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MANSON AND SLAYER TO CO-HEADLINE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

SLAYER and MARILYN MANSON have announced that they will co-headline a North American major-market summer tour beginning on July 25 on the East Coast. Plans are for the tour to play some twenty-five cities and wrap up early September on the West Coast. A full, confirmed schedule will be announced shortly. MANSON and SLAYER will each play full sets, and two support bands, yet to be determined, will open all shows.

Just prior to the American trek, both MANSON and SLAYER will be on tour throughout Europe, sharing the stage at three European festivals — the U.K.'s Download Festival at Donington (June 9), Greenfield Festival in Switzerland (June 15), and Sweden's Metaltown Festival (June 30).

Source: Blabbermouth

Artist on Artist: Marilyn Manson and Danny Elfman

The MySpace.com series Artist on Artist is now featuring an interview with Marilyn Manson and Danny Elfman. The video is available online here. An extended version of the interviews can also be found on IGN.com, here.

The official "Nightmare Before Christmas" 3-D film and soundtrack MySpace page, which features a preview of Marilyn Manson's "This Is Halloween", is here.

Marilyn Manson will be performing "This Is Halloween" live on the Jay Leno's Tonight Show, Halloween night, October 31st.

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Manson's Gallery Opens In Los Angeles

The Celebritarian Corporation Gallery Of Fine Art in Los Angeles, California, was officially opened on Halloween following a private reception with Manson and guests. Attendees were treated to a stunning display of Manson's original works amassed together for the first time since 2004.

The premiere showing was a tremendous success with patrons lingering until well after the anticipated closing time. Future exhibits will include additionals works by Marilyn Manson as-well-as other celebrated artists.

For more information about the Celebritarian Corporation Gallery Of Fine Art, visit the ARTWORKS section.

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Marilyn Manson Spooks Hollywood

It's Halloween," said Marilyn Manson at the October 31st opening of his new Hollywood art gallery, the Celebritarian Corporation Gallery of Fine Art. Standing tall in a black suit and thick platform shoes, his eye sockets smeared with blue makeup, he added, "Not necessarily the best night for people to be interested in looking at art."

So Manson - fresh off a Tonight Show appearance that featured pyrotechnic Christmas trees - debuted some new paintings at an absinthe-soaked costume party. "This is lighting up the night with insaneness," he said, introducing a friend dressed in a clown outfit and blue wig. "He's not in costume. He is a cable repairman, and he steals girls' underpants."

Among the guests was actress Evan Rachel Wood, who arrived as a vampire. Wood first met Manson when he asked her to be in his upcoming horror film Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll. Now there is a watercolor of her sharing wall space with a painting of Jon-Benet Ramsey and a large piece depicting a nude Adolf Hitler with breasts and a drooping penis. "It came as kind of a shock," Wood said. "I was beyond flattered."

The gallery represents a period of accelerating activity for Manson, who is nearly done with an album set for a 2007 release. "The process of opening a gallery ended up inspiring me to make a new record," he said. "We're about two songs away from a finished album that we didn't even have a few months ago. It sounds rather pretentious sometimes, but it's easier for me to just call myself an artist - if I decide to do music or if I decide to do a film, it works. I just want to uphold a level of integrity."

Syndicate; Rolling Stone Issue 1014, November 30th, 2006

Juxtapoz Magazine: Piper Ferguson Shoot

Manson is an amazing painter, artist, showman, and he's pretty funny. He's also obsessed with Salvador Dali. He had a Dali costume on hand because he was suppose to play him in a movie, but it didn't work out. Manson awoke when we arrived at 6 pm to do the shoot, and let's just say he didn't offer us a cup of tea and a bagel. He welcomed us into his house of games that's as surreal as a Dali painting. Characters you didn't even know were there surprisingly popped out of places after hours had passed. In case you were wondering, Manson's the real deal."

Syndicate; JUXTAPOZ Issue 72, January 2007

Rolling Stone Listens to Eat Me, Drink Me

Rolling Stone's Austin Scaggs listened to EAT ME, DRINK ME and writes; "Things got really interesting on Saturday when the Smoking Section drove out to the Valley at the behest of Marilyn Manson. The S.S. joined Manson in his rec room where we worked our way down the belly of a bottle of German absinth and were blown away as Manson debuted his new album, EAT ME, DRINK ME. The key cut is "If I Was Your Vampire," a six-minute epic with the lyric "The Hole Is Where the Heart Is." If anyone thought Manson was down for the count, think again." Syndicate; Rolling Stone, Issue 1021, March 8th, 2007

Manson's Dark Return

The Antichrist Superstar exorcises some demons - including his divorce - on new album BY AUSTIN SCAGGS

Marilyn Manson sits in the front room of his home in San Fernando Valley, drinking from a bottle of rose-tinted absinthe. The house feels dark and unwelcoming - his estranged wife, model Dita Von Teese, has recently moved out - and Manson apologizes for the disarray. Without the makeup that he usually wears in public, and dressed casually in black, Manson pours himself into a couch and explains the turmoil that's plagued him for much of the past year - and ultimately led him to restart his musical career with a new album, EAT ME, DRINK ME, due in June. The songs, he says, "are clearly written to seduce somebody," though he is hesitant to divulge whom. "I don't want people to think the record is some kind of exploitation of my personal life," says Manson. "At the same time, it also represents exactly who I am and what I feel."

