Mechanical Animals (Explicit)

Mechanical Animals is Marilyn Manson's third full-length album, released on September 15, 1998. The album is a concept album, similar to its predecessor, Antichrist Superstar. Four singles were released off the album: "The D**e Show," "Rock is Dead," "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)," and, only released promotionally and with a video, "Coma White." This album virtually rebuilt the band and gave it more of a Glamour Rock persona. It is Manson's worldwide best-seller. Despite its success, the album was marred by controversy and is notorious for its shocking imagery. This album is considered a prequel to its predecessor. Mechanical Animals has sold over six million copies, it's the best-selling Marilyn Manson's album so far.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, à 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.