The Pale Emperor

The Pale Emperor
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Studio album by Marilyn Manson
Released	January 15, 2015 (2015-01-15)
Recorded	May 2013 – September 2014
Studio	Abattoir Studios and Igloo Studios (Los Angeles, California)
Genre	Alternative rock hard rock blues rock
Length	52:00
Label	Hell, etc.
Producer	Marilyn Manson Tyler Bates
Marilyn Manson chronology
Born Villain (2012)Born Villain2012 The Pale Emperor (2015)
Singles from The Pale Emperor
"Third Day of a Seven Day Binge" Released: October 26, 2014 "Deep Six" Released: December 16, 2014 "Cupid Carries a Gun" Released: January 7, 2015 "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" Released: May 11, 2015 "The Devil Beneath My Feet" Released: December 6, 2015

The Pale Emperor is the ninth studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released on January 15, 2015 through Marilyn Manson's Hell, etc. label, and was distributed in the US by Loma Vista Recordings, Canada by Dine Alone Records, Japan by Victor Entertainment and internationally by Cooking Vinyl. The album was released in standard and deluxe editions on CD and 2×LP vinyl, as well as a box set. The standard version of the album contains ten tracks, while the deluxe edition includes three acoustic versions as bonus tracks.

Produced by Manson and newcomer Tyler Bates, who met through their mutual involvement in the TV series Californication, The Pale Emperor eschews the band's usual industrial rock genre in favor of a more sparse, blues rock-influenced sound. The album also features drummer Gil Sharone, formerly of The Dillinger Escape Plan, and is the first release since his return in 2008 to not feature writing and performance contributions from bassist Twiggy. The album is dedicated to Manson's mother, who died during production after an eight-year battle with Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

The album was released to generally positive reviews from contemporary music critics, with several writers referring to it as his best album in over a decade, and was ranked by several publications as one of the best albums of 2015. The album was also a commercial success, debuting at number eight on the Billboard 200 with the band's highest opening week sales since Eat Me, Drink Me (2007). It also topped the national albums chart in Switzerland, as well as Billboard's Top Hard Rock Albums chart. It went on to peak within the top ten in fifteen other countries.

It spawned three official singles, "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge", "Cupid Carries a Gun" and "Deep Six", with the latter going on to become the band's highest-peaking single on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Chart; "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" and "The Devil Beneath My Feet" have been released as promotional singles. The album is being supported by The Hell Not Hallelujah Tour, which was interspersed by two co-headlining tours, The End Times with The Smashing Pumpkins, and a summer 2016 co-headlining tour with Slipknot.

Background and recording

In April 2013, it was announced that Manson was to feature in an episode of the sixth season of TV series Californication, while the following month he also confirmed that production had started on the band's ninth studio album. At Californication's wrap party, Manson met the series' score composer, Tyler Bates, and the two discussed a potential collaboration. They held their first writing session in a small rehearsal space, accompanied by former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo. This session ultimately proved unsuccessful, with the pair failing to write any substantial material. Bates later suggested that they hold further writing sessions at his home studio, which resulted in them composing "Birds of Hell Awaiting" in "one spontaneous exchange".

"Tyler sat in front of me with his guitar and his amp. We wouldn't talk about what the songs were going to be. I'd say, "Just play, give me the mic, go." Of course we'd elaborate on it later, but for the most part, the guitar and the vocal takes are the original, first take. If I fucked something up or if he fucked something up, we'd start from the beginning and do it together."

—Manson on the recording process of The Pale Emperor.

This was quickly followed by "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge", with Manson saying that the recording of the album "just became a rhythm. This was something I was excited to do." This is in stark contrast to the recording of previous albums The High End of Low (2009) and Born Villain (2012), where he was frequently "dragged into the studio at 3am" to record vocals. He later credited this enthusiasm to the collaborative process between him and Bates, saying that he realized after the first performance of "Birds of Hell Awaiting" that "[I] just sang it. I didn't even know where the music was going to go and I just went with it and it was very organic. And then it opened up a whole different part of my mind."

