- alternative rock, alternative metal, heavy metal, rock
- 55 min
- 12 tracks
- Nothing Records
Mechanical Animals is the third studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released on September 15, 1998, by Interscope Records. While not abandoning the band's industrial metal roots, the album is less abrasive and more reminiscent of 1970s glam rock, such as David Bowie, T. Rex and Queen. The themes of Mechanical Animals primarily deal with the trappings of fame and drug abuse.
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Character
Grave, bleak, contemporary and unpretentious.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Chicago Sun-Times3/4 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyA−
- The Guardian3/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times4/4 ★
- NME7/10
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide3.5/5 ★
- USA Today3.5/4 ★
- The Village VoiceC+
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Tracks
- 1Great Big White World5:00
- 2The Dope Show3:47
- 3Mechanical Animals4:33
- 4Rock Is Dead3:10
- 5Disassociative4:51
- 6The Speed of Pain5:26
- 7Posthuman4:18
- 8I Don’t Like the Drugs (but the Drugs Like Me)5:03
- 9New Model No. 153:40
- 10Fundamentally Loathsome4:50
- 11The Last Day on Earth5:01
- 12Coma White5:34
12 tracks, 55 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Marilyn Manson
- Label
- Nothing Records
- Released
- 1998
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
From MusicBrainz, the earliest official release of this album.
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