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During pre-release interviews Manson stated that ''Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)'' was intended to be the "industrial ''White Album'' ... in the sense that it's very experimental. I play a lot of keyboards, we switched things around, wrote in the desert ... it's experimental and when I think of experimental I think of ''The White Album''."<ref name="NME Marilyn Manson Goes Ape"/> The 1969 Rolling Stones album ''Let It Bleed'' became another source of musical and textural inspiration and Manson made a point of noting in interviews that it was written in the same house where he wrote ''Holy Wood''.<ref name="VH1.com"/> | During pre-release interviews Manson stated that ''Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)'' was intended to be the "industrial ''White Album'' ... in the sense that it's very experimental. I play a lot of keyboards, we switched things around, wrote in the desert ... it's experimental and when I think of experimental I think of ''The White Album''."<ref name="NME Marilyn Manson Goes Ape"/> The 1969 Rolling Stones album ''Let It Bleed'' became another source of musical and textural inspiration and Manson made a point of noting in interviews that it was written in the same house where he wrote ''Holy Wood''.<ref name="VH1.com"/> | ||
| − | Sonically, Manson said the record was "arrogant in an art rock sense", yet it turned out to be the "heaviest" record the band has done. "It needs to be to complete the trilogy," he said.<ref name="NME Marilyn Manson Goes Ape">{{cite journal |last1=Kessler |first1=Ted |last2= |first2= |date=2000-09-09 |title=Marilyn Manson Goes Ape |journal=''NME'' |volume= |issue= |pages=28-31 |publisher=IPC Media |doi= |url= |accessdate=2011-04-07}}</ref><ref name="Kerrang This Is My Holy Wood">{{cite journal |last1=McCaughey |first1=Brian |last2= |first2= |date=2000- | + | Sonically, Manson said the record was "arrogant in an art rock sense", yet it turned out to be the "heaviest" record the band has done. "It needs to be to complete the trilogy," he said.<ref name="NME Marilyn Manson Goes Ape">{{cite journal |last1=Kessler |first1=Ted |last2= |first2= |date=2000-09-09 |title=Marilyn Manson Goes Ape |journal=''NME'' |volume= |issue= |pages=28-31 |publisher=IPC Media |doi= |url= |accessdate=2011-04-07}}</ref><ref name="Kerrang This Is My Holy Wood">{{cite journal |last1=McCaughey |first1=Brian |last2= |first2= |date=2000-02 |title=This Is My Holy Wood... |journal=''Kerrang!'' |volume= |issue= |pages= |publisher=Bauer Media Group |doi= |url= |accessdate=2011-04-07}}</ref><ref name="VH1 Marilyn Manson's Unholy Doings"/> The majority of the songs contain three or four parts, similar to art rock, due to the way that the story is told.<ref name="Kerrang This Is My Holy Wood"/> The band took great care to avoid being "self-indulgent".<ref name="Kerrang This Is My Holy Wood"/> Manson contended that "it will please and it will entertain. Art rock is only self indulgent if it bores you. If you make some sort of three-CD compilation instilled with a lot of nonsense that, to me, is self-indulgent."<ref name="Kerrang This Is My Holy Wood"/> According to ''CMJ New Music Monthly'', the songs are "angry and complex".<ref name="CMJ Antichrist Cross"/> ''Rolling Stone'' noted that "on such songs as '[[Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)]]', '[[Disposable Teens]]' and '[[Cruci-Fiction in Space]]', [the band] dismantles the slick, glam-tinged sound of ''[Mechanical] Animals'' in favor of the more brutal industrial-goth grind of his first album."<ref name="RS The Third Face of Marilyn Manson"/> |
Similar to ''Antichrist Superstar'', ''Holy Wood'' utilizes a compositional device called the song cycle structure, which divides the record into four movements—A: In the Shadow, D: The Androgyne, A: Of Red Earth and M: The Fallen—to form the framework of Kadmon's story.<ref name="NME The 'Holy..' Bible">{{cite web|url=http://www.nme.com/news/marilyn-manson/4309 |title=The 'Holy..' Bible! |publisher=''NME'' |date=2000-08-29 |accessdate=2011-03-31}}</ref> In keeping with the lyrical style of their two previous records the storyline unfolds in a multi-tiered progression of drawn out extended metaphors and allusions playing in Manson's psyche.<ref name="CMJ Antichrist Cross"/> For instance, the album's title was not just a reference to the Hollywood sign but also to "the tree of knowledge that Adam took the first fruit from when he fell out of paradise, the wood that Christ was crucified on, the wood that [Lee Harvey] Oswald's rifle is made from and the wood that so many coffins are made of."<ref name="CMJ Antichrist Cross"/> | Similar to ''Antichrist Superstar'', ''Holy Wood'' utilizes a compositional device called the song cycle structure, which divides the record into four movements—A: In the Shadow, D: The Androgyne, A: Of Red Earth and M: The Fallen—to form the framework of Kadmon's story.<ref name="NME The 'Holy..' Bible">{{cite web|url=http://www.nme.com/news/marilyn-manson/4309 |title=The 'Holy..' Bible! |publisher=''NME'' |date=2000-08-29 |accessdate=2011-03-31}}</ref> In keeping with the lyrical style of their two previous records the storyline unfolds in a multi-tiered progression of drawn out extended metaphors and allusions playing in Manson's psyche.<ref name="CMJ Antichrist Cross"/> For instance, the album's title was not just a reference to the Hollywood sign but also to "the tree of knowledge that Adam took the first fruit from when he fell out of paradise, the wood that Christ was crucified on, the wood that [Lee Harvey] Oswald's rifle is made from and the wood that so many coffins are made of."<ref name="CMJ Antichrist Cross"/> | ||
