Marilyn Manson has often talked of his love for The Beatles. Hes covered The Fab Fours Helter Skelter, talked about the importance of their game-changing White Album, referenced their song Revolution on Disposable Teens, and even wished band members happy birthday by doing a snippet ofBirthday.

Here, we find The God Of Fuck firing the starting pistol on his 11th album We Are Chaos by seemingly doing his own version of Across The Universe, from 1970s Let It Be. After the full-frontal thrust of 2017s Heaven Upside Down, where the naked threat of songs like We Know Where You Fucking Live provided a ballsy energy, its a change of pace. And one Manson does verywell.

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In the end we all end up in a garbage dump but Ill still be here holding your hand, he croons, before intoning, We are chaos, we cant becured.

But its that anthemic, celebratory, New Years Eve feeling, dancing at the end of the world, that provides the energy on We Are Chaos. The nihilism is pared back in favour of something more romantic? Its sort of like the end of Fight Club with eyeliner and bulging leathertrousers.

As a signpost for the new album, its hard to get a total grip on. Heaven Upside Down was so striking, so definite, that divining Mazzas next move was always going to be to presume a lot about him. And thats always been a foolserrand.

For now, its enough of a clue to know that what Marilyn Manson has in store is going to be something on a grand scale, and with a sense of class only he canunlock.

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