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The Pale Emperor is the ninth studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released on January 15, 2015 through Marilyn Manson's own Hell, etc. label, with distribution handled in the US by Loma Vista Recordings, Canada by Dine Alone Records, Japan by Victor Entertainment and internationally by Cooking Vinyl. The album was released in standard, deluxe and limited edition versions on CD and 2×LP vinyl, as well as a "Definitive Box" set. The standard version of the album contains ten tracks, while a deluxe edition includes three acoustic versions as bonus tracks.[4][5]

Produced by Manson and newcomer Tyler Bates, whom Manson met while acting on the TV series Californication, The Pale Emperor eschews the band's usual industrial rock genre in favor of a more sparse, blues rock-influenced sound. It is the first release since his return in 2008 to not feature writing and performance contributions from Twiggy. The album is dedicated to Manson's mother, who died during production of the album after an eight year battle with Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

The album was a critical and commercial success upon release, receiving generally favorable reviews from contemporary music critics, with several reviews referring to the album as his best set in over a decade. The album debuted at number eight on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of over 51,000 copies, the band's highest opening week figure since Eat Me, Drink Me (2007), becoming their sixth consecutive top ten record in the United States. It also topped the national albums chart in Switzerland, and has so far charted within the top twenty in twenty other territories. It has spawned one official single, "Deep Six", which went on to become his highest-peaking single on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Chart since "The Dope Show" (1998); while "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge" and "Cupid Carries a Gun" have been released as promotional singles.

The album is currently being supported by the band's Hell Not Hallelujah Tour.

Background and recording

The band started production for The Pale Emperor in 2013.[6] The album was co-written and produced by score composer Tyler Bates, who first met through their mutual involvement in the TV series Californication, with Manson acting in a cameo role and Bates scoring the series.[7][8] Holding their first writing session in a "small warehouse space" alongside former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo, Manson said that this session "didn't work out" as he's "not really good at adapting to the idea of jamming."[7][9] Later, Bates suggested that the pair hold further writing sessions at his home studio, which resulted in them writing "Birds of Hell Awaiting" in "one spontaneous exchange."[7][10]

"Tyler sat in front of me with his guitar and his amp. We wouldn't talk about what the songs were going to be. I'd say, "Just play, give me the mic, go." Of course we'd elaborate on it later, but for the most part, the guitar and the vocal takes are the original, first take. If I fucked something up or if he fucked something up, we'd start from the beginning and do it together."

—Manson on the recording process of The Pale Emperor[11]

This was quickly followed up by "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge", with Manson saying that the recording of the album "just became a rhythm. This was something I was excited to do."[9] This is in stark contrast to the recording of Manson's previous two albums, The High End of Low (2009) and Born Villain (2012), where he was frequently "dragged into the studio at 3AM" to record vocals.[9] He later attributed this enthusiasm to the collaborative process between him and Bates, saying that "I realized after the first performance [of] "Birds of Hell", [that] I just sang it. I didn't even know where the music was going to go and I just went with it and it was very organic. And then it opened up a whole different part of my mind."[7]

The majority of the album was recorded over a three month period, with further overdubbing taking place over the following six months, in-between Manson's acting commitments on Sons of Anarchy and Bates' scoring the 2014 film Guardians of the Galaxy.[7][9] In early 2014, drummer Gil Sharone of Stolen Babies revealed he had been working on the new album since November.[12][13] On February 1, Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter confirmed Manson's acting involvement in the show, playing the white supremacist Ron Tully.[14][15] Sutter went on to say that he had written a song with Shooter Jennings, which was to appear in the final season of the show and would feature vocals from Manson.[16] He also suggested that Jennings was involved in the recording of The Pale Emperor,[16] although Jennings' work does not appear on the album.[17] On June 25, bassist Fred Sablan confirmed he had left the band on good terms.[18] Long-time band member Twiggy did not take part in the writing and recording process.[19]

