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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...

Marilyn Manson Celebrated "Undependence Day" on July 4th By Sharing New Photos



Marilyn Manson shared new photos taken by his wife Lindsay on his social media pages on July 4th, which he captioned with "Undependence Day". 

 
Lindsay also shared a series of photos on her Instagram page for July 4th which featured two of Manson captioned "M by the window", two of Lindsay, two of Paeonias, two of Dahlias and centered by a blue and gold arrangement.