Marilyn Manson has officially released "Front Toward Enemy" across global streaming platforms. The track serves as the second single from his upcoming album, One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 , due August 14 via Nuclear Blast Records. For casual listeners, it's a welcome return to the aggressive industrial metal that defined Manson's mid-'90s peak. For longtime fans, however, today's release feels like long-awaited vindication. To understand why, you have to go back to late 2024. When Manson ended his four-year public silence with One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1 , he also released the highly limited "Raise the Red Flag" maxi-CD. Hidden on that disc was an exclusive B-side titled in all caps: "FRONT TOWARD ENEMY." For more than a year, the song became something of a holy grail among collectors. Many fans believed it was simply too abrasive to fit the dark, introspective atmosphere of Chapter 1 , and speculation grew that it...
Marilyn Manson attended Netflix's 2025 Emmy's Toast on Friday night September 12, 2025. The only online evidence of his presence there were two photos posted by actress Chloë Sevigny in her InstaStories, where Manson has his arm over her shoulder posing for the photo and she is being playful with him, and next to them are her husband Siniša Mačković with Swedish filmmaker and musician Jonas Åkerlund. Despite being photographed with other people that night, Chloë decided to only post those two photos with Manson. In less than 12 hours after posting those photos, they were removed from her InstaStories. What happened?
If you go to Chloë's Instagram page under her September 6th post (the last she posted), you will see that she got a bunch of backlash for posting those stories with Manson. The two photos also circulated by haters on other social media platforms and Reddit, calling her out for being photographed with "rapist" and "abuser" Manson. One can only imagine the private messages she got. There was no doubt that the photos were likely removed due to this backlash ahead of Sunday's Emmy Awards for which she received her first nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, thanks to her performance in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
This PR nightmare was confirmed when a reply to one of these comments by Chloë herself was published. Her comment, however, was a shameful apology, and she blamed it all on being intoxicated. She wrote:
If you go to Chloë's Instagram page under her September 6th post (the last she posted), you will see that she got a bunch of backlash for posting those stories with Manson. The two photos also circulated by haters on other social media platforms and Reddit, calling her out for being photographed with "rapist" and "abuser" Manson. One can only imagine the private messages she got. There was no doubt that the photos were likely removed due to this backlash ahead of Sunday's Emmy Awards for which she received her first nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, thanks to her performance in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
This PR nightmare was confirmed when a reply to one of these comments by Chloë herself was published. Her comment, however, was a shameful apology, and she blamed it all on being intoxicated. She wrote:
It's one thing to be simply photographed with Manson, but to be nearly licking his face in the photo and then post only the photos with him in her stories instead of other photos of herself from the event is a whole other matter. Clearly she was trying to avoid a celebrity scandal with a silly excuse in the form of an apology in order to distance herself as much as possible from her Party Monster co-star Marilyn Manson. It may be true she didn't realize the backlash she would get, but downplaying everything else, where she can't even admit that they were at the same party but just happened to meet in a hotel lobby, then blaming everything on being drunk, just comes off as dishonest.
Now that the Emmy's are over, she should apologize for her pathetic apology.
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