Eat Me, Drink Me (album)
Eat Me, Drink Me is Marilyn Manson's sixth studio album. Eat Me, Drink Me was recorded in multiple studios in California, by lead vocalist Marilyn Manson, guitarist and bassist Tim Skold, and keyboardist Madonna Wayne Gacy, along with "an assortment of other musicians". The album is scheduled for an American release sometime in June 2007.
Manson about the album's content:
"I feel as if there's more like three albums' worth of material, [because] I don't want to cram a long record into a place that doesn't have the attention span for that. . . I'd like to return to the old-fashioned records that had eight or nine songs [that] were all very important. Not to say that I made records that had filler material. They were all based around a central idea, and the central idea in this one is my pain and its ability to be unashamed to repeat itself."
The singer also referred to the album as "very guitar-oriented and very melodic", and as featuring "various unconventional forms of percussion". He has also called it a romantic album, whose lyrical content involves "the unfulfilled yearning to be in another time or another place where you feel like you would fit in better".
On February 26 2007, Marilyn Manson.com revealed the opinion of Rolling Stone upon first hearing the album as being:
"Things got really interesting on Saturday when the Smoking Section drove out to the Valley at the behest of Marilyn Manson. The S.S. joined Manson in his rec room where we worked our way down the belly of a bottle of German absinthe and were blown away as Manson debuted his new album, Eat Me, Drink Me. The key cut is "If I Was Your Vampire," a six-minute epic with the lyric "The hole is where the heart is." If anyone thought Manson was down for the count, think again."
-MarilynManson.com
Tracklisting
Confirmed Working Titles:
In no particular order:
- If I Was Your Vampire - ("It's the all-time gothic anthem")
- Just A Car Crash Away - ("A Bic-waving ballad, a death march punctuated by Skold's searing guitar solo")
- Putting Holes In Happiness - The first single ("A romantic-misogynistic-cannibal-gothic-vampire ballad")
- Rebels Without Applause - A song lyrically critical of new bands.
- The Red Carpet Grave - ("Classic Manson, echoing with buzz saws and primitive percussion")
- You, Me And The Devil Makes 3 - (Includes the band using a "metal skunk trap they found outside the house" as percussion)
