Mechanical Animals was the second in the tryptych and a far cry removal from the darkness of Antichrist Superstar. Influenced greatly by David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and T-Rex, this was a more glam sounding album. Again adopting a character in the three part tale, Manson was this time Omega an alien travelling to earth again to be reborn. Imagery was prevalent in this album, including numerology, kabbalist and JFK.
Review: Rolling Stones Magazine review by Ann Powers
Glam lends Manson some important vocal props and outfits, but Mechanical Animals does not adhere to that era’s playful mood. Its ultimate sources are the goths: Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, and early Cure. Mechanical Animals gets its cavelike spaciousness from these influences and tweaks them with an industrial crunch, an arena-rock guitar solo or a soulful backing vocal. Goth was glam’s lonely heir, born into a conservative era instead of a decadent one, forced to struggle for regard from the beginning. Manson appreciates goth’s power to make misfits feel like self-styled tragedians.
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