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Background from Google search resultBorn on January 5th 1969 in Canton Ohio,child of Barbara and Hugh Warner,Brian Hugh Warner didn't know that years later he would become the world most famous and contraversial shock rocker of our times.As a child he was scared of his grandfather Jack Angus Warner's basement that he classified as "hell" for him but his curiosity dragged him to the off limited room that would scar him for the rest of his life. He went to Christian Heritage School of Canton Ohio where he rebelled,sold candies and made a comic book called "STUPID" that teachers along with the principal didn't appreciate.He gradually began to resent the christian school he was in,he realized that the suffering they had,they had imposed on themselves.The seeds of who he is now were then planted. He was a proud member of the KISS Army and he woke up every morning staring at Kiss,Judas Priest,Iron Maiden,David Bowie,Mötley Crüe and Black Sabbath.Their hidden messages reached him. He left Canton Ohio as a teenager to move to Fort Lauderdale Florida.For him it was a new beginning,Brian Hugh Warner was going to "die" and he was going to become the man we know today.The Antichrist was about to be conceived. During his teenage years in Florida,the sex,drugs,rock and occult had found him.He read books that opened his mind like the Necronomicon and No One Here Get's Out Alive,a Jim Morrison Bio.He wrote poems that he sent to many magazines but in vain,only one of his poem was published in a small journal called The Writer's Block.He was disapointed in his first year in Florida,because he thought that the more he worked the less it paid off.He thought of his life as pathetic for the reasons that he was living with his parents and attending Broward Community College where he studied journalism and theater.To make extra money,he worked at a record store as a night manager.He got fired for job-shirking.After getting fired,he worked for a local freebie entertainment guide called Tonight Today,writing rock criticism.Soon after,he worked for a magazine called the 25th Parallel as a senior editor,conning the owners that he had a degree in journalism and had written numerous national publications.He interviewed Debbie Harry,Malcom McLaren and the Red Hot Chili Peppers and even published an article on Trent reznor(singer of Nine Inch Nails)He later opened up for Nine Inch Nails.SInce nobody was publishing his poetry,He convinced the owner of Squeeze(a small club in the middle of the mall),to start an open-mike night.Every monday,he stood awkwardly and vunerable behind the microphone on a small stage and recited a handful of poems.During the weekends,he went to a place called the Kitchen Club in South Beach Miami,sometimes with his friend from the theater class Brian Tutunick,who would later become Olivia Newton Bundy.The Kitchen Club is also the place where he met Stephen Bier Jr.(a.k.a Pogo/Madonna Wayne Gacy),they exchanged phone numbers and he called him a week after.they began spending a lot of time with eachother.He met Joerdie White (Twiggy Ramirez)at a record store in Coral Square Mall.Almost a year later,he and Joerdie formed a joke band called Mrs.Scabtree.He found the next piece of of the band at a drunken house party,this was Scott Mitchell Putesky(Daisy Berkowitz).And found the other members to create what was first known as Marilyn Manson And The Spooky Kids.They recorded their first demo in 1990,the band was composed with Marilyn Manson,Daisy Berkowitz and Olivia Newton Bundy.They were soon joined by Madonna Wayne Gacy.Olivia was replaced by Gidget Gein (Brad Stewart).In 1991,Fred Streithorst (Sara Lee Lucas) also joined the band.All of them choosed their names with the name of a sex symbol and the last name of a serial killer,to represent the good and the bad,the black and the white.The Spooky Kids' popularity in the area grew quickly, largely because of radio DJ Scott David of WYNX-FM, an early fan who eagerly played songs from the band's demo tapes on the air and because of the band's highly visual concerts, which drew from performance art and used many shock techniques. It was not uncommon to see onstage naked women nailed to a cross, a child in a cage, or bloody animal body parts.Manson, Berkowitz, and Gein variously performed in women's clothing or bizarre costumes and, for lack of a professional pyrotechnician, they would occasionally set their own stage props on fire. The band would dramatically contrast these grotesque theatrics with elements drawn from the culture of the members' youth in the 1970s and 1980s characters from that era's children's television made regular, often somewhat altered, appearances on Marilyn Manson flyers and newsletters, and were frequently sampled in the music. They continued to perform and release cassettes (shortening their name to Marilyn Manson in 1992) until the summer of 1993, when the band drew the attention of Trent Reznor, who at the time had just founded his own record label, Nothing Records.Reznor offered Marilyn Manson a contract with his new label and the opportunity to support Nine Inch Nails on their upcoming headlining tour. The band accepted both offers, and recording sessions for its national debut, Portrait of an American Family, began in July 1993. Working with producer Roli Mosimann at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida, the band recorded a selection of new songs along with material from their Spooky Kids repertoire and, by the end of Autumn 1993, had completed the first version of their debut, titled