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Wes Borland Joins Marilyn Manson

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Wes Borland Joins Marilyn Manson

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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Marilyn Manson V Madonna Wayne Gacy

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Marilyn Manson V Madonna Wayne Gacy

The Associated Press reports that dueling lawsuits between Marilyn Manson and an ex-bandmate could be headed back to the deposition table.

Lawyers for former Manson keyboardist Stephen Bier maintain the singer would not answer inquires about his alleged use of illegal drugs and whether he made racist comments in a deposition last month.

But attorneys for Manson contend that during his deposition, Bier refused to answer questions about his own alleged drug use and whether he was ever too impaired to perform on stage.

Attorneys for both men told their clients not to respond to the questions to protect their privacy.

Bier — known by his stage name Madonna Wayne Gacy — sued Manson in August for more than $20 million, claiming the singer stiffed him on salary and medical support. Bier claimed Manson used the money instead to buy himself a mansion, pay for drug treatment, produce a movie, buy Nazi memorabilia and hold a fancy wedding.

Manson struck back and claimed Bier did not carry out obligations to take part in master recordings, concerts and the selling of band merchandise.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael L. Stern is scheduled to hold hearings June 19 and July 1 on the separate motions to compel the additional deposition answers.

Manson Files Motion To Keep Finances Secret

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Manson Files Motion To Keep Finances Secret

Marilyn Manson has apparently filed a motion with Los Angeles Superior Court judge Michael L. Stern requesting that all of his financial information to be kept secret in the on going legal battle with former keyboardist, Stephen “Madonna Wayne Gacy” Bier, who filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Manson in August 2007.

Bier, who claims Manson spent his royalties on African masks made of human skin, a full skeleton of a 4-year-old Chinese girl that Manson is said to have turned into a chandelier and another skeleton of a man in a wheelchair, is seeking $20 million dollars in damages. Manson countersued in December claiming that Bier did not fulfil his obligations to the band.

To move to keep Manson’s financial information a secret is similar to one granted to Lindsay Lohan earlier this year in her lawsuit over a 2005 traffic accident. Manson’s attorneys specifically requested the Lohan treatment from Stern, who served as judge in that case, as well.

“He’s trying to hide his skeletons from you all,” Bier’s attorney, Keith A. Fink, said.

According to Bier, Manson allegedly also purchased swastika wall tiles and matching rugs, a mounted grizzly bear and two mounted baboons as well as alleging that Manson arranged for his girlfriend, Evan Rachel Wood, to star in the ‘Heart Shaped Glasses’ video for the “highest salary ever paid to any actress in any music video in history.”

Bier said that when he requested his share of the band’s royalties, Manson “devised a campaign to drive him out of the band and rob him of his entitlement.”

Manson has denied the charges.

“The fact that he’s claiming that I’ve treated him unfairly, financially, is really ridiculous,” Manson told MTV. “And I would never spend my money on a Chinese girl skeleton. That would be crossing the line. It’s a Chinese boy, for the record.

“It just seems like another ex-bandmember suing me and trying to assassinate my personality as a means to financial gain, and it just seems old. It’s just not fair. If I spent my money on anything, it was my family, and paying his salary for a year when we weren’t even touring.”

Marilyn Manson’s Absinthe

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Marilyn Manson's Absinthe

The launch of Marilyn Manson own brand of absinthe is not exactly being positively embraced by critics. Most compared the drink’s odour to sewage water and one even described the taste as being “as bad as piss”. One wonders how this critic would know this… The beverage, launched under the name ‘Mansinthe’, has also been receiving negative comments by a panel at the gourmet food website www.epicurious.com : the smell of the beverage can be compared to sewage water, swamp mud and rubbing alcohol. And one taster added: “If a smell could speak, this absinthe is saying: ‘Do not touch.’”

The final conclusion: “The No. 1 problem was the aroma, which some verbally compared to sewage water or swamp mud, but with the exception of a lone taster, the panel felt it wasn’t really worth wading through the odor to get to mediocre flavor anyway.” Absinthe being illegal in the US, the product is produced in Switzerland and holds a self-portrait of Manson as an old man a label on the bottle.

And there is more trouble on the horizon as the official Mansinthe website (mansinthe.com) has been put on the Google blacklist as the site has been identified as a one that may install malicious software on your computer. For those who don’t want to risk the security of their PC, “Mansinthe” is now officially available at www.absinthe.de for purchase online at 36 EUR per bottle.

Lights, Camera, Manson

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Marilyn Manson 'Eat Me, Drink Me'

Mad-haired Hollywood director Tim Burton is in talks with studio bosses about making a film about the life of Marilyn Manson and his estranged wife Dita Von Teese.

“I’m fascinated by Dita and Marilyn,” says Buron. “They’re like a living Brothers Grimm fairytale.”

