Marilyn Manson MECHANICAL ANIMALS

Marilyn Manson: Marilyn Manson (vocals, vocoder, guitar, ARP synthesizer); Twiggy Ramirez (guitar, bass, synthesizer); John5 (guitar); M.W. Gacy (piano, Mellotron, keyboards, synthesizer); Ginger Fish (drums).
Additional personnel: Zim Zum (guitar, beinhorn, synthesizer); Dave Navarro (guitar); Danny Saber (strings, Clavinet, programming); DJ Neil Strauss (scratches); Kobi Tai, Dyanna Lauren, John West, Lyn Davis, Nikki Harris, Alexandra Brown (background vocals).
Producers: Michael Beinhorn, Marilyn Manson, Sean Beavan.
"The Dope Show" was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance.
Personnel: Marilyn Manson (vocals, piano, synthesizer, ARP synthesizer, vocoder, background vocals); Ginger Fish (vocals, vocoder, drums); Rose McGowan (vocals); Zim Zum (guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, guitar synthesizer); Twiggy Ramirez (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric bass); John 5 (guitar); Madonna Wayne Gacy (piano, Mellotron, keyboards, synthesizer, drums, shaker, sampler); Danny Saber (keyboards); Sean Beavan (programming); Alexandra Brown, Kobi Tai, Nikki Harris, John West, Lynn Davis (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Tom Lord-Alge.
Recording information: Conway Studios; Westlake; White Room.
Editor: Sean Beavan.
Photographers: Joseph Cultice; Marilyn Manson.
Antichrist Superstar performed its intended purpose -- it made Marilyn Manson internationally famous, a living realization of his fictional "antichrist superstar." He had gained the attention of not only rock fans, but the public at large; however, many critics bestowed their praise not on the former Brian Warner, but on Trent Reznor, Manson's mentor and producer. Surely angered by the attention being focused elsewhere, he decided to break from Reznor and industrial metal with his third album, Mechanical Animals. Taking his image and musical cues from Bowie, Warner reworked Marilyn Manson into a sleek, androgynous space alien named Omega, ? la Ziggy Stardust, and constructed a glammy variation of his trademark goth metal. With pal Billy Corgan as an unofficial consultant and Soundgarden producer Michael Beinhorn manning the boards, Manson turns Mechanical Animals into a big, clean rock record -- the kind that stands in direct opposition to the dark, twisted industrial nightmares he painted with his first two albums. It can make for a welcome change of pace, since his glammed-up goth is more tuneful than his clattering industrial cacophony, but it lacks the cartoonish menace that distinguished his prior music. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

• Format: CD
• Genre: Pop