Marilyn Manson’s been seemingly ripping pages out of the bible since the New Testament was still new. So how’s he going to shock people in 2016? Well, apparently by beheading someone that looks curiously like Presidential nominee Donald Trump. A 1:30 clip in support of his forthcoming album Say10 is a tease of the title track. In the video, he does his tired old bible-ripping schtick, then stands over a very bloody and headless body with a knife and he spoke about it to The Daily Beast:
“Either way tomorrow goes, the visuals are meant to create contemplation. Because it’s obviously bigger than just tomorrow. It’s about the desperate acts of people who believe something that is preached by an unbeliever. Right now we’re in such a state of confusion when it comes to religion, politics, sexuality, and how they all tie together, and it’s being turned into a circus and a sideshow—and that’s something that I’ve been described as a ringleader of. It seems like a time for me as an artist, and as an American artist, to make something that causes a new set of questions to arise that aren’t simply statements.”
The video was directed an conceptualized by Tyler Shields.
