Tankian’s second solo album was originally due in 2009. It is said to be more of a jazz and orchestral based sound. Tankian said of the second album:
KMFDM Records released Skold vs. KMFDM in early 2009, which was a collaboration that Skold and Konietzko conducted over the Internet while on separate continents from June to October 2008.
, and formed a project with Maandig and Atticus Ross dubbed How to Destroy Angels .
January 2009 saw the release of the single ” Galaxy “, with the band’s sixteenth studio album, Memento Mori , following on February 18. The album continues to explore the sound of “straight rock”, and Sakurai said that while the focus of his previous lyrics had been about death, for…
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In 2009 Reznor married Mariqueen Maandig
The penultimate track, “Into the Fire”, portrays the vocalist’s mental state on Christmas Day, wherein he attempted to contact Wood 158 times, cutting himself with a razorblade on the face or hands for each corresponding attempt.
Black Light Burns began touring with Combichrist in December 2008, and included two new songs in their set. One is “I Want You To” and the other is titled “How To Look Naked”. On the last night of Black Light Burns’ tour with Combichrist (before Borland began new commitments to…
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R&B singer Ne-Yo claimed in early December that he would hold writing sessions with the band’s frontman on new material, although Manson denied it, saying that he had “never even met Ne-Yo. I can assure him that he would not want to be associated with something this godless.”
Vileevils performed their final live date in December 2008 supporting Ned’s Atomic Dustbin before recording an unreleased album, which was cancelled prior to release in 2010. Some songs from this record were rerecorded for the 2011 Pop Will Eat Itself album New Noise Designed by a Sadist .
Tankian is also politically involved. Together with Tom Morello , he founded the organization Axis of Justice and often speaks publicly against violence and injustice in the world. Tankian released a new song “Fears” in November 2008 exclusively in support of Amnesty International ‘s Global Write-A-Thon.