History Music / HolyWoodInTheShadowOfTheValleyOfDeath

# "God Eat God" – 2:34

** "God Eat God": Makes references to the crucifiction.

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* DeathSong: "Count to six and die" is about playing RussianRoulette, implying impeding death.

* TheElevatorFromIpanema: PlayedForDrama in "Count to six and die", elevator music as a sing for impending death

* MechanicalEvolution: "Cruci-Fiction in Space"

* PunBasedTitle: "Holy Wood" instead of Hollywood, "God Eat God" instead of "dog eat dog" and "Cruci-Fiction In Space" is a pun on "fiction" and "crucifixion".

!! Holy Tropes:

---> ''She's got her Christian prescriptures''
---> ''And death has crawled in her ear''
---> ''Like elevator music of songs''
---> ''That she shouldn't hear''

---> ''You said you wanted evolution''
---> ''The ape was a great, big hit''
---> ''You say you want a revolution, man''
---> ''And I say that you're full of shit''

--> ''Burned all the good things in the Eden eye''
--> ''We were too dumb to run, too dead to die''
--> ''This was never my world, you took the angel away''
--> ''I'd kill myself to make everybody pay.''

--> ''Multiply your death, divide by sex''
--> ''(...) We are all just stars and we're waiting''
--> ''We are all just scarred and we're hating''
--> ''(...) They gyrate and G-rate on Election Day''

--> ''The atom of Eden'' [[note]]A pun on Adam and Eve, who lived in the Garden of Eden[[/note]]
--> ''I am a revolution, pull my knuckles down, if I could''
--> ''I am a revelation and I'm nailed to the Holy Wood''

--> ''If you die there's no watching''
--> ''And your ratings drop and you're forgotten''
--> ''If they kill you on their TV, you're a martyr and a lamb of God''
--> ''Nothing's going to change, nothing's going to change the world''

--> ''Put me in the motorcade''
--> ''Put me in the death parade''
--> ''Dress me up and take me''
--> ''Dress me up and make me your dying god''

--> ''Some children died the other day''
--> ''We fed machines and then we prayed''
--> ''Puked up and down in morbid faith''
--> ''You should have seen the ratings that day''

--> ''Death is a policeman''
--> ''Death is the priest''
--> ''Death is the stereo''
--> ''Death is TV''
--> ''Death is the Tarot''
--> ''Death is an angel''
--> ''Death is our god, killing us all''
* LoserProtagonist:

--> ''I'm a teen distortion, survived abortion''
--> ''A rebel from the waist down [...]''
--> ''We're disposable teens''

--> ''Today I′m dirty, I want to be pretty''
--> ''Tomorrow, I know I'm just dirt.''
--> ''We're the nobodies, wanna be somebodies''
--> ''We′re dead, they′ll know just who we are''

--> ''This is evolution: the monkey, the man, then the gun."

* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: "Burning Flag"
--> ''Multiply your death, divide by sex''
--> ''Add up the violence and what do you get?''
--> ''We are all just stars and we're waiting''
--> ''We are all just scarred and we're hating''
--> ''We are all just stars on your burning flag''

--> ''There was Lennon and a happy gun''
--> ''There were words on the pavement''
--> ''We were looking for the lamb of god''
--> ''we were looking for Mark David''

--> ''Am I sorry you killed the Kennedy's and Huxley too?''
--> ''(...)Am I sorry for Booth and Oswald, pinks and cocaine too?''

--> ''Dear John and all the King's men''
--> ''Can't put your head together again''

--> ''She tells me I'm a pretty bullet, an imitation Christ''

--> ''But I'm sorry Shakespeare was your scapegoat''

* TakeThat: "Burning Flag"
--> ''You can point your gun at me''
--> ''And hope it will go away''
--> ''But if God was alive''
--> ''He would hate you anyway''

--> ''Although Holy Wood was sad''
--> ''They'd remember this as Valentine's Day''
--> ''Flies are waiting in the shadow of the Valley of Death''

--> ''I am a revelation and I'm nailed to the Holy Wood''

--> ''The valley of death, we are free''
--> ''Your father's your prison, you see''

--> ''She put the seeds in me - Plant this dying tree''

-->''I am a revolution''\\
''Pull my knuckles down if I could''\\
''I am a revelation''\\
''And I'm nailed to the '''Holy Wood'''''

--> ''This is your creation''
--> ''The atom of Eden was a bomb''
--> ''If Jack was the baptist, we'd drink wine from the head''

--> ''I'm not a slave / for a God that doesn't exist!''

