Marilyn Manson
Rob Zombie + Marilyn Manson: Freaks on Parade 2026
The twins of terror are back! This summer, Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson are teaming up for their Freaks on Parade Tour. With special guests The Hu and Orgy, this 21-date run will begin August 20th in West Palm Beach, Florida. Tickets are available at robzombie.com and marilynmanson.com!
- 8/20 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
- 8/21 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
- 8/23 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
- 8/24 – Charlotte, NC – Truliant Amphitheater
- 8/26 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
- 8/27 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center
- 8/29 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake
- 8/30 – Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater
- 9/1 – Toronto, ON – RBC Amphitheatre
- 9/2 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center
- 9/4 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
- 9/5 – Tinley Park, IL – Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre
- 9/6 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
- 9/9 – Maryland Heights, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
- 9/10 – Kansas City, MO – Morton Amphitheater
- 9/12 – Greenwood Village, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
- 9/14 – West Valley City, UT – Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre
- 9/16 – Airway Heights, WA – BECU Live at Northern Quest*
- 9/17 – Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre
- 9/18 – Ridgefield, WA – Cascades Amphitheater
- 9/20 – Concord, CA – Toyota Pavilion at Concord
* Support by Orgy only
May Has Been Oddly Therapeutic
Hey y’all! It’s been a minute since my last check-in, and I hope this one finds you well.
This month has been surprisingly therapeutic for me. It didn’t start that way. I had to cut someone out of my life who meant more to me than I ever did to him and it was very difficult. I struggled with it a lot. I let myself cry, I almost let myself message him, and then I decided fuck it! My tagline became “Dry your eyes and remember who the fuck you are.” And while I won’t say I’m over it, I will say it hurts less now.
The events in May have helped immensely. It started with Mother’s Day. I worked on the actual holiday, but Mom and I celebrated early by exploring a few areas around Huntsville. We hiked almost 7 miles and just…absorbed nature. It was really, really cool – even if we’re not sure the “waterfall” we went to actually constitutes a waterfall. Lol. You’ll see what I mean in the pictures at the bottom of this post.
One of my cousins from Indiana came down that weekend, as well. I didn’t get much time with her; however, we did have a big family dinner on Mother’s Day, which made Mom incredibly happy.
The very next weekend, my brother and I went to a Marilyn Manson show. Now, you may be thinking “ok, you’ve already seen them,” and yeah, you’re right. But I haven’t seen them with my brother. This concert was major for a couple of reasons.
- My brother is the OG Manson fan in our household, yet he had never been to a show. I got to take him to his first Manson concert!
- Tim Skold is back in the lineup, and if you know me at all, you know I love Tim Skold.
- Songs that were in the setlist that I never thought I’d see Manson perform: “Great Big White World,” “Coma White,” “The Nobodies,” and “Dried Up, Tied and Dead to the World.”
- Manson looked and sounded great. As my brother said, “Okay, sober Manson. I see you!”
The night was perfect. My brother was so relaxed and happy, and we stuck to tradition and went to Waffle House after the show. Oh! And we tried Hattie B’s for the first time. That was some damn delicious chicken!
Fastforward to the very next weekend. An old friend of mine, Brian, had tickets to The Rise of Rock World Tour, which featured Dorothy, Stone Temple Pilots, and Godsmack. He invited me to go with him, so I did. We had fun during Dorothy, then we had to move to the interior area of the amphitheater because of a storm. Unfortunately, the delay meant Stone Temple Pilots only played six songs, but they were awesome! The new vocalist, Jeff Gutt, nailed it. (He used to be in Dry Cell, a band you know if you ever owned the Queen of the Damned soundtrack.)
Godsmack is always a kick ass show. I’m not a huge fan, but Sully Erna knows how to work a crowd. Most of my favorite songs were on the setlist, except “Moon Baby,” “Bad Magick,” and “Greed.” I’ve accepted I’ll never see them do those…
Can I tell y’all how therapeutic it was, having back-to-back weekends during which I got to scream along with artists who helped me through my angsty teenage years? Man. It was fantastic.
The last stop on May’s healing journey happened yesterday. I went and got a tattoo. I used a different artist than usual, though it was the same shop, and she knocked it out of the park!
Okay. It’s picture time.
If you wanna see a few videos from the Manson and Godsmack shows, you can check out my YouTube or Instagram. I also have a few more interviews I’m getting scheduled soon, so look out for those!
And last but not least, my new mermaid scales.