Bates called the recording process "seamless", attributing this to an unconventional studio environment. Manson, who would be isolated in a vocal booth with no more than three people in the control room at any one time, was free to improvise or develop lyrics and vocal melodies at a high speed. Bates explained that, through his use of Pro Tools, he was able to "manipulate the music in a way that would allow [Manson] to just keep working on it without causing [a delay]. If he had an idea, he could just throw it down without there being a lot to explain." The majority of the album was recorded over a three-month period. The band's manager, Tony Ciulla, only became aware that Manson had been recording new material when he was invited to Bates' home recording studio, where he was played final cuts of nine of the album's ten tracks for the first time, with "Cupid Carries a Gun" being the final track recorded for The Pale Emperor. Further overdubbing took place over the following six months, in between Manson's acting commitments on Sons of Anarchy and Bates scoring the 2014 television series Salem.

Gil Sharone, of The Dillinger Escape Plan and Stolen Babies, performed live drums on the album. Sharone was first contacted by Bates about the project three days before he was due to begin a tour with Stolen Babies. Expanding over the album's embryonic drum programming, he developed and recorded his drum work over a three-day period at Igloo Studios in Burbank, California. On February 1, Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter confirmed Manson's acting involvement in the show. Sutter went on to say that he had written a song with Shooter Jennings, which was to appear in the final season of the show and feature vocals from Manson. He also suggested that Jennings was involved in the recording of The Pale Emperor, although Jennings' work does not appear on the album. On June 25, bassist Fred Sablan confirmed that he had left the band on good terms. Long-time band member Twiggy did not take part in the writing and recording process, as he was busy recording his own album. Manson's Sons of Anarchy co-star Walton Goggins, Jr. appears as a preacher on album track "Slave Only Dreams to Be King", where he recites two verses from James Allen's early twentieth-century essay As a Man Thinketh.

During The Pale Emperor sessions, Manson and Bates recorded a cover of David Bowie's "Moonage Daydream" for inclusion on the Guardians of the Galaxy OST, a soundtrack which Bates scored. This recording was not utilized in the soundtrack as, according to Manson, Hollywood Records "didn't want it." The original album version by Bowie was used instead. On September 3, Manson confirmed that the new album is "prepared for landing", indicating that production had been completed. The Pale Emperor is dedicated to Manson's late mother, Barbara Warner, who died on May 13, 2014 after an eight-year battle with Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

Composition and style

Major influences on The Pale Emperor

Jim Morrison has been noted as a prominent influence on the album vocally and lyrically.

Blues musician Muddy Waters was an influence on the album musically.

In a January 2014 interview with Kerrang! magazine, Manson described the sound of the new album as being "very cinematic", saying that the "redneck in me comes out in my voice" due to the album's inclusion of "old blues" influences, while still retaining the "harder elements" of previous work. In a later interview with The Fader, Manson stated that he no longer "dresses [his] feelings in characters and extended metaphors", saying that he instead "lets melody lead" the album. He elaborated that he is "a man of few words on the record. What I hadn't ever found, till now, is the blues. The blues changed the way that I sang [on the album]. And the music has a melody and a language in and of itself", while lead editor Naomi Zeichner went on to compare the album to the work of Interpol and "the retro biker bar rock that soundtracks Sons of Anarchy".

The Pale Emperor is a departure from the band's usual style, leaning away from the industrial, electronic, and heavy metal-influenced production that appeared on much of the band's previous work, towards a sparser blues rock, alternative country and hard rock-influenced sound, with Manson citing the music of Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones, and The Doors as inspiration. Steven Hyden of Grantland expanded on several parallels between The Pale Emperor and the Doors' 1971 album L.A. Woman, noting how the album "echoes how [the Doors] reformulated its juju in the latter part of its career", likening both Manson and Jim Morrison to "rambling barstool vamp[s] that career darkly between camp and druggy majesty". He went on to compare Manson's vocals on "Warship My Wreck" to Morrison's "debauched howls", and said that Morrison's "self-destructive self-aggrandizement" can be found in tracks such as "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" and "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge".

"The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles"

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Album version, as it appeared on The Pale Emperor

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The album's title is inspired by Constantius I – also known as "Constantius the Pale" – who was the first Roman emperor to deny the existence of a God. Manson has said that the meaning of the album's title can have several interpretations: "complexion or Goth music or 'beyond the pale' or [...] everything pales in comparison to it". Lyrically, the album deals with subjects ranging from mortality, war, violence, slavery and religion, as well as containing references to Greek mythology and German folklore, specifically the story of Faust and Mephistopheles. "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" was the original title track and, according to Manson, "the album's heart". The album makes use of an extended metaphor, in which Manson compares his own career to the life of Faust, explaining to The Philadelphia Inquirer that he "sold [his] soul to become a rock star, and [The Pale Emperor is] payment in full – with interest, considering the last few bills I didn't pay," explaining that he considered The High End of Low and Born Villain to "lack focus". He elaborated to Classic Rock Magazine:

