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NONE OF THE SUNS: Marilyn Manson Between Light and Darkness

  “None of the Suns” is the most explicitly post-punk and gothic song on One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 . Its imagery seems almost designed for that genre: demons, blood, darkness, blackness, angels, Heaven, and the disappearance of daylight. Yet the song becomes much more interesting when those images are placed alongside Manson's own explanation of it. He has connected the song to his love of post-punk and goth music, but also to his fascination with Lewis Carroll and Carroll's relationship with nighttime. Manson has described “outrunning daylight” as a way of cheating death, which gives the night a meaning beyond gothic atmosphere. He has also cited Federico Fellini's Toby Dammit as an inspiration for the atmosphere of the song. The painting accompanying the song, which Manson calls “We're in the Black Now,” is his own image caught somewhere between day and night. That may be the most useful place to begin with the song, because the darkness here does not s...

Mexico Wants To See Marilyn Manson


On February 1st, 2024, Ricardo Gallardo Cardona, Governor of San Luis Potosí, took the following poll on his Facebook page and posted it along with the poster above:

Ahijadxs, who would you like to see at the #Fenapo2024? Tell me in the comments 👇🏻
👍🏼 Mötley Crüe
❤️ Marilyn Manson


The Potosina National Fair, known as La FENAPO, is one of the largest and most important fairs of San Luis Potosí and one of the most important throughout Mexico. Last year this event was internationalized, and the diversification of artists and bands, with free presentations, boosted the growth of regional tourism. Governor Ricardo Gallardo is seeking to repeat this in 2024, by inviting a line up of bands at the Teatro de Pueblo. To see what the people want before he makes his proposals, over the next few weeks he will be conducting polls, the first being a choice of either Motley Crue or Marilyn Manson.

As of February 3rd, the two bands seem to be neck and neck, with about 1400 votes each.