#marilyn manson 2021

[the-memphista]

Marilyn Manson photographed by his wife, Lindsay Warner (part 2/2)

[loukaiitis]

Kip Kinkel: Thurston High School

Summary of the 1998 Thurston High School Shooting committed by Kip Kinkel. Note: this is for informational and educational purposes only. Post is below the cut. 

Background: 

Kipland Philip Kinkel was born August 30th, 1982 to Bill and Faith Kinkel. He had one older sister, Kristin, who was about six years older than him. The family lived in Springfield, Oregon; Bill previously taught Spanish at Thurston High School and Lane Community College, and Faith was a Spanish teacher at Springfield High. Kip was described as a relatively normal teenager with some odd hobbies and interests. He was on the football team and enjoyed the music of Marilyn Manson and Nirvana. He was also known for being “obsessed” with bombs and guns; this fixation would only grow over time.

The Kinkel family did not seem to have any major conflicts. Kristin was a successful competitive cheerleader in college, and Bill and Faith were both popular teachers. However, Kip had some academic struggles. It was recommended that he repeat the first grade, and he was later diagnosed with dyslexia. Despite having difficulty in some academic areas, Kip thrived in science and math; in fact, he was placed in a “Gifted” program.

Mental Health / Warning Signs

Kip’s behavior began to change as he became a teenager. He was twelve years old when he began hearing voices in his head. The first time it happened, he was walking home from school; according to Kip, a male voice told him, “You need to kill everyone, everyone in the world.” When he could not find the source of the voice, he panicked. He ran to his house, grabbed the rifle he received for his birthday, and hid in his bedroom until he did not hear the voice. Soon, one voice developed into two, and then three. These voices were all male voices and would talk to each other: either to fight or to work together to manipulate Kip. These voices terrified him, and he tried to make sense of them. However, his conclusions were all based in paranoia.

“I believed that the Disney corporation was working in conjunction with the U.S. government, and they had planted a chip in my head and so the voices were coming from this chip,” - Kip Kinkel (2021)

This paranoia developed rapidly, but he went to great lengths to hide it from others. He began believing that foreign countries would invade and kill him. These fears led him to have an increased interest in weapons.

 In seventh grade, he expressed an interest in building bombs and tried to obtain books such as the Anarchist’s Cookbook. He obtained a shotgun from a friend during this time as well. Faith Kinkel discovered his plans to obtain weapon-related books and grew concerned. Despite knowing about Kip’s violent interests, she did not intervene. It wasn’t until Kip started getting into legal trouble that some action was taken. In eighth grade, Kinkel and his friends were caught shoplifting CDs at the local Target. Sometime after this incident, Kip and a friend were arrested in Bend, Oregon for hitting a car with a rock from a highway overpass. These incidents led to Kip being brought to a psychologist. Kip intended to keep the voices and delusions he was having a secret. Dr. Jeffrey Hick would see Kip for nine therapy sessions and noted that he showed “no evidence of delusional thinking or other thought disorder symptoms.” It was apparent that he had a strained relationship with his parents, especially after his sister (who acted as a mediator for the family) had moved out. Kip described eating and daily functioning as a chore. He was eventually diagnosed with depression and prescribed Prozac.

“I remember freaking out. I had this plan, and this is a mess, but I had this plan to get into the military because if I got in the military, then I could get into the CIA, and if I got in the CIA, then I could get the right connects to find whoever in the government that put this chip in my brain. And being diagnosed as depressed..  this was something the voices pushed.. meant that I would not be allowed into the military. And I would not be allowed to own guns.” - Kip Kinkel (2021)

During the time of these counseling sessions (January 20th - July 30th 1997), Kip was suspended twice in late April. Despite this, he was seemingly progressing well in counseling; it seemed that Kip’s depression and anger were under control. Because of this, his father allowed him to purchase a 9mm Glock with his own money (under the agreement he would not be able to use it without his father’s supervision). In an attempt to bond, Kip and his father would go target shooting. Soon after, Kip purchased more guns: a .22 pistol from a friend (which he kept hidden) and a .22 semiautomatic rifle that his father allowed him to purchase. Kip’s obsession with explosives grew just as his obsession with guns did. In class, he gave a descriptive speech about the process of building pipe bombs with detailed illustrations.

Expulsion:

On May 20th, 1998, Kip was going to purchase another gun, a .32 caliber semi-automatic pistol, from a friend; they arranged the day before for Kip to purchase it at school. Kip paid $110 for the gun and kept it in his locker. However, this gun was stolen from the friend’s father. The father contacted the school, concerned that one of his guns was taken by one of his son’s friends. A list of possible suspects was given to Detective Warthen, but Kip’s name was not listed. After speaking to other students, Warthen questioned Kip about the gun. He confessed and was arrested, along with the friend he purchased the gun from. According to Detective Warthen, Kip was extremely worried about what his parents would think of him being charged with a felony. Bill Kinkel drove Kip home from the police station. They stopped at Burger King; Bill left Kip inside the building while he ate in the car. Kip felt as though his fears had become a reality.

“It was no longer, ‘I need to get this gun to protect myself from these very specific threats.’ Everything was a threat, everything was evil, everything was ugly, I got to the point where there was a mantra that the voices were saying, but also that I was experiencing, which was that I had to commit the crimes that I committed. The sense that I had no other choice was overwhelming. It became my reality.” - Kip Kinkel (2021)

Shooting: 

According to Kip, the voices in his head continued to get louder and more unbearable. The voices he was hearing were telling him to kill his father. Around 3pm on the same day as his expulsion, Kip grabbed his .22 rifle and shot his father in the back of the head while he was drinking coffee in the kitchen. Kip dragged the body of his father to the bathroom and covered him with a sheet. Between 3pm and 6:30pm, Kip’s home phone received numerous calls: a call from an English teacher at Thurston High School looking to speak to Bill, a call from a friend of Kip asking about Bill, and a call from one of Bill’s Spanish students asking about his absence. Kip gave vague, short answers to these calls before hanging up. The final call was between Kip and two of his friends. During this call, Kip explains that he did not know that the gun was stolen, and that he had no plans to use it. According to the friends on this call, he was impatiently waiting for his mother to come home and stated that “It's over...Everything's over... it's done... Nothing matters now."

Around 6:30pm, Faith Kinkel was in the garage, getting out of her car. Kip entered the garage, told her that he loved her before shooting her twice in the back of the head, three times in the face, and once in the chest. Kip covered her body with a sheet. That night, the voices convinced him that more people needed to die.

