Dead to the World Tour

In 1996, America had grown culturally divided. The Baby boomer generation aligned itself with the political Right during the Presidency of Ronald Reagan. In 1992, former US presidential nominee and paleoconservative Pat Buchanan declared a "war for the soul of America" against what he deemed moral degradation being promoted by the ideals of political Liberalism. A year later, Reagan-era Secretary of Education William Bennett feared contemporary pop culture had become a corrupt influence that turned American youth away from traditional values and co-founded the Conservative advocacy group Empower America (now known as FreedomWorks). Similar to the non-partisan Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), Empower America sought to discourage what it deemed objectionable entertainment by passing legislation to punish the media companies promoting them. The Presidency of Bill Clinton was also under pressure from the United States House of Representatives following the successful takeover of the House by Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1994. To appease these factions, Clinton embraced a third way-style of governance that syncretized the socially conservative policies of the Republican Party into his own. In 1996 Bennett coauthored ''Body Count: Moral Poverty—and how to Win America's War Against Crime and Drugs'' alongside criminologist John J. DiIulio Jr. and former US drug czar John P. Walters. The authors argued the pop culture of the 1990s had turned the Millennial cohort (especially children of color) into an ultraviolent breed of amoral "superpredators"—"fatherless, Godless, and jobless" youths that are "radically impulsive, [and] brutally remorseless". Due to their sheer numbers (40 million below the age of 10—the largest in decades) the authors warned this cohort would soon unleash an epidemic of crime that dwarf the 1994 spike in the juvenile violent crime rate (despite its precipitous decline prior to the book's publication). DiIulio predicted America would soon face, "elementary school youngsters who pack guns instead of lunches" with "absolutely no respect for human life and no sense of the future." The book sparked panic and provoked the introduction of H.R.3565 - Violent Youth Predator Act of 1996 before the 104th United States Congress by Rep. Bill McCollum of Florida and cosponsored by 19 Republicans and 2 Democrats. Clinton pledged during his 1996 re-election campaign to tackle the threat with a law and order-style crackdown on teen behaviour dubbed "Order and Discipline." This volatile climate coincided with the recording of Antichrist Superstar. Buoyed by the positive reception to their 1995 Eurythmics cover "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" the band hunkered down with mentor and producer Trent Reznor in Reznor's recording studio in New Orleans and began work on their sophomore album. ==Promotion and Nights of Nothing==

Following the conclusion of the recording sessions for Antichrist Superstar, acrimony between the band, Reznor, and Reznor's vanity label, Nothing Records, was at its peak. The band grudgingly agreed to fulfill their contractual obligation to promote the record, a little over a month prior to release, by performing on the second evening of the final leg of Nine Inch Nails' Self Destruct Tour at the Irving Plaza, on September 5, 1996. Dubbed Nights of Nothing, the show was a Reznor-organized industry showcase of his label's talent roster. Prior to the concert that evening frontman Marilyn Manson and bassist Twiggy Ramirez appeared on a special episode, dedicated to the showcase, of the MTV show 120 Minutes titled "120 Minutes of Nothing" for an interview about their album with host Matt Pinfield. They also discussed the dismissal of guitarist Daisy Berkowitz during the recording and his replacement, Zim Zum. While performing the final song of that evening's five-song set, "1996", Manson threw a weighted microphone stand at the drum kit then walked offstage. The stand accidentally hit drummer Ginger Fish on the side of the head sending him face first to the floor and rendering him unconscious. Fish managed to crawl a few inches before he collapsed and was carried away by road crew to the hospital. On September 12, 1996 MTV announced the launch date of the tour and the release date of the album. The tour launched on October 3, 1996, five days ahead of the album's official release date, on October 8, 1996. ==First leg (North American/South American/European tour 1996)==