Marilyn Manson: One Assassination Under God Spring Tour 2026
Infamous metal band Marilyn Manson has announced another leg of the “One Assassination Under God Tour.” This handful of spring dates will have Vowws as the opening act. Tickets are on sale at marilynmanson.com!
- 4/22 – Highland, CA – Yaamava’ Theater (Added date!)*
- 4/23 – Highland, CA – Yaamava’ Theater*
- 4/25 – Las Vegas, NV – Sick New World Festival 2026
- 5/8 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory
- 5/10 – Green Bay, WI – EPIC Event Center
- 5/12 – Louisville, KY – The Louisville Palace Theatre
- 5/13 – Memphis, TN – Graceland Soundstage
- 5/15 – Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle
- 5/16 – Columbus, OH – Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival 2026*
* Without Vowws
2025 Covers You May Have Missed
I am working on the Top 50 of 2025, and I realized that there were quite a few covers released last year. I don’t include cover songs on that list, so I thought I’d share them here.
- Amerakin Overdose: “Genie in a Bottle” (Christina Aguilera cover)
- Næŕok, Steeno: “3” (Britney Spears cover)
- Boze: “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (Charlie Daniels cover)
- Gillsaw: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
- Priest: “Wicked Game” (Chris Isaak cover)
- Waiting at the Bridge: “Love Gun” (KISS cover)
- Kings County: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
- Damned Anthem, Lola Rhodes: “Heart-Shaped Box” (Nirvana cover)
- Silent Theory, Crispin Earl: “Pardon Me” (Incubus cover)
- Lift the Curse: “Love is a Battlefield” (Pat Benatar cover)
- RedPrint: “Stranglehold” (Ted Nugent cover)
- Rise to Ruin: “Paranoid” (Black Sabbath cover)
- Cirkus: “Crazy Train” (Ozzy Osbourne cover)
- P.O.D.: “Don’t Let Me Down” (The Beatles cover)
- Blackjacket: “Grenade” (Bruno Mars cover)
- Nick Nasty: “Seven Nation Army” (The White Stripes cover)
- Feverlust: “That’s So True” (Gracie Abrams cover)
- We’re Wolves: “Bark at the Moon” (Ozzy Osbourne cover)
- 9th Evolution: “Cry Little Sister” (Gerard McMahon cover)
- Kissing Candice: “Bodies” (Drowning Pool cover)
- Kings of Karma: “Run Rudolph Run” (Chuck Berry cover)
- Lift the Curse: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” (Harry Reser and His Orchestra cover)
- Shallow Side: “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” (Elton John cover)
- Amerakin Overdose: “Feliz Navidad” (José Feliciano cover)
- ENMY: “Incomplete” (Backstreet Boys cover)
- KillDevil Theory: “Tom Sawyer” (Rush cover)
- Kalamity Kills: “Help!” (The Beatles cover)
- Nail Bite: “Nutshell” (Alice in Chains cover)
- Vampires Everywhere!: “Welcome to the Black Parade” (My Chemical Romance cover)
Also – Crispin Earl of The Veer Union released Covers Collection, Vol. 2 on December 5th, which includes his renditions of “The Kill” by Thirty Seconds to Mars, “Even in Arcadia” by Sleep Token, and more!
Marilyn Manson Shares Summer/Fall 2025 Dates
Marilyn Manson has extended his One Assassination Under God Tour into the fall of 2025. Support for the North American dates is Seven Hours After Violet. I couldn’t find anyone listed with Manson on the European shows. Tickets are available at marilynmanson.com, and VIP experiences are being offered for the European run.
North America
- 8/29 – Pryor, OK – Rocklahoma 2025+
- 9/3 – Istanbul, TR – Bonus Parkorman*
- 9/6 – Almaty, KZ – Park Live*
- 9/16 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues (New date!)
- 9/18 – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life Festival 2025+
- 9/20 – Pittsburgh, PA – Roxian Theatre
- 9/22 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
- 9/23 – Kansas City, MO – The Midland Theatre
- 9/25 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
- 9/27 – Albuquerque, NM – Revel
- 9/28 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren (New date!)
