Marilyn Manson Press Release 2009 - March 21st 2009

Following Kerrang interview Manson has released a 'press statement' on his official sites talking further about his upcoming new album 'The High End Of Low'.

In the press release Manson also talks about the download 'We Are Americans' which Kerrang had originally said was for release bow, but this has been dated at a March 27th date.

As well as he press release a new photo of Manson has appeared on his myspace page. Taken by Delaney Bishop, a filmaker who previously worked with Manson's ex wife Dita Von Teese on the shrt movie ‘The Death of Salvador Dali’ this is the first glimpse inside the 'hard' new era Manson has promised.

MANSON PRESS RELEASE 2009

MARILYN MANSON RELEASES “WE’RE FROM AMERICA” FROM
THE HIGH END OF LOW

AVAILABLE AS FREE DOWNLOAD AT MARILYN MANSON.COM MARCH 27th
(March 23rd, 2009)— Marilyn Manson’s anticipated reunion with longtime friend and foil Twiggy Ramirez inches closer with the release of “We're From America,” the first listen from the forthcoming The High End of Low. Available as a free download March 27th, exclusively on MarilynManson.com, the song will be available as a digital single on April 7th and will preview Manson’s forthcoming seventh studio album landing May 26th.
The album’s official first single “Arma… geddon” will arrive at radio April 13th. Manson’s new lineup including Ramirez (for the first time in close to a decade), plus keyboardist Chris Vrenna, and dummer Ginger Fish, will close the main stage at the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, this July through August. Manson will also kick off his world tour with a headline festival run this June in Europe

Produced by Manson ,Vrenna,and Twiggy, The High End of Low was recorded in his Hollywood Hills studio and also features the track, “I Want to Kill You Like They Do In The Movies.” Manson says of the new album, "I think my life definitely ended and began. The record sounds very final, but it's almost optimistic - though that feels like a strange word to use. It's a phoenix from the fire and a redemption resurrection."

Since emerging from South Florida.. in the early 1990s, Marilyn Manson has continued to upend the mainstream with each new release. The tumultuous relationship Manson has cultivated with the public worldwide has resulted in multi-million records sales, sold-out tours, protests, legal battles, hate, adoration, award-winning distilled spirits (Mansinthe) and most importantly, a long list of some of the most enduring and genre-defying music in the rock era (“Lunchbox,” “Sweet Dreams,” “The Beautiful People,” “Tourniquet,” “The Dope Show,” “This Is The New Shit,” “Mobscene,” “Heart-Shaped Glasses,”etc.)
The first one’s always free. Beginning with a small, slow dose on March 27th with “We Are From America,” the new era of Marilyn Manson and The High End of Low begins now.

Manson world exclusive interview with KERRANG!- March 19th 2009

Manson has spoken to UK rock magazine Kerrang in the frst interview for the promotion of upcoming album The High End Of Low.

In the interview Manson talks about teaming up with Twiggy, how the album will be a hard not heavy production and about a download track 'We Are Americans' which will be made available from the official site, (Although the article says 'now' the track has yet to appear on Manson's website). Read the full article below.

'I GAVE MYSELF 158 SCARS IN ONE DAY'

Marilyn Manson Makes “Cocksure”, Autobiographical New Album.

Marilyn Manson has spoken exclusively to Kerrang! About his band’s upcoming new studio album, The High End of Low. The 15-Track record sees Manson reunited with former bassist and writing partner Twiggy Ramirez – who left the band in 2002 citing creative differences – and producer Sean Beaven (Nine Inch Nails, Slayer) who recorded the band’s 1996 breakthrough album, Antichrist Superstar. Tracks set to appear on the release include I Want To Kill You Like They Do In The Movies, Arma-goddamn-motherfucking-geddon, Devour, Four Rusted Horses, album closer 15, and We’re From America, which was made available as a free download from the band’s site www.marilynmanson.com, earlier this week.

We’re From America is the first track fans will hear from the album, can you give us more details about the song?

“I think a lot of people will hear the track and initially think it’s just political, but it’s not just that, it’s also me describing a lot of fucked-up scenarios that I’m going through in my personal life. Someone asked me, 'Why are you so fucked up?', ‘Well, I am from America.’ I hate the fact that so many people have fucked the country up, and so many people fucked up my personal life and I allowed it to happen. So in a way, I feel like America as a whole feels, but in no way does that make me a tree-hugging patriotic freedom rocker.”

What sound were you going for in the studio?

“It was just to not worry so much about trying to be professional, or trying to be anything. The guitar sounds like [Twiggy’s] dick when it’s hard. That’s why I describe the record as 'hard', not 'heavy'. Because if you’re going to have a music that is going to be called a ‘dick’ – would you want it to be heavy? That’s a burden. Or ‘hard’ Cos then you could do things with it. The record comes across – no pun intended – with the confidence of someone who is cocksure – no pun intended. It’s completely unafraid of anything.

