{"product_id":"one_assassination_under_god_chapter_2","title":"One Assassination Under God (Chapter 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarilyn Manson’s One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 continues the musical and thematic direction of its 2024 predecessor, combining industrial rock, gothic atmosphere, post-punk, and dark electronic textures. Released through Nuclear Blast in August 2026, the nine-track album again pairs Manson with collaborator Tyler Bates, whose cinematic production balances heavy guitars with spacious synthesizers and carefully controlled tension. Manson’s delivery shifts between low, ominous singing, spoken passages, and abrasive outbursts, while the arrangements favor sustained dread and melodic detail as much as outright aggression. Compared with Chapter 1, it is a more shadowy, reflective companion piece rather than a dramatic stylistic reinvention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSongs such as “Unalive,” “Don’t Answer the Door,” “Front Toward Enemy,” and “Lucifer’s Teardrop” develop a world of paranoia, hostility, wounded identity, and defiance, with horror imagery serving as a framework for personal upheaval. “Don’t Answer the Door” particularly highlights Bates’s suspense-building instincts, while “The Arsonist,” “Exit Wound,” and the closing “Enantiomorph” carry the record toward its darker conclusions. The album’s strength lies in the contrast between confrontational vocals and controlled, atmospheric songwriting: it draws on familiar elements of Manson’s catalogue without simply recreating his earlier records, presenting the two One Assassination Under God releases as connected perspectives on damage, survival, and reconstruction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album - Green Blue Marble Vinyl","offer_id":67663105491258,"sku":"39964","price":40.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album - Indie Excl. Pink Red Swirl Vinyl","offer_id":67663106081082,"sku":"39965","price":40.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD \/ Album - Indie Excl. O-Card Jewel Case","offer_id":67663111487802,"sku":"39966","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD \/ Album - Indie Excl. Jewel Case","offer_id":67663113879866,"sku":"39967","price":21.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-10-09_at_2.04.27_PM.jpg?v=1791569553","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/one_assassination_under_god_chapter_2","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}