- 9/30 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
- 10/1 – San Diego, CA – SOMA
- 10/3 – Las Vegas, NV – Pearl Theater
- 10/5 – Sacramento, CA – Aftershock Festival 2025+
+ Festival; Manson only
* Seven Hours After Violet not appearing
Europe
- 10/29 – Brighton, UK – Brighton Centre
- 10/31 – Bournemouth, UK – Windsor Hall
- 11/1 – Cardiff, UK – Utilita Arena
- 11/2 – Nottingham, UK – Motorpoint Arena
- 11/4 – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo
- 11/7 – London, UK – Ovo Arena Wembley
- 11/9 – Nantes, FR – Zénith
- 11/11 – Paris, FR – Zénith
- 11/13 – Antwerp, BE – Lotto Arena
- 11/14 – Dusseldorf, DE – Mitsubishi Electric Halle
- 11/15 – Prague, CZ – Fortuna Sports Hall
- 11/17 – Berlin, DE – Max-Schmeling-Halle
- 11/19 – Warsaw, PL – Torwar
- 11/20 – Leipzig, DE – Quarterback Immobilien Arena
- 11/22 – Bern, CH – Festhalle Bern
- 11/23 – Grenoble, FR – Le Summum
- 11/25 – Bergamo, IT – Chorus Life Arena
- 11/27 – Barcelona, ES – Palau Olimpic de Badalona
- 11/28 – Madrid, ES – Palacio Vistalegre
- 11/30 – Lisbon, PT – Sagres Campo Pequeno
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 5 (Updated 5/31/25)
The second half of May has come in as strong as the first! Check out these tracks that have been released since May 16th.
- Animate Experience: “Onyx”
- The Modern Kollective: “Dreams and Nightmares”
- Azarene: “Memories”
- Falling in Reverse: “God is a Weapon” (ft. Marilyn Manson)
- Lady Strange & the Rites: “High Strangeness”
- Razorwire Halo: “As Good As” (ft. r3nrut)
- A Beautiful Scar: “Never Break”
- Shadow Reborn: “Grave of Roses”
- SKNN: “Bow Down”
- obli_x_vion: “Bird to Prey” (ft. Tyler Noxwind)
- Dark Divine: “Make Me Disappear”
- A Killer’s Confession: “Hollow”
- Ballyhoo!: “Swim”
- Them Damn Dogs: “Weirdo”
- Seethe: “Banshee”
- 40 Below Summer: “King Ghidorah”
- Priest: “My Lonely Heart”
- No Trees Touch The Sky: “3 Visits”
- Third in Theory: “Clay”
- Bleeker: “Self-Made”
- Heartsick: “Break the Curse”
- Cirkus: “Know Yourself”
- Danny Worsnop: “Harder Than the Hard Stuff”
- Sick Century: “Demon Inside”
- Wider Eaves: “Half the Way Undone”
- Shape: “Husk”
- Left to Suffer: “Anon” (ft. King 810)
- Above Snakes: “Forsaken”
- Beauty is Betrayal: “Devil Said”
- Painted Lines: “Better Off”
- Moonfall: “Light Blue Flowers”
- Closed City Terror: “Teflon Idiot”
- Storm Kingdom: “Raindrops Fall on Stained Glass Petals” (ft. Joe Booe)
- Stain the Canvas: “554th”
- Citizen Soldier: “Life Support”
- Voltaire’s Ghost: “Alix Street”
- Anchor & Braille: “Sweet Jesus Knows”
- Midnight For Now: “Friends”
- Host of Nightmare: “Diamond”
- Carbonstone: “Standoff” (ft. Jonny Santos of Spineshank)
- Caelum Wraith: “Are You Still You?”
- Hooked Like Helen: “Quote Unquote Life”
Be sure to visit the other installments of The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist. You could discover your new favorite song/artist!
Marilyn Manson Announces Spring 2025 North American Headlining Tour [Updated]
Marilyn Manson has shared 16 headlining dates this May, kicking off on the 2nd in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Tickets are available at marilynmanson.com!
Note: Black Satellite has been announced as support!
- 5/2 – Grand Rapids, MI – GLC Live at 20 Monroe
- 5/3 – Gary, IN – Hard Rock Live
- 5/4 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
- 5/6 – Huntington, NY – The Paramount
- 5/7 – Bethlehem, PA – Wind Creek Event Center
- 5/9 – Philadelphia, PA – The Met
- 5/10 – Boston, MA – Citizens House of Blues
- 5/12 – Montclair, NJ – The Wellmont Theater
- 5/13 – Baltimore, MD – Pier Six Pavilion
- 5/15 – Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues
- 5/16 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore
- 5/18 – Daytona Beach, FL – Welcome to Rockville 2025*
- 5/20 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
- 5/21 – New Orleans, LA – The Fillmore
- 5/24 – Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion*
- 5/25 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion*
* Black Satellite not appearing
The Mostly Music 2025 Playlist, Pt. 4 (Updated 4/30/25)
Hey, y’all, and welcome to another playlist update! April has been a very weird month for me on a personal level, but at least the soundtrack was fire!!! Here are the songs that have been added to part four since April 16th.
