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- Speaking with Rolling Stone in reflection of the period, Manson stated, " Mechanical Animals was to represent the point where the revolution got sold out, a hollow shell of what the essence of Marilyn Manson was. It was a satire, and a lot of people interpreted it as 'This is what he really is.'
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Mechanical Animals is the third studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released on September 15, 1998, by Interscope Records.
Jul 9, 2018 · In the Hollywood Hills, Mechanical Animals was coming to life, a dystopian rock opera about an alien superstar who grows sick of success and drifts into chemically induced oblivion.
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- One of Marilyn Manson's biggest inspiration for Mechanical Animals was moving to Hollywood. After Antichrist Superstarcame out, Marilyn Manson and his then–creative partner, bassist and guitarist Twiggy Ramirez, moved to Hollywood, where they marveled at the surreal parade that marched by their apartment.
- With Mechanical Animals, Manson wanted to prove that Trent Reznor hadn't puppet-mastered his vision and success. When Manson started getting recognized, Nine Inch Nails main man Trent Reznor took the young rocker under his wing, signed him to his label Nothing Records and produced Antichrist Superstar.
- The band wrote a lot of songs for the album. Manson may have been coming off the success of Antichrist Superstar, but they never suffered writers block and were never at a loss for words or melodies.
- Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan encouraged Manson to pursue the creative left turn he took with Mechanical Animals. Before Manson chose Beinhorn and Beavan to co-produce Mechanical Animals, he had initially worked on some tracks with the Dust Brothers, and Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan visited the studio to check in on their progress.
Jan 16, 2024 · As the 20th century gasped its final breaths, Marilyn Manson emerged with ‘Mechanical Animals’, an album that fortified his position as rock’s most compelling provocateur. Within its glitter-drenched grooves, it’s the title track that stands as a neon-lit, existential howl blending the mechanical with the organic, depicting a world both ...
Sep 14, 2018 · Something big was about to happen when rumors of a new Manson record started to emerge. And then it happened ... the first time I saw the cover of the new Manson release for Mechanical Animals. Gone was my stringy black-haired, self-harming heartthrob, and in his place a gender-fluid alien figure with red chopped-up locks.
Apr 29, 2018 · Marilyn Manson ’s 1998 album artwork for Mechanical Animals gained as much acclaim as it did controversy when it was unleashed on the world, and it’s easy to see why.
Sep 15, 2019 · Mechanical Animals was the first Marilyn Manson album to debut at No.1 on the Billboard 200. It established Manson as a musical tour de force; a serious artist prepared to lay his reputation...
