The Golden Age Of Grotesque signalled a true concept album from Manson as he moved very far away from the darkness of Holywood and into the light and arty world of Vaudeville, 1930′s Berlin, the Weimar Republic and Burlesque – a possible influence from then girlfriend Dita Von Teese, who is one of the world’s foremost modern heralds of the Burlesque movement.

Review: getunderground.com review by Bob Freville

The world may end tomorrow, as Manson prophecied on Antichrist Superstar more than six and a half years ago. I mean, we’ve got SARS, N. Korean contention, airborn illnesses, immune system-crippling biological warfare, suicide bombers, STDs, irate oil purveyors bitter over the fact that they get raped of their resources by the humble superpower, and a whole barrage of shit that I can’t even bring my feeble and troubled mind to contemplate right about now. But even if the locusts start whizzing around, the stars fall into the reservoirs and the floodgates are opened along with the bowls of Wrath, we’ll at least have the loathsome and sensually misanthropic words and sounds of Marilyn Manson to keep us company on the way through the great Tunnel. So I say, bring it! Kaboom! Kaboom!