Charlie Fish
History: Joseph Cultice on Marilyn Manson
Resource, January 10th, 2010
Excerpt: "Once nothing more than a South Florida underground act, Marilyn Manson took mainstream America by surprise with their 1996 album Antichrist Superstar. The band’s frontman and namesake, made up to look like a demonic, prosthetic-loving Nazi, became a household name when their video, “The Beautiful People,” began airing on MTV. Given the other artists on heavy rotation during the time—The Spice Girls, Snoop Dogg and Hanson—it’s easy to see how the band’s detractors were scared senseless by Manson’s garish makeup, Satanic symbolism, and nihilistic boldness. It didn’t help that the music itself was dark and industrial, heavy and hellish. Marilyn Manson was the Devil’s music, sung by the Devil himself."
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