The 2009 and still current album of Marilyn Manson "The High End of Low" was commercially quite a flop, probably the fact that the fictional character Marilyn Manson over time has become more matte and today's society no longer schokieren and thus no longer even aufallen can. About the musical value of this album but that says nothing! In my opinion, we are dealing with the best Mansonalbum since "Holy Wood": it is significantly more emotional than once that pretty supercooled "The Golden Age of Grotesque" without so contrived as to its predecessor, "Eat me, Drink me "to be. Consistently, however, the album is a little more aggressive than its predecessor yet for Marilyn Manson relatively calm conditions. Consistently prevails a rather gloomy atmosphere which is being implemented with completely different also MMuntypischen arrangements. "Devour" for example, starts quietly and almost faltered only with a wonderful electric guitar melody and Stegert in the course of the song to a Mansontypischen, haunting cry. Even in hard rockendem "Pretty as a Swastika" screaming Manson apparently any frustration, thus creating but strangely also a very haunting song. "Four rustet Horses" offers a change of style as the song most with an almost-like Country Akustikguitarre is accompanied, even here singer Marilyn Manson increases in the course of the play purely on and on, up to a seemingly screaming pain. Thematically there were those songs on "Eat me, drink me" but they sound on "The High End of Low" for my ears intuitive and honest emotional. "WOW" is a downright danceable, very electronic piece, which stylistically somewhat reminiscent of "Golden Age of Grotesque", here Manson performs rather in chanting which is also a good variety. "We're from America" is a very well-done up-tempo number with a furious verlogegne the American Society anprangernden text was supposed to be a hit. One, if not the highlight of the album is, "Into the Fire": carried by piano and strings Rockbalade with a great, catchy piano melody and on this album eindringlisten Manson. The book ends with "15", an electronic, rather experimental, but quiet and emotional song which forms a good contrast to "Into the Fire". Totaly is "The High End of Low" very sophisticated and musically varied, an album theme, as it was usual with Mansonalben, but missing, so that it is more of a aneinaderreihung quality songs. The themes of the songs are usually very personally what is reflected also in the manner of performance. Social criticism or political songs, however, are sown somewhat sparse for my taste.
