Marilyn Manson covers The Doors classic The End

By Scott Munro
( Metal Hammer )
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Marilyn Manson reveals his take on The Doors epic 1967 track The End - and launches video based on his watercolour painting

Marilyn Manson (opens in new tab) has released his cover of The Doors (opens in new tab) classic 1967 track The End.

The vocalist, who played the original song over the PA at the end of his North American summer shows with Rob Zombie (opens in new tab), has also revealed a video for the Shooter Jennings-produced track, with the visuals created by Zev Deans and based on an original watercolour painting by Manson.

The End is also available to purchase (opens in new tab), while a limited edition picture disc is now available to pre-order (opens in new tab). Only 2000 will be released and it'll be available from March 6, 2020.

The End is the second cover released by Manson in recent months. In October, he launched a Tim Mattia-directed video for his take on American folk song God’s Gonna Cut You Down (opens in new tab), which first appeared on the soundtrack to the 2017 film 24 Hours To Live.

In July, Manson spoke about his upcoming studio album which will be the follow-up to 2017’s Heaven Upside Down.

And in September, it was revealed that Manson had landed a role in the third season of American Gods, which will will premiere on the Starz network (opens in new tab) in the US in 2020 and an internationally on Amazon Prime (opens in new tab).

The show based on Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel of the same name (opens in new tab) stars Ian McShane, Emily Browning, Ricky Whittle and Gillian Anderson – with Manson lined up to play Johan Wengren, the lead singer of Viking death metal band Blood Death.

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.