In the wake of 1999 Columbine High School massacre, Columbine, CO, USA, in which 12 students and a teacher were murdered, early news reports falsely claimed that killers had been wearing Marilyn Manson t-shirts. With his white-painted skin vampiric androgyny, Manson's theatrical brand shock rock caused outrage among US conservatives throughout 1990s. The association between music murders quickl...