Genre: Industrial Metal
Visuals: All of the album artwork has been created by the singer: Marilyn Manson. The front cover depicts the lead singer with a pair of wonky horns, accomplished with water colour paints. The image looks washed out and dirty.
The back cover is comparably cleaner with a plain black background, which the artists stands against due to the monochrome-white features and carefully constructed makeup: He looks like a woman from a film noire picture.
The inside book cover contains lyrics and credits, but the main picture of the artist which has been torn in two down the middle of his face, showing maybe some division or dysfunction is the artist's life or album; a broken man.
On the CD is a pinwheel made out of women's legs, wearing heels. It give the cover a sexual edge and objectifies parts of women's bodies. However it could also be argued that the repeated image of Manson's face is equal objectification, as he is a product which his fans would like to purchase.
Font: The font, for want of a better word, is gothic with lots of points and fairytale-esque flourishes. Some of the writing is bright red on a black background which ties in with the rock genre and is easily seen due to the bright contrast.
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