Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (2000)
Tracklist front / back album covers
Lyrics written by Marilyn Manson
A: In the Shadow
1. "GodEatGod" 2:34
2. "The Love Song" 3:16
3. "The Fight Song" 2:55
4. "Disposable Teens" 3:01
D: The Androgyne
5. "Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)" 4:18
6. ""President Dead" 3:13
7. "In the Shadow of the Valley of Death" 4:09
8. "Cruci-Fiction in Space" 4:56
9. "A Place in the Dirt" 3:37
A: Of Red Earth
10. "The Nobodies" 3:35
11. "The Death Song" 3:29
12. "Lamb of God" 4:39
13. "Born Again" 3:20
14. "Burning Flag" 3:21
M: The Fallen
15. "Coma Black"
a) "Eden Eye"
b) "The Apple of Discord" 5:58
16. "Valentine's Day" 3:31
17. "The Fall of Adam" 2:34
18. "King Kill 33º" 2:18
19. "Count to Six and Die (The Vacuum of Infinite Space Encompassing)" 3:24
Total length: 68:07
Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) is the fourth studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released on November 11, 2000 by Nothing and Interscope Records. A rock opera concept album, it is the final installment of a triptych that also included Antichrist Superstar (1996), and marked a return to the industrial metal style of the band's earlier work, after the glam rock-influenced production of Mechanical Animals (1998). After its release, the band's eponymous vocalist said that the overarching story within the trilogy is presented in reverse chronological order: Holy Wood, therefore, begins the narrative.
In the aftermath of the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999, national news media reported that the perpetrators were wearing the band's T-shirts during the rampage, and had been influenced by their music. As their first release after the massacre, the record was Manson's rebuttal to the accusations leveled against him and the group, and was described by the vocalist as a "declaration of war". It was written in the singer's former home in the Hollywood Hills and recorded in several undisclosed locations, including Death Valley and Laurel Canyon. His ambitions for Holy Wood initially included an eponymous film exploring its backstory—a project which has since been abandoned and was modified into the as-yet-unreleased Holy Wood novel.
