There seems to always be something during the year that makes me shake my head and say "well, I didn't see that coming"... bands that I never expected to like, sneaking into my brain and planting seeds that bloom into obsession. Well, this year I have spent more time than I ever thought that I would listening to Marilyn Manson. Honestly, checking the stats as of today, I've listened to Marilyn Manson more than any other band this year. Shocking.
I had a very brief period around 2000 when I tried to get into Marilyn Manson. I was listening to some nu metal stuff at the time like Slipknot, System Of Down and Limp Bizkit and Marilyn Manson seemed to be in that same circle... and while I downloaded a few albums at the time, none of them really stuck with me. Last year, my friend Sarah shared the song New Model No. 15 with me and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I casually listened to a few songs through 2024, and while I liked what I heard, it wasn't anything that I intentionally queued up. Then in January this year, Sarah sent me a message asking if I wanted to "listen to the worst Manson album" with her... where we would dedicate a week getting to know Born Villain and then circle back to share our thoughts. Surprisingly, I found that I was having fun with it, so she shared a couple of other songs from his discography, and before I knew it I was obsessing over all of The Golden Age Of Grotesque. It was heavy and had an attitude and there were so many hooks that I had it in constant rotation for weeks. All of this eventually brought me to the point of checking out the newest Marilyn Manson album, One Assassination Under God, that was released last year.
Marilyn Manson has no right releasing an album this good this late in the game. I'm not sure if it's because I've been riding a Manson high, or if the album really is that good, but I love this record... and when Sarah told me that Amazon had it listed for under $20, I jumped to order myself a copy.
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