If we stick to the Faust story – if I had been in that story – and I had sold my soul [to the devil] for fame and fortune, and had the arrogance of [Faust] to not want to pay back the deal, it's taken a few years for me to acknowledge to myself that I was hearing: 'Manson [rapping his knuckles on the table], the hell hounds are on your trail.' And this record is my payment. This is me giving back what I was given, or took. Faust and Mephistopheles both exist within me, in that you can't outrun your demons. You've got to deal with them eventually. The evidence is in me acknowledging that I needed to make something that was up to my own expectations, my own rules. If you believe in some mythology, and you want to live by those rules, then I had to say myself: 'I'm not really doing what I set out to do,' even though I tried to convince myself that I was. I'm not regretting the last few records that I've made, but since Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), I've not made something with the sheer utter fearlessness and anger and force [of before].

The lyrics for several tracks are intentionally sparse, with Manson explaining that he "[left] holes in these stories so [the album could] become your story. It becomes more cinematic. For example in the film Rosemary's Baby, you don't see the baby but in your mind you do". The lyrics were all derived from a single notebook, with Manson admitting that the lyrical content of previous work was "often too scattered", as they were composed of material taken from "about 20" different notebooks. Vocally, Manson sings in a different key than on any of his previous releases. Manson has claimed that his voice can emit five different tones simultaneously, which mixing engineer Robert Carranza discovered can form a pentagram when imported in to a phrasal analyzer. Bates has said that the vocals on the album are "stripped down", saying that he considered the vocals on previous records to be "overproduced at times".

Release and artwork

The Pale Emperor was announced for release on the band's official website on November 9, 2014. It was released in various formats worldwide from January 15, 2015, including standard and deluxe edition CDs; a heavyweight 180-gram 2×LP vinyl album, available in black, white and a limited edition grey marble-effect, the latter of which was exclusive to Hot Topic; and as a digital download, including "full-bandwidth 24-bit" AIFF and WAV format files, which were made available on Qobuz. The vinyl discs were manufactured at Record Technology, Inc. in Camarillo, California using the pressing plant's HQ-180™ system. A digital download of the album was packaged with all LP editions. The standard version of the album contains ten tracks, while the deluxe edition adds three acoustic versions as bonus tracks. Editions of the album sold at Walmart stores in North America feature a heavily censored version of "The Devil Beneath My Feet", and all US versions of the album were manufactured using black polycarbonate discs. The discs were sourced by Brian Schuman of Concord Music directly from the same plant where Sony manufactured their first PlayStation discs, and are identical to the kind used by the company in the early 90s. A heat-sensitive thermal texture was also added to the CD, appearing black when first opened but revealing a white pattern when exposed to the heat from a CD player.

The album was also released as a limited edition "Definitive Box" set, which was sold exclusively at Manson's webstore. Designed by Manson with Willo Perron and Hassan Rahim, the set included the deluxe CD and white vinyl editions of the album, as well as several exclusive items including: a grey cloth-bound individually numbered collectors box, five lithographs designed by artist Nicholas Cope, a fold-out 24" poster, album sleeves printed on full-color UV-coated stock and a Pale Emperor T-shirt. A special edition containing a bonus DVD of music videos was released exclusively in Japan on July 29.

Promotion and singles

See also: The Hell Not Hallelujah Tour and The End Times Tour

The album was first previewed almost nine months before it's official release, when "Cupid Carries a Gun" appeared as the opening theme to the television series Salem from April 27, 2014 onwards. Following this, a large portion of album track "Killing Strangers" was featured in the Keanu Reeves film John Wick, which was released in cinemas on October 24. On October 26, "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge" was premiered on BBC Radio 1's Rock Show by Daniel P. Carter. Immediately after the broadcast, the song was released for free download on the band's official website, and was later released as a one-track single via music download services on November 10. The band performed several new songs live for the first time in October and early November, when they played a handful of concerts around southern California. On Halloween night, the band was joined on stage by Johnny Depp and Ninja from Die Antwoord for a performance of "The Beautiful People" at the Roxy Theatre. On December 5, Manson settled a fifteen-year rift with The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, by performing "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge" and "Ava Adore" with the band at the Camden Palace Theatre in London.

