Source Months before Marilyn Manson's first-ever scheduled performance in Ferrara, Italy, on July 11, 2026, what should have been an ordinary stop on his European tour instead became one of the country's most closely watched cultural controversies, drawing in the mayor of Ferrara, the Catholic Church, a community of religious sisters, politicians, festival organizers, and thousands of supporters and critics across Italy. The Tour Begins When Marilyn Manson launched the European leg of his One Assassination Under God Tour in early July 2026, it marked another significant chapter in a remarkable career resurgence. After several years away from extensive international touring, Manson returned to European stages before enthusiastic audiences eager to see one of rock's most recognizable and controversial performers. The opening concerts generated strong fan reactions and reaffirmed that, despite decades of public controversy and intense media scrutiny, his international followin...
When on February 1st 2021 Marilyn Manson was called out by name on social media by Evan Rachel Wood and a number of other women for alleged abusive behavior, and in the lawsuits that followed months later, one of the most common terms used to describe this abusive behavior was "gaslighting", which is an umbrella term that includes grooming, controlling, brainwashing, love bombing and manipulating with a goal to get someone to question their own reality, memory or perceptions. The association of Marilyn Manson with gaslighting began with Evan Rachel Wood's 2018 congressional testimony , in which she described that the abuse she suffered by her then anonymous abuser was centered around gaslighting. She said: My experience with domestic violence was this. Toxic mental, physical, and sexual abuse, which started slow, but escalated over time, including threats against my life, severe gaslighting and brainwashing, waking up to the man that claimed to love me raping what he beli...