“I know it’s really hard for people to accept and understand, but there was something very clear inside me... like suicide wasn’t an option for me until I had done this thing that they were telling me to do. And they had promised me that once I did this thing I could kill myself.” - Kip Kinkel (2021)

The following morning, May 21st, 1998, Kip dressed himself in a black trench coat and packed his .22 caliber semiautomatic rifle, the 9mm Glock, and .22 caliber semiautomatic pistol into his backpack, along with ammunition. He taped a bullet to his chest (an extra bullet to kill himself, in case he ran out of ammunition) and a hunting knife to his leg. He drove himself to Thurston High School in his mother’s Ford Explorer.

Kip parked a block away from the school and walked through the back parking lot to enter the school. In a hallway near the school’s cafeteria, Kip shot two boys, Ben Walker and Ryan Attebury with the rifle; Walker being shot in the face and Attebury on the side of his face. He continued down the hallway to the cafeteria, where he shot the remainder of the 50-round clip. Determined to keep shooting, Kip tried to use his Glock, but he was tackled by five students after one shot. Two students were killed: Ben Walker and Mikael Nickolauson. Ryan Attebury, along with 24 others, survived their injuries. As Kip was arrested, he stated he just wanted to die or be killed. 

At the police station, Kip spoke to Detective Al Warthen. He was questioned about the moments leading up to the shooting, and Kip confessed to the murder of his parents. (Most of this recorded confession can be found online). Warthen left the room momentarily, and Kip managed to grab the knife he had taped to his leg. When Warthen returned, Kip yelled at Warthen to kill him before approaching him with the knife. Warthen escaped the room and locked Kip inside; He and another officer sprayed pepper spray into the room in an attempt to disarm Kip. 

As detectives entered the Kinkel’s house, ���Liebestod”, a song featured on the CD soundtrack of Romeo + Juliet, could be heard on repeat at a blasting volume. Upon entering the house, detectives found explosives in crawl spaces, the bodies of Bill and Faith, and a note confessing the murder of the Kinkel parents.

“I have just killed my parents! I don't know what is happening. I love my mom and dad so much. I just got two felonies on my record. My parents can't take that! It would destroy them. The embarrassment would be too much for them. They couldn't live with themselves. I'm so sorry. I am a horrible son. I wish I had been aborted. I destroy everything I touch. I can't eat. I can't sleep. I didn't deserve them. They were wonderful people. It's not their fault or the fault of any person, organization, or television show. My head just doesn't work right. God damn these VOICES inside my head. I want to die. I want to be gone. But I have to kill people. I don't know why. I am so sorry! Why did God do this to me. I have never been happy. I wish I was happy. I wish I made my mother proud. I am nothing! I tried so hard to find happiness. But you know me I hate everything. I have no other choice. What have I become? I am so sorry“ - Kip Kinkel’s written confession

Trial:

On June 16th, 1998, Kip Kinkel was indicted with 58 felony charges, including four counts of aggravated murder that he was originally charged with. Kip spent approximately 18 months in solitary confinement. He was kept in a juvenile detention center until being transferred to an adult county jail after his 16th birthday. Kip was evaluated by different doctors that came to the shared conclusion that he showed signs of paranoid schizophrenia. Due to his age, he was not given a formal diagnosis and was only given medication for a brief period of time. During his confinement, the voices only gained more control over Kip. 

Just days before the trial, Kip decided to plead guilty instead of going forward with an insanity defense. He felt that a mental institution would be just as bad as prison, and he wanted to avoid a stressful trial in hopes that the voices would not bother him more than they already were. 

During the sentencing, survivors, family members of the victims, and doctors testified. Many called for the harshest sentence possible. When Kristin Kinkel tried to console her brother and block out the anger surrounding him, he allegedly said, “No, I owe it to them to listen.” Kip’s defense team attempted to get a lighter sentence due to his age and mental instability. However, the notoriety of the case led to Kip receiving the harshest sentence for a juvenile. On November 2nd, 1999, Kip Kinkel was sentenced to 111-years in prison without the possibility of parole. He apologized to the survivors and families of the victims.

Appeals / Recent News:

Kip and his legal team have made multiple attempts to appeal his sentence, with no success. However, Kip has made significant progress in his life in prison. He earned his degree in global studies in 2007 and has worked as a clerk in the prison library, a yoga instructor and an electrician. Kip’s mental health has improved with the help of proper medication and therapy. He continues to advocate for criminal justice reform today. In the summer of 2021, Kip Kinkel gave his first and only interview for an article by HuffPost.

“It’s hard for me to be able to say that because, so clearly, I had so many other choices. But in that time, that’s the horror of becoming fixated in a psychotic way... I felt like I didn’t want to do what I was going to do, I had to do it. That’s what was going on in my head.” - Kip Kinkel, speaking about his crimes

[marimayscarlett]

'The Persistence of Memory' turns 3 years old today 💿🎶

On the 12th of November, 2021, Richard released his fourth Emigrate album with the title 'The Persistence of Memory'. (The release date was initially set for November 5 but was pushed back a week.)

This album is especially significant in Richard's career and for Emigrate as a whole. It emerged as a form of dynamic, active therapy for Richard, who fell into a deep depression after the 2019 stadium tour, which left him riddled with self-doubt. He questioned whether music was still for him or if he should walk away from it altogether.

"Inside me, various wars were raging, and I felt like I had to stop making music. I couldn’t see any purpose in it anymore. It was a really hard crash landing, unlike anything I’d experienced before. There was a real emptiness inside me. Even for us, this stadium tour was something new. And when everyone tells you how great and good you are, whether it’s true or not, you feel like you’re in withdrawal once it’s over. I had to find my way back to earth."

Even before the COVID pandemic began, Richard had already retreated into a form of isolation, unaware that the pandemic would intensify this feeling. To actively combat and process these emotions, Richard delved into his musical archive, taking a journey into the past. Through various demos, song parts, and ideas he’d accumulated since Emigrate's early days, he found his spirits lifting and regained inspiration.

"My present was unpleasant, and my future was empty. So I immersed myself in my past. It was the only thing I had. I stumbled upon all these old songs and ideas and took another close look at them. They helped me move back into the present and finally look forward to the future again—a time travel back to inspiration."

The album was recorded at Sky van Hoff studios and Richard’s own Studio Engine 55 Berlin. His creative process involved reworking old lyrics, re-arranging songs, re-recording parts, and generally polishing up existing tracks.

