Manson is such a tired, predictable snoozefest.

Ooh, so scary and angry.

Puhleeze.

The problem is we come to expect this crap from Manson, so it’s not shocking anymore. It’s trite.

The problem is we come to expect this crap from Manson, so it’s not shocking anymore. It’s trite. The most shocking thing he could do is become a born-again Christian.

It’s not meant to shock you or scare you. It’s who he is…some people just don’t get it

Yawn.

He has to generate controversy. He has no talent, so that’s the only way people will hear about him.

Hearing the same tired things said every time Marilyn Manson comes up is hilarious.

For the record, people do not follow Marilyn Manson because he’s “so scary and angry.”

It is for well-thought lyrics and beliefs like this:

“There is a dream inside a dream,
I’m wide awake the more I sleep
You’ll understand when I’m dead
I went to god just to see, and I was looking at me
Saw heaven and hell were lies
When I’m god everyone dies”

Sorry you misinterpreted the message.

The music is still good, still catchy even if it isn’t as shocking. Shock was the noise that stood infront of how good the music was/is. Now that it’s gone we can focus on the tunes.

I’m glad he’s back. America needs more acts like Manson.

Rock is Dead/Long Live Rock!

Yeah, he’s so deep and profound…he-he.

I liked his lyrics the first time I saw them… on a stall in my middle school bathroom.

Hmm, let’s see… album strategy? Reference Jesus alot, add some Nazis and lots of B-Horror movie images with a liberal dose of sex, that ought to do it.

Seriously people, this guys is a one trick pony, and if you’re over 12, you should feel foolish riding,

Talk about organized religion being a cult.

“Marilyn Manson Courts Controversy”

LOL. What else is new?

Can’t stand Marilyn Manson’s music. But I am fascinated by him anyway. The man is extremely intelligent, and love to read interviews with him.

(scratches butt) yawns again.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

It’s a shame Manson can’t get over making music to piss off parents. He really went out on a limb (at least relative to his own work) with the social criticism in Mechanical Animals, and then ran right back to pushing the same old buttons.

listen Manson…much like me (may I rest in peace) you ain’t no John Lennon…but if you are going to shock then SHOCK ALREADY! enough with this looking like the girl that Winona Ryder played in Beetlejuice nonsense. Dating an 18 year old? That’s not shocking. Dating a porcupine or a vacuum cleaner or maybe Anna Nicole Smith?…now we’re getting somewhere!

Listen! Marilyn Manson even with his flaws is a tremendous artist! I’m now 28 years and even though my musical taste have profoundly changed since I was a teenager, I still stand behind Manson all the way. Forget the shock rock image and just listen to the music. His lyrics are actually intelligent even if it isn’t your thing. Just give the some credit for the impact he’s had the world from a creative and artistic sense!!!

It can’t be worse than the last album. Thank God for Twiggy

Also, the title is clearly a ripoff of Pigface’s “A New High In Low”. And no one can try to tell me that he’s never heard of Pigface.

I miss the Cramps.

yawn. more of the same from mr. spooky.
is this guy supposed to be scary.
what a joke!
give me phil spector – now that’s scary!

I love this early-30’s/mid-40’s sounding rhetoric about how you can’t be shocked and you don’t like whatever you think he’s trying to do, trying to be, or trying not to be; everyone talking like they’ve figured it out, writing headlines on Fark, making snarky yawns at everything.

All you people say is “he isn’t shocking.” I don’t think he’s ever said he was shocking. He’s being himself and doing something he wants to do and… according to you, he’s trying to be something and failing at it, and because of that, everything he does is invalid.

RS started all of this by saying “Manson courts controversy”…Brian should make his art and put on his little bipolar teenage girl show for whoever is still paying attention.

Johnny Cash in a good mood was darker and scarier than Marilyn.

I just got done watching the Vampires vs. Goths episode of South Park… is there anything more hillarious than a bunch of insecure posers arguing about who is more of an insecure poser? Come on Brian, we get it already! You don’t like society, you want to be different, you hate yourself, and therefore you hate everyone else. Act or no, we have heard it all before. ‘Shocking’ does not necessarily equal ‘groundbreaking’, or good. Society is not out to get you. We’ve just grown tired of you being out to antagonize us. Grow up.

I just got done watching the Vampires vs. Goths episode of South Park… is there anything more hillarious than a bunch of insecure posers arguing about who is more of an insecure poser? Come on Brian, we get it already! You don’t like society, you want to be different, you hate yourself, and therefore you hate everyone else. Act or no, we have heard it all before. ‘Shocking’ does not necessarily equal ‘groundbreaking’, or good. Society is not out to get you. We’ve just grown tired of you being out to antagonize us. Grow up.

haha manson is a cool guy

The artwork isn’t majestic, but it’s not that bad, considering. As for the song titles, these say nothing to me. I guess I’ll have to wait until I listen to the actual songs. “We’re from America” is great, though, that’s for sure.

