More like Year Zero
Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Year Zero is the fifth studio album by Nine Inch Nails, released in 2007 on Interscope Records. Produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross — the first NIN studio record since The Downward Spiral not co-produced by Alan Moulder — it was conceived and recorded during the band's touring cycle following With Teeth. It would also mark the end of the band's relationship with Interscope following a dispute over overseas pricing.
About Year Zero
Year Zero is the fifth studio album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released by Interscope Records on April 17, 2007. Conceived while touring in support of the band's previous album, With Teeth (2005), the album was recorded in late 2006. It was produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and was the band's first studio album since 1994's The Downward Spiral that was not co-produced by long-time collaborator Alan Moulder. It was the band's last album for Interscope until the Tron: Ares soundtrack in 2025, following Reznor's departure after the album's release due to a dispute regarding overseas pricing.
From the Wikipedia article Year_Zero_(album), available under CC BY-SA.
Films like Year Zero
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Wild Zero
Rock music collides with alien apocalypse as a garage band becomes humanity's only line of defence.
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Germany, Year Zero
A twelve-year-old boy is left to fend for himself amid the ruins of postwar Berlin.
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Less Than Zero
A college freshman returns home for Christmas to find his best friend consumed by an out-of-control drug habit.
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Aldnoah.Zero (Re+)
A compilation of the Aldnoah.Zero series plus new animation concluding the story.
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Zero Day
Two troubled teens document the events leading to a terrifying assault on their school.
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Moscow Zero
A priest hires guides to descend into Moscow's underworld searching for a friend among demons.
Series like Year Zero
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M3: The Dark Metal
Children bonded in a void dimension reunite years later to fight monsters from that same darkness.
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Aldnoah.Zero
A discovered hypergate sparks interplanetary war as Martian soldiers descend to annihilate humanity.
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Good Day
A music project brings together collaborators from different fields to craft a defining song.
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Channel Zero
An anthology horror series mines internet folklore for dread, one dark tale at a time.
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Monstar
A wounded vocalist and ordinary teens heal psychological injuries through the power of music.
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Pistol
Working-class kids with nothing to lose make noise that shakes a corrupt establishment to its core.
Games like Year Zero
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Fracture
An action shooter set on a fractured future Earth.
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NO THING
A lone office clerk carries a vital message through a surreal, totalitarian future regime.
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Nothing
The entire challenge is restraint — do nothing, or lose everything.
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nail'd
Breakneck racing down near-vertical mountain terrain demands lightning reflexes at extreme speed.
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7th Sector
A cyberpunk journey through a dark, surveilled world unfolds through puzzles and gathered secrets.
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Doom: The Dark Ages
Pure aggression and heavy weaponry unleashed in a medieval war against the forces of hell.
Books to read after Year Zero
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Without You
Bad business decisions and deep depression play roles in Badfinger's eventual crushing end.
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Black metal
Twins with a mysterious lineage discover their grim destiny when they play a metal album backwards.
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A year from Monday
Lectures, essays and diaries probe art and a world that resists improvement.
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A child of a CrackHead
After violence ends, a survivor's nightmares persist and the drama remains far from over.
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Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose
Chronicles Black Sabbath's rise as the quintessential heavy metal band.
Frequently asked
What should I watch after loving Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails?
The TV series Pistol captures the same raw, confrontational energy — it follows working-class kids who weaponised noise and chaos to shake an entire establishment, much like NIN's dystopian industrial fury.
Are there any games that feel like Year Zero's dark, cyberpunk atmosphere?
7th Sector drops you into a moody cyberpunk world full of mysterious puzzles and creeping dread, making it a natural companion to Year Zero's oppressive, surveillance-state sonic world.
Is there a book for fans of Year Zero's heavy, genre-blending sound?
Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose chronicles the rise of the band that invented heavy music's darkest register — essential reading for anyone drawn to Year Zero's relentless intensity and genre-defining ambition.