The Manson Family Album. It was not, however, well-received.At the same time, the band was having difficulties with bassist Gidget Gein, who had begun to lose control of his addiction to heroin.In October 1993, Reznor agreed to rework the production on Marilyn Manson's album, taking them and their tapes to The Record Plant in Los Angeles. Gein, who had been hospitalized after an overdose, was not invited. After seven weeks of mixing, remixing, and rerecording, the album(Portrait of an American Family)was ready to be presented to Interscope Records. Even as the first single "Get Your Gunn" was beginning to receive radio airplay, Gein received a letter declaring his services "no longer needed" by Marilyn Manson after he overdosed on heroin for the fourth time,he was replaced by Twiggy Ramirez.In December 1993, Ramirez first performed as the band's new bass player on a week's worth of headline dates through Florida with then girlfriend Jessicka's band Jack Off Jill opening. Half way through the tour, Manson and singer Jessicka spent a night in jail when they were arrested after a concert in Jacksonville, Florida, after being accused by the town's Christian Coalition for breaking the town's adult entertainment codes. Both singers were charged with misdemeanors.On the first date of a fourteen-week national tour opening for Nine Inch Nails, Ramirez made his national touring debut. It was during this tour that Manson had occasion to meet with Church of Satan founder Dr. Anton LaVey. After a cordial meeting, LaVey honored Manson with the title of "Reverend" (meaning, in the Church of Satan, a person who is revered by the church, and not necessarily one who dedicates his life to preaching the religion to others, as with a priest or minister).In March 1995,the band began its first national headlining tour,a two-month outing with Monster Voodoo Machine as support this would be drummer Sara Lee Lucas's last tour with the band. Tension between Lucas and Manson had apparently grown as the tour wore on and, on the next-to-last night of the tour, Manson secretly decided to end the show with a flourish: during a performance of the then-current single, "Lunchbox", he doused Lucas's drum kit in lighter fluid and set it ablaze — with Lucas still attempting to play on behind it. (Manson apparently forgot that the band had one more date to play.) Lucas quit the band after the final gig the next night. Less than two weeks later his replacement, Ginger Fish, joined the group, Marilyn Manson was touring again, this time on a bill with Danzig and Korn. That tour ended in summer 1995, after which the band relocated to the new home of Nothing Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana to begin work on the third single from Portrait of an American Family, "Dope Hat". Accompanied by a music video which featured Manson in the role of Willy Wonka in a shock-horror version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the proposed single for "Dope Hat" eventually developed into an hour-long Remix album, Smells like Children. The album's fifteen tracks of covers, remixes, and bizarre sonic experiments also included the band's version of the Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams (are made of this)", which would prove to be Marilyn Manson's first legitimate hit the video was placed in heavy rotation on MTV (in stark contrast with the "Dope Hat" video, which MTV had banished to late-night airplay only a few months before) and the mainstream music press was suddenly clamoring to cover the group. A five-month headlining tour followed, from September through February, during which the band began to debut new material like"Irresponsible Hate Anthem","Minute of Decay",and "Smells like Children".Rumors of a new album circulated widely during this time,and were confirmed when the band returned to Nothing's New Orleans studio in early 1996 to perform what Manson termed "a musical ritual designed to bring about the Apocalypse".Marilyn Manson's second full-length studio album, Antichrist Superstar, was released on October 8, 1996. It was recorded at Nothing Studios with Trent Reznor himself acting as executive producer; the process of making the album was reportedly a long and difficult one, highlighted by experiments allegedly involving sleep deprivation and near-constant drug use in an effort to create an environment suited to the album's moody and occasionally violent content. During this time, antagonism between band members was high, which caused the departure of guitarist and founding member Daisy Berkowitz. With Berkowitz out of the band, Twiggy Ramirez performed lead guitar for much of the recording of Antichrist Superstar, and the group placed an ad seeking a new guitarist for its upcoming tour Timothy Linton, of Chicago band Life Sex and Death (LSD),auditioned for and was given the position. Breaking with the six-year tradition of icon/killer naming structures,the newest member was dubbed Zim Zum(a name derived from Kabbalah),one of the major sources of inspiration for the album.The album's first single,"The Beautiful People" made a fairly major impact on the alternative rock charts and created enough anticipation for Antichrist Superstar that the album debuted at number three on the album charts.The year-and-a-half long Dead to the World Tour in support of the album followed it was the band's longest and widest yet and included Marilyn Manson's live debut in the United Kingdom,continental Europe, and South America.In the United States,however,the band was receiving more attention than ever before, and not all of it was