On September 3, Manson confirmed that the new album is "prepared for landing", indicating that production for the album had been completed.[20] The Pale Emperor is dedicated to Manson's late mother, Barbara Warner, who died on Mother's Day, 2014, after an eight year battle with dementia.[10][21]

Composition and style

In a January 2014 interview with Kerrang! magazine, Manson described the sound of the new album as being "very cinematic", saying that the "redneck in me comes out in my voice" due to the album's inclusion of "old blues" influences, while still containing the "harder elements" of his previous work.[22] In a later interview with The Fader, Manson stated that he no longer "dresses [his] feelings in characters and extended metaphors", saying that he instead "lets melody lead" the album. He elaborated that he is "a man of few words on the record. What I hadn't ever found, till now, is the blues. The blues changed the way that I sang [on the album]. And the music has a melody and a language in and of itself," while lead editor Naomi Zeichner went on to compare the album to the work of Interpol and "the retro biker bar rock that soundtracks Sons of Anarchy."[23]

Musically, The Pale Emperor is a departure from the band's usual style, leaning away from the industrial, electronic and heavy metal-influenced production that appeared on much of the band's previous work, towards a more sparse, blues and hard rock-influenced sound,[3][10] with Manson specifically citing the music of Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones and The Doors as inspiration.[24] Steven Hyden of Grantland expanded on several parallels between The Pale Emperor and the Doors' 1971 album L.A. Woman, noting how the album "echoes how [the Doors] reformulated its juju in the latter part of its career," likening both Manson and Jim Morrison to "rambling barstool vamp[s] that career darkly between camp and druggy majesty". He went on to compare Manson's vocals on "Warship My Wreck" to Morrison's "debauched howls," and said that Morrison's "self-destructive self-aggrandizement" can be found in tracks such as "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" and "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge".[25]

The album's title is inspired by the Roman emperor Constantius I – also known as "Constantius the Pale".[26] Lyrically, the album deals with subjects ranging from mortality,[3] war, violence and slavery to religion,[27] as well as containing references to Greek mythology[28] and German folklore, specifically the story of Faust and Mephistopheles.[25] "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" was the original title track and, according to Manson, "the album's heart".[29] The album makes use of an extended metaphor, in which Manson compares his own career to the life of Faust, explaining to The Philadelphia Inquirer that he "sold [his] soul to become a rock star, and [The Pale Emperor is] payment in full – with interest, considering the last few bills I didn't pay," explaining that he considered The High End of Low and Born Villain to "lack focus".[24] He elaborated to Classic Rock Magazine:

"If we stick to the Faust story – if I had been in that story – and I had sold my soul [to the devil] for fame and fortune, and had the arrogance of [Faust] to not want to pay back the deal, it's taken a few years for me to acknowledge to myself that I was hearing: 'Manson [rapping his knuckles on the table], the hell hounds are on your trail.' And this record is my payment. This is me giving back what I was given, or took. Faust and Mephistopheles both exist within me, in that you can't outrun your demons. You've got to deal with them eventually. The evidence is in me acknowledging that I needed to make something that was up to my own expectations, my own rules. If you believe in some mythology, and you want to live by those rules, then I had to say myself: 'I'm not really doing what I set out to do,' even though I tried to convince myself that I was. I'm not regretting the last few records that I've made, but since Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), I've not made something with the sheer utter fearlessness and anger and force [of before]."[29]

The lyrics for several tracks are intentionally sparse, with Manson explaining that he "[left] holes in these stories so [the album could] become your story. It becomes more cinematic. For example in the film Rosemary's Baby, you don't see the baby but in your mind you do."[28] The lyrics were all derived from a single notebook, with Manson admitting that the lyrical content of previous work was "often too scattered", as they were composed of material taken from "about 20" different notebooks.[30]