The oldest of these songs is 'Freeze My Mind' which is 20 years old at the time of the album's release and is also Richard’s oldest song for Emigrate. He had reportedly written it with his then-wife Caron Bernstein around 2001.

“I wrote ‘Freeze My Mind’ in New York City; it must have been around 9/11. I was living in New York at the time and saw the second plane hit the tower. Watching people fall from the tower deeply affected me.”

'Bloodstained Wedding' originated in 2007 and 2011 and was inspired by his time in New York, while 'Hypothetical' previously featured on the album 'Silent So Long', was now sung by Richard himself instead of Marilyn Manson. Richard transformed 'Always on My Mind' into an epic rendition of the classic Elvis song with Till Lindemann, and he reworked 'Come Over' at the encouragement of his son, Merlin, who was enthusiastic about the song.

'I’m Still Alive' had already existed since the first Emigrate album (originally titled 'Yeah Yeah Yeah'), and the music video fittingly combines old footage from 2007 with new clips from 2021.

Richard did not shy away from serious themes on this album. 'Rage' addresses the difficulty of reentering social life after the isolation of COVID, a struggle Richard personally experienced. 'You Can’t Run Away' was written in response to numerous messages from fans expressing suicidal thoughts and sharing how much his music had helped them.

Richard mentioned that he views this album as a kind of closure for this Emigrate era: “This album might be the end of an era, the close of a chapter before something new begins.” While working on this album, he collaborated with Andrea Marino on electronic remixes, although he did not release them, hinting instead at a future electro album to explore this genre more fully.

The album artwork, depicting Richard’s head in a galaxy-like nebula, was created by Arnaud Giroux. It symbolizes the album and the creative process itself - “It’s about creating worlds and looking at things from a different perspective” as Richard describes it. The title itself was inspired by the painting by Salvador Dali with the same name.

One of Richard's announcement of his new album on his IG Profil:

The Persistence of Memory was a process that started 14 years ago. After a rough period in my life, it became clear to me that now is the right time to put it out.

The process to get to a point always interested me more than the point itself, struggling to get somewhere and constantly pushing boundaries makes me feel alive.

I AM STILL ALIVE.

"THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY" out this Friday.

Credit: @tobias_ortmann

Some additional quotes by Richard from interviews he gave around the time of the release:

Would you let your Rammstein colleagues listen to an Emigrate album before its release?

"No, definitely not. (laughs) Though someone like Flake would probably be very open to it. We have a lot of respect for each other and regularly stay in touch. For instance, I often listen to his radio show—and then call him afterward to ask what kind of weird stuff he’s been talking about again. (laughs)"

"I just realized in an interview with another magazine that every time I make an album, there’s a very dark backstory to it. It’s never that I’m just cheerfully going through life, feeling fantastic, and then think, 'Now I’ll write a new EMIGRATE album.' It always coincides with a significant change in my life."

"The funny thing was that I got the inspiration for the cover because of the song 'Always On My Mind.' When I listened to the song, I had the idea that it wasn’t actually about a relationship with a person, but rather about our planet. That’s where the cover idea came from, with the face gazing at the Earth."

sources: rammwiki web.de Berliner Zeitung Chaoszine metal.de

[bijouxcarys]

Here’s a daily reminder of the key points that prove Manson is fucking innocent:

All the accusers are connected through one person: Ashley Walters. She was Manson’s personal assistant throughout 2010-2012, which is also coincidentally the time period all the allegations supposedly happened.

Not only that, but they all were adamant on not knowing each other of each other’s existence until late 2020, when Evan “brought them together.”

Ashley Morgan Smithline recanted her allegations early last year in 2023, and exposed Evan Rachel Wood and Illma Gore for pressuring her into making false allegations. Part of what made Ashley’s story so bizarre was that she claimed to have been in a relationship with Manson for 3 years between 2010-2013. In reality, she had visited Manson’s home for no more than a week in November 2011 for a photo series.

Evan Rachel Wood has been using Manson to gain custody of her son, whom she had with ex husband Jamie Bell. Which didn’t work either way because Jamie knows Evan is a liar and actively called her claims against Manson “unreliable”, and now has full custody of their son.

More on that: Evan and Illma literally FORGED AN FBI LETTER saying that there was an ongoing investigation against Marilyn Manson and that’s why she couldn’t take her son back to his dad, then proceeded to take her son out of the state without notifying Jamie and stopped communications between the two in late 2020… two months before Evan posted her statement against Manson in February 2021.

There’s evidence of the forged FBI letter, as well as Illma and Evan hacking Manson’s social security, personal email, etc, and distributing what is believed to be child pornography to try and make Manson look like a certain type of person.

The girl from the infamous Groupie short film isn’t dead, she’s alive and well. In fact, she was in a relationship with Manson the year after and appeared in his music video The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell. I’m also quite good friends with her, and I assure you she most definitely wasn’t assaulted or coerced into filming Groupie, nor was she ever abused by him.

The investigation into Marilyn Manson done by the LAPD (NOT the FBI) ended ages ago and they won’t release that information because they’re systematically trying to stop Manson from exposing the corruption within the justice system. Manson has been treated poorly by the system, and it’s fucked up.

If anyone else has any questions, feel free to ask. But if you’re gonna be a dick about it, don’t bother and go back to bed or touch some grass.

[thespiritofvexation]

Some more Thåström-recommendations for @glorious-blackout (and anyone else who might be curious about what my problem is) Sorry, I got carried away!

Ebba Grön - Die Mauer (1982)

I feel I need to explain what I meant when I said Die Polizei reminded me of Die Mauer (apart for the obvious similarities in the titles!) I'm just gonna go ahead and assume you know what Die Polizei is about! Die Mauer is about a man who is separated from his love by the Berlin wall, he is overcome by longing and anger and decides to do whatever it takes to reunite with her. The sound of gunshots at the end of the studio version implies that he failed, hence the "Die Mauer but with a happy ending"-comment. Musically Thåström's solo-rendition of the song is more like Die Polizei than the original though (this one for example)

Imperiet - Alltid rött alltid rätt (1983)

Title means "always red always right", basically a raging against the machine socialist anthem (live video for maximum intensity!)(I promise he is perfectly sane)

Imperiet - Märk hur vår skugga (1985)

A cover of a song originally written in 1790! The band felt they were becoming to commercial and wanted to do something "avant-garde" and the record company was not happy. To everyone's surprise it became their biggest hit! (The song may not be very Kaizer but the video sure has Kaizer-vibes!)

