Marilyn Manson [ tickets ] will resume his world tour on June 18th with a string of festival dates set for Europe and Japan, his publicists said on Tuesday. Manson recently cancelled the final week of shows on his US tour amidst widespread attacks on the content and tone of his music and stage show in the wake of the tragic shooting incident in March at Columbine High School near Denver.

The festival run will again place Manson on stage with Hole for some shows. The two acts attempted a joint US tour earlier this year, but Hole backed out just two weeks into the tour, citing disagreements over production costs. Hole later fired their management for, among other things, allowing the Manson tour booking to happen.

The two acts had squabbled in the press in 1998, and the announcement of the tour together was greeted with some surprise. The bickering between Hole frontwoman Courtney Love and Manson moved to the stage in the early days of the joint tour, and by the time the tour played to Manson's current hometown crowd in Los Angeles, Hole's exit from the tour had been confirmed.

Ironically, at Hole's last show of the tour at the Forum in Los Angeles, Manson aggravated an existing ankle injury and ended the show abruptly, subsequently cancelling several Southwest dates. Manson later scheduled a makeup show at the 6,000-seat Universal Amphitheatre for fans holding ticket stubs from the Forum date, but that show was one of several later cancelled following the Columbine tragedy.

Manson's cover of the AC / DC song Highway To Hell will appear on the soundtrack to the late-summer film ''Detroit Rock City,'' and his autobiography, ''Long Hard Road out of Hell,'' was just released in paperback.