Eat Me Drink Me marked a whole new direction for Manson after the release of 2003′s Golden Age Of Grotesque. When Manson was interviewed in the years preceeding about the sixth album, he said it would have a death metal, black plague feel. However following his seperation from wife of one year Dita Von Teese, Manson created something very different. The album was a collaboration between Manson and Tim Skold. Although other members would come on the live tour, Tim was solely responsible for the music, playing all instruments on the track.

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If the album is your first real exposure to Marilyn Manson, don’t expect an easy ride, or a clean cut trip through hell, as the various attributes that have always made Manson write so beguiling are all resplendent here, it’s just a little harder to spot them, as the songs have developed a spirit and variety that perhaps wouldn’t have had room to breath on previous, more externally charged albums. On the flipside, if you are a longtime fan, don’t expect this album to change your world, or destroy anyone else’s, but simply hope that the best way Marilyn Manson could compliment this record is to feed on this new strain of productivity and make certain that this album gets a follow up next year, and another the year after that, and so on.