In a recent podcast interview about narcissistic abuse, Evan Rachel Wood said that Marilyn Manson described in his autobiography how the Brian Warner part of him was dead and whatever he had become was now his true self. Her purpose was to show that Manson completely abandoned his humanity and truly came to embody a disassociated narcissistic monster. But is this what his autobiography actually said or even implied? No, of course not. He says something along those lines, but she completely twists it to make a point that fits her narrative rather than the actual facts. What Manson actually describes in his autobiography is that he went through a personal apocalypse. He writes: "When I first conceived of Antichrist Superstar , I set out to create an apocalypse. But I didn’t realize it was going to be a personal one. As a child, I had been a weakling, a worm, a follower, a small shadow trying to find a place in an infinite world of light. In the end, in order to find that place...
Marilyn Manson in Berlin: In a Dark World of Show, Hate and Pain After an abuse scandal, Marilyn Manson had withdrawn from the public eye.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...