Irresponsible hate anthem 9/10 -When you 1s play this song you know Manson is DEAD SERIOUS about making a hard scary as hell album and this is a concept album, a perfect start to the album

The beautiful people 9/10 - The song that made MM popular not the best on the album but the lyrics are amazing but so is every song on the album

Dried up,tied up, and dead to the world 9/10 - A very gothic like feel to this song the chorus is incredible & ginger fish beats the *hit out of the drums in this one.

Tourniquet 11/10 - A great song and single i really like the rock feel that this song brings parents seemed to worry about the lyrical content in this song, give me a break...

Little horn 9/10 - This song isnt to long a little under 3 minutes but its one of the few death metal songs on this cd you can even hear the bass a bit which is rare for alot of bands lately

Cryptorchid - 8/10 - ANother gothic feel to this song a pretty mellow song i think M.W. gacy did a great job with electronics in this one

Deformography 10/10 - ANother favorite The best part of this song is vocals, lyrics,drums & electronics

WOrmboy 7/10 - Not a great song but i still like it, its decent just nothing special on it.

Mister superstar 10/10 - i like the fact that it starts out with some mellow strings but as the song goes on it gets heavier & heavier.

Anger with the scabbed wings 12/10 - a good rock song with some great lyrics by a great vocalist.

Kinderfeld 8/10 - A very emotinal song for brian warner a.k.a Marilyn manson I didn't know wh othe hell he was talking about in this one ti'll i read " the long road out of hell" written by MM himself and you find out its about his grandfather

Antichrist superstar 9/10 - Title track for this amazing piece of work heavy with overall great lyrics

1996 9/10 - As another reviewer said this is irresponsible hate anthem pt. 2

The minute of decay 8/10 - Also this has a very gothic feel i think the chorus in this one is incredible

The reflecting god 25/10 - My favorite song on this cd and the last heavy song on this album incredible drum,bass, guitars vocals everything it might even make the most die hard christian re think there religion.

Man that you fear 20/10 - ANother incredible song and the perfect end to this perfect cd slow emotinal sad & angry all at the same time and it shows MM has some serious singing talents

In conclusion this is a masterpice and will go down as one of the greatest cds of te 90's if you want to hear meaningful lyrics by a grea musician buy this and if you are a die hard christian give it a chance and don't judge a book by its cover


Shocker.   March 21, 2000
 30 out of 35 found this review helpful

Okay, I like Marilyn Manson. At least his music. I don't compare him to Alice Cooper because I don't see Brian Warner out there swinging golf clubs on VH1's Fairway to Heaven. It may be easy to dismiss Marilyn Manson as all shock and no value, but that wouldn't be accurate. It is also easy to say that Brian Warner is Trent Reznor's brainchild, but that isn't entirely true either. What I do think, is of the three full length studio cds that Marilyn Manson has made, Antichrist Superstar is the best, most cohesive effort. It's right on the mark for angry, grungy angst. I can't think of another artist who does this kind of music so well. It's not speed metal where all meaning is lost, it's not hard rock which is more friendly and accessible. This album is dark and angry and it's great for that reason. 1998's Mechanical Animals shows Brian moving in a more Bowie-esque direction and while that's interesting, Antichrist Superstar is more Brian's pace. Although Trent Reznor produced, Brian still manages to keep the music and lyrics in his own arena. A must have for any rock collector.


A masterpiece of thoughtfull headbanging   April 15, 2000
 14 out of 18 found this review helpful

Marilyn Manson (the band as well as its frontman) is easily one of the most thoughtfull and necessary group of muscicians of the modern age. There is a great deal more to this album than shock, the band left petty shock tactics behind after "Smells Like Children." This album represents a mature work that is a reflection and critiscism of what is wrong with America. The lyrics tackle everything from hate to religious hypocrisy and futility. Not to mention the fact that the music on this album is incredible. This is easily one of the loudest, hardest, noisiest and most sonically agressive album in the modern music scene. I will agree that the music style on this album owes a great deal to Mr. Reznor of NIN, Marilyn Manson actually speacks out against issues of public importance wheras Reznor is only concerned with himself in his lyrics. Antichrist Superstar is not for all tastes but for those who can handle (or tolerate) the music, enjoy this exellent piece of musical art.

(Recommended songs are Irresponsible Hate Anthem, The Beautiful People, Little Horn, Angel With the Scabbed Wings, 1996 and The Reflecting God).


Marylin Manson/ Brian Hugh Warner is a performance artist.   January 9, 2004
 13 out of 13 found this review helpful

I don't care what any youth-group or money-grubbing, hypocritical preacher says (that means YOU, Pat Robertson) This guy isn't as bad as you religious nuts say he is. It's no less of an act than Ziggy Stardust. Shock-rock, you say? The shock is all in your head. Just like Slim Shady, he is whatever you say he is and he doesn't really care one way or the other so long as he's making an impression on you. Be it fear or fondness.

I don't get why everyone fights over Marilyn Manson. The church groups dislike him because he's just another thing they don't understand and the music fans complain that he is a sell out. How did he sell out? Everything's fine until you leave the underground and become popular isn't it? Then you're just crap. That's a wonderful way to treat somebody who's busting their hump to make music for your discerning taste.