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Manson performing at Rock am Ring 2015.

"Deep Six" was released as the album's official lead single on December 16. A music video for the song, directed by Bart Hess, was released on to YouTube three days later. The song debuted at number thirty-three on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Chart on the issue dated December 23, 2014, as the "greatest gainer" that week, before eventually rising to number eight on the chart dated March 14, 2015, becoming the band's highest peaking single ever on the chart. In response to the album leaking online, it was released on streaming site Genius eight days ahead of its official release in the US, while "Cupid Carries a Gun" was released as a digital single on January 7, 2015. The band began their Hell Not Hallelujah Tour on January 21, 2015, and were also confirmed to perform at several music festivals throughout the year, including dates at Soundwave Festival in Australia, Rock am Ring and Rock im Park in Germany, the Download Festival in the UK and Hellfest in France.

Manson and his father, Hugh Warner, appeared together in the February issue of Paper magazine. Taken by photographer Terry Richardson, the shoot featured the pair wearing identical make-up and contained an explicit image in which Hugh Warner can be seen fondling his own genitalia. On April 12, Tyler Bates announced that he had amicably retired from the band's touring line-up, stating that he helped put the band together with the intention that it could function without him when "pre-existing commitments in the film and television industry would be too demanding to handle responsibly from the road". Rhythm guitarist Paul Wiley replaced Bates on lead guitar for the duration of the tour. The band also revealed details of a co-headlining tour of the US with The Smashing Pumpkins. The End Times Tour began in Concord on July 7 and featured the return of original Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin.

A music video for "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles", directed by Francesco Carrozzini and featuring a cameo from The Wire and Boardwalk Empire actor Michael K. Williams, was released on May 11 on the band's official YouTube channel. On June 11, Manson was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2015 Kerrang! Awards. Two days later, Manson was the keynote speaker at the 2015 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. A music video for "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge" was released on July 10. Manson appeared on a tribute album to Giorgio Moroder curated by Shooter Jennings, contributing vocals to a version of David Bowie's "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)". Countach (For Giorgio) was released on February 26, 2016. Manson has also revealed his intentions of collaborating with Korn frontman Jonathan Davis on "Southern-sounding, acoustic" material in the near future, and also stated that there is a "strong possibility of doing something with Billy Corgan, while we're out on the road together." In February 2016, it was announced that the band would embark on a co-headlining tour with Slipknot. The tour will see the two bands performing dates in 34 American cities throughout the summer of 2016, with support coming from Of Mice & Men.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	71/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The A.V. Club	B
The Buffalo News
Consequence of Sound	C
Drowned in Sound	8/10
Kerrang!	5/5 Ks11px11px11px11px
Metal Hammer	7/10
NME	6/10
Rolling Stone
Slant Magazine

The Pale Emperor received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from music critics, the album received an average score of 71, indicating "generally favorable reviews", based on 19 publications.

Dean Brown of The Quietus referred to The Pale Emperor as the band's best album since Holy Wood, saying that by writing "memorable, mature songs full of devilishly addictive hooks without trying to relive the past, [the album] breathes new life into Manson's career." Similarly, Corey Deiterman of Houston Press wrote that the album "stands as a triumphant return to the songwriting principles that made him famous in the first place", before summarizing that Manson's persona has "finally given way to the superior musician that always lived within." In a review for Yahoo! Music, Allan Raible was similarly positive, highlighting the album's focus on songcraft instead of shock value, while Kerrang! said that Manson "trades shock-tastic thrills for something even darker." Fred Thomas of AllMusic noted the album's inclusion of blues influences, and opined that this shift in musical direction has resulted in The Pale Emperor sounding more sinister than any of the band's previous albums. J.C. Maçek III of PopMatters praised the scope of musical variety found on the album, with particular acclaim given for its incorporation of alternative country elements. Jeff Miers of The Buffalo News praised the album's lyrical content, saying that Manson sounds "both inspired and disgusted [throughout], which is usually the tightrope he walks when he's doing his best work." In another positive review, Mark Orton of Otago Daily Times compared the album to Mechanical Animals, stating that the music has "definitely supplanted the image", awarding the album four and a half stars out of five. Drowned in Sound critic Dave Hanratty praised the album's consistency as focused, saying "damned if the devil didn't bring his best tunes to this dance." He also praised Bates' production, awarding the album a score of eight out of ten. Alec Chillingworth of Stereoboard wrote that The Pale Emperor is Manson "climbing back to the creative summit he fell from following Holy Wood. He's never going to top those early albums, but by expanding his palette and finally getting it right, The Pale Emperor reinstates Marilyn Manson as a relevant musical force and an elder statesman of the industrial scene", awarding the album four stars out of five.

