Alice Cooper has introduced the brand new album ‘The Revenge Of Alice Cooper’, his first along with his authentic band members for over 50 years.
The document will see the veteran rock singer reunited with guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neil Smith for his or her first LP collectively since 1973’s ‘Muscle Of Love’.
The Phoenix-based shock rockers launched seven studio albums between 1969 and 1973 earlier than Cooper break up off to pursue a solo profession. Because the frontman has informed Billboard, nevertheless, he and his outdated bandmates picked up proper the place they left off.
“It was very very similar to this was our subsequent album after ‘Muscle of Love’, similar to, ‘OK, that is the subsequent album.’ Isn’t that humorous after 50 years? Rapidly it simply falls into place,” he stated.
The album shall be launched on July 25 by way of earMUSIC and the primary single, ‘Black Mamba’, will premiere on Cooper’s radio present Alice’s Attic on Tuesday (April 22). The track will characteristic contributions from The Doorways’ Robbie Krieger.
Founding lead guitarist with the Alice Cooper band Glen Buxton died in 1997 on the age of 49, and this album is devoted to him. His taking part in can also be represented on two of the songs, with ‘What Occurred To You’ being primarily based on a riff from an outdated demo tape of Buxton’s, whereas bonus monitor ‘Return Of The Spiders 2025’ is a remix of a monitor from 1970 album ‘Simple Motion’.
Filling in for Buxton shall be Nashville guitarist Gyasi Hues.
Additionally returning is producer Bob Ezrin, who labored on traditional Alice Cooper albums together with ‘Faculty’s Out’ and ‘Billion Greenback Infants’. Reflecting on the band being again collectively, he has stated: “None of them has modified a lot as an individual.
“Clearly everybody’s older and extra mature and extra settled, however after we all get collectively and I watch the interaction between them, it’s like they only walked out of highschool and have been hanging out within the native cafe. They simply revert to kind. They revert to who they have been as youngsters when the primary bought collectively… and make music collectively like they did 50-some years in the past.”
‘The Revenge Of Alice Cooper’ tracklist:
- ‘Black Mamba’
- ‘Wild Ones’
- ‘Up All Evening’
- ‘Kill The Flies’
- ‘One Evening Stand’
- ‘Blood On The Solar’
- ‘Crap That Will get In The Means Of Your Desires’
- ‘Well-known Face’
- ‘Cash Screams’
- ‘What A Syd’
- ‘Inter Galactic Vagabond Blues’
- ‘What Occurred To You’
- ‘I Ain’t Carried out Improper’
- ‘See You On The Different Aspect’
- ‘Return Of The Spiders 2025’ (bonus monitor)
- ‘Titanic Overunderture’ (bonus monitor)
Alice Cooper and Judas Priest, in the meantime, shall be heading out on a North American co-headline tour later this yr. The 22-date trek kicks off in Biloxi in September – discover all of the dates right here and discover any remaining tickets right here.
Cooper may even play a pair of UK reveals in July, in Cardiff’s Utilita Enviornment and Edinburgh’s Playhouse. Discover out extra right here.
