Friday, July 13, 2012

Twins of Evil 2012 Tour (Zombie/Manson)

OK folks, buckle in for a shock rock summer!  Legendary rockers Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie have joined forces for their "Twins of Evil" tour.  This event will be featuring J-Devil (aka Johnathan Davis, KORN) as the opening act.  Davis getting everyone pumped up for the tour...

"To play alongside Zombie and Manson is going to be a fucking sinister night all around, and an unbelievable theatrical experience. I can't wait." -J-Devil


U.S. dates:

Sep. 28 - Desert Uprising Festival, Ashley Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ
Sep. 29 - 48 Hours Festival, Las Vegas, NV
Oct. 01 - USANA Amphitheatre, Salt Lake City, UT
Oct. 02 - 1st Bank Center, Denver, CO
Oct. 04 - Topeka Expo Center, Topeka, KS
Oct. 08 - Pershing Auditorium, Lincoln, NE
Oct. 09 - Verizon Wireless Center, Mankato, MN
Oct. 11 - Allstate Arena, Chicago, IL
Oct. 12 - DTE Energy Music Theatre, Detroit, MI
Oct. 13 - US Cellular Coliseum, Bloomington, IL
Oct. 15 - Covelli Center, Youngstown, OH
Oct. 16 - The Armory, Rochester, NY
Oct. 19 - Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ
Oct. 20 - Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT
Oct. 21 - Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, NH
Oct. 23 - Agganis Arena, Boston, MA
Oct. 25 - Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood, Atlanta, GA
Oct. 30 - Reliant Arena, Houston, TX
Oct. 31 – [to be announced], Dallas, TX



"Finally! Why did the most obvious tour take so long to happen? Who knows? Who cares? It's happening now.  If good taste is the chief enemy of great art, then we should be able to fill the Louvre with this fucking tour. Be prepared for something wicked this way a-coming." -Zombie

Zombie will be touring to promote not only his previous album Hellbilly Deluxe II, but also to showcase some new tunes he is said to be working on (scheduled for a 2013 release), as well as a remix album "Mondo Sex Head".  Check out the albums below:


1. White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65 (JDevil Number Of The Beast Remix)
2. Living Dead Girl (Photek Remix)
3. Let It All Bleed Out (Document One Remix)
4. Foxy Foxy - (Ki:Theory Remix)
5. White Zombie - More Human Than Human (Big Black Delta Remix)
6. Dragula (+++ Remix)
7. Pussy Liquor (Ki:Theory Remix)
8. Lords of Salem (Das Kaptial)
9. Never Gonna Stop (Drumcorps Acid Remix)
10. Superbeast (Kraddy Remix)
11. Devil's Hole Girls (Tobias Enhus Remix ft The Jane Cornish String Quartet)
12. Burn (The Bloody Beetroots Motherfucker Remix)
13. Mars Needs Women (Griffin Boice Remix)


1. Devil's Hole Girls and the Big Revolution
2. Jesus Frankenstein
3. Sick Bubblegum
4. What?
5. Theme for an Angry Red Planet
6. Mars Needs Women (without intro)
7. Werewolf, Baby
8. Everything Is Boring
9. Virgin Witch
10. Death and Destiny Inside the Dream Factory
11. Burn
12. Cease to Exist
13. Werewolf Women of the SS
14. Michael
15. The Man Who Laughs (new version)

(*reissued track listing)



Now obviously this has probably raised some questions about the relationships between former Manson members and their current positions in Rob Zombie.  Well, John 5 (via Metal Insider) gave some insight into the relationship between himself and MM:

MI: Not to make you say dirt or anything but is there one musician that you’ve had difficulty working with?

J5: "No, I don’t think that I’ve had difficulty working with any of them. I think the public portrays it as 'Oh, he had a hard time with Manson.' But I didn’t really at all, it was just portrayed that way. I haven’t really had a hard situation with any of them. With what people see on YouTube with Manson, I had a death in the family. I was a mess at that time, and a lot of people don’t know that. So that’s why certain things occurred."

