The High End Of Low [Deluxe Edition] [PA]

Performer: Marilyn Manson
Engineer: Chris Vrenna; Jeremy Underwood; Wesley Michener; Justin Hergett; Mike Riley; Sean Beavan
Producer: Chris Vrenna; Marilyn Manson; Sean Beavan; Twiggy
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Programmer: Chris Vrenna. Audio Mixer: Sean Beavan. Audio Remasterer: Ted Jensen. Recording information: Sage And Sound. Marilyn Manson, the self-proclaimed "Antichrist Superstar" who raised the ire of legions of concerned parents and civic groups in the late `90s, is not exactly the picture of mainstream respectability. But a decade on from his taking the shock-rock canon to a new heights, Manson has redirected the travails of his personal life into the intimate--at times, disarmingly genteel--confessionals on his seventh studio album, THE HIGH END OF LOW. While Manson's darkly intoned snarl and the band's characteristic industrial riffing remain as potent as ever on "Leave a Scar" and "Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin-Geddon," other tracks, such as the world-weary "Devour" and the acoustic guitar-driven ballad "Running to the Edge of the World," reveal a vulnerable, albeit still sinister, facet to one of rock's most iconic transgressors.

Spin (p.91) - "15 necromantic vamps, mass-murder ballads, and stormtrooper anthems....He hasn't sounded this vital -- and tuneful -- since MECHANICAL ANIMALS." Q (Magazine) (p.127) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Manson the man at least seems re-energised here, playing the part of pantomime sex pest with a flourish that recalls those mid-'90s glory days."

Initially mentored by Nine Inch Nails mainman Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson created an accessible, highly successful variant on the former's electronic-tinged industrial rock. Manson took shock-rock to a whole new plateau in the late-1990s, influenced by past theatrical rockers like Kiss, Alice Cooper, and Motley Crue--and not since the days of those bands had religious and parental groups despised a rock group so much. Of course, the resulting controversy endowed Marilyn Manson with publicity and album sales in equally vast amounts. Although Manson talked about retiring from the music biz after the release of his 2004 album, he came back refreshed in 2007 with EAT ME DRINK ME, inspired by his crumbling marriage to Dita Von Teese.

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