One can Marilyn Manson are as you want, but one must give him credit: He's pretty original and innovative. In his albums he leaves nothing to chance, even the spelling of the tracks on the CD is well thought out. And he left Gottfried Helnwein designing the cover. But art or not when it comes to music, I would say: This CD is a brute Monument, just terrific, gloomy and dark. In the perfectly produced album Marilyn Manson discovered in his old age through the musicality and his willingness to experiment: there is a radio bass, then an electronic hum, and then the Breaks particularly adept employed. Especially the faster songs have so much power, "mOBSCENE" with its original video and the girls' choir I particularly like. Soon it is with "This is the new s ** t: begins first rather quiet until after about 50 seconds starts the full power. Other highlights and examples of perfect rock are hard "Use Your Fist and Not Your Mouth" or the launching with Klaviergeklimper "" Vodevil ", which after a short time the full Industrial - degenerates Rocker. Marilyn Manson's voice helps devoted to the sound of the CD can be rather difficult to compare with other bands. His voice often latches onto more by croaking or growl as for vocals and the lyrics are often bitter, but the songs are pure rock, with perfect guitar technique, hard drums and perfect rhythm. Nevertheless, I must just smile because I find it so original in some songs, probably these are not so seriously meant as Ka-Boom Ka-Boom or Doll Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety. Earlier I was Marilyn Manson itself unappealing and so I did not like his music. But since the last CD that I noticed especially by the great singles ("The Fight Song" or "Disposable Teens" you simply blows away) I can only hear the music and let the trappings away. And so I have to say this is "The Golden Age of Grotesque" one of the best rock albums of this year. Thus one can recommend to buy it entirely. Interestingly, it created the CD on the Billboard charts at number 1 (though only for a week), although the predecessor - CD could not even 500,000 units in the US to sell. But at the same time it was one of the worst-selling CD's No.1 in the Billboard - history (only 110,000 in the first week, sometimes is not even enough for 5th place, with a little luck, but in the right week published).
