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Summary

Updated 2026-07-17

The shock-rock figurehead who turned moral panic into a decades-long career, building a band named after sex symbols and serial killers that politicians tried to ban from stages and blamed for school shootings.

Biography

About

Brian Hugh Warner formed Marilyn Manson in 1989, naming the band and its members by fusing American female sex symbols with male serial killers. The group's mid-'90s trilogy—Portrait of an American Family, Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals—delivered platinum sales and singles like "The Beautiful People" and "The Dope Show," but also congressional hearings and state legislation aimed at keeping them off public stages. After Columbine, mainstream media blamed Manson for influencing the massacre; his 2000 album Holy Wood answered directly. Eight top-ten albums and five Grammy nominations f…

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In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson

saidJan 1997

I'm not anything like Brad Pitt or Antonio Banderas, but maybe it's the taboo element of my image, which is almost deathlike, that attracts them.

— As quoted in CMJ (January 1997).

Marilyn Manson

saidJan 1997

In explaining things to people, I've come to terms with the fact that a lot of my goals are very Christian in the end.

— As quoted in CMJ (January 1997).

Marilyn Manson

said14 Dec 1996

I hope that with our music we can inspire other people to be creative and to use their imagination, because it is something that is so lacking nowadays.

— As quoted in Kerrang! (14 December 1996).

Marilyn Manson

said10 Dec 1996