Marilyn Manson has confirmed the forthcoming release of his next studio album, to be titled We Are Chaos and due out on September 11th via Loma Vista Recordings. The 11th career studio album from the famous industrial metal singer follows 2017’s Heaven Upside Down, and is co-produced by Manson alongside Shooter Jennings–the son of country music veteran Waylon Jennings.
“When I listen to We Are Chaos now, it seems like just yesterday or as if the world repeated itself, as it always does, making the title track and the stories seem as if we wrote them today,” Manson said of his forthcoming album with Wednesday’s announcement. “This was recorded to its completion without anyone hearing it until it was finished. There is most definitely a side A and side B in the traditional sense. But just like an LP, it is a flat circle and it’s up to the listener to put the last piece of the puzzle into the picture of songs.”
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Manson also shared the lead single and title track from We Are Chaos on Wednesday. The single is accompanied by a music video directed by Matt Mahurin.
Listen to the new song in full below.
Marilyn Manson – “We Are Chaos”
[Video: Marilyn Manson]
“This concept album is the mirror Shooter and I built for the listener — it’s the one we won’t stare into,” Manson continued. “There are so many rooms, closets, safes and drawers. But in the soul or your museum of memories, the worst are always the mirrors. Shards and slivers of ghosts haunted my hands when I wrote most of these lyrics. Making this record, I had to think to myself: ‘Tame your crazy, stitch your suit. And try to pretend that you are not an animal,’ but I knew that mankind is the worst of them all. Making mercy is like making murder. Tears are the human body’s largest export.”
Click here to pre-order We Are Chaos.
[H/TÂ Rolling Stone]