Stage show The band is known for their bombastic and controversial stage theatrics involving a massive production. In his tour diary, Manson noted the difference in venues and energy from their previous outings compared to the Dead to the World Tour. Manson often wore his signature costume consisting of an elastic back brace, a jockstrap over a G-string, sheer stockings, leather straps around his calves and heavy-soled black shoes. The shows consisted of multiple set changes including a crumbling church vitral of Jesus depicting a statuary of figures impaled on spears and accompanied by a set of long stairs from which Manson walked down in order to perform the opening piece, "Angel with the Scabbed Wings". The band played while wearing chromed stahlhelms. In his autobiography The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Manson described the performance as simultaneously both social commentary and self-critique meant to highlight the thin line between celebrity and demagoguery. Manson dismissed the rumor as "probably hopeful parents thinking that they would have been ridding the world of Marilyn Manson, but unfortunately I plan on being around a bit longer to make things uncomfortable for everyone." The evening's performance was also delayed for an hour due to a bomb threat necessitating an explosives sweep of the venue by a K-9 unit's bomb-sniffing dogs. Manson claimed in a later interview with Rolling Stone he was arrested that evening which was disputed by the St. Petersburg Police Department. Europe On December 11, 1996 William Bennett organized a bipartisan press conference, along with Senator Joseph Lieberman and Secretary of Pennsylvania State C. Delores Tucker, wherein they questioned MCA—the owner of Interscope—president Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s ability to head the label competently whilst profiting from "profanity-laced" albums by artists such as Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg and Marilyn Manson. Tucker had previously called the band's 1995 EP Smells Like Children the "dirtiest, nastiest porno record directed at children that has ever hit the market." The day after the press conference, Snoop Dogg met with Manson after the latter's first UK stop at the London Forum on December 12, 1996. Snoop Dogg's label, Death Row Records, confirmed the two frontmen discussed plans to collaborate on a rap rock remix of "The Beautiful People". Snoop Dogg was also on tour in England to promote his own 1996 album Tha Doggfather and was first introduced to Manson at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards by a representative for Interscope Records. Snoop Dogg later told Spin he planned to have Manson do a guest appearance in his next record. ==Second leg (North American tour 1996–1997)==

A week after promotion and ticket sales began for the band's January 11, 1997 concert at the Utah State Fairpark, the CEO of the venue, John Whitaker, cancelled the band's engagement on December 19, 1997. The show was the band's first concert in more than three years at a major Salt Lake City venue since Manson tore a Book of Mormon apart onstage at the Delta Center (during their stint as support act on Nine Inch Nails' Self Destruct Tour) in protest to being banned from performing by the latter venue's management, who were offended by the band's tour merchandise. According to Whitaker, he could cancel the concert because the tour promoter, Scott Arnold and Dave Merkely, never signed the AFM Performance Agreement Contract. Eight days later a group of Marilyn Manson fans who had already purchased tickets, led by an 18-year-old plaintiff identified in court filings only as "Armed", obtained the services of attorney Brian Barnard and filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Utah on December 27, 1996 against the state of Utah on the ground that the cancellation violated their First Amendment constitutional right to hear musical expression at the concert. Deseret News reported 2,400 people braved the weather to attend the concert. During the show, an audience member kept aiming a laser rifle–scope at Manson. An aggravated Manson dared the audience member to shoot him and stood on top of the monitor speakers to "give [him] a better target." In order to "give people in the community an opportunity to have an alternative" to the concert, the Caldwell First Christian Church organized a show, dubbed the "Holy War Concert", of two local Christian rock bands. The band's February 2 concert at the Pan American Center on the campus of the New Mexico State University in Las Cruces was cancelled on January 31, 1997 due to the venue's inability to provide ample security for the event. School administrators blamed a contractual issue with local police for their inability to supplement their meager campus squad while the police department countered that they haven't patrolled school concerts in some time and that the university should have contracted a private security firm instead. The band's February 4, 1997 show in Lubbock, Texas's Fair Park Coliseum at South Plains Fairgrounds was met by protests from a group of 75 religious activists denouncing the band for their alleged endorsement of "violence and Satanism." The protesters were met by Manson showgoers outside the venue and erupted in a verbal confrontation. Later that same evening, Manson wrote in his tour diary that paramedics refused to treat him with oxygen for exhaustion. They explained to him that they didn't agree with his morality and therefore didn't deserve their services. Manson sarcastically quipped in the diary, "God has somehow managed to find his way into the Hippocratic oath ... Apparently Jesus saves, but the paramedics here don't." The band was warned to expect similar resistance heading into their next stop in Oklahoma City. The school administration of Elmbrook Middle School in Milwaukee banned the "Marilyn Manson look" from school premises after a fight broke out between a faction of Marilyn Manson fans and "anti-Manson" students precipitated by antagonism over the Manson fans pretending to "cast spells" on the opposing group. Black lipstick, fishnet stockings, corpse paint, pentagram jewellery, and the band's T-shirts were prohibited thereafter. ==Third leg (Japan/Oceania Tour 1997)==

