Marilyn Manson is gearing up to drop his ninth studio album, The Pale Emperor, on Jan. 20. The shock rocker has made the record available to stream on SoundCloud, giving anxious fans everywhere an early taste of the new material. The effort is a step in a new direction, musically, for Manson, who incorporated aspects of blues and dance-floor funk into the tunes, keeping it on the dark side with his signature industrial-metal blend.
The album will be put out through Manson's own label, Hell, etc., in collaboration with Loma Vista Recordings, Blabbermouth reports. Tyler Bates, best known for composing music for The Guardians of the Galaxy and Californication, pitched in on the album and will join Manson and his band when they hit the road later this month.
The Pale Emperor is Manson's follow-up to 2012's Born Villain. The singer already shared three singles from the effort - "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge," "Deep Six" and "Cupid Carries a Gun."
Manson talked about working on the album with Bates, who he met during a short acting stint on Californication, in a recent interview with Loudwire.
"So with Tyler we later got back together and the first song we did was 'Birds of Hell Awaiting' and that really set the tone for the album. The second song we did was 'Third Day of a Seven Day Binge.' It just became a rhythm of, the record was done under a few months and that's only because our schedules vary because of Sons of Anarchy and he was scoring Guardians of the Galaxy, which ended up being the biggest movie of the year," he said.
"This was something I was excited to go to, get up and go to work. I didn't have to be dragged into the studio at 3 a.m. I wanted to go to the studio at 5 p.m. or whatever the case may be, still during daylight hours which is unusual for me. It proves I'm not a vampire, or a werewolf. I don't know about the werewolf part."
Manson followed his Californication acting gig with a few appearances on the final season of Sons of Anarchy as a white supremacist.
