MARILYN MANSON
We Are Chaos
LOMA VISTA RECORDINGS/CAROLINE INTERNATIONAL
The God Of Fuck gives his demons free rein
Marilyn Manson is saddled with himself
PRESS/PEROU INC
“MORE WOUNDED AND EMOTIONALLY RAW THAN HE’S EVER BEEN”
IF THERE’S ONE constant in Marilyn Manson’s post-Holy Wood trajectory, it’s his self-awareness. So you can only assume that the ambiguity in calling his 11th album We Are Chaos is deliberate. If you wondering whether or not he’s referring to the royal ‘we’, it goes to the heart of the conundrum facing an artist for whom the personal has become subject to the destructive forces he once had at his command: whether his chief audience these days is an army of the dispossessed, or himself. It’s probably no coincidence that he’s chosen 9/11 as the release date either, because this might well be Manson’s watershed moment.