The unique Alice Cooper band has returned, with the shock-rock legend saying The Revenge of Alice Cooper, the group’s first album in 51 years.
The Bob Ezrin-produced album sees Cooper reunited along with his previous bandmates Michael Bruce (guitar), Dennis Dunaway (bass), and Neal Smith (drums). The tracklist consists of 14 songs plus two bonus tracks, together with a 2025 remix of the Straightforward Motion reduce “Return of the Spiders.” The lead single and opening observe “Black Mamba,” which options The Doorways’ Robby Krieger, is about to premier Tuesday (April twenty second) through Cooper’s syndicated radio present, “Alice’s Attic.”
Talking with Billboard in regards to the reunion album, Cooper stated the undertaking fell into place as if no time had handed, the band selecting up the place it left off after 1973’s Muscle of Love.
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“It was very very like this was our subsequent album after Muscle of Love, similar to, ‘OK, that is the following album,’” he stated. “Isn’t that humorous after 50 years? Impulsively it simply falls into place.”
Ezrin helmed the board for the seminal albums launched by the unique Cooper band within the early Seventies — Killers, College’s Out, and Billion Greenback Infants — and he likened the periods for the brand new album to these he produced again within the day.
“None of them has modified a lot as an individual,” Ezrin informed Billboard. “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 simply 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 album is the end result of the previous Alice Cooper bandmates progressively reconnecting lately. All 4 residing members performed on the band’s Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction in 2011, which led to extra in-studio collaborations on Cooper’s subsequent solo albums and the occasional onstage reunion.
“All of these issues bought all people reacquainted — reacquainted is a bizarre time period ’trigger we’re a lot like household, so it’s extra like a household reunion,” Dennis Dunaway informed Billboard. “Then Alice and Bob known as and have been speaking about, ‘Oh yeah, we wish to do an album,’ as a result of there’s so many songs kicking round.”
In the meantime, Alice shall be energetic along with his present stay band in 2025, as nicely, with spring/summer time headlining dates and a co-headlining fall run with Judas Priest on the books. Get tickets right here.
You’ll be able to take a look at the complete tracklist and album artwork for The Revenge of Alice Cooper beneath.
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The Revenge of Alice Cooper Tracklist:
01. Black Mamba
02. Wild Ones
03. Up All Night time
04. Kill The Flies
05. One Night time Stand
06. Blood On The Solar
07. Crap That Will get In The Method Of Your Goals
08. Well-known Face
09. Cash Screams
10. What A Syd
11. Inter Galactic Vagabond Blues
12. What Occurred To You
13. I Ain’t Executed Incorrect
14. See You On The Different Facet
15. Return of the Spiders 2025 (bonus observe)
16. Titanic Overunderture (bonus observe)