Amongst the sex, drugs and rock & roll, along came a Satan-worshipping, gothic nightmare in the 1990s to take shock rock to a new level. Taunting, corrupting, blaspheming and doing everything he could to offend, Marilyn Manson and his bandmates became the most notorious rockers of their generation. Starting out as Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, their early demos attracted Nine Inch Nails' front man Trent Reznor, who signed them to his label and took them on tour. Their debut album 'Portrait of an American Family' came in 1994 and was followed by a gothic, glam-metal cover of the Eurythmics' 'Sweet Dreams', played heavily by MTV. Their second album 'Antichrist Superstar' in 1996 confirmed them as icons for angst-ridden, disaffected teens, before 'Mechanical Animals' in '98 and 'The Golden Age of Grotesque' in 2003 both topped the US Album Charts. A greatest hits album, 'Lest We Forget: The Best Of', was released in 2004 and was promoted as the band's final album. By the following however, they revealed that their sixth album was in production. 'Eat Me, Drink Me' was released in 2007, during the time of Manson's marriage break-up and highly-publicised affair, and entered into the Billboard 200 at number two. 'The High End of Low' came out in 2009, followed by 'Born Villain' in 2012 and 'The Pale Emperor' in 2015. 'Heaven Upside Down', their tenth studio album, was released in 2017 with the lead single 'We Know Where You F**king Live'.
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