--> ''If God was alive, he would hate you anyway''

--> ''We write our prayers on a little bomb''
--> ''Kiss it on the face and send it to God''

---> ''But I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a shit''

---> ''We sing the death song, kids''
---> ''Because we've got no future''

--> ''The atom of Eden'' [[note]] A pun on Adam and Eve, who lived in the Garden of Eden [[/note]]

--> ''But I'm not a slave to a god that doesn't exist''
--> ''And I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a shit''
** "Target Audience", critizising religious bigotry.
--> ''And your crucifiction commercials failed." [...]
--> ''And I see all the young believers, your target audiemce."

--> ''I never really hated the one true God''
--> ''But the God of the people I hated''

* ShoutOut: The album was directly inspired by ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'' by Music/TheBeatles, because of its role in the UsefulNotes/CharlesManson murders and the parallels Marilyn saw between that crime and the 1999 Columbine High School murders. "Disposable Teens" even borrows a line from "Revolution 1" [[note]] "You say you want a revolution [[/note]]. Another inspiration was ''Music/LetItBleed'' by Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}.

->"And I'm a black rainbow, and I'm an ape of god\\

A rebel from the waist down."\\

Much like the other parts of the triptych, ''Holy Wood'' is a RockOpera[=/=]ConceptAlbum. Its concept follows a protagonist named Adam Kadmon (derived from the Kabbalah, meaning "original man") who travels from Death Valley (a land populated by social outcasts) to Holy Wood (a city-sized amusement park with main attractions of death and violence). He tries staging a revolution but finds stiff opposition in Holy Wood's perpetually violent culture, its "guns, God, government" ideology, and its religion of "celebritarianism" where [[DeadArtistsAreBetter dead celebrities are worshipped]] and UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is revered like a modern Jesus.

The album came out when Manson was under fire for supposedly inspiring the [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} 1999 high school shootings in Columbine]], because the teens who committed the murders were fans of him. It later turned out that this rumor was false, but this didn't diminish the public outcry about the rock singer, whom many MoralGuardians saw as a "corruptor of youth." Manson felt demonized by the media and refused all interviews, even to defend himself, because he didn't want to contribute to the media frenzy.

Instead, he channeled his emotions into the story and themes of ''Holy Wood'', its songs criticizing journalists, politicians and religious groups for [[IfItBleedsItLeads capitalizing on the tragic shootings]] while at the same time sensationalizing violence like the assassinations of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, Music/JohnLennon and the Columbine murders. He also argued that glorifying bloodshed was nothing new, because Christians had made Jesus' crucifixion an icon for centuries.

Manson had additional plans to tell the backstory of the album through companion pieces in different mediums. He began negotiations with Creator/NewLineCinema to produce and distribute a ''Holy Wood'' film, even meeting with Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky to discuss it, but the deal fell through less than a year later after Manson had doubts that he'd be able to make the film without having his artistic vision compromised. He then scrapped the film and announced two books -- a novelized adaptation of the film's script, and a separate coffee table book of pictures. Neither book has been fully released, reportedly due to publishing disputes; to date, only the cover art and the 10th chapter of the novel have been shared online.

->''"And I'm a black rainbow, and I'm an ape of god\\

** "Disposable Teens"
--> ''I never really hated a one true god''
--> ''but the god of the people I hated''

* Evolutionary Levels: "Disposable Teens" makes many references to evolution, the video also shows Manson next to a monkey.

* Mechanical Evolution: "Cruci-Fiction in Space"

* AdamAndOrEve: The album makes many allusions to Adam and Eve. The song list is divided in four circles that speel the word A-D-A-M, Adam Kadmon is the main protagonist symbolizing the first man and some songs make references to the Garden of Eden, most notably "Coma Black".
* AlbumTitleDrop: There is no complete TitleTrack, but the words "In the Shadow of the Valley of Death" do appear in the song of the same name.
-->''I am a revolution''\\
''Pull my knuckles down if I could''\\
''I am a revelation''\\
''And I'm nailed to the '''Holy Wood'''''
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''G'''od Eat '''G'''od", "'''K'''ing '''K'''ill 33°"

* BSODSong: The album concludes the trilogy about the antichrist superstar. Albeit Manson said [[AnachronicOrder this one is the beginning]], thus the StartOfDarkness.

* ConceptAlbum: The album deals with people and media's obsession with death and murder through the ill-fated rise and fall of Adam Kadmon.

* CrucifiedHeroShot: The album cover.

* FaceOnTheCover: Marilyn Manson hanging on a cross.

* NightmareFace: Manson on the album cover.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Manson had been in the center of controversy for quite some years at this point, with the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} shootings of 1999 as the high point of criticism of all kinds or morality activists. The album was his way of reacting to all the finger pointing and NeverMyFault accusations.
* ReligionRantSong: See BlasphemousBoast.
* RockOpera: Just like the other two albums of the triptych.

* ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle: Both the album itself, and its final track "Count to Six and Die (The Vacuum of Infinite Space Encompassing)."

''Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)'' is a 2000 album by Music/MarilynManson, the last in a trilogy/"triptych" with albums ''Music/AntichristSuperstar'' (1996) and ''Music/MechanicalAnimals'' (1998) as their predecessors. Since the triptych's story is told in reverse order, ''Holy Wood'' therefore begins the narrative.

Much like the others, this album is a RockOpera[=/=]ConceptAlbum. ''Holy Wood''[='=]s concept follows a protagonist named Adam Kadmon (derived from the Kabbalah, meaning "original man") who travels from Death Valley (a land populated by social outcasts) to Holy Wood (a city-sized amusement park with main attractions of death and violence). He tries staging a revolution but finds stiff opposition in Holy Wood's perpetually violent culture, its "guns, God, government" ideology, and its religion of "celebritarianism" where [[DeadArtistsAreBetter dead celebrities are worshipped]] and UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is revered like a modern Jesus.

Instead, he made ''Holy Wood'' a ConceptAlbum, its songs criticizing journalists, politicians and religious groups for [[IfItBleedsItLeads capitalizing on the tragic shootings]], while at the same time sensationalizing violence, like the assassinations of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, Music/JohnLennon and the Columbine murders. He also argued that glorifying bloodshed was nothing new, because Christians had made Jesus' crucifixion an icon for centuries.

Still, at the time ''Holy Wood'' didn't sell as well as his other albums. However, a mere decade later it has been VindicatedByHistory so much that it is now, in fact, the best-selling album in Manson's catalogue!

* LongTitle: "Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)" and "Count To Six And Die (The Vacuum Of Infinite Space Encompassing)."

* ShoutOut: The album was directly inspired by ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'' by Music/TheBeatles, because of its role in the UsefulNotes/CharlesManson murders and the parallels Marilyn saw between that crime and the 1999 Columbine High School murders. "Disposable Teens" even borrows a line from "Revolution 1" [[note]] "You say you want a revolution [[/note]]. Another inspiration was ''Music/LetItBleed'' by Music/TheRollingStones.

Instead, he made ''Holy Wood'' a ConceptAlbum, its songs criticizing journalists, politicians and religious groups for [[IfItBleedsItLeads capitalizing on the tragic shootings]], while at the same time sensationalizing violence, like the assassinations of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, Music/JohnLennon and the Columbine murders. He also argued that glorifying bloodshed was nothing new, because Christians had made Jesus's crucifixion an icon for centuries.

The album produced the hit singles "Disposable Teens", "The Fight Song" and "The Nobodies".

* GardenOfEden: "Coma Black" makes so many explicit and implicit allusions to the Garden of Eden, it could just as well be the setting of the song. Main character Adam (Kadmon) is the first/primal man, he "burned all the good things in the Eden eye" (a direct reference), "she" (a woman in any way related to Eve?) "was the only thing" he was able to "love in this dying world", where also the "angel" (like the one in biblical story) has gone. "I'd kill myself to make everybody pay" would then consitute a RealityBreakingParadox, where Adam dies before he can be fruitful and fill the earth.

** "Crucifiction In Space"

* LongTitle: "Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)" and "Count To Six And Die (The Vacuum Of Infinite Space Encompassing)".
* AMillionIsAStatistic: A literal line in "The Fight Song".

* PunBasedTitle: "Holy Wood" instead of Hollywood, "God Eat God" instead of "dog eat dog" and "Cruci-Fiction In Space", a pun on "fiction" and "crucifixion".

* RussianRoulette: As alluded by the title "Count to Six and Die", the album closes on one, as we hear five times a revolver going through chambers followed by the hammer hitting the empty space, and then it gets to the sixth chamber that would have the bullet (while, in true BookEnds case, the footstep noises from the opening of "[=GodEatGod=]" appear again).
* ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle: Both the album itself, and its final track "Count to Six and Die (The Vacuum of Infinite Space Encompassing)".

** "The Love Song" references "De Imitatione Christi", a book by Thomas A. Kempis.

* TheSomethingSong: "The Love Song", "The Fight Song" and "The Death Song".

* TitleTrack: "In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death", but the title itself doesn't appear in the lyrics. It does in "Valentine's Day"

** In "Cruci-fiction In Space" part of the title is namedropped:

* UncertainDoom: In "Count to six and die", everything is set up for the last shot being fatal (we hear five clicks from a revolver used for Russian roulette), but before we hear the gun going off the song (and thus the album) ends.

The album came out when Manson was under fire for supposedly inspiring the [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} 1999 high school shootings in Columbine]], because the teens who committed the murders were fans of him. It later turned out that this rumor was false, but this didn't diminish the public outcry about the rock singer, whom many MoralGuardians saw as a "corruptor of youth". Manson felt demonized by the media and refused all interviews, even to defend himself, because he didn't want to contribute to the media frenzy.