Brian may borrow from some other past looks and ideals (David Bowie, Gary Numan, Alice Cooper) but he does have his own style and agenda. Speaking of Alice.. Didn't that old geezer get "saved" or some kinda junk? There's your sell-out right in front of you. When Brian prays for forgiveness on his death-bed.. then and only then will I call him a sell out. And maybe that will be his last shock before he leaves us...

And here's a shocker, every band you listen to now can be traced back to a band from before.. so they're >ALL< copying off of somebody. Originality is dead and has been dead ever since 'retro' got big. But when given the choice I'd rather listen to this than that Debbie Gibson knock-off, Brittany Spears. I want music that is trying to say something to me other than "Drink pepsi and look at my perky breasts!"

I do like some underground and lesser known bands but some stuff is just too hard to get into. Mr. Manson's music is exciting compared to what else is out there on the radio and TV. He makes goth palatable for those like me who're too lazy to try and understand Joy Division or Sisters of Mercy. NIN did the same thing for industrial. Skinny Puppy and Thrill Kill Cult are fine and dandy but some of it is just too eclectic, and who wants to listen to a band they >DON'T< like just so they can be cool and fit in?

Not that those aren't good bands. I prefer stuff like Mindless Self Indulgence, Inkkubus Sukkubus, Ophelia Rising, Razed in Black, VNV Nation, Cruxshadows, and the awesome japanese metal band: Malice Mizer (ironic that Manson is rumored to have consulted Mana for his fashion ideas ^.^) and us "goth" folks don't know real metal? Try SLAYER on for size and forget Slipknot ever existed.

It amazes me they STILL show the same video in youth-group and sunday school about how horrible Slayer and Dungeons and Dragons is for out prescious little children. So if the christians are still yapping about them now.. they must've done SOMETHING right. I have a wide and varied musical taste. I don't sit around all day listening to ONLY Nine Inch Nails and Marylin Manson. And I DON'T watch MTV, atleast not since the recent influx of hip-pop and the rap-rock scene.

Okay, now that I'm done ranting.

This >IS< a good album, although I do prefer their ealier stuff like "Portrait of An American Family" they were alot less produced back then and had a more realistic guitar driven sound with less synth. But that's not saying that 'Antichrist' isn't good. Some of the songs like "Tourniquet" and "Beautiful People" are very memorable. "Man That You Fear" is very sad but not as good as the Pink Floyd-ish "Speed of Pain" (compare to Comfortably Numb) from the album 'Mechanical Animals'

The other songs are good as well but most folks are too lazy to listen to an album all the way through so they never get to hear them. I love "The Reflecting God," its like Brian is talking about how he creates his own world inside his mind and in that world he is his own God and no one can touch him. He creates and destroys as he sees fit.

I love an artist who can criticize himself.

"World spreads its legs for another star."

Brian sold himself to his music and his image. He's just another star for us to crucify/sanctify and he knows full well that he is martyring himself for his cause, becoming the anti-christ that everyone loves to hate or the alledged "sell-out" that everyone loves to take shots at and he honestly doesn't give a damn what you think. In his world, you don't exist.. 'You can kill yourself now because your dead in my mind'

He does his own thing and if you like him and get the joke, that's great. If you don't understand and you protest at his concerts and blame your children's suicides/school shootings on his songs, well that's good too. No such thing as "Bad Press." Your fear and stupidity sell the records for him the same way it did for Ozzy Osbourne and Slayer. The same goes for Eminem. If the preachers and parents hate it then that gives the kiddies all the more reason to buy it, crank it loud and proud, and aggravate the heck out of you with it.

Oh c'mon.. like you didn't drive your folks crazy with KISS, Black Sabbath, or AC/DC in the 70's when you were a young'un? Back in YOUR parents' day that was theeee evil music right there *snickers* Now its in constant rotation on the Classic Rock radio stations. I wonder what my kids will be listening to when... Oh wait, I don't have any kids.. But if I did, I'd eat them with fava beans and a nice kiante.

"I've always measured sucess not only by the ammount of people that love you but the ones that hate you too. I like to provoke people so that they think. I think that's a healthy part of entertainment... that you don't get too much from the Spice Girls."

-Rev. Brian Warner, David Letterman interview.


Not my favorite Manson album but it's still close to perfect   October 15, 2000
 12 out of 13 found this review helpful

I really hate it when you people come on here and do reviews when you haven't even heard the album. Just because they don't sell Manson merchandise at your Abercrombie and Fitch store, you don't have to give him bad reviews when you haven't heard the album. If he released Anti-Buddha Superstar, or Anti-Allah Superstar, nobody would give a damn, but this offends 2/3 of America so they have to bash it. This is one of the greatest concept albums ever created. It's an autobiographical journey through the life of Brian Warner, to Marilyn Manson. It's a lot like The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust in ways. He starts small, gets popular, and loses it. Man That You Fear is a lot like Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (by Bowie). It was very clever of him to place the sampled crowd noise in Irresponsible Hate Anthem and say it was recorded in Feb 1997, a good 4 months AFTER the album's release. The strongest tracks on here are The Beautiful People, Antichrist Superstar (the title track...sounds great live by the way), The Reflecting God, and Man That You Fear (a very sad closing song). I actually prefer Mechanical Animals and Holy Wood to this(I have an advance copy of it...it's GREAT), but this album is still awesome. There are some tracks that I like more than others, but none that I really dislike.