Imperiet - Österns röda ros (1986)

"Red rose of the east" (meaning Palestine) You might know this one already if you've seen my pinned post. Including it anyway since it sadly still is relevant and because I think I might like this 2015 version best

Thåström - Djävulen o jag (1989)

I made a whole post about the various live versions of this song and the studio-version is also a favourite! But I feel like especially this version only needs a couple of oil barrels and it would fit right into a Kaizer concert

Thåström - Radio Thåström (1991)

This list got a bit heavy so have a silly nonsense song with a silly nonsense video!

Peace Love & Pitbulls - A. Psycho (1992)

In the early 90's Thåström said fuck this, eloped to Amsterdam and started a industrial- rock- techno- metal- band, or as a swedish journalist put it "went to Amsterdam and drilled into a mountain wall for 5 years". I'm glad he did, and so was Marilyn Manson who cited PLP as an inspiration (Just so that no one gets the wrong idea, PLP came first!)

Thåström - Vacker död stad (1999)

Then he got tired of playing with the sampling-machine and replaced it with "a fuckton of guitars". All of sweden celebrated the return of the king except for little me who did not get the appeal of this terrifying angry hobo (or "waldschrat" as @copias-juicebox would say!)

Thåström - Kärlek är för dom (2009)

Thought this one has a vibe that might be up your alley. Bit of Öppet hav-feel? (Live video just because Thåström stage-antics)

Thåström f. Titiyo - Papperstunna väggar (2021)

Probably my favourite from his latest album to finnish off this list! Titiyo has a beautiful voice♡ (First time I watched this live video I thought 'dude are you ok?' but now I know this is perfectly normal Thåström- behaviour! (Rip tumblr you would have loved to diagnose him)

[deathdetermineslife]

Hehe hello :3

💍, 🫧, and 🪼 for the ask game, if these weren't answered yet?

- @puppeteeredheart

IVE BEEN WAITIN FOR THIS ONE! TURN IT UP!

(also 🪼 was answered here)

💍

in my head we are married. so married. we don't wear matching rings though. he keeps a picture of me in (what I choose to believe is) his locket. will attach picture below ↓. I'm a big necklace and locket person and me personally I would keep a lock of his hair in it. not a lot, just a small enough piece to keep inside a trinket I'll wear!

some people think it's a clock? I like that idea also but I love the idea of a locket more.

🫧

OKAY SO I HAVE A LONG LIST AND WILL OFFER MANY AN EXPLANATION FOR EACH (some of these only make sense in my head but that's okay) ((also, warning for mentions of kiyos backstory, which include referenced csa))

cherry waves by deftones - I said I'd offer an explanation for each of these but I honestly only feel this way bc of vibes

old friend by mitski - something about the lyric "I haven't told anyone, have you?" reminds me way too much of his backstory and it devastates me daily

please just stay dead by nicole dollanganger - a backstory thing again. "this time please just stay dead/and I guess I can't blame you, but I hate you all the same"

13 angels standing guard round the side of your bed by silver mt. zion - haunting. I don't have a better explanation

hard times by ethel cain - backstory, again. I actually made an art piece inspired by this for his birthday last year! it's on my main!

helena by my chemical romance (specifically the nicole dollanganger cover) - vibes. hes very,,, "death coded" character. so the imagery of hearses and death fits him.

gommene gommene by kikuo - self explanatory. fun fact, right after I finished trial three for the first time, I hit shuffle on my Spotify to have a good cry and this song came on. I haven't recovered from that.

alligator blood by nicole dollanganger - vibes. also, "grow up weak or grow up tough"

family tree by ethel cain - I have an illustration cookin up in my brain I wanna draw for this...

first love/late spring by mitski - I had a dream like three years ago about him and this song was playing in the background.

sweet dreams are made of this by marilyn manson - vibes. and like, disturbingish dark alternative music reminds me of him

iowa by slipknot - same as before

pet by a perfect circle - ↑ (also this song just fucks so hard)

bernadette by iamx - do you see the vision. do you see it. do you see the vision please—

insomnia by iamx - the lyric "oh my god, you're beautiful" did something to me when 10 year old me heard it for the first time then eventually I found Kiyo and thought "no so actually this is so him"

motion sickness by phoebe bridgers - I found this song in 2021 when someone made a post "no but this is his song" on TikTok and I agree whole heatedly everytime I go to cry to it I end up crying harder bc it's actually just so him it hurts </3 "I hate you for what you did, but I miss you like a little kid"

who is she? by I monster - back story. it's such a hauntingly beautiful song too. it fits him perfectly. "a misty memory, a haunting face. is she a lost embrace? I call her name, across an endless plane. shell answer me, wherever she may be."

heroin by badflower - same reason as last one. hauntingly beautiful. it's a beautiful song and it needs more recognition. "now she's in me, and I can't let her go" (I mean her spirit is literally inside this man like, hello)

I can't decide by scissor sisters - y'all remember when this was big in the fnaf fandom? yea same reason.

after dark by mr kitty - my ex like, fourish years ago told me this reminded her of Kiyo and I haven't let that go

I love you by HIM - vibes. fucks so hard, fantastic song

heaven tonight by HIM - same reason ↑

televangelism by ethel cain - made kiyo art inspired by this. I'll link it here, it's probably my favorite Kiyo art ever (ignore the hard times quote)

august underground by ethel cain - deep foreboding tragic instrumental. also made art for this.

hate me! by leæther strip (specifically the funker vogt remix) - vibes again. the beat, mostly.

the mind electric by miracle musical - reminds me of his trial

evelyn evelyn by evelyn evelyn - self explanatory

rule #4 by fish in a birdcage - I can't explain this one it just does

we will commit wolf murder by of montreal - same thing. just reminds me of him. no reason.

you are the moon by the hush sound - just a sweet and lovely song that makes me think of him. "you will see your beauty in every moment that you rise"

life fades to a funeral by carnifex - dark instrumental, also the title

summit song by nicole dollanganger - ↑ another instrumental

memoir #2 [06.12.09] by maria pseftoga - sad creepy instrumental

all of these songs are very good and I recommend all of them. also there's tons more but I have Kiyo art I wanna make and don't wanna spend all my time on this teehee

[black-arcana]

IN THIS MOMENT Announces 'The Godmode Tour Part 2', BLABBERMOUTH.NET Presale

IN THIS MOMENT will embark on "The Godmode Tour Part 2" this fall. Support on the trek, which will kick off on November 8 in Asheville, North Carolina and end on December 7 in Manchester, New Hampshire, will come from KIM DRACULA, NATHAN JAMES and MIKE'S DEAD.

