Cryptorchid
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| Song by Marilyn Manson | ||
| Album | Antichrist Superstar | |
| Released | October 8, 1996 | |
| Recorded | 1996 at Nothing Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana | |
| Genre | Alternative rock | |
| Length | 2:44 | |
| Label | Nothing, Interscope | |
| Writer | Marilyn Manson | |
| Composer | Madonna Wayne Gacy | |
| Producer | Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie, Marilyn Manson | |
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"Cryptorchid" is the sixth track from the album Antichrist Superstar. While it was not a single for the band, "Cryptorchid" did reach #20 in German music charts and a music video was produced for the song.
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[edit] Appearances
[edit] Albums
[edit] Singles
[edit] Versions
- Cryptorchid — Appears on Antichrist Superstar and the The Beautiful People single.
[edit] Music video
The music video for the song was directed by Elias Merhige and co-directed by Manson. In 1996, Merhige was contacted by Marilyn Manson in regards to producing a music video for "Cryptorchid", the day after he saw Merhige's experimental horror film Begotten. Manson and Merhige met in Los Angeles, California where they would produce the video. Merhige also expressed interest in filming a video for "Antichrist Superstar", which would subsequently be rejected by Interscope Records.
The "Cryptorchid" video uses scenes from Merhige's 1991 experimental horror film, Begotten, with new scenes filmed including Manson to replace the original entity depicted in the film. It was meant to be screened at live performances, during costume changes and intermissions, but this plan did not suffice because the band fell through payment for the projection on the Dead to the World Tour. The footage of death and decrepit things shot in fuzzy black and white gave way for its ban from MTV.
[edit] Lyrics
Each time i make my mother cry an
angel dies and falls from heaven
when the boy is still a worm it's hard to
learn the number seven
but when they get to you
it's the first thing that they do
each time I look outside
my mother dies, I feel my back is changing shape
when the worm consumes the boy it's never
considered rape
when they get to you
prick your finger it is done...
the moon has now eclipsed the sun...
the angel has spread its wings...
the time has come for bitter things...
[edit] Trivia
- The song features a passage containing the same lyrics as heard in "Antichrist Superstar": "prick your finger it is done... the moon has now eclipsed the sun... the angel has spread its wings... the time has come for bitter things..."
| Marilyn Manson videography | |||||||
| Music videos | Get Your Gunn · Lunchbox · Dope Hat · Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) · The Beautiful People · Tourniquet · Man That You Fear · Cryptorchid · Long Hard Road Out of Hell · The Dope Show · I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) · Rock Is Dead · Coma White · Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes · Disposable Teens · The Fight Song · The Nobodies · Tainted Love · mOBSCENE · This Is the New Shit · Thrift · (s)AINT · Personal Jesus · Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand) · Putting Holes in Happiness · Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon · Running to the Edge of the World | ||||||
| Home videos | Dead to the World · God Is in the T.V. · "Autopsy" · Guns, God and Government World Tour (The Death Parade) · Doppelherz · Lunch Boxes & Choklit Cows (Bonus DVD) · Lest We Forget (The Best of) (Bonus DVD) · (s)AINT Video (Uncut, Unrated, Banned by Label) · Eat Me, Drink Me (Bonus DVD) · Fourth video album | ||||||
