“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...
Marilyn Manson in Berlin: In a Dark World of Show, Hate and Pain After an abuse scandal, Marilyn Manson had withdrawn from the public eye. Now he is back in Berlin for the first time in seven years. He has brought a clear message with him to the sold-out Columbiahalle. By Dennis Sand February 17, 2025 Last week, the self-proclaimed Antichrist landed in a world that corresponds to him, or at least his philosophy, in a frightening way. The day on which Marilyn Manson performs on German soil for the first time in seven long years is the day on which the most powerful of the powerful renounce the old world order and two people lose their lives in a terrorist attack, all just a few kilometers away from the Zenith in Munich, where Manson celebrated his comeback on Thursday for, well, you could say, his comeback. Marilyn Manson is on tour again and he travels a world that continues to be in rapid decay with its moral, cultural and civil abysses. A decay that has always been reflec...