Were you concerned with what the record company would think of it?

“No. At one point I told everyone, 'I don’t really care'. What are they gonna do? Return it? You gonna fire me? Call in some special police who come down and yell at me. Did you forget what band you are dealing with? The record companies seem only recently to be having some strange concern that I might be crazy. Really? I might be crazy? I think they’re a little late on that one!”

How would you describe the overall attitude of the album?

“This is not a record that we would leave black and self-titled and mature. This is the experienced record. This album is the 12th Grade guy that has VD and did cocaine in high school, who has been arrested once and the 9th Grade girl wants to fuck him.”

Does the album have a running concept or any specific themes?

“The songs on this record are quite autobiographical, but they’re also very much their own stories in the same sense as some of my earlier work on Antichrist Superstar. The songs are in the order in which they were written and sung. It was a story that took place and I didn’t really know what it was going to be till it happened. I had to find out how it was going to end in order to end the record. This album left many scars, and I think they are good ones.”

Literal scars too?

“Well, I gave myself 158 scars in one day. It was me trying to prove a point to someone – myself. It wasn’t like my years in the past of self-mutilation, something to be hidden, or a type of compulsion. This is more like tattoos, 158 things that happened that day and I wanted remind myself.”

Are there any other reminders of the record’s creation?

“I wrote all the lyrics on the wall of my room. It wasn’t to be decorative; it was one of those things, like it’s the last thing someone sees before they put them somewhere else. I think it looks good. And if anyone wants to come into this room and fornicate with me, I think they are a keeper… and when I say keeper, I mean kidnapping. I am probably going to do most of the press for the record from my house, before I leave or destroy it, because you can see the story and what the record as made from within the house.”

How else did you document it?

“During the whole process I took a lot of photos, so the artwork is a lot of storytelling and the way that the songs have turned out is more from my point of view rather than looking at me. Because I always wanted to take pictures, my house is set up like a movie set. Instead of lamps I have movie lights and smoke machines and things.”

Does the album also have a movie quality to it?

“Yes. I really look at this record as a film, maybe because I sort of directed it. I stopped trying to conform regular life into the idea that it’s regular life. Why isn’t it all just a movie? If people are watching, they’re watching me being an asshole or being boring or creating something amazing. That’s just a part of the movie. It allowed me to be more creative.”

Are there any tracks in particular that surprised you or will surprise fans?

“15 is track 15 on the album. It’s the most important song I think that’s been written by Marilyn Manson as an entity. It’s the most unusual song I have ever heard. I thought that the album was done, as there is a glorious epic track [before that] that I think will make Twiggy forever recognised as a guitar hero. That felt like the end of the record, but what was happening in my life had not resolved itself. So on January 5, one five, I sung 15 and the lyrics will tell the story of that day…”

Did finishing the record mark the end and a resolution of your problems

“I think that my life definitely ended and began. The record sounds very final, but it’s almost optimistic – thought that feels a strange word to use. It’s a phoenix from the fire and a redemption, resurrection.”

Metal Hammer magazine announces release date - March 10th 2009

UK rock music magazine Metal Hammer has revealed the UK release date for The High End of Low, the eagerly awaited new album from Marilyn Manson.

May 18th is the date they give, with Mansonusa speculating that the US release will follow one day later, May 19th.

This will be preceeded by the release of the first single from the album, 'Armagedon' on May 11th.

Producer Sean Beavan speaks - March 10th 2009

Producer Sean Beavan has been speaking about his latest work on the upcoming Marilyn Manson album.

Beaven who has worked with nine Inch Nails as well as working on previosu Marilyn Manson releases posted a blog on his myspace page:

-Marilyn Manson-
Before heading to Cleveland I finished mixing and co-producing the latest and perhaps greatest Marilyn Manson effort "The High End of Low" It stars the return of Tiggy Ramirez to the musical drivers seat and also enlisted the talents of producer/programmer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Vrenna.
I came in to help produce the vocal tracks and mix, so it really was the team that finished Antichrist Superstar. This is a great record, Manson is in fine form, writing some of his best lyrics to date. Some of my favorites include "15", "Arma-God Damn-Mother Fuckin'-Geddon", and "Four Rusted Horses". I'm really happy about this record and it was great to have the four of us working together again.

Further festival dates - March 10th 2009

Manson's summer diary dates continues to fill up as he added more festival dates to his itinerary.

Including the UK's Download Festival, for which Manson will make his 3rd appearance (2003 and 2007 previously), Manson will also be appearing at HellFest in France and Kobetasonik in Spain.

New tour dates

 

Kobetasonik - Spain - June 19th 2009: More info: fnacspectacles.com and kobetasonik.com

Download Festival - UK - 13 June 2009: More info: .downloadfestival.co.uk

Hellfest - France - 19 June 2009: More info: hellfest.fr/web08/