A year after being dropped by Interscope, Marilyn Manson is planning his comeback on U.K. indie label Cooking Vinyl.Manson has agreed to form a joint-venture partnership between his own imprint Hell, etc. and the London-based label. The deal covers his next album, due in fall 2011, with an option for the album after that. Cooking Vinyl will handle worldwide distribution, marketing and promotion.
On the face of it, the two parties make unlikely bedfellows. Cooking Vinyl launched in 1986 as a contemporary folk label but has since broadened its repertoire and scored a major success with the Prodigy's 2009 comeback album, "Invaders Must Die."
Cooking Vinyl managing director Martin Goldschmidt says that record -- released under a licensing agreement with the Prodigy's own imprint, Take Me to the Hospital -- has generated worldwide sales of 1.3 million. The label has also had success with global service deals for established acts like Underworld, Groove Armada and the Charlatans.