Japan While the band was in Japan for the Japanese leg of the Dead To The World Tour, MTV broke that Manson was involved in a project with Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan who, at the time, was involved with multiple projects of his own. There were no details provided but MTV noted that both frontmen became fast friends at the premiere screening of the 1997 Howard Stern film Private Parts in New York City. Manson wrote about meeting Corgan for the first time during the premiere at length in his tour diary. The reported joint project was never released although Corgan went on to serve as the band's unofficial music consultant for their next studio LP Mechanical Animals. Despite this, almost 21 years after the Private Parts premiere, keyboardist Madonna Wayne Gacy (who left the band in the intervening years) disputed "arrogant-yet-whiny ass" Corgan's involvement with Mechanical Animals. He further disparaged the friendship between the frontmen and went on to describe Corgan as pretentious and "thinks he's Brian Eno." The show started an hour late and ended abruptly, after only 45 minutes, when Manson was rushed to the hospital in the middle of their performance of "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)." MTV initially reported that Manson fainted onstage and slipped on a sharp object but a representative of the concert promoter, Goldenvoice, clarified that Manson had accidentally pierced an artery while lacerating his chest with the shards of the lightbulb he smashed on the ground at the beginning of the song. He received six stitches. The protesters credited their prayer vigil with the show's abrupt end. Rumor quickly circulated in local press that the vocalist tried to commit suicide onstage by cutting his wrists open during the show which the band's manager refuted. He assured MTV that Manson was recovering. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin praised the show and noticed, "The band's noisy, but polished sound on recordings translated effectively on stage. Gone were all the weird synthetic effects—or maybe they were drowned by the guitars? All that was left was rhythm. Pounding rhythm. Primitive rhythm. Rhythm with which to slam all those around you." The next leg of the tour, exclusively arena shows, commenced as planned on April 5, 1997 at the La Crosse Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin. ==Fourth leg (Arena tour 1997)==

