It’s an entertaining and intriguing read, without too much weight put on the band’s actual music. Whether you’re a fan of Marilyn Manson or not doesn’t really matter when reading Manson’s autobiography. But it had been one long, hard road to finally get there. Manson at last felt that he had gained some form of control over their lives and that the band at last had a clear direction. Along the way, Manson et al encountered many fallings out, issues with addition, false and exaggerated claims of debauchery and misadventure, along with countless lows that pushed their emotional and physical states to the limit.Īnd finally, by 1997, when they commenced their ‘Dead To The World’ tour, the band were finally at a place where they felt they were on top of things.
However the rise to fame for the group was far from an easy one. With the band’s controversial image causing massive waves with the likes of the American Family Association, the added attention they were receiving only helped with furthering the success of the band. Nevertheless, the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll continued. However, their friendship was soon to encounter problems during the recording and production of the ‘Lost Highway’ (1997) soundtrack, where Reznor felt Manson and his crew were wasting his time. What was to follow was a descent into sexual debauchery, excessive drug-taking, fame and hostility.Īs the group’s activity began to pick up momentum, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails became close friends with Warner, who had by this stage fully adopted the name Marilyn Manson.
And in 1989, Warner and guitarist Scott Putesky formed the band ‘Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids’. No doubt as a direct result of his dysfunctional and oppressive childhood, Warner’s life veered away from the norm eventually diving into the more extreme underbelly of modern life. The strict ruling laid out by the school uncaringly singled out Warner due to his mother’s Episcopal faith, setting down Warner’s early building blocks for rebellion against all those that he felt rejected him. Warner had a tough time at the Heritage Christian School where he was sent. First published back in February of 1998, ‘The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell’ formed US gothic rockstar Marilyn Manson’s first autobiography and was co-written by Neil Strauss.īorn in Canton, Ohio back in 1969 as Brian Hugh Warner, no one would have thought that this scrawny geek of an American kid would turn out to be the controversial gothic-rock superstar that would dominate the musical news during much of the mid-90’s.įrom stumbling upon his perverted grandfather’s dirty secrets hidden away in his basement, Warner’s early childhood quickly became far from what most people would call a normal upbringing.
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