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MARYLIN MANSON - We Are Chaos

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(By Phil Coursed, 27-12-2020)
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Genre: Alternative Rock/Metal

Label: Loma Vista Recordings, 2020 (Full-length)

Country: USA

Reverend's new album "We Are Chaos" reminds us, even more, how long gone are the days of the "Antichrist Superstar" and "Mechanical Animal" in which the last "cursed" rock star in the history of music was born. Today after an intense and already transitional album such as "Heaven Upside Down" of 2017, Manson still amazes his fans with an intimate, intense work full of socially topical themes that aim, more than anything else, to highlight the trend of mankind towards its inevitable self-destruction.

Musically, "We Are Chaos" is the album you do not expect, the alternative rock proposed is even more "rock" and the voice of the histrionic artist is even more masterful while maintaining all his charge of malice as if he were a prophet among us humankind and who, despite everything, want to send messages of warning, hope and redemption

Songs like the singles WE ARE CHAOS, DON'T CHASE THE DEAD and then also PAINT YOU WITH MY LOVE, HALF-WAY & ONE STEP FORWARD, SOLVE COAGULA and BROKEN NEEDLE seem to address the entire work on sounds that bring back the never-too-much missed "The Thin White Duke" but all with thrilling connotations thanks to the obscure dimension that only Manson's voice can reach. There is a sort of bizarre, fascinating, and appropriate balance between the sweet and light notes and the Mephistophelic vocal performance for which Warner he has always stood out; perhaps from today in addition to the already numerous titles of Manson we should also add that of “Duke” ...

RED BLACK AND BLUE, INFINITE DARKNESS and KEEP MY HEAD TOGETHER are musically the only links with what has been done in the past, especially in the second part of his career on records such as "The Pale Emperor" and "Born Villain" in addition to the aforementioned "Heaven Upside Down”, where the typical Manson’s sound is very recognizable, while PARFUME has an even more enthralling, catchy approach and whose refrain appears very recognizable from the first listening.

In my opinion the final vote to a disc must be given yes in an objective way but it must be above all based on the emotions that the same disc is able to convey and I am convinced that at least in 2020 there are no works able to equal art (even the cover is a painting by Manson) present in “We Are Chaos”, a work that will be remembered for years to come.

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Vote: 9,5