Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson started out as a depraved, marginally talented group of freaks that played a caustic but undeveloped brand of metallic industrial noise. Then Trent Reznor stepped into the studio for seven months with the band, and Manson emerged with the most intense, visceral, mechanical metal album since The Downward Spiral. Antichrist Superstar is a horror-house of grisly atrocities that stains as indelibly as a bathful of warm blood. Brooding rhythms collide with corrosive samples and buzzsaw guitar riffs, while vocalist Marilyn croons irresistible melodies in the voice of a vagrant regurgitating broken light-bulb shards. Essential listening, regardless of how much input Reznor had. --Jon Wiederhorn Amazon.com

We are waiting 4 Antichrist superstar Chpt.2?

This is a masterpeice!!!A job well done Mr.Manson!!!
This is the apocalypse album, the album that will
piss off your parents,this album has power to
certain advantages...buy this cd you will not regret it.
{know that when ye are sad,know that i have forsaken you!!!
HAIL SATAN
November 13, 2008

Should I Be Scared?

I really like some of Marilyn Manson's songs. I think that "Holy Wood" is one of the greatest rock albums. I know that most of you think this is Manson's best album. Well, I bought it and listened to it over and over again. At first I didn't like it, then I started to like it a little bit but eventually I realized that this is electronic rock with no heart and soul. It seems that this album's only message is that religion is bad for you - and that's it. Well, I have to say that Marilyn Manson tells nothing new for us. We'd have known it for a long time if that's true. However, I try to concentrate on the music. I like some of the songs, like "The Beautiful People", "Torniquet", and "1996" but I would say that about half of the songs are too much. The album duration without the silent tracks is about 70 minutes. If he would have had some kind of sense he would have taken of at least 7 songs off and tried to make rest of the songs better. Now, everything is badly produced material. The songs like "Minute of Decay", "Man That You Fear", and "Kinderfeld" are quite meaningless. If you wanna make a concept album, please try to make every song a good one.
Stars: The Beautiful People, The Reflecting God, Angel With the Scabbed Wings October 15, 2008

Terrific album

Marilyn Manson puts out good albums, the guitar riffs are catchy, lyrics are awesome and the guy has a great voice for this type of music. The mid-nineties was the last great hurrah for heavy metal/rock and roll thanks to guys like Marilyn Manson and Smashing Pumpkins. October 3, 2008

The Anti-Christ Superstar

Marilyn Manson:

Marilyn Manson: Vocals
Twiggy Ramirez: Bass
Zim Zum: Guitar
Madonna Wayne Gacy: Keyboards
Ginger Fish: Drums

"Anti-Christ Superstar" album:
1. Irresponsible Hate Anthem
2. The Beautiful People
3. Dried Up, Tied and Dead to the World
4. Tourniquet
5. Little Horn
6. Cryptorchid
7. Deformography
8. Wormboy
9. Mister Superstar
10. Angel Withe the Scabbed Wings
11. Kinderfeld
12. Antichrist Superstar
13. "1996"
14. Minute of Decay
15. The Reflecting God
16. Man That You Fear
17. (Untitled)

Marilyn Manson's 1996 release titled "Antichrist Superstar" was a breath of fresh air for the metal community and was the album that put Marilyn Manson on the map. "Antichrist superstar" was one of the albums that helped keep metal alive at the end of the grunge movement and the beginning of Nu-Metal but at that time Heavy Metal was beginning to get really cheezy with bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit emerging on the scene. With "Antichrist Superstar" Marilyn Manson brought the evil back into Heavy Metal and at the same time became the the most controversial figure of the 1990's. I believe that "Antichrist Superstar is one of the best albums in the 1990's and the album actually reached up to #3 in the top billboard charts. This album is a must for any Manson fan and should not be passed up. Out of all of Manson's albums this is still (and will always be) his crowning achievement. I would recommend this album to any Heavy Metal fan and those who like dark horror-like music that would make your christian mother worry.

BUY THIS ALBUM!!...you won't regret it!! July 25, 2008

The Magic Behind The Make Up

Marilyn manson was one of the most iconic figures of the 90s, and while many will put this purely down to eccentric dress sense and disturbing urban myths, I strongly believe that it is because he had some of the most shocking, disturbing and ultimately, the most insightful statements that music has ever seen. This is definately the record that proves this. Antichrist superstar is a concept album that looks at religion and the media from a highly disturbing (But not untruthful) perspective. it is a record that requires hard thinking to understand. So, open your mind people, it is time to unleash the genius behind the make up!

Fitst of all, Marilyn Manson the person. It pisses me off when people over look the contributions that his band had to his success, and I'll come to the music in a minute. But to me, on this album, it really is the frontman that stands out on this. First of all, lyrically Manson is an undisputed genius. Based on his own dreams and visions, this talented linguist manages to tell his twisted tale using highly imaginative mataphors and wordplay. Secondly, vocally. Manson is no gifted singer; a fact proven on his latest record "Eat Me Drink Me". Yet I can tell you for sure, that this is a spectacular vocal performance. This is due to the fact that it is not a vocal performance, but a vocal expression. From his uncontrollable anger shown on "little horn" and "The Reflecting God", to the eerie whispers of "The Beautiful people", To the highly emotional cries on "Man that You Fear", manson remains highly convincing throughout the record, and delivers a performance that only he could ever pull off.

Now, to the band. It was already a known fact that this band were No Led Zeppelin musically before this release. And granted, had the guitars been made to sound clearer and slicker, this album would have sounded a fair bit sharper than it does. However, musical talent isn't everything, and main musical composer Twiggy Ramirez broadened his mind particularly on this record, and the result is an industrial metal sound that is easily as musically competent as the music of their peers, The Nine inch nails. What also imperssed me was the interesting chemistry of synthesisers used by keyboardist M.W Gacy. This is something that really makes songs like "Deformography" what they are. So, a brilliant musical performance, and like I've said said, the vocals on the abum make it sound ten times better.

So there you have it, a masterpiece that is often overlooked. If you are reading this review in search of deep music, then look no further. This is as deep as you can go. And, Even if it's not your cup of tea, the intelligence behind this record is completely undeniable. March 27, 2008

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