Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
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Release date: 16 October 2006
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Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar: Wikipedia Album Entry
Antichrist Superstar (sometimes written as Antichrist Svperstar as an allusion to Latin) is Marilyn Manson's second full-length studio release and was released in 1996. The album raised public awareness of the band, and led to numerous protests due to the band's supposed anti-Christian stance. It was produced by the band's frontman and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. The album has sold 7.5 million copies worldwide as of 2008.
Background
The album's title is a combination of the concept of the Antichrist with the title of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus Christ Superstar. The influence of the latter can also be seen in the song "Angel with the Scabbed Wings", which features a riff strongly reminiscent of a portion of the Jesus Christ Superstar score.
The album is considered a concept album. In a three part storyline, an abused and apathetic person (represented by "The Worm") becomes an influential celebrity and finally is transformed into the powerful "Disintegrator". In an issue of Kerrang! magazine edited by Manson, he stated that the album was a tribute to—and inspired by—the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Much of the album content is deliberately vague, allowing listeners to draw independent conclusions.
Many of the album's riffs are based around the notes of a diminished pentatonic minor scale. This scale in D runs D E F G Ab, and is a staple of metal songwriting, being preferred due to its dark tone (this being due to its combination of a minor key and the inclusion of the tri-tone Devil's Interval, the interval brought to rock in the main riff of the song "Black Sabbath", and banned in the middle ages for its supposedly demonic qualities). The Devil's Interval can be heard in the first ten chord-strikes of "The Beautiful People". Other songs built around the diminished pentatonic minor include "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" and "Little Horn".
It has elaborate packaging, consisting of a black cardstock sleeve covering the plastic jewel case with graphics of Manson on both the front and back, the latter of which is flanked by the red Superstar Shock logo and the roman numerals IX, VI, III and VII. The booklet contains pictures of the band, a visual worm-to-angel metamorphosis, medical diagrams, printed lyrics to each song, and liner notes including traditional thanks and credits as well as a curious entry found under the lyrics to the song "Irresponsible Hate Anthem", stating it was recorded live on February 14, 1997, despite the album being released well before that in October 1996.
Also, found on the front of the album cover is a circle surrounded by the words Heart, Mind, Complacent, and Malice. If you fold the booklet just right you can also find the hidden words Heart, Mind, Complacent, and Malice made up of folding the words Heaven/Comfort, Minister/Fiend, Complaisant/Magnificent and Master/Lice respectively. The booklet also makes reference to Revelation chapter twelve, verses one through five, in the Bible.
The album is cyclical, as both opening and closing seconds include the distorted phrase "When you are suffering, know that I have betrayed you." The names of the two latter cycles seem to be referencing two films by avant garde filmmaker and Satanist Kenneth Anger: Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and Lucifer Rising.
* Marilyn Manson — all voices, and pan flute
* Daisy Berkowitz — lead and rhythm guitar
* Twiggy Ramirez — lead and rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, bass
* Madonna Wayne Gacy — all keyboards, loops, and other original pieces of 16-bit audio information
* Ginger Fish — live drums, programming
* Robin Finck — live (guest guitar), additional keyboards (uncredited again, however Manson confirmed his work on the album)
* Zim Zum — live guitar on the tour for Antichrist Superstar
* Trent Reznor — producer, editing, mixing, Mellotron, guitar, Rhodes piano
* Sean Beavan — producer, engineer, editing, mixing, guitar, guitar synthesizer
* Danny Lohner — guitar
* Chris Vrenna — drums, programming, engineer, editing
* Dave Ogilvie — producer, programming, engineer, editing, mixing
* Brian Pollack — production assistant, assistant engineer
* Tom Baker — mastering
* P.R. Brown — digital illustration, design
* Dean Karr — photography
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Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar Lyrics
Marilyn Manson - The Reflecting God Lyrics
Your world is an ashtray
We burn and coil like cigarettes
The more you cry your ashes turn to mud
Marilyn Manson - Man That You Fear Lyrics
The ants are in the sugar, the muscles atrophied
We're on the other side, the screen is us and we're T.V
Spread me open, sticking to my pointy ribs
Are all your infants in abortion cribs
Marilyn Manson - 1996 Lyrics
Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire
Anti choice, anti girl I am anti-flag unfurled
Anti white and anti man I got the anti future plan
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People Lyrics
And I don't want ya and I don't need ya
Don't bother to resist or I'll beat ya
It's not your fault that you're always wrong
The weak ones are there to justify the strong
Marilyn Manson - The Minute Of Decay Lyrics
There's not much left to love
Too tired today to hate
I feel the empty
I feel the minute of decay
Marilyn Manson - Kinderfeld Lyrics
he lives inside my mouth
and tells me what to say
when he turns the trains
on he makes it go away
Marilyn Manson - Angel With The Scabbed Wings Lyrics
He is the Angel with the scabbed wings
Hard-drug face, want to powder his nose
He will deflower the freshest crop
Dry up all the wombs with his rock and roll sores
Marilyn Manson - Mister Superstar Lyrics
Hey Mr. Superstar
I'll do anything for you
Hey Mr. Superstar
I'm your number one fan
Marilyn Manson - Wormboy Lyrics
When will realize you're already there?
So watered down your feelings have turned to mud
"Love everybody" is destroying the value of
All hate has got me nowhere
Marilyn Manson - Deformography Lyrics
when you wish upon a star
don't let yourself fall, fall in too hard
I fell into you and I'm on my back
an insect decaying in your little trap
Marilyn Manson - Cryptorchid Lyrics
Each time I make my mother cry
An angel dies and falls from Heaven
(When they get to you)
When a boy is still a worm
Marilyn Manson - Little Horn Lyrics
There's an apple in the pussy mouth
Now I am the dinner whore
There's a tumor in the TV mouth
Burn it out before it grows
Marilyn Manson - Dried Up, Tied And Dead To The World Lyrics
You cut off all of your fingers
Trade them in for dollar bills
Cake on some more make-up to cover up all those lines
Wake up and stop shaking 'cause you're just wasting time
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Marilyn Manson - Irresponsible Hate Anthem Lyrics
I am so all-American, I'd sell you suicide
I am totalitarian, I've got abortions in my eyes
I hate the hater, I'd rape the raper
I am the animal who will not be himself
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar Lyrics
You built me up with your wishing hell
I didn't have to sell you
You threw your money in the pissing well
You do just what they tell you
Marilyn Manson - Track 99 Lyrics
Electronic voice:
"go ahead and date a dead messiah, we can dig another grave"
Listen there is something that saved my name
