Scott's Metal Track of the Day - The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles

Today's Metal Track is The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles by Marilyn Manson. This is off of his most recent album, The Pale Emperor, which was released earlier this year. This is the best track off of the album in my opinion and it was originally slated to be the album title.

The song compares Manson's career with the German folklore character Faust who sold his soul to become a rock star. In that tale, Faust made a pact with the Devil in order to gain knowledge and magic powers. The Devil sent a demon named Mephistopheles as his representative to deal with Faust. At the end of the deal, the Devil would claim Faust's soul and he would be eternally damned.

Manson considers this album to be his "payment in full" claiming that his last few albums "lacked focus". He stated that since Holy Wood he had "not made something with the sheer utter fearlessness and anger and force of before."