Currently, Rob's lineup is as follows:

Rob Zombie – vocals (1997–current)
John 5 – guitar, backing vocals (2005–current)
Piggy D. – bass guitar, backing vocals (2006–current)
Ginger Fish - drums, percussion (2011-current)



Now he recently conducted an interview with Nicole Powers from Suicide Girls and discussed the progression of his new album and a lil more insight into the writing process, plus the politics behind:


Q: How does this record differ from your previous ones? 

RZ: "I’m really into this record right now. We have a long way to go, but it’s the most free sounding record I feel like I’ve made in a long, long time. As time has gone on I feel at different moments in my career I’ve made a record that’s significant for that time period. With WHITE ZOMBIE, Astro-Creep was the significant record at that time for that band. Then the next one was Hellbilly Deluxe, my first solo record. You make other records and they’re cool and they’re good, they have good songs, but you haven’t really turned the page to a new thing. I feel like this record is the beginning of the next phase of what I’m doing. It’s just a big crazy live sounding record. I just love it. It’s hard to describe, but every once in a while a creative vein opens up and you head off in a direction that’s just…you don’t question it because it doesn’t happen that often, let’s put it that way." 

Q: I guess if you think about too much, you’ll over analyze it and then you’ll fuck it up, so you almost don’t want to question it. 

RZ: "Yeah, I just like the idea of doing it right. Also, one of the things that I think is the reason for this freedom is, once you have success, whether you know it or not, you subconsciously want to achieve more success or maintain the success that you’ve had. So, obviously, if you write a hit song, you try to write other hit songs. That’s sort of the nature of the game. But, with the fact that nobody really buys records anymore, I’m not really sure what constitutes a hit record or a hit song. Those rules don’t quite apply anymore because you’re not going to sell millions and millions of records no matter what you do. It just doesn’t happen anymore really. So, because of that, you feel like, fuck it, who gives a shit? And because you feel that way, you almost feel like a new band does. You’re not chasing the dragon anymore, you’re just being creative and coming up with great stuff. And that’s usually when you do have hits, strangely enough, because you’re just creatively free at that moment." 


You can read the rest of the interview here.

European dates:

Nov. 26 - London, UK
Nov. 27 - Manchester, UK
Nov. 28 - Glasgow SECC, UK
Nov. 29 - Birmingham, UK
Dec. 01 - Luxembourg
Dec. 02 - Bochum, Germany
Dec. 03 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dec. 05 - Stockholm, Sweden
Dec. 06 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Dec. 08 - Vienna, Austria
Dec. 09 - Munich, Germany
Dec. 10 - Basel, Switzerland
Dec. 12 - Bologna, Italy


"I have sympathy for the Whore of Babylon that gave birth to these twins of evil, and this abomination of a tour.  There is no babysitter, and there is no repairing her womb. If Rob Zombie doesn't fuck you up, then I surely will. Hide all drugs and firearms… I'm coming to town..." -Manson


Manson has also gone through a couple of changes for his lineup in the past few years.  Here is what his roster currently has for this tour:

Marilyn Manson – lead vocals (since 1989)
Twiggy Ramirez – guitars (since 2009), bass guitar (1993–2002, 2008)
Fred Sablan – bass guitar (since 2010)
Jason Sutter - drums (since 2012)

Manson will also be touring in support of his latest album "Born Villain", seen below:


1. Hey, Cruel World...
2. No Reflection
3. Pistol Whipped
4. Overneath the Path of Misery
5. Slo-Mo-Tion
6. The Gardener
7. The Flowers of Evil
8. Children of Cain
9. Disengaged
10. Lay Down Your Goddamn Arms
11. Murderers Are Getting Prettier Every Day
12. Born Villain
13. Breaking the Same Old Ground

Bonus track:
14. You're So Vain (featuring Johnny Depp)



More dates will be announced in the coming weeks so standby for further destruction!

2 comments:

  1. where is St. louis? add it to the list

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  2. Bummer that these are the only dates that been added thus far...hopefully more to come. If you get wind of extra dates being added, send em our way! :-)

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