Having failed to convince city officials to cancel the band's April 25, 1997 concert at the state-owned Wendler Arena in Saginaw, Michigan, Reverend Dana Wilson of the Saginaw Valley Community Church presented the Saginaw City Council on April 9, 1997 with a petition, signed by over 20,000 signatories, to legislate the same rating system and age restrictions on concerts as the MPAA Film Rating System and TV Rating System. Christian protesters who claimed the band "promoted devil worship" greeted concertgoers outside of the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum on the night of April 17, 1997. WTLV-12 reported some of the concertgoers engaged in debate with the protesters while "others called it harassment." The protesters tried to preach to the concertgoers as they entered the Coliseum where they were frisked by security guards. By the band's request, no spiked chains, necklaces or collars were allowed inside the venue. During the concert, Manson invited the audience to spit on him. He spat on them in return. The show also featured Manson tearing an American flag apart. Across the parking lot from the Coliseum, the Christian protesters organized a concert of local Christian rock bands at Wolfson Park. The concert played late into the night, well after the Manson show ended, "in the hope that some of the Marilyn Manson fans would wander over there after this concert and listen to some of their music and hear their messages." Bobb argued no deposit to lease the intended venue, the 13,500-capacity Richmond Coliseum, had been received by the City Council of Richmond nor, borrowing an argument from John Whitaker, had the contract with the band's concert promoter been signed. Hence, Richmond was under no legal obligation to stage the performance. The concert's promoters acknowledged the show's fate was uncertain. With only 2,000 of the 9,000 available tickets sold, the promoters met with the city council to salvage the show. Later that day, the City Council ordered the Coliseum to cancel the show. The next day, Manson and Ramirez announced they had entered studio sessions with Rasputina to record a remix of the latter's song "Transylvanian Concubine" off of their debut release Thanks for the Ether and had been enjoying a congenial working relationship during the tour. The band's attorney, First Amendment specialist Paul Cambria, followed the next day by threatening the city of Richmond with a prior restraint (i.e. censorship) and civil rights lawsuit of his own. After issuing a press release titled, "Statement of the New Jersey Sports Authority Management Regarding Marilyn Manson and the Ozzfest Concert", on April 18, 1997 negotiations between the annual heavy metal festival Ozzfest and the operator of Giants Stadium, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA), broke down. The festival's founder and organizer, Ozzy Osbourne, responded with a statement calling the decision "blackmail" and an abridgement of the First Amendment. Osbourne resolved to keep the band on the roster and stated, "nobody has the right to tell me who I can perform with." Cambria immediately filed a freedom of speech lawsuit against the NJSEA on behalf of Manson and concert promoters Delsener/Slater Enterprises Ltd. and Artie Festival Inc. Republican State Senator Mark McDaniel of North Carolina participated in the protests and printed three hundred leaflets calling the concert, "objectionable for children", which he and a handful of volunteers handed out to passing motorists around the coliseum. McDaniel also gave a speech at an alternative concert, that featured three local Christian rock bands, held by the local First Assembly of God. The alternative concert was organized around the same time it was announced the Dead to the World Tour was coming to town and was meant to counter the Manson show by offering an "alternative" to concertgoers. Following a private, two hour deliberation with the city attorney on April 21, 1997, the City Council of Richmond decided to overturn City Manager Robert C. Bobb's decision to stop the band's May 10 concert. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that the city council determined that the city wouldn't be able to withstand the lawsuit the ACLU of Virginia threatened them with on Manson's behalf. The executive director of the Richmond ACLU, Kent Willis, noted, "It's clear that [Bobb], in announcing the cancellation, initially had not consulted the city attorney. Had he done that, all of this might have been avoided." Speaking about the defeat, Richmond Mayor Larry E. Chavis pointed out that he authorized the city to employ other means to halt the show including offering the band an undisclosed amount of cash to skip the Richmond date, which the band refused. Ticket sales recommenced later that day after the city council received assurance from the band's representatives that the group will abide by all applicable laws. However, the city council still vowed to monitor the show and announced they would prosecute "any violation of law by any party during the