Former Limp Bizkit member Wes Borland has joined Marilyn Manson as the group’s new guitarist. The news was announced by Manson himself at a press conference earlier today ahead of his band’s appearance tomorrow (Friday, August 15) at the ETP Festival in Seoul, Korea.
Manson said, “We have a new guitar player that’s gonna play for the first time tomorrow; it’s the first time we’ll play on stage [together]. His name is Wes Borland and he used to be in a really terrible band that he left because he felt that it was a destructive force in art, and he has his own band, Black Light Burns, but now he is in Marilyn Manson. We don’t know how permanent that is, but starting tomorrow will be the first step. So this will be the most indestructible Marilyn Manson.”
Marilyn Manson is in the middle of recording a new album, which is expected to be released sometime next year. (Let’s hope its a return to form and not the diabolical crap that was the last unlistenable ‘Eat Me, Drink Me’ garbage.
Manson’s longtime bassist, Twiggy Ramirez, toured with Manson earlier this year for the first time since 2002. The two co-wrote ‘Antichrist Superstar’, ‘Mechanical Animals’ and ‘Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)’ together and Manson told The Salt Lake Tribune this past spring that he couldn’t be happier aboutRamirez returning.
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pic: Marilyn Manson as Lewis Carroll
According to the Hollywood Reporter, shock rocker Marilyn Manson paid a visit to the Berlin International Film Festival recently to drum up interest for his directorial debut, a surreal-horrific look at the life of English writer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his ‘Alice in Wonderland’ pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
Manson, who will play Carroll as well as composing the score for the film, ‘Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll’, screened a teaser and answered questions at a press conference Sunday at the Berlin Marriott Hotel. He was accompanied by U.K. supermodel Lily Cole, who has been cast in the role of Alice in the film.
Manson described the project as a “gothic psychological horror film. … I want to make a psychological horror film that is unlike the kind we see today,” he said. “I am more interested in making the kind of traditional horror that inspired what we see today.”
‘Phantasmagoria’s’ producer, Wild Bunch’s Alain de la Mata, said the $4.2 million film will begin shooting this summer. Casting is still under way. Manson confirmed that he had discussed the project with Angelina Jolie but said he was not currently in negotiations with her.
Based on the footage screened for the press in Berlin Sunday, ‘Phantasmagoria’ promises the kind of disturbing gothic aesthetic familiar to fans of Manson’s music videos.
But Manson said the film would try to adhere closely to the facts of Dodgson’s life and would not try to “change history.”
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