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Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) is the fourth studio album by Marilyn Manson, released in 2000. It is the last in a trilogy/"triptych" with albums Antichrist Superstar (1996) and Mechanical Animals (1998) as their predecessors; since the triptych's story is told in reverse order, Holy Wood therefore begins the narrative.Much like the other parts of the triptych, Holy Wood is a Rock Opera/Concept Album. Its concept follows a protagonist named Adam Kadmon (derived from the Kabbalah, meaning "original man") who travels from Death Valley (a land populated by social outcasts) to Holy Wood (a city-sized amusement park with main attractions of death and violence). He tries staging a revolution but finds stiff opposition in Holy Wood's perpetually violent culture, its "guns, God, government" ideology, and its religion of "celebritarianism" where dead celebrities are worshipped and John F. Kennedy is revered like a modern Jesus.The album came out when Manson was under fire for supposedly inspiring the 1999 high school shootings in Columbine, because the teens who committed the murders were fans of him. It later turned out that this rumor was false, but this didn't diminish the public outcry about the rock singer, whom many Moral Guardians saw as a "corruptor of youth." Manson felt demonized by the media and refused all interviews, even to defend himself, because he didn't want to contribute to the media frenzy.Instead, he channeled his emotions into the story and themes of Holy Wood, its songs criticizing journalists, politicians and religious groups for capitalizing on the tragic shootings while at the same time sensationalizing violence like the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, John Lennon and the Columbine murders. He also argued that glorifying bloodshed was nothing new, because Christians had made Jesus' crucifixion an icon for centuries.At the time, Holy Wood didn't sell as well as his other albums. However, over two decades later, it has been Vindicated by History so much that it is now the best-selling album in Marilyn Manson's catalogue.Manson had additional plans to tell the backstory of the album through companion pieces in different mediums. He began negotiations with New Line Cinema to produce and distribute a Holy Wood film, even meeting with Alejandro Jodorowsky to discuss it, but the deal fell through less than a year later after Manson had doubts that he'd be able to make the film without having his artistic vision compromised. He then scrapped the film and announced two books — a novelized adaptation of the film's script, and a separate coffee table book of pictures. Neither book has been fully released, reportedly due to publishing disputes; to date, only the cover art and the 10th chapter of the novel have been shared online.The album produced the hit singles "Disposable Teens," "The Fight Song" and "The Nobodies." |
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Crucified Hero Shot: The album cover. |
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Face on the Cover: Marilyn Manson hanging on a cross. |
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Crapsack World |
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Crapsack World: "The Fight Song": "The Death Song": |
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If It Bleeds, It Leads |
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If It Bleeds, It Leads/Jesus Was Way Cool: Manson sees Jesus Christ as "the first rockstar", killed for his revolutionary ideals. He draws comparisons to John F. Kennedy and John Lennon, who were also assassinated icons whose deaths were turned into spectacles. "Lamb Of God": "A Place In The Dirt" "The Nobodies" |
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Title Track: "In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death," but the title itself doesn't appear in the lyrics. It does in "Valentine's Day" In "Cruci-Fiction In Space" part of the title is namedropped: In "Target Audience" too |
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As the Good Book Says... |
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As the Good Book Says...: From the cover alone this album takes a lot of inspiration from the Bible: "Cruci-Fiction In Space" |
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Alliterative Title |
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Alliterative Title: "God Eat God", "King Kill 33°" |
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Uncertain Doom |
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Uncertain Doom: In "Count to Six and Die," everything is set up for the last shot being fatal (we hear five clicks from a revolver used for Russian roulette), but before we hear the gun going off the song (and thus the album) ends. |
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Hurricane of Puns |
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Hurricane of Puns: "Burning Flag" "Cruci-Fiction In Space" |
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Adam and/or Eve |
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Adam and/or Eve: The album makes many allusions to Adam and Eve. The song list is divided in four circles that speel the word A-D-A-M, Adam Kadmon is the main protagonist symbolizing the first man and some songs make references to the Garden of Eden, most notably "Coma Black". |
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting |
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: "Burning Flag" |
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Concept Album: The album deals with people and media's obsession with death and murder through the ill-fated rise and fall of Adam Kadmon. |
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Russian Roulette |
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Russian Roulette: As alluded by the title "Count to Six and Die," the album closes on one, as we hear five times a revolver going through chambers followed by the hammer hitting the empty space, and then it gets to the sixth chamber that would have the bullet (while, in true Book Ends case, the footstep noises from the opening of "GodEatGod" appear again). |
