I don't listen to Marilyn Manson, but I think there are a lot of bands that are unfairly pegged as the sort of 90s suburban teen-archist junk we'd like to forget. While I doubt anyone is seriously willing to go to bat for
Korn, I personally wrote off Type O Negative for a long time having figured them as broody, slightly before my time nonsense.. and then I found Carnivore, which is considerably more in line with my usual tastes, and with that my entire perspective of what Peter Steele was actually doing changed. I can't think of two bands that jump between depression, prehistoric violence, humor and giddy word play so seamlessly as TON/Carnivore.
Actually, before either of them, Steele and Josh Silver had a horror-punk tinged heavy metal band called Fallout. Their only release was a single leading with the song
Rock Hard, which has a little fun subverting the more obvious first parsing of a rock song called Rock Hard. It ends with the airy, piano-driven (and still generically-rawkstar titled!)
Batteries Not Included, which rhymes iconoclastic and polyplastic (all mechanic... pro-satanic!!) without even blinking. Sample my machinery!
EDIT: Ministry, too. Total Beavis and Butt-head band with awesome riffing. Lyrically Al fell down the tired BU$H BLOOD FOR OIL hole, but Rio Grande Blood is a monster.
To answer your question, Manowar
