Marilyn Manson gave up drinking absinthe after being seriously injured in 2017 when a giant pair of pistols from the stage set fell on him during a show at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom. Despite having surgery, Manson avoided taking painkillers and gave up absinthe because “it clouds the frontal lobe.” He told Zane Lowe on his Apple Music show, “A lot of people find it (absinthe) to be artistically enhancing, but it also it bends your brain a bit sometimes in a bad way. Where you are convinced that what you’re doing is really great when it’s just the drug telling you that. That’s what I realised a while back . . .”
After leaving the hospital post-surgery, Manson said he also left the painkillers behind. He said, “Being that I had taken them in the past which increased it to recreational use I didn’t want to fall prey to that. So I just didn’t do it . . .”
Manson released his We Are Chaos album earlier this month. The new 10-song project is the followup to his 2017 Heaven Upside Down album.