Alice Cooper reunites with authentic band for first album in 51 years

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. It’s set to reach on July twenty fifth.

The Bob Ezrin-produced album sees Cooper reunited along with his outdated bandmates Michael Bruce (guitar), Dennis Dunaway (bass), and Neal Smith (drums).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 Simple Motion lower “Return of the Spiders.” The lead single and opening monitor “Black Mamba,” which options The Doorways’ Robby Krieger, is ready to premiere Tuesday (April twenty second) through Cooper’s syndicated radio present, “Alice’s Attic.”

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Talking with Billboard in regards to the reunion album, Cooper stated the undertaking fell into place as if no time had handed, the band choosing up the place it left off after 1973’s Muscle of Love.

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“It was very very similar to this was our subsequent album after Muscle of Love, identical to, ‘OK, that is the subsequent album,’” he stated. “Isn’t that humorous after 50 years? Rapidly it simply falls into place.”

Ezrin helmed the board for the seminal albums launched by the unique Cooper band within the early Nineteen 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 instructed 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 only walked out of highschool and have been hanging out within the native cafe. They simply revert to sort. 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The album is the end result of the outdated Alice Cooper bandmates step by step reconnecting lately. All 4 dwelling members performed on the band’s Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction in 2011, which led to further 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 instructed Billboard. “Then Alice and Bob referred to as and have been speaking about, ‘Oh yeah, we need to do an album,’ as a result of there’s so many songs kicking round.”

In the meantime, Alice will likely be energetic along with his present dwell band in 2025, as effectively, with spring/summer time headlining dates and a co-headlining fall run with Judas Priest on the books. Get tickets right here.

You possibly can try the complete tracklist and album artwork for The Revenge of Alice Cooper under.

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