Marilyn Manson – One Assassination Under God Chapter 1 – Target Exclusive O-Card Compact Disc

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Marilyn Manson – One Assassination Under God Chapter 1 – Target Exclusive O-Card Compact Disc

One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1 is Marilyn Manson’s twelfth studio album, a nine-song return built around themes of public judgment, destruction, mortality, performance, and survival. Released in 2024 through Nuclear Blast, the record uses dense industrial rock, gothic atmosphere, heavy guitar, and carefully staged quiet to create a compact dramatic arc. The chapter designation suggests continuation, but this disc functions as a complete album sequence, beginning with a title track that establishes its ceremonial scale and ending with an extended reckoning.

“One Assassination Under God” opens slowly and deliberately, treating accusation and spectacle as intertwined forces. “No Funeral Without Applause” continues the interest in the audience surrounding destruction, while “Nod If You Understand” brings a sharper, more aggressive pulse. Manson’s writing has long examined the relationship between celebrity, religion, violence, and consumption; here those subjects are filtered through a voice more concerned with consequence and endurance than youthful provocation alone.

“As Sick as the Secrets Within” provides the album’s central statement about what remains hidden and what secrecy does to the person carrying it. Its gradual build allows melody and atmosphere to lead before the arrangement expands. “Sacrilegious” answers with a more direct industrial-rock attack, using religious language as theater and confrontation. The contrast demonstrates the record’s control of pace: quieter songs are not pauses between heavier ones but part of the same tension between confession, image, and defense.

“Death Is Not a Costume” turns the album’s visual preoccupations toward mortality, refusing to treat consequence as another outfit that can be removed after the performance. “Meet Me in Purgatory” occupies a transitional space, neither absolution nor final punishment, while “Raise the Red Flag” brings the program back to a forceful, declarative mode. Guitars, electronic layers, and vocal distortion support the theatrical frame, yet several tracks rely on restraint enough for the words and phrasing to remain prominent.

The closing “Sacrifice of the Mass” stretches beyond the compact structures around it and gives the record a somber conclusion. Its title combines ritual and cost, drawing together the album’s religious imagery and concern with public consumption. Rather than resolving every question, the song leaves Chapter 1 suspended between judgment and continuation. The nine-track length helps the album feel concentrated; recurring images return often enough to form a coherent world without being diluted across an oversized program.

This Target-exclusive compact disc includes the complete nine-song album in a retailer-specific O-card package. The exact UPC identifies the Nuclear Blast edition released November 22, 2024, rather than the standard CD or vinyl variants. The outer card is part of the collectible configuration and should remain with the jewel case. It is intended for listeners who want the album’s full sequence in compact-disc format and collectors seeking the Target packaging variation of the first One Assassination Under God chapter.

Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic

Track Listing

1. One Assassination Under God
2. No Funeral Without Applause
3. Nod If You Understand
4. As Sick as the Secrets Within
5. Sacrilegious
6. Death Is Not a Costume
7. Meet Me in Purgatory
8. Raise the Red Flag
9. Sacrifice of the Mass