MARILYN MANSON VS. TREVOR STRNAD, THE RAPE TRIAL

UPDATE: According to Lambgoat, this story is bunk. Oh well.

Is this summer’s Rockstar Mayhem Festival trek the nail in Marilyn Manson’s coffin? Manson appears to be fucked up beyond belief in the press he’s done this year, and by all accounts his headlining stage show is a complete wreck night after night (we didn’t even watch). And now this: Manson has threatened to “rape” Black Dahlia Murder frontman Trevor Strnad’s face at a recent fan meet-and-greet in Florida.

Reports the New Zealand Herald:

The incident erupted as Marilyn was signing autographs for fans at a meet-and-greet in Florida, US, when Strnad shouted: “Welcome to the freak show,” prompting Marilyn to write “I hate those ****s” on the tablecloth in front of a fan.

The self-styled ‘Antichrist Superstar’ made a comment about wanting to “rape” Trevor’s face before swinging a punch at him. Security then intervened to break the fight up.

I’m sure there’s some background beef that precipitated this fracas, and being the metal paparazzi that we are, we ask that anyone with such information kindly come forward (you may remain anonymous if you wish). But regardless of the facts, we’re wont to side with Trevor Strnad. The guy is hilarious and was probably making a joke at an easy target, and he seemed like a pretty level-headed chap when we interviewed him a couple of weeks ago.

Round 2, after these messages…

-VN

[Thanks: Chris A.]