A Different Kind of Comeback At first glance, Henri Alexander Lévy's music video for Marilyn Manson's "Front Toward Enemy" appears surprisingly restrained. Considering the title and the confrontational tone of the song, one might reasonably expect a visual statement built around warfare, retaliation, or public vindication. Instead, the music video repeatedly turns away from those expectations. It lingers on a child dressed in military attire, a motionless body on an examination table, shelves of psychology books, childhood trophies, playground equipment, and a cabinet filled with carefully arranged artifacts. None of these images directly illustrates the lyrics, yet none of them feels arbitrary. By the time the music video ends, it becomes clear that Lévy is asking the viewer to consider something more complicated than revenge. That immediately distinguishes the video from the song itself. Borrowing its title from the M18A1 Claymore mine, whose front face bears th...
On December 17th Bam Margera, who has recently remarried and living a life of sobriety, posted a photo on his Instagram with Marilyn Manson, adding the comment: "Swapping art at Marilyn Manson’s." We only have a photo right now of the painting Bam gifted Manson, which apparently was painted on 9/28/24 and contains a coded message that is a little too blurry to decipher for me, so if anyone figures it out, let me know.
