Marilyn Manson returns with his eleventh studio album We Are Chaos via Loma Vista Recordings. Co-produced by Manson and Shooter Jennings [Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker], the ten-track opus was written, recorded, and finished before the global pandemic.
Manson’s painting, Infinite Darkness, which can be seen on the album cover, was specifically created to accompany the music. His fine art paintings continue to be shown all over the world, including gallery and museum exhibitions from Miami to Vienna to Moscow.
Manson says of the album, “When I listen to We Are Chaos now, it seems like just yesterday or as if the world repeated itself, as it always does, making the title track and the stories seem as if we wrote them today. This was recorded to its completion without anyone hearing it until it was finished. There is most definitely a side A and side B in the traditional sense. But just like an LP, it is a flat circle and it’s up to the listener to put the last piece of the puzzle into the picture of songs.
“This concept album is the mirror Shooter and I built for the listener - it’s the one we won’t stare into. There are so many rooms, closets, safes and drawers. But in the soul or your museum of memories, the worst are always the mirrors. Shards and slivers of ghosts haunted my hands when I wrote most of these lyrics.
“Making this record, I had to think to myself: ‘Tame your crazy, stitch your suit. And try to pretend that you are not an animal’ but I knew that mankind is the worst of them all. Making mercy is like making murder. Tears are the human body’s largest export.”
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: It's funny isn't it, that as we mature, the artists we've known from our youth go and do the same thing. Sure, the Slipknot and Marilyn Manson and Deftones of yesteryear are still making music, but it definitely doesn't sound the same. That's definitely no bad thing, with the slowed pace and less chaotic energy of Manson's heyday replaced with a more measured and placid artistic outlook still hitting all of the emotional notes of yore, just with less NOISE.
TRACK LISTING
CD / Digital
01. Red Black And Blue
02. We Are Chaos
03. Don’t Chase The Dead
04. Paint You With My Love
05. Half-Way & One Step Forward
06. Infinite Darkness
07. Perfume
08. Keep My Head Together
09. Solve Coagula
10. Broken Needle
CD (Deluxe)
01. Red Black And Blue
02. We Are Chaos
03. Don’t Chase The Dead
04. Paint You With My Love
05. Half-Way & One Step Forward
06. Infinite Darkness
07. Perfume
08. Keep My Head Together
09. Solve Coagula
10. Broken Needle
11. We Are Chaos (Acoustic)
12. Broken Needle (Acoustic)
Vinyl
Side A
01. Red Black And Blue
02. We Are Chaos
03. Don’t Chase The Dead
04. Paint You With My Love
05. Half-Way & One Step Forward
Side B
01. Infinite Darkness
02. Perfume
03. Keep My Head Together
04. Solve Coagula
05. Broken Needle