positive.On November 10,the band released a remix / live EP,Remix & Repent,featuring new versions of Antichrist Superstar's four singles,"The Beautiful People","Tourniquet","Antichrist Superstar" and "Man that You Fear", alongside songs recorded live on the U.S. leg of the Dead to the World Tour.Two unreleased songs from the Antichrist Superstar recording sessions were contributed to film soundtracks "Apple of Sodom" to David Lynch's Lost Highway, and "The Suck for Your Solution" to the Howard Stern biopic Private Parts.As the year ended, Manson made the announcement of the upcoming publication of his first book,the autobiographical Long Hard Road out of Hell the book was released in February 1998,along with another live document of the world tour,a home video entitled Dead to the World.The release of the follow-up to Antichrist Superstar was,according to the band, also imminent, accompanied by early rumors of the involvement of Billy Corgan and The Dust Brothers with the as-yet-untitled album.On September 15th 1998,Marilyn Manson released Mechanical Animals, an album strongly influenced by David Bowie. Interscope's promotion of the album was massive, including an enormous billboard of singer Manson as an androgynous extraterrestrial over Times Square, and repeated appearances on MTV and other networks to promote the album and the single "The Dope Show" propelled by the success of Antichrist Superstar and by this press push,the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 Albums chart.The band had recast itself in a new image for this album setting aside the blunt darkness of the previous record for a more concealed morbidity.Marilyn Manson was now a glam rock band, borrowing its visual presentation largely from Bowie and from Roxy Music and its contemporaries.By this time,the band had permanently relocated to Los Angeles and Zim Zum had been replaced by guitarist John Lowery,who joined the band as John 5.After a brief promotional tour,the band set out on the Rock Is Dead world tour with Hole and Monster Magnet as support.The tour,however,would be a problematic one.On March 1, 1999, the three bands played the first show in Spokane, Washington.By March 14,Hole had left the tour and Manson had broken his ankle,forcing postponements of some shows. Jack Off Jill and Nashville Pussy were asked to take select remaining opening slots on tour.Less than three weeks after the tour resumed, two students at Columbine High School in Littleton,Colorado killed thirteen people early media reports declared them fans of "violent" music and video games.On April 28,out of respect for the victims,Marilyn Manson canceled the remaining dates of the Rock Is Dead tour and would not reappear in Denver until the 2001 Ozzfest.Manson's song The Nobodies was directly inspired by the shootings.The rest of 1999 and much of 2000 was a period of relative silence for Marilyn Manson.The band spent over a year quietly writing and recording in a studio in Death Valley,with only the single "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes"an outtake from Antichrist Superstar appearing during that time.On November 14th 2000,Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)was released. Returning to the darker,more visceral sound of Antichrist Superstar, much of the album's content was written in response to the Columbine massacre. Despite much critical acclaim, Holy Wood was Marilyn Manson's poorest selling album. Described by the band as the third part of a trilogy begun with Antichrist Superstar and continued in Mechanical Animals, its overarching theme is an exploration of the relationship between death and fame in American culture, and its lyrics and artwork contain many references to John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, John Lennon and Mark David Chapman, and even Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth. The Guns, God, and Government world tour expanded upon the exploration of America's fascination with violence, and with the tour's logo — a rifle and handguns arranged to resemble the Christian cross — Manson made no attempt to conceal what he saw as the source of that fascination.On May 16, 2001, it was announced on the Marilyn Manson website that Manson planned to quote the Bible at his next concert, to "balance out" his violent lyrics, "so we can examine the virtues of wonderful Christian stories of disease,murder,adultery,suicide and child sacrifice.Now that seems like entertainment to me".On June 21st 2001,Manson did indeed read from the Bible onstage in Denver,Colorado,presenting such passages as Leviticus 20:9("For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death")and Psalm 137:9 ("Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones")as a means of comparing rock sensationalism with religious texts on a parallel platform.With the "triptych" of the previous three albums now complete, Marilyn Manson was free to begin a fresh project. In 2002, Jonathan Davis of Korn invited Marilyn Manson into a studio to record vocals on a track he wrote entitled "Redeemer".The song,produced by both Jon and Richard Gibbs,was then released on the Queen Of The Damned soundtrack.After finding inspiration in the decadent Swing era of the 1920s,the band recorded The Golden Age of Grotesque that year and the album was released on May 13, 2003.Eschewing the lyrical depth and volume of symbolism and hidden meaning of Holy Wood, the new album was relatively straightforward; in an extended metaphor, Manson compares his own often-criticized music to the entartete Kunst banned by the Nazi regime.New member Tim