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Pun-Based Title: "Holy Wood" instead of Hollywood, "God Eat God" instead of "dog eat dog" and "Cruci-Fiction In Space" is a pun on "fiction" and "crucifixion". |
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Downer Ending |
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Downer Ending: The album ends with Adam's revolution being corrupted into exactly what it was fighting against, and the final track "Count to Six and Die" insinuates that Adam kills himself. |
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BSoD Song |
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BSoD Song: The album concludes the trilogy about the antichrist superstar. Albeit Manson said this one is the beginning, thus the Start of Darkness. |
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Bookends |
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Book Ends: The first and last sounds are of a metal key rattling on a lock, giving the idea of the album being "unlocked" and subsequently closed. |
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Religion Rant Song |
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Religion Rant Song: See Blasphemous Boast. |
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Real Life Writes the Plot |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: Manson had been in the center of controversy for quite some years at this point, with the Columbine shootings of 1999 as the high point of criticism of all kinds or morality activists. The album was his way of reacting to all the finger pointing and Never My Fault accusations. |
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Belief Makes You Stupid |
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Belief Makes You Stupid and Blasphemous Boast: "The Fight Song": "Burning Flag" "The Death Song" "Disposable Teens" |
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Shout-Out to Shakespeare: "Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)" |
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Dead Artists Are Better |
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Dead Artists Are Better: A theme on the album, where murdered celebrities like John F. Kennedy and John Lennon are worshipped as saints. |
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The Something Song |
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The Something Song: "The Love Song," "The Fight Song" and "The Death Song". |
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Take That! |
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Take That!: "Burning Flag" |
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Anti-Hero |
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Anti-Hero: Protagonist Adam Kadmon. |
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Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle |
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Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle: Both the album itself, and its final track "Count to Six and Die (The Vacuum of Infinite Space Encompassing)." |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: The album was directly inspired by The White Album by The Beatles, because of its role in the Charles Manson murders and the parallels Marilyn saw between that crime and the 1999 Columbine High School murders. "Disposable Teens" even borrows a line from "Revolution 1" note "You say you want a revolution . Another inspiration was Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones. "Lamb Of God" references the assassination of John F. Kennedy broadcast by the Zapruder Film, "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" from The White Album and the murderer of John Lennon, Mark David Chapman. The refrain "nothing's going to change the world" is very similar to Lennon's song "Across The Universe" from Let It Be. "Target Audience" references the fact that Aldous Huxley died the same day John F. Kennedy was shot. It also references JFK's murderer Lee Harvey Oswald, as well as John Wilkes Booth, who shot Abraham Lincoln. "God Eat God" references Humpty Dumpty: "The Love Song" references "De Imitatione Christi," a book by Thomas A. Kempis. |
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Nightmare Face |
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Nightmare Face: Manson on the album cover. |
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Rock Opera |
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Rock Opera: Just like the other two albums of the triptych. |
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Album Title Drop: There is no complete Title Track, but the words "In the Shadow of the Valley of Death" do appear in the song of the same name. |
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1.0 |
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A Million Is a Statistic |
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A Million is a Statistic: A literal line in "The Fight Song." |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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Garden of Eden |
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Garden of Eden: "Coma Black" makes so many explicit and implicit allusions to the Garden of Eden, it could just as well be the setting of the song. Main character Adam (Kadmon) is the first/primal man, he "burned all the good things in the Eden eye" (a direct reference), "she" (a woman in any way related to Eve?) "was the only thing" he was able to "love in this dying world," where also the "angel" (like the one in biblical story) has gone. "I'd kill myself to make everybody pay" would then consitute a Reality-Breaking Paradox, where Adam dies before he can be fruitful and fill the earth. |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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