Marilyn Manson Has Sex With A Girl Just For You

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Marilyn Manson Has Sex With A Girl Just For You.

Marilyn Manson New Album Due

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Marilyn Manson 'Eat Me, Drink Me'

Austin Scaggs of Rolling Stone magazine’s ‘Smoking Section’ recently got a preview of Marilyn Manson’s new album, ‘Eat Me, Drink Me’, at a Los Angeles-area recording studio. Scaggs writes that he was ‘blown away’ by the CD, which includes a six-minute epic, ‘If I Was Your Vampire’, with the lyric ‘The hole is where the heart is’. “If anyone thought Manson was down for the count, think again,” raves Scaggs.

‘Eat Me, Drink Me’ is tentatively due for release this spring and will follow up 2003’s ‘The Golden Age of Grotesque’. Manson told MTV.com in the fall of 2005 that he expected his next record to be “something above and beyond and different — sonically, emotionally - than anything I’ve done.”

Manson recently asked the court to block any future claim for spousal support by his estranged wife, burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese. According to TMZ.com, which obtained court documents, Manson has also requested that Teese pay for her own lawyers in the couple’s divorce proceedings. Also in the documents, Manson claims that he and Von Teese split up on Halloween, while Von Teese maintains that they separated on Christmas Eve. Both have cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the breakup of the marriage.

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According to MansonUSA.com, the track listing has been finalized for the new MARILYN MANSON album, “Eat Me, Drink Me”, tentatively due on June 5. It is as follows:

01. If I Was Your Vampire
02. Putting Holes in Happiness
03. The Red Carpet Grave
04. They Said Hell Is Not Hot
05. Just a Car Crash Away
06. Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)
07. Evidence
08. Are You the Rabbit?
09. Mutilation is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery
10. You and Me and The Devil Makes 3
11. EAT ME, DRINK ME

Note: The title track will appear in all capital letters.

MANSON will issue “Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides The Hand)” as the first single from “Eat Me, Drink Me”, according to Universal Music France. The track is expected to arrive at radio stations by the middle of this month and will be accompanied by a video shot in 3D. The clip is said to be an excerpt from a larger project that Manson is filming with “Titanic” director James Cameron, although that collaboration has yet to be officially confirmed.

The album will reportedly be available in both a standard and collector’s edition.

MANSON is scheduled to support the album with a summer tour co-headlined by SLAYER.

The singer was given a private reception in Fort Myers, Florida last Saturday (March 31) to celebrate the opening of his new art exhibition at the city’s Space 39 gallery. The gallery will display Manson’s latest paintings through April 17.

First Look At Marilyn Manson’s Phantasmagoria

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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.”

Marilyn Manson's Phantasmagoria

Marilyn Manson's Phantasmagoria

Marilyn Manson's Phantasmagoria

Marilyn Manson In Vogue

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Dita Von Teese

World Entertainment News Network is reporting that Marilyn Manson and his new bride Dita Von Teese have sold the rights to their Irish wedding to style bible Vogue. The colorful pictures of the Goth-tinged December 2005 ceremony at a castle in Ireland feature will appear in the upcoming March issue of the glossy.

The pictures show rocker Manson dressed in a velvet tuxedo and his burlesque dancer wife stunning the guests in a Vivienne Westwood wedding gown.

The Vogue spread also features candid snapshots of Lisa Marie Presley, Keanu Reeves and Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, who were among the guests at the ceremony, which concluded with an archery and falconry contest.

Marilyn Manson Plans Children’s TV Program

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Marilyn Manson & Dita Von Teese

Marilyn Manson spoke with Neil Sean of Sky News about his plans for a children’s television program. “I like the idea of a little me putting across my thoughts and ideas,” he said. “It will start out as a web extra and, if successful, we plan to turn it into a standalone kids’ cartoon. Will they be frightened? Why should they be, it’s only me.”

In other news, The Bosh is reporting that Marilyn Manson and his fiancée, burlesque performer Dita Von Teese, plan on sucking each other’s blood at their wedding. A source for the Daily Star said, “Marilyn and Dita wanted something more meaningful and romantic, to capture their coming together in front of their loved ones. They felt that exchanging their life blood was a beautiful way of cementing their love, rather than slipping on a ring and giving each other a quick snog.”

Though their wedding sounds morbid, it won’t be trashy. Dita singled out Britney Spears’s 2004 ceremony when she recently spoke about what she didn’t want when she walked down the aisle. ContactMusic.com quotes Dita as saying, “Whatever we do, it’ll be much more glamorous that Britney’s wedding. Fancy wearing a pair of old tracksuits! Our wedding will set an example of how to dress…I’ve been planning our outfits ever since he proposed last year.”