A special BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale will begin on Wednesday, August 14 at 2:00 p.m. EDT and end on Thursday, August 15 at 10:00 p.m. local time. When prompted, type in the presale code " ITMBBM24" to access tickets before the general public. Check back here on Wednesday for ticketing links to individual shows. General on-sale will be Friday, August 16 at 10 a.m. local time.

Tour dates:

Nov. 08 - Asheville, NC - Thomas Wolfe Auditorium Nov. 09 - Roanoke, VA - Berglund Center Nov. 11 - Huntsville, AL - Mark C. Smith Concert Hall Nov. 12 - Atlanta, GA - Coca-Cola Roxy Nov. 13 - Orlando, FL - House Of Blues Nov. 15 - Shreveport, LA - Shreveport Municipal Auditorium Nov. 16 - Houston, TX - Bayou Music Center Nov. 17 - Corpus Christi, TX - Concrete Street Pavilion Nov. 19 - Kansas City, MO - The Midland Theatre Nov. 20 - East Moline, IL - The Rust Belt Nov. 22 - Prior Lake, MN - Mystic Lake Casino Showroom * Nov. 23 - Rockford, IL - Hard Rock Live Rockford # Nov. 24 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave / Eagles Club Nov. 26 - Madison, WI - The Sylvee Nov. 27 - Gary, IN - Hard Rock Live Northern Indiana & Nov. 30 - Columbus, OH - Kemba Live!# Dec. 01 - Windsor, ON - The Colosseum & Dec. 03 - Toronto, ON - History Dec. 05 - Cleveland, OH - The Agora Dec. 06 - Reading, PA - The Santander Arena Dec. 07 - Manchester, NH - SNHU Arena

* KIM DRACULA only # KIM DRACULA, MIKE'S DEAD only & NATHAN JAMES, KIM DRACULA only

IN THIS MOMENT's latest album, "Godmode", arrived back in October via BMG. The LP was produced by Kane Churko (ROB ZOMBIE, DISTURBED, PAPA ROACH) and Tyler Bates. Bates produced, wrote songs for, and played multiple instruments on albums by MARILYN MANSON, BUSH and ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist Jerry Cantrell. He is best known, however, for scoring the box office smash "300", the Emmy Award-winning Showtime series "Californication", the "Guardians Of The Galaxy" and "John Wick" film franchises. IN THIS MOMENT's song "I Would Die For You" appeared on the soundtrack for "John Wick: Chapter 4", for which Bates wrote the score.

With a Grammy nomination ("The In-Between", 2021),platinum and gold record sales, multiple Top 25 entries on the Billboard Top 200 ("Black Widow" and "Ritual"),hits including "Whore", "Blood" and "Adrenalize" and career streams of more than 1.3 billion, you'd think IN THIS MOMENT might rest on their laurels. Instead, they've created "Godmode", 10 dynamic songs that mark a new high for the quintet, further cementing their legacy in the heavy music world. Proof positive is in "Godmode"'s first single, the industrial-heavy yet ultra-melodic "The Purge", and its darkly cinematic video directed by Jensen Noen (BRING ME THE HORIZON, DEMI LOVATO). From the portentous start of the '90s-tinged "Godmode" with Maria Brink's powerful primal scream to the pitch-perfect cover of Bjork's 1995 "Army Of Me" to the impassioned pain to partnership in "Everything Starts And Ends With You", "Godmode" is a cut above.

The L.A.-based band's eighth album finds vocalist Maria Brink and guitarist Chris Howorth writing the most powerful songs of their career.

"We're always striving for reinvention and growth. It's been 10 years since our 'Blood' album, and there's been a lot of transitions happening, this year particularly, but it all felt so meant to be," explains Brink. Top talent aided and abetted IN THIS MOMENT; Spencer Charnas from ICE NINE KILLS guests on the pointed and pained "Damaged", and several songs were co-written with Tyler Bates, the award-winning producer and composer of numerous film, television, and video game scores. In fact, the initial collaboration with Bates, the moody, haunting mid-tempo winner "I Would Die For You" ended up both on the "John Wick: Chapter 4" soundtrack and as the last cut on "Godmode".

IN THIS MOMENT, a touring juggernaut who've slayed stages worldwide at Ozzfest, Warped Tour, Download, Knotfest and Rocklahoma, put out "Mother" in 2020, during the pandemic, giving fans something to hold on in during that bleak time, and earning "The In-Between" the band's first Grammy nod. It was 2021 when Howorth and Brink first wrote with Bates on "I Would Die For You". Following that collaboration, the duo were writing organically, for pleasure, not focused on the next album. As the pandemic waxed and waned, Howorth learned programming, and created music around synthwave sounds, which Brink leaned into. Her lyrical ideas arose both from soul-searching and "humanity and so much crisis and so many heart-wrenching things in the world. That negativity and darkness is how songs like 'The Purge' came about," Brink explains.

The end result is that when IN THIS MOMENT went into the studio in January 2023, the easy flow had allowed them to compile the most songs they'd ever written at one time, songs the entire band loved. Longtime producer Kevin Churko helped shape ITM's sound starting in 2008, but for "Godmode", his son, Kane Churko, was at the helm.

"Kane's got all the strengths that his father taught him —everything, all the bells and whistles, but he's got some new tricks because he's a younger generation, he's hungry," says Brink.

Kane was the perfect match for IN THIS MOMENT's inspired songs.

"During the pandemic, just writing versus writing with a pressure that music has to be for an album, allowed us the freedom to make the record we made," says Howorth. "Godmode"'s songs gained even more strength in the studio, with Kane shaking up the band's usual m.o. even further.

"Having some songs by Tyler influenced us as well," Brink explains. "It was scary for the band, but it ended up flowing just so beautifully. We felt very experimental."

That flow gave the album its name and theme. "Godmode" isn't religious, rather it's an expression for a triumphant flow state where all comes together seamlessly, coalescing into an ultimate form. As Brink sings in "Godmode", "You got me feeling so high / You lift me off of my feet yeah / You got me feeling like, feeling like / I'm in Godmode." In video games — Howorth plays the game "Destiny" — "God mode" also refers to a code that makes a player invincible.

"There's a spontaneity in this album that you can hear. It's a little more visceral. And that we're not with Kevin, who has done all our albums except for our very first, fans will hear those differences too, which is really cool and exciting for us," Howorth says.

