Born Villain
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Released | April 25, 2012 | |||
Recorded | January 2010 – November 2011 | |||
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Born Villain is the eighth studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released on April 25, 2012 by Cooking Vinyl and Marilyn Manson's independent record label Hell, etc. It was the band's first release since the departure of Ginger Fish, who had been their drummer since 1995, and was their only album to feature Fred Sablan. The record was co-produced by the band's eponymous vocalist alongside former Nine Inch Nails member Chris Vrenna, who left shortly after its completion to focus on other production work.
Manson was more involved in the album's composition than he was on preceding releases. It is primarily a
The first single, "
Background and recording
On December 3, 2009, it was announced that Marilyn Manson had parted ways with their long-time record label Interscope.[4] That same day, the band confirmed that they had been composing new material while touring in support of their previous studio album, The High End of Low (2009).[5] The band's eponymous vocalist also suggested that a series of special one-off concerts were in development for the near future. These performances would see each album from Manson's triptych of albums (Holy Wood, Mechanical Animals and Antichrist Superstar) being played in its entirety over three different nights in the one venue.[6] On January 12, 2010, Chris Vrenna said that the band were "talking and coming up with concepts" for an upcoming studio album.[7] Two weeks later, Manson confirmed on the band's Myspace profile that "the new album is officially in motion."[8]
Manson confirmed during his appearance at the 2010 Revolver Golden Gods Awards in April that the band had recorded 13 songs, and also expressed an interest in releasing the record in a different way from previous ones.[9] Fred Sablan – guitarist for Twiggy's side-project Goon Moon[10] – joined the band in July,[11] and in October Twiggy described the upcoming album as being "almost done", saying: "It's our best record yet. I mean, everyone always says that, but I think this is our best work so far. It's kind of like a little more of a punk rock Mechanical Animals, without sounding too pretentious."[12] Manson attested that its lyrical content would be "more romantic" yet "self-abusive",[5] and described its sonic elements as being "suicide death metal".[13]
In November, it was announced that the band had signed a joint-venture deal with London-based indie label Cooking Vinyl.[12] As part of the deal, the band would retain creative control over its artistic direction,[14] with the band and label sharing profits equally after the label recouped costs associated with marketing, promotion and distribution.[15] Ginger Fish, the band's drummer since 1995, quit in February 2011, explaining that he "decided to step down as a member of Marilyn Manson and see where my life, and the knowledge of my availability cares to take me. I can't stand by to watch opportunities pass me by simply because the knowledge of my availability wasn't clearly expressed by me."[16] By the end of the year, Vrenna had also departed the group, to focus on other production work, whilst indicating that the band's eighth studio album was "largely completed".[17]
Composition and style
Manson has referred to Born Villain as the band's "grandest concept record".[18] He has said its title was inspired by the controversy which surrounded the band after the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, when elements of the mainstream media falsely accused the band of influencing its perpetrators.[19] The title also references the nature versus nurture argument,[20] with Manson elaborating to CNN: "In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. He'll do things that are sometimes morally questionable, but he does it because it's his nature to do it, and it never fluctuates."[19]
When writing its lyrics, the vocalist found recurring themes of guns and flowers emerging throughout his work. He indicated that this stems from his father serving in the
The frontman was more involved in the composition of Born Villain than he was for preceding records. Manson has said that this is a result of him beginning the project with a different mindset from that of his chief collaborator, Twiggy. He said he developed a "clear idea" of the album's direction early in its writing stages, which he was reluctant to share with other members of the band. He worked on the album in a minimally decorated apartment located above a liquor store in Downtown Los Angeles, which was once owned by actor Billy Zane and was the site where Manson created his first painting in 1996.[22] The album contains seven songs which feature the vocalist as a composer, including three where he is listed as the sole writer.[23] At the time of the album's release, Manson distanced himself from the approach he took when creating previous albums, explaining: "On the last two records I made, I was trying to make people feel what I was feeling—which wasn't a good idea, because I was feeling like shit. Check mark number one: don't make records that make people feel bad."[24]
The album is primarily a
Release and artwork
In May 2010, the band's website underwent a complete overhaul, incorporating a new logo along with a clip of a previously unreleased song. The CMYK coloring was also notable with regard to an acrostic which appeared in a journal entry accompanying the site changes, spelling out the words "Christianity Manufactures Yesterday's Killers".[31] The album's title was revealed in September 2011.[32] That same month, Manson and Twiggy attended the opening of artist Nick Kushner's exhibition at the Studio Servitu Gallery in LA, where the upcoming album was played in its entirety. LA Weekly attended the event and confirmed the upcoming album would be released in 2012.[28]
Born Villain was released worldwide from April 30,[12] with a cover of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" included on all editions as a bonus track.[33] This cover was recorded after the album had been completed, and features Johnny Depp performing guitar. The pair were introduced when Manson appeared as an extra on 21 Jump Street when he was 19, although "You're So Vain" is their first musical collaboration. The cover originated from a jam session, with Manson explaining that they "started playing old blues songs and I said, 'My record's done, but we should really do a song to add to the end of it, as if it were a movie.'" He described the cover's placement on the album as: "It's like the movie's over, and this is playing at the end title credits."[34] It was later included on the soundtrack to the documentary West of Memphis.[35] The cover image would later be revealed to be the work of photographer Lindsay Usich.[23]
