The word on the street is that Marilyn Manson’s highly anticipated new effort, The Pale Emperor, is the veteran shock rocker’s graceful and long-awaited return to form. Indeed, hearing a reinvigorated Manson toe the line between creeping and crooning on new single ‘Cupid Carries A Gun’, it seems the singer has entered a new renaissance.
On his latest unnerving dispatch, the creative mind behind some of the most controversial musical statements of the modern era, including Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals, and Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), introduces elements of church floor-burning country into his characteristically dark and eerie soundscapes.
Having provided music listeners with some of the most eloquent and fearless attacks on the media and mainstream culture with his first string of albums, The Pale Emperor sees Manson once again turning his gaze inwards, a journey that began with 2007’s deeply personal and staggeringly visceral Eat Me, Drink Me.
