'Eat Me Drink Me' is Marilyn Manson's sixth studio album and the long awaited follow-up to 2005's platinum selling 'The Golden Age Of Grotesque.' Recorded in California and produced by Manson himself with band guitarist Tim Skold, the album sees Marilyn Manson moving in a more melodic direction and features a more experimental blend of heavy rock and electronica, whilst maintaining the trademark riff laden instrumentation and controversial lyrical subject matter. Includes the single 'Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand).'

Apr 2007

Marilyn Manson returns with his new album 'Eat Me, Drink Me'. The 11 track set was co-produced with Tim Skold who has been Manson’s bassist since 2002. They started work on ‘Eat Me, Drink Me’ in a studio in the Hollywood hills last Halloween. The album title has, in part, been influenced by both Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and the story of Armin Meiwes – the German man sentenced to life after killing and eating a man he met on the internet in 2001.

The explosive lead single 'Heart Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand)' marks a transformation in what has come to be expected from Manson. For a start he is singing and like some of the other new songs on the album they are the most melodic he has done. The album also includes 'If I Was Your Vampire', an epic 6 minute song he wrote on Christmas day and is already being talked about as a Manson classic. 'Putting Holes In Happiness' is a gothic ballad which he wrote on his last birthday. "This is not a record about me crying, or a song about my woes," says Manson. "But I think this record will probably speak to more people in different ways because of it’s total human element."

Initially mentored by Nine Inch Nails mainman Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson created an accessible, highly successful variant on the former's electronic-tinged industrial rock. Manson took shock-rock to a whole new plateau in the late-1990s, influenced by past theatrical rockers like Kiss, Alice Cooper, and Motley Crue--and not since the days of those bands had religious and parental groups despised a rock group so much. Of course, the resulting controversy endowed Marilyn Manson with publicity and album sales in equally vast amounts. Although Manson talked about retiring from the music biz after the release of his 2004 album, he came back refreshed in 2007 with EAT ME DRINK ME, inspired by his crumbling marriage to Dita Von Teese.