{"id":38762,"date":"2025-04-21T16:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38762\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:33:11","slug":"alice-cooper-to-release-first-album-with-original-band-in-over-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38762\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Cooper to release first album with original band in over 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alice Cooper<\/a> has announced the new album \u2018The Revenge Of Alice Cooper\u2019, his first with his original band members for over 50 years.<\/p>\n

The record will see the veteran rock singer reunited with guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neil Smith for their first LP together since 1973\u2019s \u2018Muscle Of Love\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Phoenix-based shock rockers released seven studio albums between 1969 and 1973 before Cooper split off to pursue a solo career. As the frontman has told Billboard<\/a>, however, he and his old bandmates picked up right where they left off.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very much like this was our next album after \u2018Muscle of Love\u2019, just like, \u2018OK, this is the next album.\u2019 Isn\u2019t that funny after 50 years? All of a sudden it just falls into place,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"AliceAlice Cooper performs on stage at Alice Cooper\u2019s 21st Annual Christmas Pudding at Celebrity Theatre on December 09, 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona (CREDIT: Daniel Knighton\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The album will be released on July 25 via earMUSIC and the first single, \u2018Black Mamba\u2019, will premiere on Cooper\u2019s radio show Alice\u2019s Attic on Tuesday (April 22). The song will feature contributions from The Doors<\/a>\u2019 Robbie Krieger.<\/p>\n

Founding lead guitarist with the Alice Cooper band Glen Buxton died in 1997 at the age of 49, and this album is dedicated to him. His playing is also represented on two of the songs, with \u2018What Happened To You\u2019 being based on a riff from an old demo tape of Buxton\u2019s, while bonus track \u2018Return Of The Spiders 2025\u2019 is a remix of a track from 1970 album \u2018Easy Action\u2019.<\/p>\n

Filling in for Buxton will be Nashville guitarist Gyasi Hues.<\/p>\n

Also returning is producer Bob Ezrin, who worked on classic Alice Cooper albums including \u2018School\u2019s Out\u2019 and \u2018Billion Dollar Babies\u2019. Reflecting on the band being back together, he has said: \u201cNone of them has changed much as a person.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously everyone\u2019s older and more mature and more settled, but when we all get together and I watch the interplay between them, it\u2019s like they just walked out of high school and were hanging out in the local cafe. They just revert to type. They revert to who they were as kids when the first got together\u2026 and make music together like they did 50-some years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018The Revenge Of Alice Cooper\u2019 tracklist:<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. \u2018Black Mamba\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n
  2. \u2018Wild Ones\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n
  3. \u2018Up All Night\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n
  4. \u2018Kill The Flies\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n
  5. \u2018One Night Stand\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n
  6. \u2018Blood On The Sun\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n
  7. \u2018Crap That Gets In The Way Of Your Dreams\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n
  8. \u2018Famous Face\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n
  9. \u2018Money Screams\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n
  10. \u2018What A Syd\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n
  11. \u2018Inter Galactic Vagabond Blues\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n
  12. \u2018What Happened To You\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n
  13. \u2018I Ain\u2019t Done Wrong\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n
  14. \u2018See You On The Other Side\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n
  15. \u2018Return Of The Spiders 2025\u2019 (bonus track)<\/b><\/li>\n
  16. \u2018Titanic Overunderture\u2019 (bonus track)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Alice Cooper and Judas Priest, meanwhile, will be heading out on a North American co-headline tour later this year<\/a>. The 22-date trek kicks off in Biloxi in September \u2013 find all the dates here<\/a> and find any remaining tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Cooper will also play a pair of UK shows in July, in Cardiff\u2019s Utilita Arena and Edinburgh\u2019s Playhouse. Find out more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alice Cooper has announced the new album \u2018The Revenge Of Alice Cooper\u2019, his first with his original band…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,453,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-38762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-rock","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114376920639611045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}