Louis Pattison, reviewing for NME, stated that "it's no classic, but perhaps the surprise here is that Manson's music can work without the shock shtick". He also wrote that "the biggest surprise on the new album from the 'God Of Fuck' is that we see more of the real Manson than before." Dan Bogosian of Consequence of Sound was more mixed in his assessment, stating: "A lack of 'oomph' prevents the album from landing a gut punch that would cover all of its flaws. Like an aging boxer, Manson lands jabs and the occasional uppercut, but he never topples his opponent." Similarly, Daniel Sylvester of Exclaim! complimented the album's ambitiousness, but said that The Pale Emperor is "lazy when it can get away with it."

Year-end lists

Critic/Publication	Accolade	Rank	Ref.
Antiquiet	2015's Best Albums	2
AllMusic	Favorite Metal Albums	n/a
Alternative Nation	Top 10 Rock Albums of 2015	2
Classic Rock	50 Best Albums of 2015	43
Drowned in Sound	Albums of the Year: 2015	33
Gaffa	Foreign Albums of 2015	19
God Is in the TV	GIITTV's Albums Poll of 2015	30
Guitar World	50 Best Albums of 2015	39
Kerrang!	Albums of the Year 2015	15
Hannah Ewens from Kerrang!	Top 10 Albums of the Year	5
Paul Travers from Kerrang!		9
Loudwire	20 Best Rock Albums of 2015 (Staff picks)	2
	Best Rock Album of 2015 (Reader vote)	6
Metal Hammer	50 Best Albums of 2015	7
Revolver	Top 20 Albums of 2015	11
Smells Like Infinite Sadness	15 Best Albums of 2015	3
Fred Phillips from Something Else	Best of 2015	1
Rolling Stone	50 Best Albums of 2015	34
	20 Best Metal Albums of 2015	1
State	State's Albums of 2015	47
Lina Lecaro from Yahoo! Music	Best Albums of 2015	7

Commercial performance

Industry forecasters predicted that The Pale Emperor was on course for a top ten debut on the Billboard 200, with first week sales of around 42,000 units. The album debuted at number eight on the chart with over 51,000 copies sold, including 49,000 in "pure" album sales, making it the band's highest opening week figure since Eat Me, Drink Me debuted at the same position with 88,000 copies in 2007. It became the band's eighth top ten album, and sixth title in a row to reach the region. It also debuted at number six on Billboard's Top Albums Chart – the current equivalent of the previous sales-based Billboard 200 – as well as number three on Top Rock Albums and number one on the Top Hard Rock Albums charts. On its second week, the album dropped to number twenty-four on the Top Albums Chart, selling an additional 12,275 "pure" copies. As of December 2015, The Pale Emperor has sold more than 136,000 "pure" copies in the US. The album also debuted at number four on the Canadian Albums Chart with sales of over 5,000 copies on its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

In Eurasia, the album first debuted on the Russian Albums Chart at number ten on the chart dated January 18, 2015, based on three days of sale on the Russian iTunes. The album rose to number two the following week, on its first full week of release in the country. The album debuted and peaked at number one on the Swiss Albums Chart, becoming the band's first since The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003) to do so. In the United Kingdom, it debuted at number sixteen with sales of 5,984 copies, making it the band's seventh top 20 album. The album peaked at number four on the German Albums Chart, their highest peaking album in the territory since Eat Me, Drink Me. The Pale Emperor became Manson's fifth top-ten album in France, where it debuted at number five with sales of over 6,700 copies, and has gone on to sell over 30,000 copies there. In Japan, the album debuted at number twenty-five on the Oricon albums chart with sales of 3,610 copies.