Release and artwork

The Pale Emperor was announced for release on Marilyn Manson's official website on November 9, 2014.[31] It was released in various formats beginning January 15, 2015, including standard and deluxe edition CDs; a heavyweight 180-gram 2×LP vinyl album, available in black, white and a limited edition grey marble-effect,[32][33] the latter of which was exclusive to Hot Topic;[34] and as a digital download, including "full-bandwidth 24-bit" AIFF and WAV format files, which were made available on Qobuz.[35] The vinyl discs were manufactured at Record Technology, Inc. in Camarillo, California using the pressing plant's HQ-180™ system.[36] A digital download of the album was packaged with all LP editions.[36] The CD versions of the album are made with thermo-chrome heat-sensitive CD face which appears black when first opened, but reveals a white background and an image of Manson when exposed to heat from a CD player.[37]

The album was also released as a limited edition "Definitive Box" set which was sold exclusively at Manson's webstore. Designed by Manson with Willo Perron, the set included the deluxe CD and white vinyl editions of the album, as well as several exclusive items including: a grey cloth-bound individually numbered collectors box, five lithographs designed by artist Nicholas Cope, a fold-out 24" poster, album sleeves printed on full-color UV-coated stock and a Pale Emperor T-shirt.[36]

Promotion

Manson premiered "Cupid Carries a Gun" on April 27 when it was used as the opening theme to the television series Salem.[38][39] A large portion of album track "Killing Strangers" would later be featured in the Keanu Reeves film John Wick, which was released in cinemas on October 24.[40][41] The band performed several new songs live for the first time in October and early November, when they played a handful of concerts around southern California.[5][42] On Halloween night, the band was joined on stage by Johnny Depp and Ninja from Die Antwoord for a performance of "The Beautiful People" at the Roxy Theatre.[43] The band announced details of their Hell Not Hallelujah tour, which began on January 21, 2015.[44][45] On December 5, Manson settled a fifteen year rift with The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, by performing "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge" and "Ava Adore" with the band at the Camden Palace Theatre in London.[46] The album was released on streaming site Genius on January 12, eight days ahead of its official release.[47] The band will perform at the Soundwave Festival in Australia from February 21 to March 1, 2015,[48] Rock am Ring and Rock im Park in Germany from June 5 to June 7,[49] the Download Festival in the UK on June 14, 2015[50] and Hellfest in France on June 20.[51]

Singles

"Third Day of a Seven Day Binge" was released as the album's first promo single. The song premiered on BBC Radio 1's Rock Show by Daniel P. Carter on October 26, 2014. Immediately following the broadcast, the song was released for free download on the band's official website,[52] and was later released as a one-track single via music download services on November 10.[53] A limited edition 10" vinyl single – containing the acoustic version of the song, "Day 3", as its b-side – was available with pre-orders of the vinyl edition of the album at participating independent record stores.[54]

"Deep Six" was released as the album's official lead single on December 16.[55][56] A music video for the song, directed by Bart Hess, was released on to YouTube three days later.[57][58] The song debuted at number thirty-three on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Chart on the issue dated December 23, 2014, as the "greatest gainer" that week,[59] before rising to number seventeen on the chart dated February 7, 2015, making it the band's highest peaking single on the chart since "The Dope Show" peaked at number twelve in 1998.[60] A double A-sided CD single of "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge" and "Deep Six" was released exclusively at Best Buy stores in the US on December 23.[61]

"Cupid Carries a Gun" was released as a promo single on January 7, 2015.[62]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic71/100[63]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[64]
The A.V. ClubB[65]
Consequence of SoundC[66]
Drowned in Sound8/10[67]
Kerrang!KKKK [Excellent][68]
Metal Hammer7/10[69]
NME6/10[70]
The QuietusPositive[71]
Rolling Stone[1]
Slant Magazine[72]