Evidently he’s still doing something right. All of you losers are validating that.

You people have totally missed the point if you think everything Marilyn Manson does is aimed at scaring you. You all roast him for “not being shocking” when it fell upon you to be shocked in the first place. You’re like a bunch of dogs boastfully barking at a turtle that bit your tail, shouting, “He can’t eat me. He can’t eat me.” What a bunch of pathetically tiny minds.

Why do you guys assume a title like “Pretty as a Swastika” is SUPPOSED to be shocking? Can’t a guy just write a song called “Pretty as a Swastika”? Would you people give anyone else crap for using song titles like these? I think there’s an element of humor in them, but you’ll all so busy trying to sound cool and unimpressed to notice.

Everything has to have a “point” or be a gimmick with you guys. It’s disturbing.

I cant wait for the new Album. Manson is Amazing!

I thought he died of a drug overdose. Who still listens to him?

No George, the gimmick is titling a song just to court controversy to sell your music. Shock rock is dead. Its been done. Should I be shocked and appalled that a jewish has been rocker is trying to court nazis? No, just bored.

Theres a time with every musician in limelight to go into the sell-out zone. Most bands have. Atleast mansons not suckin up to people. He never did things to be shocking or be in the news. Now its more a personal gratification than to comment on politics and parents.

It’s a worn out act, but lets face it every one in music might as well be acting. Everyone plays up the rock lifestyle. Girls (or in his case girls and boys), drinking, and drugs.

It’s all a bit tired. Check out the band of the cover. They have been around for a several years and are just now getting the attention they deserve.

They have a lot to be pissed off about growing up the sons of a Pentecostal evangelist, yet their music is not all based on being pissed off.

If you want a band that will probably never make a bad album, then Radiohead is your band.

Man just let him do his thing. I don’t often listen to his music but hes an intelligent guy who’s done some cool stuff with and for music. Twiggy Ramirez is also incredible and will surely be somewhat of a guiding conscience for the record. Hes always doin’ something cool.

Let it be.

he is like a bad dream….go away!!!!

I wish he would have continued evolving his sound in the wake of Mechanical Animals (my favorite), but unfortunately many fans didn’t like it, he got scared, and went back to his old tricks.

I like reading Manson’s interviews, seeing his artwork, etc., but not listening to his new music. I still go back to the older ones once in a while. His voice is now shot beyond belief, not that it was very soothing to begin with. Over a decade of cocaine abuse will do that I guess.

Hey I justgot out of prison (2 years -reduced to 9 months)
Had a few of you weird Goth types in there, and everybody hated them, including me, so heres my message to you Manson, and all your “Gothies’-go take your black raincoats, spikes, dog collars, tats, platform boots, and all your other sick shit, & shove it up your ass motherfuckers!!!!

Another year, another album of this D-bag screaming “LOOK AT ME PLEASE!!!” He’s still doing the same thing as he was doing 15 years ago, and sadly there’s a large group of people who still think he’s this interesting intelligent person when really he’s just trying to get your money by appealing to those on the fringes of society.

If it wasn’t for the religious groups freaking out over this guy he would be working as a mopper in an adult film store by now.

what’s lamer, the fact that 40 year old goth poseurs still think this guy is innovative and interesting or that Rolling Stone continues to pay attention to a 40 year old no talent one trick pony?

Manson is a true talent. His last album Eat Me, Drink Me was truly amazing. I feel it was one of his best. I think that this new album will be right up there with the best. I have seen him play live a few times and he just puts on an amazing show. If you get a chance to see him you wont be let down. I can’t wait to get the new album!

wellll here we go again, another manson record thats about the same ol shit. If only he could figure out another way to disperse his talent (or maybe just his witt) and stop trying to achieve the success he had on his second LP Antichrist superstar. Twiggy on the other hand did in fact do something different with his own band Goon Moon, which I might add that their second release “Lickers Last Leg” was quite awesome. But ever since he went back to Manson I still can’t understand why he couldn’t make this shit cooler? I don’t think that Marilyn Manson will ever have the same effect on music or pop culter as he did in the 90`s

The haters are morons. They hate because they enjoy their art spoon fed to them by semi-talented morons like themselves who wouldn’t know an innovative artist if they were being serviced by one. It isn’t about shock, morons. It isn’t about being “scary.” Nothing ANYONE could do is scarier than a bunch of idiots crashing planes into buildings. Manson is what he is and his fans appreciate him for what he has to say. And I might add that music, like all good art, is subjective and what’s right for some ain’t for you. So you buy your silly safe little All American Rejects and FOB albums and we’ll listen to our fell prince and never the twain shall meet. Until we stomp a mudhole in your A$$ some night at the club.

