Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age Of Grotesque - Industrial - CD

Timing is everything in pop music, and Marilyn Manson hit a zeitgeist in the mid-'90s with Antichrist Superstar, riding the post-alternative wave to the top of the charts with his dark, arty, industrial metal.

He was a proud shock artist and a great interview, one of the few rockers of his time who stood his own against his attackers by offering articulate, informed counterarguments to their blustering rage.

Like any shock rocker, though, the novelty wears thin fast, and what was once scary turns into self- parody.