Sympathy For The Devil: Marilyn Manson

BRIAN WARNER took the long, hard road out of hell (Canton, Ohio, to be exact) to emerge in 1994 on Portrait of an American Family as Marilyn Manson – bandleader of what presidential hopeful Senator Joe Lieberman once called "perhaps the sickest group ever promoted by a mainstream record company." At the apex of his antihero popularity – the '96 creative benchmark Antichrist Superstar – Manson was as reviled by conservatives as anyone this side of (early) Ice Cube or (early) Eminem.