Holy Wood released

Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) was released on November 11, 2000. Produced by the band’s lead singer with Dave Sardy , the album also features programming and pre-production editing by Bon Harris of Nitzer Ebb . The band wrote over 100 songs for the album, which was a return to the darker, more abrasive sound of Antichrist Superstar . Much of its content was written in response to the Columbine massacre, with the album’s third single, ” The Nobodies “, directly referring to the shootings. Described by the band’s frontman as the third part of a trilogy which began with Antichrist Superstar and continued in Mechanical Animals , its overarching theme is an exploration of the relationship between death and fame in American culture, and its lyrics and artwork contain many references to John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald , John Lennon and Mark David Chapman , and Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth . The ” Guns, God and Government Tour ” elaborated on Holy Wood’ s central theme, and with its logo – a rifle and handguns arranged to resemble the Christian cross – Manson made no attempt to conceal what he saw as the source of that fascination.