i guess things have order almost everything i myself to feel a not the actual events in the past not remember them and you feels like I’ve been you i guess things i thought mattered what here before allowing myself way i choose to of finding order almost of finding order almost or another   and you all of before allowing myself to allowing myself to feel way of finding order of myself has proven my definition of myself please go away from here please all of you i past not the actual like I’ve been here in one way or myself has proven false guess things have please go please please please yes i have been here before yes i have been here b 



Dear World,:
code:
yes, everyone seems to be asleep

hey look, you didn't even notice
you couldn't eventell
just when it started happ
ening maybe just as well
afterall everything is gettingunfamiliarnow
trajectory in decline
and webecome obsolete 
a frame ata time

i'm locked inside here
i have to stay
with people who aren't here
all the way
pictures and faces
on display
people who aren't here
all the way

“you come when i call you”

IT is coming
       And you didn't 
   even notice
You didn't even 
      notice
       You didn't even 
notice
        You didn't even 
notice
You 
didn't even notice
      You didn't even notice
You 
didn't 
even 
notice
You didn't 
even 
        notice
          You didn't 
      even notice
You were missing 

(left channel)
dear world, i can hardly recognize 
you anymore
and yet i remain certain
thereis an answerin you
i feel like i have lived solong sometimes 
run out of things to try to do
i can't concentrate mywayout
what about..?

(right channel)
I am leaving because I can’t recognize who i have been
You go on spoiling
Hey look it's happening
without me you didn't even notice
Of course it’s been happening all along
permanent intervals As you become obsolete whoareyou?
oh this place...
i can’t concentrate
Ibegin to gothrough another of that we havebeen.  
(I have been entirely patient
but i know i can't trust myself with this again)
nono 
not this time

i'm locked inside here i have to staywith people who aren't here
all the way
pictures and faces
on display
people who aren't here
all the way

yes, everyone seems to be asleep
She's Gone Away:
code:
you dig in places til your fingers bleed
spread the infection where you spill your seed
i can't remember what she came here for
i can't remember much of anything anymore 






she's gone she's gone she's gone away






a little mouth opened up inside
yeah i was watching on the day she died
we keep licking while the skin turns black
cut along the length (but you can't get the feeling back)





she's gone she's gone she's gone away








are you still here?
The Idea of You:
code:
maybe that was somebody else
maybe i was somebody else
I am sorry (for what it’s worth) if that means anything anymore.  I think there’s something just wrong with me
i have been wondering
when did you know?  you know, really know?
no no no no no i don’t think that’s going to happen here
you missed all that on the way out
and remember 
i don’t want to remember anymore
maybe i was somebody else?
just go back to the idea of me
go back to the idea of me

none of this is happening

WAIT
WAKE
BREATHE
BELIEVE
HEY 
YOU TELL YOURSELF

oh and
If I start to tell you anything please don’t pay attention.  That’s not really me in there.  I would never do that.
just go back to the idea of me
go back to that idea 
can you even hear me over here?
can’t you feel it happening?
everything absorbing liquid twitching forming something terrible
the sores are gone 
and you can hardly tell now but
that was someone else who isn’t here anymore

none of this is happening

hey,
can you hear?
it gets so lonely in here
Burning Bright (Field on Fire):
code:
i’m going back
of course i am
as if i ever had a choice
back to what i always knew i was 
on the inside
back to what i really am
look at this pathetic place i made
with little bits of sticks and hair and anything i found along the way
and tell yourself you know
you’re not really what you know you are
you know?
of course you do
i think i may have even listened to you i think i may have even listened to you
at the height of my demise

break through the surface and breathe

i am forgiven
i am free
i am a field on fire
i am forgiven
i am free
i am a field on fire

and oh my god i have missed you
it has been so long
i am stronger than i have ever been in my decline
for now i know i know for certain
shedding any 
burn motherfucker 
carry the carcass and throw it on 
pull up a chair and watch
the flies come roaring out
and will surround the entire world
and blacken out the skies and every last one of you
like a plague of locusts
like an exit 
like an end
like the end

i am forgiven
i am free
i am a field on fire
i am forgiven
i am free
i am a field on fire

it's getting hard to know which side is the dream
i can't tell if i am dreaming anymore

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
You know, listening to it again I definitely hear plenty of the HM style (particularly in Dear World). Then there She's Gone Away which almost sounds like a cut Fragile piece. The Idea of You feels like an amalgamation of HM, WT, Fragile, and YZ in places. Burning Bright has a distinct guitar riff straight lifted from The Day The World Went Away at 3:37.

It actually makes me wonder (if any smarter NIN aficionado than I could check) if any or a lot of the instrumental of this EP is taken from samples of old NIN material. Making a song or an album of samples of your own work would be a pretty interesting experiment for a musician of Trent's longevity to undertake.

Anyway I still like it.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!

Minidust posted:

[*]At 3000x3000 pixels, the included album art is too large to work on iPhones. I reduced mine to 1000x1000 and re-added in iTunes, after which it appeared to work fine.

Goddammit so that was it

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
WHY IS TRENT YELLING AT ME :saddowns:

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
I liked this new track a lot more than the first one. I remember the last EP had a few callbacks to earlier NIN music, I wonder if this one will too, or if every EP will reference specific eras in Trent's music. Can't wait for the full EP to drop.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
I like the looping end. It was awkward and annoying at first, but as the music disintegrated it became this sort of overwhelming white noise.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
That was cool

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Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
Most of NIN's stuff from the past decade+ made me feels "meh" during the first listening, but grows on me the more I listen to it. GBDTD is pretty much the same.

Though I also seem to generally prefer other songs on the album over the singles Trent releases anyway.

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