The Pale Emperor received generally positive reviews from music critics.[11][73][74] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from music critics, the album received an average score of 71, indicating "generally favorable reviews", based on 19 publications.[63] Dean Brown of The Quietus called The Pale Emperor "the best album Manson has put his name to in fifteen years" and said that by writing "memorable, mature songs full of devilishly addictive hooks without trying to relive the past, [the album] breathes new life into Manson's career."[71] In a review for Yahoo! Music, Allan Raible said that The Pale Emperor was "one of the best and most surprising albums Manson has released in a long time," highlighting the album's focus on songcraft instead of shock value.[37] Similarly, Corey Deiterman of Houston Press wrote "The Pale Emperor stands as a triumphant return to the songwriting principles that made him famous in the first place," before summarizing that the album is his strongest set "in years and years" and that Manson's persona has "finally given way to the superior musician that always lived within."[75] Fred Thomas of AllMusic said that the album contains a "decidedly more blues-influenced vein, combining a trademark penchant for lyrical darkness with the most unholy type of biker rock," before summarizing that the shift in musical direction "accomplishes the near-impossible [of] making Marilyn Manson sound even more sinister than before."[64] Drowned in Sound critic Dave Hanratty wrote that Marilyn Manson "has always possessed the ability to write and produce music that can speak at its own compelling length and pitch. Here he unleashes that side of his frayed character for the first time in about 14 years."[67] In a positive review, Kerrang! stated that "the god of fuck trades shock-tastic thrills for something even darker."[68] Mark Orton of Otago Daily Times wrote that "not since Mechanical Animals has Manson put together a selection with such sass, swagger and synergy," stating that the music has "definitely supplanted the image," awarding the album four and a half stars out of five.[76] Jeff Miers of The Buffalo News wrote that "The Pale Emperor is the first thoroughly excellent Manson collection of the post-millennial world. Throughout the album, Manson sounds both inspired and disgusted, which is usually the tightrope he walks when he's doing his best work."[77] Alec Chillingworth of Stereoboard wrote that Manson's ability to "conjure a particular mood remains quite unlike anyone else in music," and said that The Pale Emperor is Manson "climbing back to the creative summit he fell from following Holy Wood. He's never going to top those early albums, but by expanding his palette and finally getting it right, The Pale Emperor reinstates Marilyn Manson as a relevant musical force and an elder statesman of the industrial scene," awarding the album four stars out of five.[78]

Louis Pattison, reviewing for NME, stated that "it's no classic, but perhaps the surprise here is that Manson's music can work without the shock shtick." He also wrote that "the biggest surprise on the new album from the 'God Of Fuck' is that we see more of the real Manson than before."[70] Dan Bogosian of Consequence of Sound was more mixed in his assessment, stating: "A lack of 'oomph' prevents the album from landing a gut punch that would cover all of its flaws. Like an aging boxer, Manson lands jabs and the occasional uppercut, but he never topples his opponent."[66] Similarly, Daniel Sylvester of Exclaim! wrote that "The Pale Emperor is downright ambitious when it wants to be and lazy when it can get away with it."[79]

Commercial performance

Industry forecasters predicted that The Pale Emperor was on course for a top ten debut on the Billboard 200, with first week sales of around 50,000 units.[80] The album debuted at number eight on the Billboard 200 with over 51,000 copies sold, including 49,000 in "pure" album sales,[81] making it the band's biggest opening week sales since Eat Me, Drink Me debuted at the same position with 88,000 copies in 2007.[82] It became the band's eighth top ten album, and sixth title in a row to reach the region.[81] The album also debuted at number six on Billboard's Top Albums Chart[83] – the current equivalent of the previous sales-based Billboard 200 – as well as number three on Top Rock Albums[84] and number one on the Top Hard Rock Albums charts.[85] The Pale Emperor debuted at number four on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling over 5,000 copies per Nielsen SoundScan.[86]

In Europe, the album debuted on the Russian Albums Chart at number ten on the chart dated January 18, 2015,[87] based on three days of sale on the Russian iTunes, later rising to number two on its first full week of release in the country.[88] The album debuted and peaked at number one on the Swiss Albums Chart, becoming the band's first since The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003) to do so.[89] Similarly, the album debuted at number twenty-one on both the Irish and Dutch Albums Charts, making it the band's highest-peaking album in both regions since The Golden Age of Grotesque.[90][91] The Pale Emperor was Manson's fifth top-ten album in France, where it debuted at number five, selling over 6,700 copies on its first week, according to the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP).[92] In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number sixteen with sales of 5,984 copies on the UK Albums Chart, becoming the band's seventh top 20 album.[93][94]

