Surely angered by the attention being focused elsewhere, he decided to break from Reznor and industrial metal with his third album, Mechanical Animals. Stephen Thomas Erlewine: ‘Antichrist Superstar performed its intended purpose - it made Marilyn Manson internationally famous, a living realization of his fictional “antichrist superstar.” He had gained the attention of not only rock fans, but the public at large however, many critics bestowed their praise not on the former Brian Warner, but on Trent Reznor, Manson’s mentor and producer.
