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Cassette: Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar 1996 Interscope INTC90086 w/ Sleeve
15.00 USD
15.00 USD
17 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023
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Interscope Records
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The American rock group Marilyn Manson's second studio album is titled Antichrist Superstar. On October 8, 1996, Nothing and Interscope Records released it. The band's lead singer, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Sean Beavan, and former Skinny Puppy producer Dave Ogilvie produced the album, which was recorded at Nothing Studios in New Orleans. Excessive drug use throughout the album's recording process led to a great deal of animosity amongst the band members. As a result, it was the last album on which original guitarist Daisy Berkowitz appeared. Daisy was amicably fired during the recording process.
Antichrist Superstar, a concept album and rock opera, was the first of three albums, the other two being Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) (2000) and Mechanical Animals (1998). The album's main plot focused on a supernatural entity that takes over humankind and uses it to start a cataclysmic end event. This creature is a populist demagogue who is only motivated by hatred, misanthropy, and despair, and he uses his newfound power to destroy everything. By using this premise as a metaphor for the alleged fascist components of the Christian right and the conservative political movement in North America, the record can be understood as a social critique.
Before the album's release, "The Beautiful People" was a commercial and critical success, earning three nominations for its music video at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards. According to Rolling Stone's Lorraine Ali, Antichrist Superstar put an end to grunge's hegemony in popular music. Numerous publications have ranked it as one of the top albums of the 1990s in the years following its release. The album sold nearly two million copies in the US alone since it debuted at number three on the Billboard 200. Global album sales exceeded seven million copies as of 2011.
The "Dead to the World Tour" was a contentious promotional campaign for the album that drew harsh criticism from sections of the Christian right. Religious organizations picketed almost every North American venue the band played, mostly due to false and inflated allegations of drug use, bestiality, and Satanic rituals involving the sacrifice of animals and even humans. Additionally, the band was the focus of congressional hearings that sought to link them to a fan's suicide. In 1997, soundtracks to several previously unheard songs were released, such as "Apple of Sodom" and "Long Hard Road Out of Hell".