WIlly,
Obviously its somewhat about the shock. Why else would he put out an album with a cover of him in a he she suit, or show up in videos carrying a cross of televisions? I’m not saying he’s not a musician, obviously he is, I’m just saying the image he likes to portray is that of the bad guy, the rebel. I heard him say he likes to play the villain in an interview. His lyrics and images are meant to get anyone and everyone to notice, hence the term Shock Rock. And just because I don’t like Marilyn Manson doesn’t mean I like the crap the play on the radio either. You’re entitled to your own tastes and I to mine.

Reading all of the pro versus con comments above is funny. Because that is exactly what Brian (so-called Manson) wants and wanted from the start. We go way back with him since the early SoFlo music scene when we were teens. And the haters are right – Brian MAY have some talent in him, but he IS too focused on shock and controversy to seek attention rather than on making great history-making music. Which is why all his albums are so predictable in content and themse… it’s a little tired now… Which is too bad, because my guess is that he DOES have some good music in him. he is a very gifted “artist.” But the Brian-fans are right too, he is a talented guy as well.

Why is it that if someone doesn’t dress like every other member of society they’re automatically considered a poser? SEriously, individuality is not a crime.

And as for manson, everything he is doing is art. Acting is art- the image he puts on in public is just as much his creation as the albums he produces.
The religious crowds going against him are just as bad as all of you out there who say he’s a poser.

Please, just let the man create his art without all the drama. MCR and FOB don’t receive drama when they release a new album, why should Manson?

BTW, manson rocks!!! Can’t wait for the new album

Snaves:
You have to see BEYOND teh “shock” of a cross made of TV sets, or him donning a pope outfit to sing the lines “In the shadow of the valley of death,” to the message. I know, I know – it’s so pretentious to have a message. Messages are for back masting and christian rock bands. We’re sorry, but there is a message to much of what Manson does, and the fans understand and appreciate that. I don’t care that he has a song with the word “swastika” in the title. I DO care, however about the context in which the statement is used. It’s art, man. Call it fake – I call it good as it gets.

In reality the Swastika was before the Nazi’s and they wore it before they killed Jews. In reality most of them didn’t know what they were doing or were even AWARE of it… Anyway.. The Swastika meant Hope, and still meant hope for the time of what they did. That’s what is made out of the song i believe, because i don’t see Manson as one of the people to discriminate people… Because he believes in spirituality and the inner harmony of one’s artistic self…

I don’t know what people want, honestly. Another antichrist? holy wood? mechanical animals? What’s the fun of making the same shit over and over again? Manson is a genius, he’s always evolving in every way and some people simply dont want to accept that, because he doesnt do the same album OVER AND OVER AGAIN LIKE SOME FUCKING SHITTY BANDS OUT THERE

hahaha the god of fuck is back!!! and just like always,the haters come out!! luv it!! manson rulez!!

Now that Twiggy is back, the band may go back to what it was way back in the golden age of manson’s career and before The Golden Age of Grotesque. It had a good rhythm and sound, but it was the same shallow stuff that other artists did so much. And Eat Me Drink Me portrayed Manson as a punk/emo rocker type that whined about losing thier girlfriends and having no friends. This album has to bring back the artist i know and love.

i think the song pretty as a swastika is an anti-nazi song manson can t be a nazi fan

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Truly honestly I’ve never seen such incompetence and mindless ignorance being potrayed and displayed for the World to see from a country as The United States of America especially, mother fuckers your making yourselves look like a fucking sack of shit, or maybe even worse…the man obviously is just being his own self, no one gives half a flying fuck as to what you fascists think,

WOAH WOAHHHH! GO GOD OF F U C K!!! You Rock I love you!!! YYYYAAAA! I love this new album! It rocks! keep on rockin MM!

Manson has brainwased everyone again! Leading everyone like the piper did all the rats. And everyone listening to the misic will go “into the fire” as track 14 plainly says. Wake up and smell the satanic coffee. He isn’t making art, he is pushing his religious bullcrap on all of us!

