Customer Ratings & Reviews

the CD was not goodManson has had better writing in his previous albums

not manson's best effort. the previous album was much bettter

Good effort , not his best but worth a listen for sure.

I've been following the band for 15 years now and I have enjoyed (and still enjoy) every album this band put out. I think that The Pale Emperor could be the Mechanical Animals of this decade. This is the bravest *musical* adventure the band went on since... dare I say 1998. Headbangers should look elsewhere unless they just want good music. Manson brings out his inner Jim Morrison here. This album cares less for that mid tempo verse/heavy chorus layout based around a guitar riff and focuses more on the music other than the distorted guitar. The music builds up and changes, it feels raw but very well produced. The album is full of interesting lyrical references, multi-layer vocal tracks doing whispers and different pitched voices singing along to the memorable melodies, rocking swing beats, classic blues style guitar riffs over cinematic atmospherics with some of the coolest sinister synthesizers since Holy Wood. A lot of those elements give this album that gothic-blues-rock n' roll vibe that some of the more experimental songs from Eat Me, Drink Me, High End of Low and Born Villain flirted with along with some elements from Holy Wood and The Resident Evil Score. Which basically mutated into the beast known as the Pale Emperor. I have nothing bad to say about this. Grab some headphones, light a candle for the sinners (or come on baby light my fire) and enjoy this album.

Mesmerizing Album!! Departure from his usual sound and past records.. I find this album hypnotic and I can't help but move with the music.... I know people will find fault in his departure of his old sound , but is it not the fact of life that as we get older we change and grow and life is not as bad as it seems.. I hope everyone will appreciate the magic of this album, I can't wait to see him live!!!

Manson gets nothing but better and more intelligent with his lyrics every year and album always relate to him since his first album and spooky kids this album is awesome

A pretty average album nothing too crazy or anything. Definitely not the manson people grew up with