When One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 was released on August 14, 2026, it contained nine songs. “You Can't Die Young” was not one of them, though it was teased on August 14th in Manson's Virtual Art Exhibit. Two weeks later, at midnight on August 28, Marilyn Manson unexpectedly released an expanded edition of the album with this previously unreleased song added to the tracklist. Manson described it simply as “a special gift,” but its placement is more interesting than that description might suggest. On the expanded edition, “You Can't Die Young” appears as the sixth track, directly after “None of the Suns” and immediately before “Lucifer's Teardrop.” The song was therefore recorded last, yet it now occupies a position in the sequence between a song consumed by darkness and an encounter with a fallen angel trying to find his way home. Manson himself points out that although it is not chronologically the last song on the album, it was the last one he recorded. T...
When Marilyn Manson's One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 debuted at No. 41 on the Billboard 200, Forbes described the result as a new career low for the controversial musician. In terms of the Billboard 200 itself, that description is accurate. Chapter 2 became Manson's first traditional studio album since his debut to miss the Top 40, falling one position short of the threshold that every other regular studio album had reached since Portrait of an American Family . His previous album, One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1 , had reached No. 32 in 2024, while We Are Chaos had reached No. 8 in 2020. It would therefore be pointless to argue that the No. 41 position somehow does not represent a decline. It plainly does. What deserves closer examination, however, is what that decline actually tells us about Manson's audience and his current position within the music industry, because the Billboard 200 is only one measurement of an album's performance. When the oth...