- EarlyRise: “The Bitter Pill”
- Marilyn Manson: “In the Air Tonight” (Phil Collins cover)
- 50 Meter Icewall: “Purge Me Daddy”
- Rogue Island: “Sweat”
- Curse Inflikted: “Dancing With Shadows”
- Silent Theory: “Swept Away” (Julien-K remix)
- Wraithlurk: “Dimensions”
- Matte Blvck + ALVABEAT: “Pupula Duplex (Your Demise)”
- Aesthetic Perfection: “Fade to Black” (Metallica cover)
- Storm Kingdom + Sonia Hutchinson: “Ninmah”
- No Fly List: “All Lost No Found”
- Priest: “Black Hole Sun” (Soundgarden cover)
- Citizen Soldier: “Better Off Broken”
- A Place i Know: “Freedom Bells”
- The Truth Music: “Heart Issues” (ft. JD)
- Voltaire’s Ghost: “Death Becomes You” (StoneBridge remix)
- Dawn of Ashes: “Hypertensive Crisis”
- Antibody + Binary Division + Czarina: “My Enemy”
- Wind Walkers: “The End Aesthetic”
- obiman: “UNDERTHEWEIGHT”
- Misfire: “Living the Dream”
- The Lineage: “Burn Down”
- Stone Lions: “Bite Your Tongue” (ft. Dani Winter-Bates)
- To The Shores: “Blood in the Water”
- Dal-War: “Run Run Run Away Yeah”
- Heir to Nothing: “Don’t Tell Me”
- Into Ruin: “Godless”
- Traverse the Abyss: “Manifest”
- Priest: “Wicked Game” (Chris Isaak cover)
- Mr. Strange: “X the Eyes”
- Amerakin Overdose: “Point of No Return”
- Adelitas Way + New Medicine: “Rollin'”
- The Funeral Portrait: “Skinny Lies”
- Storm Kingdom: “Children of the Sun” (ft. Makaade)
- Not Enough Space: “Eye 4 an Eye” (ft. Dark Divine)
- Seven Year Witch: “Better Off as Strangers”
- Moonfall: “Rainstorm”
- Sleep Token: “Damocles”
- Archers Gate: “Suffocate”
- The Impulsive: “Echo”
- Seethe: “Reprieve”
- Blackwood: “One Track Mind” (ft. Kameron Jane)
- Alive in Stone: “Comatose”
- We’re Not Doctors: “RAD\\MOD”
- Tyler Griese: “Suffocate Me”
- Nick Nasty: “Systems Don’t Break (People Do)”
- REDWAVE: “Fax Machine”
- The Black Zodiac: “Gallow’s Call”
- Screams of Tranquility: “Frozen Tears of Solitude”
- Metal Charm: “Time to Restart”
- Von Loop: “Stomping on the Demons”
- Linx: “مختلف” (Them)
- Anderson Park Lane: “NEWS”
- AVKRVST: “The Malevolent” (ft. Ross Jennings)
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And, as always, be sure to check out the 2025 playlist in its entirety!
Three Covers That I Did Not See Coming
I always enjoy hearing artists’ takes on songs they love, and the most fun reimaginings to me are the ones that come from a completely different genre than the original. Over the past week, two such renditions have been released into the world. The third cover… Well, it was always a dark song, so an infamously dark artist sharing his version makes sense.
1. Priest: “Black Hole Sun”
Yes, that “Black Hole Sun.” It’s so Priest, but I think it’s a very respectful nod to Soundgarden and the original. And, let’s be honest, it takes balls to release a song and know everyone is going to be comparing your vocals to Chris Cornell’s.
2. Aesthetic Perfection: “Fade to Black”
Aesthetic Perfection is a self-proclaimed industrial pop act. Hearing them do a Metallica track was unexpected, but I dig it.
3. Marilyn Manson: “In the Air Tonight”
Manson prides himself on shocking people. His entire career is based on it, in fact. He has done odd covers before. However, I just never would have predicted a Phil Collins song. Lol. As stated above, it kinda makes sense. The subject matter of “In the Air Tonight” is rather dark. Who better to reimagine it than Marilyn Manson and Tyler Bates?
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