The Pale Emperor is the ninth studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson, released on January 15, 2015. In place of their usual industrial rock style, the album features a sparser, blues-rock-influenced sound. It was the band's first album to be co-produced by score composer Tyler Bates, who had met frontman Marilyn Manson (pictured) through their mutual involvement in the television series Californication. It was released through the singer's Hell, etc. label to generally positive reviews, with several publications referring to it as the band's best album in over a decade. It went on to appear on multiple best-album lists for 2015. It was also a commercial success, debuting at number eight on the Billboard 200 with the band's highest opening week sales since 2007. The album was dedicated to Manson's mother, who died of Alzheimer's disease during its production. To promote the record, the band embarked on The Hell Not Hallelujah Tour, which ran for almost two years along with two co-headlining tours: The End Times with The Smashing Pumpkins, and a summer 2016 tour with Slipknot.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1759:
The British Museum in London, today containing one of the largest and most comprehensive collections in the world, opened to the public in Montagu House, Bloomsbury. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum
1865:
American Civil War: The Union Army captured Fort Fisher, the last seaport of the Confederacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Fort_Fisher
1937:
Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Corunna_Road
1967:
The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_I
1991:
Elizabeth II, as Queen of Australia, signed letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross_for_Australia
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
cut-out: 1. A hole or space produced when something is removed by cutting. Also attributive. 2. A piece cut out of something 3. A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), often displayed for promotional purposes; a standee. 4. A trusted middleman or intermediary, especially in espionage. […] 5. (electronics) Any of several devices that halts the flow of a current, especially an electric current; a trip-switch or trip. 6. (telegraphy) A switch that changes the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit. […] 7. (US, agriculture) The separation of a group of cattle from a herd; the place where they are collected. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cut-out
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live. So we find ourselves caught in a messed-up world. The problem is with man himself and man's soul. We haven't learned how to be just and honest and kind and true and loving. And that is the basis of our problem. The real problem is that through our scientific genius we've made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we've failed to make of it a brotherhood. And the great danger facing us today is not so much the atomic bomb that was created by physical science. Not so much that atomic bomb that you can put in an aeroplane and drop on the heads of hundreds and thousands of people — as dangerous as that is. But the real danger confronting civilization today is that atomic bomb which lies in the hearts and souls of men, capable of exploding into the vilest of hate and into the most damaging selfishness — that's the atomic bomb that we've got to fear today. --Martin Luther King, Jr. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.