Promotion and singles
Born Villain received its inaugural screening at the Silent Theater in Los Angeles on August 28, 2011.[36] Contrary to media reports that the project would be a "making-of" video documenting the album's recording,[37][38] it was a surrealist short film directed by Shia LaBeouf, and was inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain and Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel's 1929 silent film Un Chien Andalou.[39][40] The pair met at a Kills concert, after which LaBeouf screened Maniac – his directorial collaboration with rappers Kid Cudi and Cage – and then offered to direct the band's next music video. A coffee table book of photographs, entitled Campaign, was released concomitantly with the film. The book, which was bundled with a DVD of the film, was created by LaBeouf and photographer Karolyn Pho,[40] and consists of images of various locations in LA graffiti-tagged with handbills of the film's artwork.[36] It was released exclusively through the Hollywood outlet of Hennessey & Ingalls, where Manson and LaBeouf hosted a private screening and book signing on September 1.[40][41]
The album was preceded by "No Reflection", which was leaked by Manson to
The band performed at the 2012
The "Hey Cruel World... Tour" began at the end of April,[53] which was interspersed with two co-headlining tours: "Twins of Evil" with Rob Zombie and "Masters of Madness" with Alice Cooper.[54][55] The former tour received significant media attention when a feud developed between Manson and Zombie, culminating in a series of on-stage insults. It began after Manson apologized to the audience at Chicago's Allstate Arena on Twitter for not performing "The Beautiful People", and instructed the audience to "sing it in between Zombie songs, his band has already played it"—a reference to Zombie's band containing two former members of Marilyn Manson: John 5 and Ginger Fish.[56] The row escalated in Clarkston when Manson accused Zombie of deliberately cutting into his set time. Zombie responded during his set by yelling obscenities at Manson.[57][58]
Critical reception
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 59/100[59] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Billboard | 78/100[29] |
Classic Rock | 8/10[25] |
Drowned in Sound | 4/10[60] |
The Independent | [61] |
Kerrang! | [62] |
Loudwire | [63] |
NME | 6/10[64] |
PopMatters | 4/10[65] |
Spin | 5/10[66] |
Upon its release, the album was met with mixed reviews. At
Several reviews considered Born Villain to be a comeback for the band.[68] Matthew Horton of Virgin Media described it as "a new step forward, bristling with a vitality that Manson has no right to still have in his locker this far down the line."[27] Similarly, Kill Hipsters called it "one hell of a comeback for a guy everyone–including myself–thought was well and truly dead and gone."[69] Loudwire's Graham Hartmann praised the album as a whole,[63] as did Rick Florino of Artistdirect, who said: "From top to bottom, it's Manson's most vicious and vibrant effort since Antichrist Superstar. Make no mistake about it: this is Manson at his best."[70] Bloody Disgusting ranked it among the band's best work.[71]
The band received acclaim for the quality of their songwriting. Fred Thomas of
The record also received some mixed reviews. The Arts Desk disliked the heavier material on the album, although they praised its glam rock-influenced songs.[26] Stephen Dalton of The National complimented its more aggressive and humorous tracks, but said the album was "not quite the knockout blow needed to regain his title as the world heavyweight champion of shock rock."[74] British magazine Rock Sound complained that the record contained too many long introductions, which they said disrupted its fluidity.[75] Writing for NME, Hamish MacBain defined the album as being better than average, saying there was "just a lack of magic, a lack of something special going on. It's not bad. It's not good."[64] Tom Bryant from Kerrang! was also unimpressed, although he praised "Breaking the Same Old Ground" as an emotional climax for the record, writing: "For a man who's spent so long appearing not to be human, the deliverance of naked soul makes for a nice twist. Perhaps this should be where his future lies?"[62]
Andy Gill of
Accolades
"No Reflection" earned the band their fourth
Commercial performance
Born Villain became the band's seventh top ten studio album on the
Internationally, the album peaked within the top twenty of numerous territories. It debuted at number two in Switzerland, where it was held off the top spot by Norah Jones' Little Broken Hearts.[90] In France, the record peaked at number eight,
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Marilyn Manson, except "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon
No. | Title | Music | Length |
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1. | "Hey, Cruel World..." |
| 3:44 |
2. | "No Reflection" |
| 4:36 |
3. | "Pistol Whipped" | Manson | 4:10 |
4. | "Overneath the Path of Misery" |
| 5:18 |
5. | "Slo-Mo-Tion" |
| 4:24 |
6. | "The Gardener" |
| 4:39 |
7. | "The Flowers of Evil" |
| 5:19 |
8. | "Children of Cain" | Manson | 5:17 |
9. | "Disengaged" | Manson | 3:25 |
10. | "Lay Down Your Goddamn Arms" |
| 4:13 |
11. | "Murderers Are Getting Prettier Every Day" |
| 4:18 |
12. | "Born Villain" |
| 5:26 |
13. | "Breaking the Same Old Ground" |
| 4:27 |
Total length: | 59:23 |
No. | Title | Length |
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14. | "You're So Vain" (Carly Simon cover; featuring Johnny Depp) | 4:02 |
Total length: | 63:25 |
No. | Title | Length |
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15. | "No Reflection" (Radio Edit) | 3:31 |
Total length: | 66:56 |
No. | Title | Length |
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15. | "No Reflection" (Music Video) | 3:29 |
Total length: | 66:54 |
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Born Villain.[23]
Marilyn Manson
Additional musicians
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Technical
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Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Europe | — | 75,000[128][129] |
Release history
Region | Date | Format | Label | Catalog # | Ref. |
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Japan | April 25, 2012 | Victor Entertainment
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VICP-65058 | [97] | |
Germany | April 27, 2012 | Vertigo Berlin | B007JPE14K | [130] | |
Scandinavia | Cooking Vinyl | COOKCD/LP554 | [131] | ||
Ireland | April 29, 2012 | [132] | |||
United Kingdom | April 30, 2012 | [133] | |||
Canada | May 1, 2012 | Dine Alone Records | DA059 | [134] | |
Netherlands | V2 Records | 0711297495416 | [135] | ||
United States | Cooking Vinyl | COOKCD/LP554 | [66] | ||
Australia | May 4, 2012 | [136] |
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