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Welcome to Marilyn Manson Biography Library, featuring info, opinions, and quotes directly from the Reverand himself "The only thing that scares me is going to the mall" "There are two kinds of people in the world, those who like Marilyn Manson, and those who are jealous" "I've grown up to become the things that hurt and scared me" "When I was growing up, you could say Marilyn, and you knew who it was, and you could say Manson, and you knew who it was... that is the contradiction that I enjoy that is Marilyn Manson" Manson describing the inspiration for the song "Tourniquet" "I've always had these dreams about making a girl out of all these pieces of prosthetic limbs, and then taking my hair and teeth that I saved from when I was a kid and very ritualisticly creating this companion" Manson describing the inspiration for the song "Little Horn" "A few years ago, I started having dreams and visions of the world being destroyed, and me being the only one left. It was like an ultimate retribution for all of the things that have happened to me growing up. One dream took place sometime in the future - it may even have been Fort Lauderdale. Entertainment had gone to such an extreme that they had taken people and made them zombies almost just for entertainment's sake. And I had this strange vision of these women who were completely brain dead - they were just dancing in cages, and their jaws were wired shut so that they wouldn't bite off the dicks of all these guys that were around them masturbating. It was a complete Sodom and Gomorrah. And then I was there and I was like either presenting the whole event or performing in it or something. That was probably the first appearance of what will be Antichrist Superstar rearing its head." "American society has so many things backwards. They can watch people being blown away every night on television, but they find discussing sex, or showing that on TV to be wrong. They say that I'm only trying to be outrageous, that an album like Antichrist Superstar is designed just to shock everyone. Well, believe me, I could be a lot more shocking, a lot more offensive, if I really wanted to be. But I don't want to do that and risk limiting the number of people who hear what I'm trying to say. If you go for true outrage, you may end up with only two people getting the chance to hear you. I'm trying to wake up a sleeping generation that has become numb to so many of the world's harsh realities. They've begun to wake up and identify with my message. I think that's what scares people the most." NOTE: This biography is simply a record of the bands career. Many personal events, with a few exceptions have been omitted. For more information on that, I suggest purchasing Mansons biography "The Long Hard Road Out of Hell". Marilyn Manson is a band that over the past few years has been one of the bands that has captured the eye of the music world. A strange blend of theatre, fashion, politics, and thought provoking lyrics have fueled many fans AND many protesters who would like to see Manson and his crew banned from many cities, and in some cases are successful. Manson then had a stint on the NIN "Self Destruct Tour". While on the tour in 1994 in San Fransisco, Manson arranged a meeting with the late Anton Szandor LaVey, the high priest of the Chuch of Satan, who deemed Manson a Reverend. Their next release was entitled "Smells Like Children" and it feature some experiments, remixes, and covers including the breakthrough mainstream hit cover of the Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams". In 1996 "Antichrist Superstar" was released with Reznor in the producers seat again but this time he directed the album a lot more and co-wrote the music for three of the songs on the album. It debuted at #3 on the Billboard charts and went platinum in the USA and Canada. During the recording of the album Manson had a falling out with Reznor, and Berkowitz also parted from the band over creative differences, however no one in the band had been getting along with Berkowitz for a while. He was replaced by a guitarist from Chicago named Zim Zum. During the "Dead to the World Tour", the band met up with much resistance from family and religious groups claiming the show to be the place of satanic acts and sacrifices. In many cases the band was banned from many cities. Manson has now made up with Reznor but his latest disc, "Mechanical Animals" is the first without Reznor at the helm. However Manson seems to be doing fine on his own. He released an autobiograpy called "The Long Hard Road Out of Hell" which topped the New York Times best sellers list, and has appeared on such shows as "Pollitically Incorrect" and "The Late Show with David Letterman", and was featured on CNN. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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