Released June 14, 1999 Genre Industrial metal Label Nothing/Interscope | Format CD single Length 3:09 | |
Writer(s) Marilyn Manson
Twiggy Ramirez
Madonna Wayne Gacy | ||
"Rock Is Dead" is a single from Marilyn Manson's third studio album, Mechanical Animals. It is also featured on The Matrix Soundtrack and Midnight Club 3.
Music video
The video of the song (directed by Samuel Bayer) features Manson in costume (as Omega) and his band (perhaps as the "Mechanical Animals" band) performing onstage. This is the only video to feature Marilyn Manson's back up singer, who sings on several other songs. She is most notably heard on the live version of "The Dope Show" on The Last Tour On Earth. They are later shown destroying their instruments, an allusion to Manson's destruction of the life-size statuettes of himself (as Omega) in The Dope Show video.
Another version of the video contains the same performance footage edited with footage from The Matrix for which the song was featured as a promotional single.