“My Violent Heart” by Nine Inch Nails

"My Violent Heart" comes from Year Zero, the fifth Nine Inch Nails album, conceived on the road behind With Teeth, recorded late in 2006 and released in 2007. Trent Reznor wrote it and sings it, and he produced it with Atticus Ross. Year Zero was the first Nine Inch Nails studio album since The Downward Spiral without Alan Moulder as co-producer, but he hardly disappeared: he mixed this track and shares the recording credits with Reznor, Ross, Brett Bachemin, Alan Mason and Doug Trantow.

The record traded the band's old inward stare for a hard look outward, a concept album that took aim at the US government's policies by imagining a dystopian 2022. It spilled over into a remix album and an alternate reality game that played the story out through websites, phone messages and murals.

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