Marilyn Manson Signs to Label, Teases Music Amid Abuse Allegations

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(Trigger warning: This article contains descriptions of domestic violence, sexual and physical abuse.)

Marilyn Manson has signed a record deal with indie metal label Nuclear Blast. billboard has confirmed.

In a statement sent to billboardThe label said it “heralds a new phase in the career of this legendary metal artist” but declined to provide further details on the nature of the deal. On Wednesday (May 15), the label shared a video of Manson on Instagram that appeared to announce new music.

Rolling Stone was the first to report the signing.

The news comes more than three years after Manson (born Brian Warner) was fired from his previous record label, Loma Vista Recordings, after his former girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood and several other women accused the rock musician of sexual abuse. As a result of the allegations, Manson was also fired by his agency CAA and his long-time manager Tony Ciulla.

After previously disclosing that she was sexually abused by an unnamed perpetrator, Wood named Manson as the perpetrator in a statement on Instagram on February 1, 2021, in which she shared that the rocker began “grooming” her. When she was a teenager she was “terribly abused” for years. After she went public, at least a dozen other women came forward with similar allegations, including three other former friends: game of Thrones Starring Esme Bianco, Ashley Morgan Smithline and Jane Doe. Manson’s former personal assistant Ashley Walters also accused him of sexual assault.

Following the allegations, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department opened a criminal investigation into reports of domestic violence committed by Manson between 2009 and 2011. The findings were presented to the L.A. District Attorney’s Office in September 2022, as prosecutors at the time said they needed more evidence before they could consider criminal charges.

Manson was also sued by several of his alleged victims, including Bianco, Walters, the Jane Doe, Smithline and a second Jane Doe who claimed Manson sexually assaulted her when she was a minor. The lawsuits filed by two of the women – Walters and Smithline – were subsequently dismissed, while Manson settled out of court with Bianco and the first Jane Doe. Smithline later retracted her allegations, claiming that Wood and others had “manipulated” her to “publicly spread false allegations of abuse” against Manson. Last December, an appeals court reopened Walters’ case and ruled that the trauma she said she suffered may have caused her to suppress memories of the alleged abuse, allowing her to override California’s two-year statute of limitations.

Manson has denied all of the women’s allegations.

Although he hasn’t released an album since 2020 We are chaos, Manson’s career seems to be taking off. In March, he announced his first live dates in nearly five years, revealing that he and Russian deathcore band Slaughter to Prevail would embark on a 30-date arena/amphitheater tour with Five Finger Death Punch, starting in August begins.