"We had all this built-up energy from the last three years, we felt angst, we felt we had a lot to release," furthers Brink. "And we were letting it loose organically, while also playing with different time signatures and interesting things like that." "We use an 8-string on the album, which we haven't done before," Howorth says. "We did some different tunings, and it can definitely be freeing from guitar standpoint, the way we did things this time. Working with Kane was different and more off the cuff, being in the studio, getting creative and just trying a bunch of different stuff on every song. It was a really good experience."

As fans of Brink's lyrics know, life in and around IN THIS MOMENT hasn't always been easy. As Brink recalls, "When I met Chris, I was just a starry-eyed girl with huge dreams. And he was in a PANTERA-like metal band!" She told Howorth she wanted a heavy lineup that could sell platinum and win Grammys. The band had an early manager who told them it would never happen. But his dismissiveness only fueled IN THIS MOMENT's fire, energy and fight. "We're just relentless," says Brink. "Anything's possible if you really put your mind and energy into it."

For "Godmode", that energy also went into the "The Purge" video, where director Noen brought his artistry and next-level talent to Brink's storyboard ideas. The larger-than-life video themes and sets have been translated into IN THIS MOMENT's live stage show, literally. And summer 2023 saw the band on its first arena co-headlining tour with full pyrotechnics.

"Our whole lives we've talked about being in an arena and having fire and a full show," Brink says. "And now we're doing it and it's just so beautiful."

IN THIS MOMENT certainly have nothing to prove, the lineup's authority assured live on record and onscreen. Yet, "Godmode"'s energy and scope is visceral.

"With our new ideas and excitement and Kane's energy of wanting to prove himself to everybody, we were able to show that we're heavy and just as impactful as every other new band coming out right now," says Howorth. "We can punch you right in the face, that energy is in there big, time. I think our fans are really gonna like this album, because it's taken us back a little bit where it began, but it's also more instinctive, and heavier than anything we've done a long time," concludes Howorth.

Brink, a private person, nonetheless gives and takes much strength from ITM's millions of fans. The healing is on both sides.

"It's amazing if my songs help people feel empowered. When humans share painful things that we went through and how we heal from it, we can help each other and pass that energy on," she says. "Honestly, the most beautiful thing about being in a band is being able to have that connection with strangers who become kindred spirits. Sure, I have urges to wear 'masks' and hide from everything and wear makeup, but I like to share and be honest and vulnerable. The sky's the limit," Brink concludes. "You just have to keep dreaming, keep expanding, keep pushing yourself to that next level. I feel like something is shifting right now in the band; this is such a special moment for us with 'Godmode'."

Photo credit: Joe Cotela

[arilynn170]

Hello cuties, Tomorrow is going to be my 18th birthday I'm excited for it. I decided to make a list about myself that y'all don't know about me the real life me not the persona

18: I have 5 cats and 2 dogs: (cats names) Angel, Lil Man, Ken, Baby Louis and Castel. (Dogs names) Charlie and Meco (The dogs belongs to my mom I don't like dogs)

17: I have natural Dimples on my cheeks

16: I live in a trailer with my momma it used to be me, momma and pawpaw but my pawpaw died in 2020 I miss him

15: I'm a natural Blue eyed Blonde girl

14: My favorite actor and actress is Jennifer Tilly and Hugh Laurie

13: My game is Huniepop yes I love BTD and TPOF but I mostly play Huniepop i buy the game with my own money

12: I like drawing and art

11: I like to collect things like vinyls, CDs, dolls, Funko Pops and keychains

10: My favorite YouTuber is A Dose of Buckley and Anna Oop

9: My favorite female and male singers Katy Perry and Marilyn Manson

8: My favorite 2 songs is

And this I play this everyday nonstop

7: My favorite thing in my room is

My first body pillow case of Ren (I'm lazy to get out of bed)

6: I'm bisexual

5: I have daddy issues, tourettes, depression, anxiety, seizures and scoliosis (I got my scoliosis fixed)

4: I hate rice, fish food and shell food (I'm allergic to that stuff), any casseroles, bologna, tomatos, onions, peppers, honey mustard, and garlic there's more but maybe next time

3: My ethnicity is Irish, German and Swedish

2: I've been with my boyfriend Ethan for 2 years and 9 months now we started dating in November 22th, 2021

1: My favorite movie is Shaun of the Dead

That's it thanks for reading see ya 😘

[90sdiablo]

Hey I don't mean to be rude because I really would love to hear on why you defend Marilyn Manson, but siting an instagram page may not be the best type of proof. The best thing to do is to find articles from websites that don't use .com (this means they payed to be a website and are more likely to be biased) You can definetly fins information defending Marilyn even though it may be harder

Also it's not just ERW who has reported abuse from him, their have been over 20+ underage/barely legal girls that have reported being abused, raped, and exploited by him. About 5% of rape accusations are proven false meaning at least one of those has to be true

The claims of him being racist are from sevral different things. some of them being Charlyne Yi accusing him of calling them a "China man" (along with him harrasing every female on the set of House), having several tattoos of nazi imagery, and him using the N-word frequently. Even though he may has made some statments about being anti-racist that doesn't mean we should forget all the racist and antisematic things he has done and hasn't directly apologized for.

(I'm sorry i get that i sound condesending, I'm really not trying to be because I would really like to know why you support him)

thanks for being more polite than what I had received. I haven't exactly had questions like this one since like a year ago, so I'll give my best on why I support Manson without mentioning things like an Instagram page.

first off, around January 2022, Howard King, who is Manson's lawyer, filed a lawsuit about a fake FBI letter forged by Illma Gore, Evan Rachel Wood's partner, and before that lawsuit was even filed, there was one young woman named Greta Aurora who had a one night stand with Manson, and she said that Illma tried to recruit her (mind you, Illma Gore recruited other 15 or 20 women to say "Manson did/said x/y/z to me"). Once Greta Aurora said no to Illma, she was labeled as "a vulnerable, underage girl" in a lawsuit created by one of the women in ERW and Gore's group.

about Manson being racist, I'm not sure about Charlyne Yi's situation but I think sometimes celebrities like Yi can be messed up enough to accuse one of calling them "China man".

the nazi imagery accusation is quite to debunk. sometimes, leftists, especially, anti-authoritarian leftists around the 1970s to the early 2000s would put up authoritarian imagery like the swastika or wear fascist-inspired costumes (Laibach, a left-wing industrial band is a PERFECT example) as a way to compare liberal governments and authoritarian socialist governments like the British monarchy or the United States government to fascism. that alone can make a LOT of people (liberals, conservatives, etc.) very uncomfortable. in my opinion, it's sad that the modern left doesn't have the guts to do that anymore and focuses on a more positive art form where everything is all sunshine and puppies and "uwu you are valid".

with Manson using the N-word in his songs, he was obviously inspired by musicians like Patti Smith, who at the time, was a punk rocker in the 1970s. and like wearing fascist-inspired costumes, using the N-word can make people uncomfortable. but yeah, punk rock songs like that, despite using the N-word, is actually about standing up to yourself and being unique to anyone else.

why I support Manson is that around 2021, the year when he was accused of those allegations, I identified myself as a Marxist but other leftists who aligned themselves with Marxism and general socialism happened to support ERW. however, Manson's philosophy was more aligned with Nietzsche, and Nietzsche's idea of the Ubermensch came from Max Stirner's Einzige. So, I read Max Stirner's book, The Unique and Its Property, and I more align myself with Manson and Howard King instead of most leftists.

and frankly, it's about time leftists bring back shock value to get their points across in art.