performance." Three days later on April 24, 1997 plaintiffs Ozzy Osbourne, Marilyn Manson, Delsener/Slater Enterprises Ltd. and Artie Festival Inc. consolidated their lawsuits against the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA). The four plaintiffs, under Cambria's representation, filed a preliminary injunction in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey to compel the defendants (the NJSEA) to permit the concert and reinstate ticket sales. The next day, Cambria took aim at the American Family Association (AFA) and struck back with a four-page cease and desist letter against founder Dr. Donald E. Wildmon and Gulf Coast chapter president David Rogers for "disseminating false and libelous statements throughout the states and foreign countries" against the frontman and his bandmembers through its website, the AFA Journal and automated answering machine. The letter targeted, in particular, the pair of affidavits, from January 17, 1997 and January 24, 1997, signed by an anonymous pair of teenagers and published by the AFA that alleged the band engaged in satanic worship, child sacrifice, animal murder, bestiality, pedophilia, gang rape and drug distribution during their concerts and demanded the AFA publish a retraction, publicly apologize, and disclose the identities of the alleged affiants. The letter threatened to seek "all available legal remedies, as well as compensatory and punitive damages" against the organization. MTV were present during the Oklahoma concert, that the affiants claimed to have attended, and reported they did not witness any of the alleged acts. They further pointed out the security guards were employed by the venue, and not by Manson. The next day, Federal District Court Judge Alfred M. Wolin of Newark, New Jersey ruled that the NJSEA, a government agency, had no right to interfere with the plaintiff's contract or ticket sales and granted the injunction which effectively guaranteed the band "right of passage" to perform at the stadium with the Ozzfest lineup. The case Marilyn Manson, Inc v. New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority found that the defendants had "violated [the] plaintiffs' rights under the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and the corresponding provisions of the New Jersey Constitution." Judge Wolin lectured the defendants on the meaning of the First Amendment and "permanently enjoined and restrained [the defendants] from prohibiting [the plaintiffs] ... from presenting the OzzFest '97 concert performance." Wolin further noted that "the NJSEA's requirement that all performers sign a contract allowing the NJSEA to regulate the morality of concert programs may be an unreasonable restriction on access to even a non-public forum. Plaintiffs argue that the NJSEA's authority to reject any performer based on inadequately defined guidelines is an unconstitutional prior restraint on speech." The NJSEA vowed to appeal the court ruling. That evening the band recorded their performance of "Antichrist Superstar" at The Meadows in Hartford, Connecticut. The recording was also included in Remix & Repent. The game laid out the band's US tour itinerary, and quizzed players on the events that happened before, during, and after each stop. During the Richmond concert the following evening, the Richmond Times-Dispatch estimated "a hundred-plus" Christian protesters, including Dr. Paul Richardson of the Christ Worship Center and evangelist Shirley Jackson, descended on the concert. The protesters accosted concertgoers with slogans like "God loves you" and "If you don't repent, you will die in a lake of fire!" They also handed out free cans of Surge as they urged concertgoers to leave. An ad hoc group called Citizens for Decency in America was also present and held banners that said, "He's [Jesus] coming soon" and "Hell is Real". The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported concertgoers either mocked the protesters or engaged them in debate about faith and free speech while two local radio stations situated at the 7th Street entrance to the Coliseum, alternative rock WRXL-FM and urban gospel WBZU-FM, engaged in "battling decibels" as they each tried to drown out one another. The city council followed through on their promise to monitor the show and distributed undercover members of the local vice squad among the audience. Manson led the audience to an expletive-filled lampoon of the City Manager, as he took the stage, for trying to cancel the show before he wiped the American flag on his ass then derided both the vice cops in the audience and the Christian protesters outside the venue. The Richmond Times-Dispatch described the show as "one of the starkest culture clashes in Coliseum history" MTV remarked of Manson's legal battles, "[the band] has become a political punching bag for showboating local officials across the country this year." Rasputina travelled to Europe with the band and continued as opening act for the tour's pair of festival dates in the Netherlands. ==Fifth leg (European festival tour 1997)==

