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Source	Rating
AllMusic
Chicago Tribune
CMJ	Positive
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Entertainment Weekly	B
The Great Rock Discography	8/10
Spin	8/10
Rolling Stone
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
Ultimate Guitar	9.5/10

Antichrist Superstar is the second studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson, released on October 8, 1996 by Nothing and Interscope Records. It was recorded at Nothing Studios in New Orleans and produced by the band's eponymous vocalist along with Sean Beavan, former Skinny Puppy member Dave Ogilvie and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. It is the band's last studio album to feature founding guitarist Daisy Berkowitz, who quit the band acrimoniously halfway through its recording.

A rock opera and a concept album, it was the first installment in a trilogy which included succeeding releases Mechanical Animals (1998) and Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) (2000). The band supported the album with the controversial "Dead to the World Tour", which was heavily criticized by elements of the Christian right. Nearly every North American venue the band visited during the tour was picketed by religious organizations, mainly as a result of unfounded, exaggerated claims of onstage drug abuse, bestiality, and satanic rituals including animal and human sacrifice.

Preceded by hit single "The Beautiful People", whose music video was nominated for three awards at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, the record was a critical and commercial success upon release. It debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, and went on to sell almost 2 million copies in the United States alone. As of 2011, worldwide album sales have surpassed over 7 million copies. Lorraine Ali of Rolling Stone credited Antichrist Superstar with bringing to an end the dominance of grunge within popular music. It has since been heralded by numerous publications as the band's finest work, as well as one of the best hard rock recordings ever released.

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