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The New Symbolism of Marilyn Manson's Stage Show Since 2024

   Since Marilyn Manson returned to the stage in the summer of 2024 with the One Assassination Under God tour, pulsating illuminated upside-down double crosses have been a consistent part of the stage design. The double cross itself is nothing new in Manson's work. It has been part of his imagery for many years and became particularly prominent again after the Heaven Upside Down era. What is new since 2024 is the way the symbol has been incorporated into the lighting of the performance. Rather than functioning simply as a static emblem, the crosses now pulsate and change as part of the stage itself, becoming one of the most noticeable elements of every concert. Manson's return to the stage has also involved bringing back many features and images from earlier periods of his career, which has naturally given the performances a nostalgic quality for longtime fans. What interests me for this analysis, however, is what has actually been added during this new period that has not be...
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Marilyn Manson Attends The Smashing Pumpkins and Green Day Concert in San Diego

Marilyn Manson and his wife Lindsay Warner attended the final show of The Savior's Tour at Petco Park in San Diego on September 28th, with Green Day as the headliner supported by The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and The Linda Lindas. Manson's friendship and collaboration with Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins goes back many years, and this marks their first public meeting since the allegations against Manson in 2021. And of course James Iha, the guitarist of The Smashing Pumpkins, is the brother-in-law of Manson, being married to Lindsay's twin sister Ashley. Green Day has been sampling and covering Manson's "The Beautiful People" since at least 1998 (listen here ), but on their The Savior's Tour throughout the summer of 2024 their Intro has been a cool mix of "The Beautiful People" with "The Imperial March" from Star Wars . This has not gone unnoticed by Manson, so while attending their show from the side stage in San Diego, Lindsay m...
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Marilyn Manson Releases Third Single and Music Video With Details of the Upcoming Album

  On Friday, September 27th, Marilyn Manson not only released the third new single and music video of his upcoming album, but also released certain details about the album itself and opened it up for pre-orders in various formats through his label Nuclear Blast Records. The upcoming 12th album of Marilyn Manson is titled One Assassination Under God: Chapter 1 and is scheduled for release worldwide on November 22nd. The Tracklist is as follows: 1 One Assassination Under God (05:28) 2 No Funeral Without Applause (04:07) 3 Nod If You Understand (04:05) 4 As Sick As The Secrets Within (05:36) 5 Sacrilegious (03:36) 6 Death Is Not A Costume (04:53) 7 Meet Me In Purgatory (04:37) 8 Raise The Red Flag (04:50) 9 Sacrifice Of The Mass (06:16) The cover for the new album is a painting done by Marilyn Manson. Total running time of the nine songs is approximately 43 minutes. This is Chapter 1 of the album, therefore a Chapter 2 is expected, though it has not been announced.   The third n...
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Marilyn Manson Announces He Will Perform at Vivo X El Rock 2025

It was announced at a press conference on September 23rd that Marilyn Manson is scheduled to perform at Vivo X El Rock in Lima, Peru, on March 29, 2025. His performance will be after Anthrax and before the headliner Avenged Sevenfold. Tickets will be on sale September 30th at 10:00 AM local time ( ticketmaster.pe ) . More than 40 bands, both national and international, will meet at the Lima Cultural Club in Chorrillos for Vivo X El Rock. Vivo X El Rock returns after a six year absence with one of the biggest events in the country. The staging promises to be impressive, with five simultaneous stages, an unprecedented technical challenge.   
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The Marilyn Manson Summer 2024 Tour Has Come To An End: What Have We Learned?

Marilyn Manson has successfully completed their Summer 2024 Tour of North America. It began on August 2nd in Hershey, Pennsylvania and ended in Houston, Texas on September 19th. A total of 30 shows, 6 of which he headlined to sold out crowds. During this time they released two new songs and two new music videos, "As Sick As The Secrets Within" (Aug. 2) which until now the music video has been viewed 4.4 million times on YouTube, and "Raise the Red Flag" (Aug. 16) which has been viewed 3.8 million times. They also released the Maxi Single CD on August 16th containing the two new songs along with a third new song "FRONT TOWARD ENEMY", which was limited to 3,000 CD's and sold out in less than 12 hours. What have we learned over the past month and a half of this tour? Since February of 2021 we had been told that everyone dropped Marilyn Manson after the allegations brought against him, that nobody wanted to work with him, that nobody would ever sign him ag...
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The Intro of Marilyn Manson's Summer 2024 Tour

One of the things I always love about seeing Marilyn Manson live is to hear the songs he chooses to introduce his performance and then see what kind of Intro will precede his stage appearance. In the past, the setup for his stage show would take such a long time, that along with other songs entire albums were played, the most memorable being when the entire album of Pink Floyd's The Wall (80 minutes) was played and the crowd sang along to it, or when Iggy Pop's The Idiot (40 minutes) played from start to finish. When I attended a live performance in New Jersey on August 5th 2024, the wait time between sets wasn't that long, but I do recall hearing some songs play before Manson performed, though I was also a bit distracted and not paying as much attention as I should have. However, I can tell you the one song that was played right before the Intro, and I believe it has been played at every show this leg of the tour, though I'm not sure. I looked around for a video that...
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Marilyn Manson's Motion to Strike Opposed by Bianca Allaine Kyne

As previously reported , Marilyn Manson's attorney Howard King submitted on August 23rd a Motion to Strike 37 references to sexual assault of a minor from Bianca Allaine Kyne's Second Amended Complaint, and asked the court for her to submit a Third Amended Complaint. On September 11th, Bianca's attorney Patrick Stoneking filed an opposition to Manson's Motion to Strike, stating that though the majority of the motions are inconsequential and Bianca has agreed to strike the majority of the references related to sexual assault of a minor, there are still a few references they are opposed to removing because it has bearing on her alleged assault when she was an adult in 1999. The first reference that Bianca refuses to have removed is related to what she believes was part of the grooming process that led to her being assaulted as an adult. And the second reference is related to behavior exhibited by Manson when Bianca was a minor that displayed a power dynamic which he later...
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A Lyrical Analysis of Marilyn Manson's "FRONT TOWARD ENEMY"

"FRONT TOWARD ENEMY" was the third track released by Marilyn Manson on August 16th 2024 exclusively on the Raise the Red Flag maxi-CD single, which had a limited release of 3,000 copies that sold out in under 12 hours. Though the two previous singles were released accompanied by music videos, this third exclusive release was only the song as the third track on the singles album. Musically it is perhaps the bands heaviest song since the 90's, especially Antichrist Superstar , and it even has certain sounds familiar to us from that album, such as "Little Horn" and "1996", though I would also include the single "Astonishing Panorama of the End Times". For those who have wanted a song that brings them back to that era, while at the same time holding up to the standards of a current and innovative sound, then this is the song you have been waiting for. Song Lyrics   When I originally wrote this analysis, there was no official release of the lyric...
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