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...
Lindsay Elizabeth Warner, beloved wife of Marilyn Manson, has been featured in a new interview for COEVAL Magazine. The interview delves into Lindsay as a photographer and creative force in her own right. We are all familiar with her beautiful and intimate photography on her Instagram page, especially her photos of Marilyn Manson who in the interview she calls her "greatest muse," but the interview explores also her process, her influences and how she relates to her subjects, and goes further to tell us a little bit about herself as well.
Read the interview here.
Read the interview here.