[evabloom]

Bubble chair, me, 2021

Pictures on the wall, me, 2022

Hair brush & bra, me, 2021

Marilyn Manson & Rose Mcgowan, 1998

[lithellyl]

45 years of Goth Albums*

*note, not all of these bands (like Manson or Evenescence) are actually goth, but have had some sort of impact on the goth scene so let's say goth and goth adjecent, also I tried to do a different band for each year, otherwise 30% of this list would be Bauhaus and the Cure

1978 Gloria Mundi I, Individual 1979 Joy Division Unknown Pleasures 1980 Bauhaus In the Flat Field 1981 Souxsie and the Banshees Juju 1982 The Cure Pornography 1983 Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels 1984 Dead Can Dance Garden of the Arcane Delights 1985 Love and Rockets Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven 1986 Christian Death Atrocities 1987 Sisters of Mercy Floodland 1988 Fields of the Nephilim The Nephilim 1989 Pandora's Box It's All Coming Back To Me 1990 Requiem in White Requiem in White 1991 This Ascension Light and Shade 1992 The Church Priest=Aura 1993 Lacrimosa Satura 1994 The Escape Every Tear Dries 1995 Nightingale The Breathing Shadow 1996 Marilyn Manson The Beautiful People 1997 Saviour Machine Legend 1998 Theater of Tragedy Aegis 1999 Lake of Tears Forever Autumn 2000 HIM Razorblade Romance 2001 Whispers in the Shadow Permanent Illusions 2002 The Birthday Massacre Nothing and Nowhere 2003 Evenescence Fallen 2004 Scary Bitches Creepy Crawlies 2005 The Gault Even as All Before Us 2006 Have a Nice Life The Big Gloom 2007 London After Midnight Violent Acts of Beauty 2008 Tiamat Misantropolis 2009 Ikon Love Hate and Sorrow 2010 She Past Away Kasvetli Kutlama 2011 Plastique Noir Affects 2012 Moonspell Alpha Noir/Omega White 2013 Grave Babies Crusher 2014 Lords of the Lost From the Flame Into The Fire 2015 Chelsea Wolfe Abyss 2016 Beseech My Darkness, Darkness 2017 Drab Majesty A Demonstration 2018 Gvllow Waste Away 2019 Twin Tribes Ceremony 2020 Secrets of the Moon Black House 2021 Pyre of Black Roses Demo II 2022 Palest Grey Always Haunted 2023 Swans Los Angeles:City of Death

[motivatornetwork]

Movie: Missing Anthony Fox, Witnesses - Paul Barresi, Johnny Depp, Adam Waldman - Fixers Not Mafia Killers

Not Mafia - Missing Anthony Fox & Johnny Depp with Paul Barresi "Violin" Tapes & Fixer Adam Waldman - WITNESS Interference Spin. Interest of Depp in West Memphis 3 Damien Echols and allegedly John Wayne Gacy painting similarly to Brian Peck seen by actor for Quiet on Set. Johnny Depp named a farm in Kentucky after his mother Betty Sue.

Spin on Breakins/Vandalism by Waldman & Barresi in Recorded Telephone Call Against Witnesses.

In Movie "High Society" Grace Kelly jokes about culture shock about the British and asks where does Jack the Ripper teach?

- Stuff Movie with writings on the wall like 'kill pigs' like charles manson and damaged property all over produced by Depp & Scarmonga. - Investigators of Confidential Magazine cause terror onto Hollywood. Comparing to a foiled breakin by 'investigator fixers' surveilling Marilyn Monroe for jealous Joe DiMaggio. Fixer Fred Otash. Files on most blonde bombshells in Film Business.

3 Audio Clips of the Call between Viper Room Witnesses Big Ed Shaw and Richie Albertini of the Viper Room about assault of Stacy by Johnny, Naomi Campbell, Paul Schindler and Bob Pfeiffer -- who tried to hire Schindler as a hitman to kill his wife Maria. Schindler got Ed Shaw employed in the Viper Room. Ed Shaw is not surprised about wanting Schindler to do that.

- With Schindler's name spoken, Anthony Fox is brought up with his name. - Later talks on Olivia, Ricky Beck Mahler, many others in a friendly way.

Hollywood Fixer Paul Barresi in edited audio recordings implicates Financial Transactions and Other Locations harming Investigations (Viper Room), while mocking the Ventura police law enforcement. - As a "fixer" he focuses on letters/objects and bank accounts of Fox's mother and daughter instead of witness testimony on who did it.

Scenes from Love in the Afternoon Movie with Gary Cooper where Investigator Incites His Client to Attack

The Charley Project on Missing Anthony Fox: https://charleyproject.org/case/antho...

Sadly, a second image added in December 2021.

With Grace Kelly & Kim Novak

- Golden Hollywood scenes of "High Society" inspired by the French. She says the reporter's name sounds like a Martyr that perished in medieval times... Isn't dancing wonderful? Grace Kelly adores strangers.

Kim Novak has a Witness that "appears" during her trial in "Notorious Landlady" and an actor ex-boyfriend provides a story to Confidential while she's with a millionaire. "He does look like a rat" shows on screen from the Fixers after the Cary Grant & Grace Kelly car scenes.

Johnny writes to serial killer claiming unknown movie role: https://www.cinema.com/news/item/613/... William Hazlet has the Art of Deception - Adam Waldman and Paul Barresi Calls

Clip of Ed Shaw audio tape stating "We Not in the mafia" and denying the purchase of bulletproof jackets in the Viper Room with background scenes of Private Jet & to catch a thief edits.

