Released November 11, 1997 Recorded California, 1997 | Format CD single Length 4:21 | |
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"Long Hard Road Out of Hell" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Marilyn Manson from the Spawn soundtrack album.
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It also appears on Manson's compilation album Lest We Forget: The Best Of. The song has been used in the theatrical trailers for Bless the Child, From Hell, and Season of the Witch.
The music video, directed by Matthew Rolston, is an Easter Egg on the Spawn Director's Cut DVD and is also played in VHS versions before the film itself starts.
The song features vocals by former Sneaker Pimps' vocalist Kelli Ali.
The title of the song is a reference to lines 432-433 of Book Two of John Milton's Paradise Lost. These lines are: "Seized us, though undismayed: long is the way/ And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light."
Music video
Manson can be seen naked, or alternatively dressed very feminine and posing like statues of saints and imitating the Virgin Mary. He also has an erotic encounter with an androgynous woman who in the climax of the video abruptly becomes an Aleister Crowley look-alike.
Live versions
During the tours Rock Is Dead and Guns, God, and Government, the ending of "Long Hard Road Out of Hell" was attached to the end of the band's cover of Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This). The combination of the two songs can be heard on the band's live album, "The Last Tour on Earth" and on the "Guns, God and Government" DVD, and has officially been titled "Sweet Dreams / Hell Outro".