Episode 1381
Heaven Upside Down
Sun, 2021-Feb-14 01:09 UTC
Length - 3:16
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The featured article for Sunday, 14 February 2021 is Heaven Upside Down.
Heaven Upside Down is the tenth studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson, released on October 6, 2017 by Loma Vista Recordings and Caroline International. The record had the working title Say10 and was initially due to be issued on Valentine's Day. However, the release was delayed by numerous events, most notably the death of Marilyn Manson's father Hugh Warner, who died during production and to whom the album was later dedicated. The record features many of the same musicians who performed on the band's previous album, The Pale Emperor (2015), including producer Tyler Bates and drummer Gil Sharone. Despite Manson's early implications, long-time bassist Twiggy did not participate on the album. He left the group following a sexual assault allegation by a former girlfriend.
"We Know Where You Fucking Live" was released as a single in September, shortly followed by "Kill4Me", which became the band's highest-peaking entry on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Chart. The music videos for the album featured celebrities including Johnny Depp, Courtney Love and Lisa Marie Presley. The single "Tattooed in Reverse" also entered Mainstream Rock, making Heaven Upside Down their first album since 1998's Mechanical Animals to chart more than one song there.
The album received positive reviews from music critics upon release, with multiple publications saying it continued a creative resurgence which began with their previous album. It was also a commercial success, debuting at number eight on the Billboard 200 and charting in the top ten in most of the major markets. In Australia, it was their highest-charting album since Mechanical Animals, and was their first top ten studio album in the United Kingdom since The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003).
Manson suffered several injuries which delayed the Heaven Upside Down Tour. The band embarked on two co-headlining tours with Rob Zombie: Twins of Evil: The Second Coming Tour and Twins of Evil: Hell Never Dies Tour. To promote the former, the two bands collaborated on a cover of the Beatles song "Helter Skelter". Manson issued three other covers on soundtracks during the album's promotional cycle: "Stigmata", "God's Gonna Cut You Down" and "Cry Little Sister".
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:09 UTC on Sunday, 14 February 2021.
For the full current version of the article, see Heaven Upside Down on Wikipedia.
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