No one removes Fixers Adam Waldman and Paul Barresi from this social circle or from causing this nightmare as the Viper Room's Paul Schindler was.

[icemftmm]

The Jane Doe From New York Is No Longer A Jane Doe

Of course, we all knew who she was, but instead of admitting that she screw up royally, by giving multiple interviews about two years ago, telling a significantly different story than the one in her lawsuit, Bianca Allaine decided to throw more mud on Marilyn Manson and accused his fans and supporters in "aligning" themselves with him.

Whatever, Bianca, whatever...

Have you noticed though, dear Bianca, that your own counsel, when swinging the hatchet one more time over Brian's head, practically admitted that the e-mail you sent to Twiggy IS IN FACT AUTHENTIC?

For those who are not familiar yet with the e-mail in question, here it is:

And the source: https://www.marilynmansonuncanceled.com/2023/02/an-exclusive-report-on-private-email.html?m=1

Enjoy Bianca telling the truth for once in her life, including the fact that she was asked to "participate" and refused. That was 2021 and I do not have a single doubt about who asked her to participate and in what. Those two have been exposed already for the plot that they organized against Manson. The legal procedure on them is ongoing and, in order to draw the attention away from themselves, they pressed harder on Allaine and made her attack him again. Hence, the gruesome lawsuit that she filed in January 2023 in New York, just a week or so before the date for their anti-SLAPP reading. Coincidence? I don't think so.

[deadbilly]

In the defamation court case against Evan Rachel Wood and Illma Gore, Marilyn Manson’s legal team have filed a declaration statement from Ashley Morgan Smithline as evidence. Smithline’s sexual assault lawsuit against Manson was dismissed in January after she failed to hire new legal representation. In the declaration, Smithline recanted her assault allegations against Manson and claimed that she was “manipulated” by Wood and Gore to make false accusations. She also claims she did not give her attorney permission to file her lawsuit in the first place. Read Smithline’s full declaration below. Pitchfork has reached out to Wood and Gore’s legal representation for comment.

In a February 2021 statement on Instagram, Smithline accused Manson of abuse, rape, and coercion. “I have bonded with the five other main girls who went through this, and we have found such a strength in numbers,” Smithline told People in May 2021. “And our stories are all fucking identical, it’s disgusting.” Her lawsuit was filed in June.

...

“As we have always said, the coordinated campaign of #MeToo lies against Brian Warner is going to go down as one of the greatest hoaxes of all time,” Manson’s attorney Howard King said in a statement. “Vulnerable women were manipulated by unscrupulous individuals seeking to build their own brands and pursue their own vendettas. This sworn testimony proves it.” 

[tache-noire]

up until about 2021 i was super anti-RPF but i got severely obsessed with marilyn manson and some other adjacent bands and well that changed things

[beardedmrbean]

A former girlfriend who had accused Marilyn Manson of abuse has backed away from the allegations in a declaration of support filed in his defamation lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood.

Ashley Morgan Smithline alleges that she publicly accused Manson of sexual assault and sexual battery only because she was pressured by Wood, according to a declaration filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

A representative for Wood denied the allegations, saying in a statement that “Evan never pressured or manipulated Ashley.”

Wood has said Manson "horrifically abused" her for years.

Manson has denied any wrongdoing.

Manson, whose legal name is Brian Warner, filed a defamation suit last year accusing Wood of having “secretly recruited, coordinated and pressured" women to accuse him of abuse.

Smithline came forward with allegations against Manson in an interview with People magazine in May 2021. She accused him of having subjected her to physical, sexual and psychological abuse from 2010 to 2013.

Manson was accused of whipping Smithline, carving his initials into her body, penetrating her while she was unconscious and other conduct. The People report included a photo of Smithline in a towel, showing what appeared to be a scar on her thigh that she referred to in the interview and alleged was caused by Manson.

Smithline told People that she began to heal only after she spoke with other women about their experiences with Manson in 2020. She said meeting others, including Wood, helped lessen "these feelings of guilt and shame."

In the new court document, Smithline says she felt "manipulated" by the women to make the allegations. She said in the declaration of support that she had denied being abused when she spoke with Wood in 2020.

"When I said, no this did not happen to me and this was not my experience, I recall being told by Ms. Wood that just because I could not remember did not necessarily mean that it did not happen," Smithline said in her filing.

Smithline filed a federal lawsuit in 2021 accusing Manson of sexual assault, human trafficking and unlawful imprisonment.

Wood's representative alleges "it was Ashley who first contacted Evan about the abuse she had suffered," adding, "it’s unfortunate that the harassment and threats Ashley received after filing her federal lawsuit appear to have pressured her to change her testimony."

A judge dismissed the suit without prejudice last month after her attorney, Jay Ellwanger, withdrew from her case and Smithline failed to respond to the court's request for a decision about new representation.

Ellwanger has also represented “Game of Thrones” actor Esmé Bianco, a Manson accuser who settled her claims out of court last month. Smithline said in her declaration that it was Bianco who suggested Ellwanger as potential representation.

Smithline accused Ellwanger of including "untrue" claims of violence and nonconsensual sexual activity in the 2021 complaint he filed on her behalf in U.S. District Court for Central California.

Ellwanger said he could not get into details about Smithline's allegations against him, citing ethical obligations of client confidentiality. He denied her characterization of his representation as "categorically and verifiably false."

Howard King, Manson's attorney, said Thursday that Smithline's testimony proves the allegations against his client are untrue.

“As we have always said, the coordinated campaign of #MeToo lies against Brian Warner is going to go down as one of the greatest hoaxes of all time," King said. "Vulnerable women were manipulated by unscrupulous individuals seeking to build their own brands and pursue their own vendettas."

Wood has denied the allegations in Manson's defamation suit, which include a claim that she forged a letter from the FBI to persuade other women to take part in her documentary about abuse, "Phoenix Rising," which aired on HBO last year.

In an opposition motion, Wood’s attorney accused Manson of filing the defamation suit as retaliation for her decision to go public with her abuse allegations. The motion accuses Manson of trying to silence Wood.

Wood testified to a House Judiciary subcommittee in 2018 that she had been raped twice, first by an abusive partner and then by a man in the storage closet of a bar. She did not name them at the hearing.

In an Instagram post in 2021, she accused Manson of “grooming me when I was a teenager” and said he “horrifically abused me for years.”

Manson has not been charged with any crime connected to Wood’s allegations. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department submitted a case for review to the district attorney's office in September after a 19-month investigation by the special victim's unit.

The prosecutor's office has not given a public update on a decision about whether Manson will face charges.