Marilyn Manson Announces New Album and Single, “We Are Chaos”
The new album that Marilyn Manson has been teasing since February has finally been announced: We Are Chaos will arrive on September 11. It was written and recorded entirely before the pandemic that’s currently gripping the world, and features cover artwork (above) painted by Manson himself.
Along with the announcement comes a single and music video for the title track. “We are Chaos,” and the rest of the ten songs on the album, were produced by Shooter Jennings, best known for his work as a country singer (he’s the son of outlaw country legend Waylon Jennings). You can only kinda hear that influence on the track, but it’s definitely on the lighter and poppier side by Manson’s standards, musically speaking. The accompanying video, photographed and edited by Matt Mahurin, features some extremely unsettling animations of Manson’s likeness, so don’t worry, this release isn’t without his typical creep factor.
Manson says of the album:
“When I listen to ‘We are Chaos’ now, it seems like just yesterday or as if the world repeated itself, as it always does, making the title track and the stories seem as if we wrote them today. This was recorded to its completion without anyone hearing it until it was finished. There is most definitely a side A and side B in the traditional sense. But just like an LP, it is a flat circle and it’s up to the listener to put the last piece of the puzzle into the picture of songs.
“This concept album is the mirror Shooter and I built for the listener – it’s the one we won’t stare into. There are so many rooms, closets, safes and drawers. But in the soul or your museum of memories, the worst are always the mirrors. Shards and slivers of ghosts haunted my hands when I wrote most of these lyrics.
“Making this record, I had to think to myself: ‘Tame your crazy, stitch your suit. And try to pretend that you are not an animal’ but I knew that mankind is the worst of them all. Making mercy is like making murder. Tears are the human body’s largest export.”
Pre-order We are Chaos here.