Skold, replacing Twiggy Ramirez, added a new dimension to the band's sound he brought with him from KMFDM that band's use of heavy industrial beats,for better or worse The Golden Age of Grotesque was frequently impugned as derivative of KMFDM and lacking the originality that Marilyn Manson had become known for.The album still managed a number one debut on the album charts, selling over 118,000 copies in the US its first week of release.Another world tour, the Grotesk Burlesk, followed, which furthered the album's Weimar Republic-inspired theme by adding elements of German Kabarett to the group's performances.Elaborate artwork by Gottfried Helnwein appeared in the band's stage dressing and the members began appearing both on-stage and off in designer suits and with fashion superstars."Lest We Forget The Best of" was released on September 28, 2004.It was referred to by the singer as his "farewell" album.It was supported by a series of "greatest hits" performances,the Against All Gods tour.After the release of the single "Personal Jesus",the band made a number of promotional appearances at one of these,the Comet awards show in Germany,drummer Ginger Fish fell from his drum riser, fracturing his skull and wrist.Former Nine Inch Nails drummer Chris Vrenna replaced him since his recovery from the accident Fish had been recording and performing with a new band,Martyr Plot,before rejoining Marilyn Manson.John 5 has also been replaced Mark Chaussee of Fight took over lead guitar on the Against All Gods tour and was subsequently replaced in the studio by Tim Skold.Though John 5 denied any hostility towards Marilyn Manson following the announcement of his departure,at the band's appearance on the Rock am Ring music festival in 2003 an incident took place between John 5 and Marilyn Manson where Manson deliberately collided with the guitarist,as was part of the singer's stage interaction with him. John 5 however responded with anger,throwing off his guitar mid-song and raising his fists to Manson as if to fight with him, before resuming the song without any further incident.Lest We Forget was certified Gold in 2005.It has been speculated that Manson's "farewell album" comment may be an indication that the membership of Marilyn Manson may no longer be permanent, and that the musicians who record the albums and play live may, in the future, rotate, as has been the case with Nine Inch Nails and KMFDM. Manson's 2007 album, "Eat Me,Drink Me"was recorded by the core Manson and Skold.Marilyn Manson's sixth studio album,"Eat Me,Drink Me"was released on June 5th 2007,debuting at number 8 in the United States with more than 88,000 copies sold. Released more than four years after The Golden Age of Grotesque,"Eat Me,Drink Me" marked another change in musical styles that the band has become famous for.One remarkable note of the album is that it was written entirely by Manson and Skold in a rented home studio.The album is also the first major label Manson album without Madonna Wayne Gacy(Pogo) as a listed member,making lead singer Marilyn Manson the only original member since Portrait of an American Family.Chris Vrenna,who replaced Ginger Fish temporarily on the Against All Gods Tour on drums will be replacing Pogo on tour for the time being. Marilyn Manson co-headlined a tour with Slayer in order to promote the album with Bleeding Through as the opening act, as well as Deadly Apples .. dates.They returned to Australia for the first time in three years in October. Their supporting act was the all-girl Australian pop punk band The Spazzys.Rumors also circulated for some time that Marilyn Manson wrote the song "Mutilation is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery" as an attack on the band My Chemical Romance,for his "Eat Me,Drink Me" release(which he later denied,saying that it was aimed at people in general seeking to imitate him).In another interview Manson stated that "I'm embarrassed to be me because these people are doing a really sad,pitiful,shallow version of what I've done".In response to this,Gerard Way,the lead singer of My Chemical Romance claimed nothing Manson could say would bring the band down.On November 29th 2007 at The Heirophant,it was reported that Marilyn Manson plan to begin writing songs for their seventh studio album in January or February(2008).Manson said "after my greatest hits album (Lest We Forget: The Best of) came out I took a long break from music because it was a period where I was not sure who I wanted to be.I left music for a while but that's not an error I want to repeat in the future," and mentioned Kerry King,The Smashing Pumpkins and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs as likely contributors.On January 11th 2008 in the interview Everyone Will Suffer Now at MansonUSA,Manson said "I just feel like there is a big change happening now.It's going to be the one."Eat Me, Drink Me" is opening the window and this is going to be the Hurricane Katrina."On January 9th 2008 Marilyn Manson posted a bulletin on MySpace confirming that former bassist Twiggy Ramirez was rejoining the band and Tim Skold had parted ways with the band.The duo have apparently started writing new material already.The new album is new finished and ready to be released.Sources says that a release date was announced for the UK for May 18th,in Japan for May 13th so the USA will most likely get a May 19th release.The new album is called The High End Of Low and some of the songs titles were announced such as "I Wanna Kill You Like They Do In The Movies","15","Arma-God Damn-Mother Fuckin'-Geddon" and "four rusted horses".
