As producer, Reznor would repurpose the latter’s off-kilter, droning aesthetic for “Apple Of Sodom,” the Manson track that landed on his soundtrack for David Lynch’s Lost Highway. The darkly ambient “Tourniquet” was the closest the band has ever gotten to a love song, and the avant-industrial “Cryptorchid” was their askew take on art-rock. New territory was successfully traversed, too. “The Beautiful People,” a militant, anti-establishment battle cry that stacks sharp guitars against Manson’s subterranean vocals, was Antichrist’s crowning achievement – and remains one of the best Marilyn Manson songs. It also served as aural aperitif to the crisper, more industrial sound of their break-out album, Antichrist Superstar, a record with songs like “Angel With the Scabbed Wings” and “Irresponsible Hate Anthem,” envisioned by producers Reznor and Dave Ogilvie (of Skinny Puppy, a clear influence on Marilyn Manson’s early sound). Though infamous, the group didn’t technically become successful until releasing its Smells Like Children EP, which featured a dirge-like cover of the Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This).” Loosely themed around darker children’s movies such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, the EP went platinum. That same year, occultist Anton LaVey made Manson a reverend in his Church Of Satan. In 1994, Salt Lake City attempted to ban the already infamous band, claiming that their act promoted “indecent, obscene, immoral conduct” and was “publicly obscene and lacking in good taste.” Nevertheless, Reznor invited them to be his opening act at Salt Lake City, where Manson proceeded to rip pages from the Book Of Mormon. “Dope Hat” takes it even further with a critique on the allure of drugs for everyday people. It also visits schools with “Lunchbox,” which opens with a kid dropping profanities and culminates in a guttural chorus about exacting revenge on bullies. This assault on suburban life extends to abortion clinics with “Get Your Gunn,” a track about the murder of Dr David Gunn, by an anti-abortionist zealot.
Its opening song, “Cake And Sodomy,” a gleefully depraved singalong, set this tone, with Manson introducing himself thusly: “I am the god of f_k.” Marilyn Manson soon dropped Portrait Of An American Family, their Reznor-produced debut album, which was at turns cheeky (sampling John Waters dialogue) and aggressively anthemic. Their union was as much Reznor’s bragging right as countercultural curator as it was Manson’s willingness as a gifted button-pusher to be his mentor’s most twisted success story. But what was once a rebellious confection rooted in Alice Cooper shock grew into weightier themes and theatrics aimed at dismantling conventional familial life, in particular that of god-fearing conservatives (hence, songs like “Personal Jesus” and “The Reflecting God”).Įndeavouring to flesh out his new label with provocative acts, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor signed the band – their name now shortened to Marilyn Manson – to Nothing Records in 1993.
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