Manson in 2006. (Photo via Wikipedia)

Oh, sure, Live Nation Entertainment’s Fillmore Silver Spring may be a decked-out sinkhole of tribute bands most nights (The Pink Floyd Experience tomorrow night, anyone?), but you can’t accuse it of not trying cater to the area’s metalheads, especially not with Thursday’s show by Guns N’ Roses (who have been playing lots of cuts off of G N’ R Lies on their current tour, I heard last night.)

Well, now comes comes a nostalgia show for major-label metal fans of the late 90s. The Fillmore announced today Marilyn Manson is playing in Silver Spring on May 1. Oh, yeah, we forgot they were still around, but they’ve been productive over the past decade, even if Marilyn Manson, the person, (Brian Warner), has cast off nearly as many of his band’s longtime members as Axl Rose did.

And yes, while the world still awaits the literary companion to 2000’s Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), the band is scheduled to release its eighth studio album, Born Villain, later this year. In an interview back in 2010, Warner said the new material was veering toward “suicidal death metal.” Fun.

Tickets are $49.50 for general admission (plus the usual fees, which are as nightmarish as The Golden Age of Grotesque) and go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.