Controversy finally followed the band outside of the United States. By now a globally recognized household name, a group of 400 Welsh Christians unsuccessfully tried to put a stop to the band's May 19 concert at the Newport Civic Centre. Having failed that, the group picketed the band's concert. The group was organized by a local Welsh pastor named Ray Bevan, who is the father of 60 Ft. Dolls drummer Carl Bevan. The remix sessions for Rasputina's song "Transylvanian Concubine" concluded by the latter half of May. It was reported that Manson and Ramirez completed three versions of the track. A week later, it was reported that all three versions would be made available in an EP titled Transylvanian Regurgitations due in mid-June. Snoop Dogg met again with Manson during their Paris stop on May 29 at Le Bataclan. Manson recounted in his tour diary how Snoop Dogg, who was still on tour, reaffirmed his interest to work together on a project "and something involving marijuana." ==Sixth leg (Ozzfest 1997)==

==Seventh leg (Canadian tour 1997)==

A July 22 concert at La Luna in Portland, Oregon was canceled when the venue was unable to obtain insurance for the event. Their concert at Calgary's Max Bell Arena three days later was canceled by the owner of the venue, Larry Ryckman, who cited the band's reputation as justification for doing so. He was later successfully sued by the band's promoters for $66,000 in damages. An incident with the Toronto Police Service took place during their July 31, 1997 show at Toronto's Varsity Arena. MuchMusic's FAX reported the police warned Manson and his entourage backstage that if the band performed their rendition of Patti Smith's song "Rock N Roll Nigger", the frontman would be arrested for "promoting racial disharmony" under Canada's Hate speech laws. Manson recounted in his tour diary that, in an effort to "fuck with the police", he wore a peaked police cap during the encounter and had himself accompanied by his African-American friend, Corey, who "looks like he'll kick the shit out of anyone who's white" and his bodyguard, Aaron. When asked which song they had issue with, Manson recounted the ruse worked as the caucasian officer in charge "nervously mumbled" the offending song title "specifically so as not to offend Corey." Manson told FAX that he explained to the officer the song wasn't meant to be racist rather, "it's written on behalf of artists and musicians and people who feel they're on the outside of society—that they've been discriminated against for who they are or what they believe", and noted the irony that in being told what he can't sing the officer unwittingly engaged in the type of discrimination discussed by the song. ==Final leg (European/South American/Mexican tour 1997)==

Politically Incorrect appearance Manson appeared as a panelist alongside Florence Henderson, G. Gordon Liddy and Lakita Garth on ABC network's late-night political talk show Politically Incorrect with host Bill Maher. The episode aired on August 13, 1997 while the band was in Rome, Italy for their show at the Palaghiaccio di Marino. The panel discussed topics ranging from the "symbiotic relationship" between Christian groups and "whoever they're against", individualism, social perception, the history of Rock music controversy, music censorship, perspective, religious hypocrisy, violence perpetrated in the name of the Bible, personal responsibility and sexual repression. The episode was marked by a stark contrast between Garth's combative attitude and Manson's calm articulation. She recalled, "you know what? I look back—seriously, I look back at the early "Brady Bunch" days. I looked like the Antichrist. That hair and the skirt and the platforms, right?" Even Maher observed, "Mrs. Brady, I think we've made a love connection", prompting her to grab Manson's hand and joke "we're going to the prom together." 1997 MTV Video Music Awards performance The band took two weeks off following the last European show of the tour on August 24, 1997 at the Reading and Leeds Festivals. On September 4, 1997 the band flew to New York and performed "The Beautiful People" for the grand finale of the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards. The song had reached No.26 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and its music video was nominated at the show for Best Rock Video. South America, Mexico and the end of the tour At the launch of the annual music festival CMJ Music Marathon, the Sneaker Pimps expressed disappointment with result of their Spawn collaboration, "Long Hard Road Out of Hell." The group explained that, despite their distaste for heavy metal music, they saw the collaboration as an opportunity to, in Howe's words, "polish a turd." They claimed they were not invited to the song's final mixing then prevented from creating their own mix by not being provided a master tape. Howe dismissed the standalone single as "kind of dance meets metal or rock or whatever." Ali was more pointed in her criticisms. She said Manson's band "weren't very good" and called the song "crap." The following week, Manson took time off during the second evening of their show in Buenos Aires and responded through MTV Latino. He called the Sneaker Pimps "very confused individuals." He disputed their claim that they weren't issued a master recording, suggesting that they had created a remix for the song, but refused permission for it to appear on the single when they were informed it would appear as a b-side, instead of as the main single version. He also characterized their involvement as "a bit of a favor, in a sense, because we had already written the song, and I was interested in finding a girl to sing back-up vocals on it, and [they] were begging, asking to be involved with us. I thought they had a good single, and the girl's voice was great. When we worked on the song, I think they were a little upset, because there wasn't much for them to do because the song was already done." Manson also announced plans to shoot a music video for the song following the conclusion of the tour in Mexico City. The second to last show of the tour on September 14, 1997 at Santiago, Chile's Central Court National Stadium attracted protests from a bishop and a local trucker's union. The protesters alleged the band was promoting Satanism in the majority Catholic nation. ==Aftermath==

