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Marilyn Manson has just finished off the final touches to his fifth album, 'The Golden Age Of the Grotesque'. Check out what he had to say in an exclusive interview in this week's Kerrang! magazine. He claims that the band are 'ready to change the face of art' and goes on to tell Kerrang! "Every great empire is based on art. It eradicates countries, gender and race. But art is always such a pretentious, intangible thing that is talked about in coffee houses. We're ready to change the face of art, and bring it to a level it belongs. To the level of the people."
Marilyn Manson will release "The Golden Age of Grotesque" on May 13, 2003 on Interscope Records. The tracklisting is as follows:
Intro
This Is The New Shit
mOBSCENE
Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag
Use Your Fist And Not Your Mouth
The Golden Age Of Grotesque
(s)AINT
Ka-Boom Ka-Boom
Slutgarden
Spade
Para-noir
The Bright Young Things
Better Of Two Evils
Vodevil
Obsequy (The Death Of Art)
The album is produced by Marilyn Manson and Tim Skold and mixed by Ben Grosse. The first single will be "mOBSCENE."
Marilyn Manson takes his inspirations from the glamour of 1930s Hollywood, the grotesque of Vaudeville to the extreme height of cabaret decadence and so-called "degenerate" art in Weimar Berlin just before its destruction.
Manson says, "This album is about expression. The imagination and personality of the individual cannot be trapped by small minds or defined by any one person. The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive. That, is who we are."
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