For the next few hours, Manson plays unmastered cuts from EAT ME, DRINK ME and describes his year in hell. "Halfway through last year I was in such a black hole of depression," he says. "I couldn't make anything, I couldn't do anything. I lost hope." At the time, Manson's mother was diagnosed with a mental illness and, he says, "I got trapped in one of the classic rock & roll cliches of having people that work for me rob me behind my back." He had no interest in making music, and the film project he was focused on - Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll based on the twisted life of Lewis Carroll - became a psychological burden.

Manson says he was finally uplifted by a close friend's morbid gesture of devotion. "She picked up a butcher's knife and said, 'Here, you can stab me,'" he says. "When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore." This theme is depicted in the six-minute epic "If I Was Your Vampire," which Manson wrote on Christmas. "That song is the new 'Bela Lugosi's Dead,'" says Manson. "It's the all-time gothic anthem."

The album's lyrics were written after last Halloween. That night, Manson presided over the opening of his Los Angeles art gallery. The next morning he left his home in the Valley and set up temporary digs at a studio-equipped house in the Hollywood Hills. "Suddenly," he says, "I felt liberated. I'd write a song, walk two doors down the hall and record it right then." Manson's lyrics, which were recorded over tracks by Tim Skold (who joined Manson's band in 2002 as bassist), came quickly. "I was writing out of desperation and hope," he says. "The record came out in a rush - like an open wound - and I went with it."

"Just A Car Crash Away" is a Bic-waving ballad, a death march punctuated by Skold's searing guitar solo. "The Red Carpet Grave" is classic Manson, echoing with buzz saws and primitive percussion. (In fact, on "You, Me and the Devil Makes 3" they beat on a metal skunk trap they found outside the house.) Manson wrote the album's first single, "Putting Holes in Happiness," on his birthday, and describes it as "a romantic-misogynistic-cannibal-gothic-vampire ballad."

Manson hopes to release a film in conjunction with the disc that he claims "is nothing short of the most horrifying horror that you could ever experience." He will also tour this summer, debuting live versions of the new songs at European festivals. "I really wanted to be a singer on this album," he says. "This is very earnest and uncalculated and raw, in the sense that I know I'm fucked up, and I'm really not ashamed of it."

Syndicate; Rolling Stone, Issue 1022, April 2007

DITA, PENTHOUSE COVER "...What Manson's Missing"

Manson, while not the focus of the article, had his name subject to the April edition of Penthouse, featuring a spread of Dita Von Teese, entitled "See What Manson's Missing":

No actual relevant content pertaining to Manson, apart from a brief mention from Mrs. Von Teese about the divorce, and that she's now "within anyone's grasp".

This is My Body Which is Given for You - Eat Me, Drink Me

Set for a June 5th, 2007 release, Manson's new studio LP features 11 songs:

1. If I Was Your Vampire

2. Putting Holes In Happiness

3. The Red Carpet Grave

4. They Said That Hell’s Not Hot

5. Just A Car Crash Away

6. Heart-Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand)

7. Evidence

8. Are You The Rabbit ?

9. Mutilation is the Most Sincere Form Of Flattery

10. You And Me And The Devil Makes 3

11. EAT ME, DRINK ME

Source: MansonUSA

Marilyn Manson in Rolling Stone

Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me Out June 5th

Manson spent most of 2006 exorcising personal demons, but Halloween night proved a turning point. The next morning, Manson began writing his most honest work ever. "I've never been willing to write about myself in this way," he says, "because I didn't want to deal with the reaction from people around me." Referencing Lolita (the first single, "Heart-Shaped Glasses") and Bonnie and Clyde, and featuring car crashes around every bend, Eat Me, Drink Me is a mirror reflection of Manson's inner turmoil.

Source: Rolling Stone

Heart-Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand) Preview

Le Mouv', a French music station, has recently posted a 32 second clip from what sounds to be the chorus of Manson's first single off of Eat Me, Drink Me.

Heart-Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand)

Eat Me, Drink Me is currently slated for a June 5th release

[Placeholder: Gonna shove in the .mp3 of HSG here later tonight]

April 16, 2007. New MarilynManson.com.

Official Marilyn Manson MySpace and Vampire Freaks Profiles

Two new official Marilyn Manson sites are now online at Myspace and Vampire Freaks.

Listen to Heart Shaped Glasses and If I Was Your Vampire, exclusive track off EAT ME, DRINK ME on the Myspace page! http://www.myspace.com/marilynmanson http://www.vampirefreaks.com/marilynmanson Source: www.marilynmanson.com

Heart Shaped Glasses Now on iTunes

Heart Shaped Glasses Video Preview