Wouldn’t it be completely hilarious if Manson came out with a Christian Rock album? I mean seriously, I would die laughing. Replacing his band with a chorus and singing, “Lift me up with all your glory; ignore my past anti-heavenly story.” *Giggles* I have to admit Arma-goddamn motherfucking-geddeon is on my playlist. Not much fan of his, but his interviews are what catch my attention. The guy is smart. I don’t care if you find him fantastic, tired, or scary as far as muic goes. He can still probably dominate you in debate about important hit. I’ll like to see him and Corey Taylor in an argument. I don’t care if you hate Manson or Slipknot. How “false” you might think they seem. Intellectual they have it.

Manson is sooo awsome!!! Big red, Manson can brainwash me if he wants to!!! Cause Im soooo fallin for it!!! Antichrist rulz and dont you forget it!!! And so does all of his albums!!! And I am so excited for his new album!! Keep on rockin that stage!!! And for the haters, they can suck ass! Manson I hope you will keep makin those albums!!! Hellz ya! Keep on rockin Manson!!!;-) Shock me, do your worst!!! ;-0 keep it up!

manson is a fake he sucks. listen to GG Allin the real king of rocknroll. he really lived the life of his twisted songs.

I’ve been a Marilyn Manson fan for over 10 years now, and this CD is as good as any other he’s made except maybe Mechanical Animals.

I don’t think he tries to be shocking, I think that’s a label that’s been placed on him by lame-oids like those at Rolling Stone.

I still think he makes some pretty incredible music, and in stark contrast to most of the cookie-cutter sounds you hear coming out of music labels these days each album Manson has done stands on its own rather than being a re-hash of previous material.

True artists are almost always misunderstood and not appreciated when they’re in the process of creating their art. And, the fans end up killing many artists because each one has their own conception of what they think was good about an artist before.

I actually like the fact so many people are crapping on this album (at least on this web site) because few things that are excellent or genius are ever mainstream. The mainstream public likes its vanilla ice cream and lyrics like the ones Manson wails on his CDs force people to be intelligent enough to understand what he’s talking about and open-minded enough to realize their assumptions about everyday life aren’t accepted by everyone.

His first single rails against the mainstream media, whose main function preaching Armageddon to the masses every day to encourage consumption. (Remember the Swine Flu?) I work in the media so I’m a witness to this every day. I think that is a point that would be lost on many of the critics here who probably haven’t even listened to this CD before slamming it.

There are also many other high points on this CD, including Devour, Leave a Scar, Blank and White, and Into the Fire. The CD does drag in a few places, but I also felt like the perennial favorite Anti-Christ Superstar had its hits and misses, too.

My Rating: 4/5

I don’t see the point of debating any of this shit. Manson is… Manson. He is and always has been a bad ass with good sounding shit. Shut the fuck up and listen to whatever sounds good. I am so sick of people who are ‘metalheads’ or ‘punks’… goddamn. I own every single Manson album out there and yeah I have every Eminem album out there too. Why? CAUSE IT SOUNDS GOOD. Fuck it.

watever. you dont think he’s “shocking”? well thats not the POINT. the media’s the one that called him the shock rocker in the first place. you people are so quick to judge. who the fuck named you critic?
well anyways, i have the new shirt! now im gonna buy the cd

Wow, don’t cry kids.
I hate die-hard Manson fans.
Get over it, his shit sucks now.
It was good at one point, but now he’s just trying way to hard.

He needs to just knock the bs off, it makes me sad to have to watch him make a fool of himself over and over again :CCCC

I think his CD is good. At first I thought ‘What is this about?’ And then I kept listening to it and suddenly it seemed slightly obvious. And it’s very anti-mainstream so why do people hate it? Well because it’s not mainstream crap. He’s not a people pleaser and his music is like poetry that no one understands. It’s rhetorical, metaphorical, and under-stated. It makes sense on every level and I think it’s amazing because I keep listening to it….until it hurts. I am not a die-hard fan either, I’ve always sort of liked his music but never listened to it as much until now when I get there’s core symbolism.

This is a comment refering to the alubm title being ripped off of Pigface. The title sounds more like it was taken from David Bowie’s scary monsters song. Strung out on heaven’s high hitting an all time low. I still love the album though, but I don’t care to attemp to convince anyone else to love it.

so what you haters are saying is that
i cant like Manson?

how many of you are better than him?

The High End of Low is such a raw and emotional record, and Twiggy did a great job witht he guitars on the album. Artisticaly it’s cohesive and yet fragmented, broken and yet full of conviction… I am a fan of every Manson album and I never get tired of his work because it is ever changing and new. The High end of Low is very dark, but not melodramatic. As always, this CD is full of depth and prokes thought, as the listener is bound to agree, disagree, and re-evaluate thier thoughts and feelings. A very human and vulnerable sign of Manson comes out…