I'm all for a bit on controversy, and Marilyn Manson is a seasoned professional when it comes to irking people, but on his new album, 'The High End Of Low', he's honed the art down to something that surely even the most hardened conservatives are just going to laugh at. Maybe I'm underestimating hardened conservatives, but track titles like 'Pretty Like A Swastika', 'Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon', and 'I Want To Kill You Like They Do In The Movies' do seem almost like parody.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe Manson can say something to show there's some sort of intellectual reasoning behind all of this. Here's what he told Kerrang!: "This is not a record that we would leave black and self-titled and mature. This is the experienced record. This album is the twelfth-grade guy that has VD and did cocaine in high school, who has been arrested once and the ninth-grade girl wants to fuck him". That'll be a no then.