The album also debuted at number six on the ARIA Albums Chart as the highest new entry that week, and his highest peaking album in the region since The Golden Age of Grotesque. In New Zealand, the album debuted at number five, making it the band's highest peaking album in the country since Mechanical Animals peaked at number three in 1998.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Marilyn Manson, all music composed by Tyler Bates.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Killing Strangers"	5:36
2.	"Deep Six"	5:02
3.	"Third Day of a Seven Day Binge"	4:26
4.	"The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles"	4:57
5.	"Warship My Wreck"	5:57
6.	"Slave Only Dreams to Be King"	5:20
7.	"The Devil Beneath My Feet"	4:16
8.	"Birds of Hell Awaiting"	5:05
9.	"Cupid Carries a Gun"	4:59
10.	"Odds of Even" (deluxe edition adds 1:30 of silence to the track)	6:22
Total length:		52:00

Deluxe edition
No.	Title	Length
11.	"Day 3" (Acoustic version of "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge")	4:11
12.	"Fated, Faithful, Fatal" (Acoustic version of "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles")	4:41
13.	"Fall of the House of Death" (Acoustic version of "Odds of Even")	4:30
Total length:		65:22

Japanese deluxe edition bonus DVD
No.	Title	Directors	Length
1.	"Deep Six" (music video)	Bart Hess	4:10
2.	"The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" (music video)	Francesco Carrozzini	5:03

Credits and personnel

• Recorded at Abattoir Studios, Studio City, California
• Drums recorded by Gustavo Borner at Igloo Studios, Burbank, California
• Mixed by Robert Carranza and Wolfgang Matthes at SPPP, Los Angeles, California
• Mastering by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering, Los Angeles, California

Primary Personnel

• Marilyn Manson – vocals, percussion, keyboards on "Slave Only Dreams to Be King", pill bottle on "Killing Strangers", production
• Tyler Bates – guitar, guitar violin, bass guitar, keyboards, programming, production
• Gil Sharone – drums

Additional Personnel

• Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. – piano on "Slave Only Dreams to Be King"
• Frank Macchia – baritone and tenor saxophones on "Birds of Hell Awaiting"
• Walton Goggins, Jr. – preacher on "Slave Only Dreams to Be King"

Technical Personnel

• Emma Banks – executive booking agent
• Tony Ciulla – management
• Nicholas Cope – photography
• Chris Daltson – executive booking agent
• Dylan Eiland – additional programming
• Joanne Higginbottom – Pro Tools editing
• Wolfgang Matthes – additional programming
• Willo Perron – creative direction
• Hassan Rahim – art direction
• Rick Roskin – booking agent
• Laurie Soriano – legal

Credits adapted from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of The Pale Emperor.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2015)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)	6
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)	4
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)	20
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)	5
Canadian Albums (Billboard)	4
Croatian Albums (HDU)	31
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)	7
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)	18
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)	21
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)	10
French Albums (SNEP)	5
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)	4
Greek Albums (IFPI)	8
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)	8
Irish Albums (IRMA)	21
Irish Independent Albums (IRMA)	5
Italian Albums (FIMI)	26
Japanese Albums (Oricon)	25
Mexican Albums (AMPROFON)	33
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)	5
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)	24
Polish Albums (ZPAV)	3
Portuguese Albums (AFP)	10
Russian Albums (2M)	2
Scottish Albums (OCC)	17
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)	15
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)	20
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)	1
UK Albums (OCC)	16
UK Independent Albums (OCC)	6
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC)	3
US Billboard 200	8
US Top Album Sales (Billboard)	6
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)	3
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)	3
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard)	1

Year-end charts

Chart (2015)	Position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)	154
French Albums (SNEP)	151
US Alternative Albums (Billboard)	27
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)	41
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard)	11

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Distributor(s)	Format(s)	Catalog #
Belgium	January 15, 2015	Hell, etc.	Cooking Vinyl	standard CD deluxe CD 2× LP vinyl digital download definitive box set	COOKCD/LP602[X]
Germany	January 16, 2015
Ireland
Italy
France	January 19, 2015
Netherlands
Sweden
Norway
United Kingdom
Canada	January 20, 2015		Dine Alone Records		DA130
United States			Loma Vista		LVR-36380-02
Japan	January 21, 2015		Victor Entertainment		VICP-65261
Australia	January 23, 2015		Cooking Vinyl		COOKCD/LP602[X]
New Zealand
Japan	July 29, 2015		Victor Entertainment	CD + DVD bundle	VIZP-138

See also

• List of number-one albums of 2015 (Switzerland)

External links

• The Pale Emperor at Discogs (list of releases)
• The Pale Emperor at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
• The Pale Emperor (press release) at Concord Music Group