Eight days after the end of the tour former guitarist, Scott Putesky (aka Daisy Berkowitz), filed a lawsuit against the band, their lawyer, Nothing Records and the frontman for breach of contract and legal malpractice. The suit alleged wrongful dismissal and outstanding royalties. Putesky claimed he was discharged after a six-year tenure, which included helping start the band, with no warning during the recording of Antichrist Superstar. He said the band simply bought him a plane ticket home as a way of informing him his employment was terminated. The band's manager asserted that Putesky sent a letter of resignation and thought the departure was on amicable terms. ==Critical reception==

Reviews of the tour from music critics of the period were generally divided among political, religious and generational lines, with a few notable exceptions. Before the Salt Lake City show even commenced, the editorial board of The Salt Lake Tribune dismissed the band's songs as "profanity [laced] and anti-establishment swill" and likened allowing such "low-class entertainment" to perform at the Utah State Fairpark to "accommodating the Ku Klux Klan." Guided by that editorial slant, The Salt Lake Tribune writer Steven Brophy disparaged the actual concert. Seemingly disappointed with the absence of the band's alleged props and antics such as, "fluorescent sexual devices, on-stage nudity and simulated sex acts", Brophy dismissed the show as "tame, poorly done B-movie theatrics" and the band thus, "if the Sex Pistols were the original great rock n' roll swindle, then Marilyn Manson is the sequel." Scott Iwasaki of Deseret News shared similar sentiment going so far as to describe Manson as "the pretentious prince of industrial metal", the band as "uninspiring", and the bible-tearing portion of the performance, "been there, done that. C'mon guys, time for a new gimmick. This one's getting old." Both writers disdained the band's song catalog with the sole exception of their cover of Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", which they noted elicited a sing-along from the audience. While Brophy thought opening act L7 "outplayed Manson", Iwasaki was less enthusiastic and described their "slick choreography and power chords [as] nothing but Judas Priest leftovers." == Broadcasts and recordings ==

Due to "disagreements" between Nothing Records and its distributor, Interscope, Dead To The World and Remix & Repent were put on hold from release in 1997. It was finally launched on February 10, 1998 on VHS, documenting the infamous tour of the same name by Marilyn Manson. It contains primarily live performances but delves into backstage and archival footage of the band. Manson stated in November 2005 that he was interested in re-releasing Dead to the World and its follow-up God Is in the TV on DVD. Nothing has surfaced so far. Setlist The following list contains the most commonly played songs in the order they were most generally performed: • Intro • "Angel with the Scabbed Wings" • "Get Your Gunn" • "Cake and Sodomy" • "Dogma" • "Dried Up, Tied and Dead to the World" • "Tourniquet" • "Kinderfeld" • "My Monkey" • "Lunchbox" • "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" • "Minute of Decay" • "The Suck for Your Solution" • "Deformography" • "1999" • "Little Horn" • "Apple of Sodom" • "Cryptorchid" • "Antichrist Superstar" • "The Beautiful People" • "The Reflecting God" • "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" • "Mister Superstar" • "1996" • "Rock 'n' Roll Nigger" • "Misery Machine" • "Man That You Fear" ==Tour dates==

Cancelled or rescheduled shows ==Personnel==

• Marilyn Manson: Vocals, rhythm guitar (during Dried up, Tied and Dead to the World & The Minute of Decay), pan flute (during Kinderfeld) • Zim Zum: Guitar • Twiggy Ramirez: Bass • Madonna Wayne Gacy: Keyboards • Ginger Fish: Drums ==References==