'Born Villain' Media Reviews

[The Overman]

As a catch-all for published reviews of the new album. I'll start the thread with this review from Noise Shaft:

The new Marilyn Manson album is a visceral cultivation of infectious industrial rock passages pummeling through you with a brisk, constant 4/4 coated into myriad tints of inventive darkness. There are at least two essential ingredients - among others, logically - that I managed to pick up on this release, both being of primordial significance of how and why this album works with so fluent effortlessness. First and foremost, The Marilyn Manson, thank God & Co., already knows perfectly well that it is not at all mandatory nor necessary to deliver sounds all over the real estate of silence like there is no tomorrow, so he handles the institute of the sonic gap with considerable skill and a valiantly spirited will...

Upon multiple listens, I personally find myself more and more on the hunt for stuff on the disc that I could safely kick in the ass incoming from a neighboring runway, and that seems to be a tame but informative indication that the album "simply is" strong and efficient for what it wants to accomplish. 4/4 kinetic pummeling varied with tasteful, sober intensity, orchestrated to dark-, darker, and darkest moods, exclusively. Even better/worse : Manson never takes her/himself AS seriously as you momentarily want her/him to, and that is a premiere part of the magic, I think.

Rating : 9.0 / 10

[Scorpion]

http://blog.thatfatatheist.com/post/...villain-review

9/10

Loved this one.

http://sputnikmusic.com/review/49367...-Born-Villain/

3.5/5 (meh)

[MixMastahTee]

http://noiseshaft.blogspot.com.au/20...in-review.html


9/10

You realize you just posted the same review as OP?

[iggy]

Obviously I did not notice.

[Skull]

Badly-written, but still : http://horrornews.net/51148/music-re...-born-villian/

[Norsefire]

Great thread! I always like to save these for the site archives, so please keep posting any reviews you find.

[Whisky And Speed]

A review from a Swedish website:

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesblade...cle14741190.ab

a very bad translation from google:

INDUSTRIAL METAL / POST PUNK Much seems to be about the decline and rediscovery. If a search for roots and a white-hot frustration that has been absent on Marilyn Manson's last two album "Eat Me, Drink Me" (2007) and "The High End of Low" (2009).



To get back to the early career spark the 43-year-old not only moved back to the apartment he used during the creation of the 1996 platinum seller "Antichrist Superstar", he has even dug up their rattling inspiration ghosts Killing Joke and Bauhaus from the omissions's most dusty closet corner .

And so far, so good. For probably the album sounds like it should. The twisted junkyard blues, for example, "Slo-mo-tion" meanders like a hypnotic Sir Västerbotten around the listener and "Murderers are getting prettier every day" feels like an overdriven cannonball straight up at Helm.



While the outcome is very uneven. Dozens platitudes as the title track, "Hey, cruel world" and "pistol whipped" buzz peripherally by without grabbing, while at a time that parasitic bass line in "The gardener" from Midnight Oil's "Beds are Burning" is extremely crooked.

Despite this - you can see "Born villain" like a rebirth. Half a victory at a time when their careers are, and tremble. With firmer touch the next plate to be the renaissance that Marilyn Manson so desperately need.

[Jaglie]

Review from The Independent

1/5 stars

One of the great things about the Sex Pistols was their brevity, the way John Lydon called time on the antagonism after a single album to embark on more fruitful endeavours.

Listening to Born Villain, the umpteenth tirade of vituperative torment from Marilyn Manson, it's striking how static Manson's career has been: he started out hating pretty much everything, and stayed that way. Here, the narrow range of his alienated worldview is ironically indicated by the song title “Breaking the Same Old Ground”: pantomime-villain railings against the universe spiced with a frisson of sexual violence (“Pistol Whipped”), croaked over unimaginative golem riffs. If he tried to find something he liked, he might actually make something worth listening to.

Download: Overneath the Path of Misery

[Norsefire]

Virgin Media

4/5 Stars

It's been three years since Marilyn Manson's last album, but he's lost no edge. In fact, he's sharpened it.
Born Villain – produced, like 2009's The High End Of Low, by Manson and bandmember Chris Vrenna – is a new, snarly step forward, bristling with a vitality that Manson has no right to still have in his locker this far down the line. He attributes this to a reconnection with his early favourite bands, the likes of Killing Joke and Nick Cave's The Birthday Party, but it's far fresher than its goth forebears.

Its strength is its strength. From the industrial, motoring guitars on Hey, Cruel World to – at least – the rage of Murderers Are Getting Prettier Every Day, Born Villain is on full power. The scathing chorus of The Gardener ("I'm not man enough to be human/But I'm trying to be/And I'm willing to fake it"), the fire and static of The Flowers Of Evil, the muscular trudge of Lay Down Your Goddamn Arms – these are all delivered with the force of a hammer, and thrillingly so.

It's not all grind and thrash though, as we finish with a trademark cheeky Manson cover of Carly Simon's You're So Vain. Actually there are swathes of grind here but for once it doesn't quite work, the melody too soft for the vicious rendering. No such problems elsewhere.

Album review by Matthew Horton

[Sans Agendum]

If there's one thing I've learned from this thread it's that blog reviewers like to use very silly words.