Marilyn Manson - In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death [Lyrics]

Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) is the fourth full-length studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson, released in November 2000 through Nothing and Interscope Records. The album marked a return to the industrial metal style of the band’s earlier efforts, after the modernized glam rock sound of Mechanical Animals. As their first release following the Columbine High School massacre of April 20, 1999, Holy Wood served as Marilyn Manson’s rebuttal to the accusations leveled against them in the wake of that incident. The band’s frontman, Marilyn Manson, described the record as “a declaration of war“. A rock opera concept album, it is the third and final instalment in a trilogy that includes Antichrist Superstar and Mechanical Animals. After its release, Manson divulged that the over-arching story within the trilogy is presented in reverse chronological order; Holy Wood, therefore, begins the story, followed by Mechanical Animals and concluding with Antichri