In Japan, the album debuted at number twenty-five on the Oricon albums chart with sales of 3,610 copies.[95] It debuted at number six on the ARIA Albums Chart as the highest new entry that week, and his highest peaking album in the region since The Golden Age of Grotesque.[96] In New Zealand, the album debuted at number five, making it the band's highest peaking album in the country since Mechanical Animals peaked at number three in 1998.[97][98]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Marilyn Manson; all music is composed by Tyler Bates

No.TitleLength
1."Killing Strangers"5:36
2."Deep Six"5:02
3."Third Day of a Seven Day Binge"4:26
4."The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles"4:57
5."Warship My Wreck"5:57
6."Slave Only Dreams to Be King"5:20
7."The Devil Beneath My Feet"4:16
8."Birds of Hell Awaiting"5:05
9."Cupid Carries a Gun"4:59
10."Odds of Even" (deluxe edition adds 1:30 of silence to the track)6:22
Total length:52:00
Deluxe edition
No.TitleLength
11."Day 3" (Acoustic version of "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge")4:11
12."Fated, Faithful, Fatal" (Acoustic version of "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles")4:41
13."Fall of the House of Death" (Acoustic version of "Odds of Even")4:30
Total length:65:22

Credits and personnel

  • Recorded at Abattoir Studios, Studio City, California
  • Drums recorded by Gustavo Borner at Igloo Studios, Burbank, California
  • Mixed by Robert Carranza and Wolfgang Matthes at SPPP, Los Angeles, California
  • Mastering by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering, Los Angeles, California

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Primary Personnel
Additional Personnel

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Technical Personnel
  • Emma Banks – executive booking agent
  • Tony Ciulla – management
  • Nicholas Cope – photography
  • Chris Daltson – executive booking agent
  • Dylan Eiland – additional programming
  • Joanne Higginbottom – Pro Tools editing
  • Wolfgang Matthes – additional programming
  • Willo Perron – creative direction
  • Hassan Rahim – art direction
  • Rick Roskin – booking agent
  • Laurie Soriano – legal

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Credits adapted from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of The Pale Emperor.[17]

Charts

Weekly charts

Charts (2015) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[100] 6
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[101] 4
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[102] 20
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[103] 5
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[104] 4
Croatian International Albums (HDU)[105] 3
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[106] 7
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[107] 18
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[90] 21
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[108] 10
French Albums (SNEP)[109] 5
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[110] 4
Greek Albums (IFPI)[111] 24
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[112] 8
Irish Albums (IRMA)[113] 21
Irish Independent Albums (IRMA)[114] 5
Italian Albums (FIMI)[115] 26
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[95] 25
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[116] 5
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[117] 24
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[118] 3
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[119] 10
Russian Albums (2M)[88] 2
Scottish Albums (OCC)[120] 17
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[121] 15
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[122] 20
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[89] 1
UK Albums (OCC)[123] 16
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[124] 6
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC)[125] 3
US Billboard 200[126] 8
US Top Album Sales (Billboard)[127] 6
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[128] 3
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[129] 3
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard)[130] 1

Release history

Region Date Label Distributor(s) Format(s) Catalog #
Belgium[131] January 15, 2015 Hell, etc. Cooking Vinyl COOKCD/LP602[X]
Germany[132] January 16, 2015
Ireland[133]
Italy[134]
France[135] January 19, 2015
Netherlands[136]
Sweden[137]
Norway[138]
United Kingdom[139]
Canada[140] January 20, 2015 Dine Alone Records DA130
United States[141] Loma Vista LVR-36380-02
Japan[142] January 21, 2015 Victor Entertainment VICP-65261
Australia[143] January 23, 2015 Cooking Vinyl COOKCD/LP602[X]
New Zealand[144]

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