Five decades since ‘Muscle of Love,’ The Alice Cooper Band have come together for ‘The Revenge of Alice Cooper.’
Scheduled for a July 25 release, the the iconic groups’s follow-up LP re-visits with Bob Ezrin, who produced their ’70s records ‘Love It to Death’, ‘Killer’, ‘School’s Out’ and ‘Billion Dollar Babies’.
In an interview for Billboard, the band’s shock rock frontman Alice, said:
“It was very much like this was our next album after Muscle of Love. just like, ‘OK, this is the next album.'” “Isn’t that funny after 50 years? All of a sudden it just falls into place.”
Bringing the old band back together, the now 77-year old Cooper will be joined by guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neil Smith, and Nashville guitarist Gyasi Hues.
Having passed away in 1977, late guitarist Glen Buxton is posthumously featured on the track ‘What Happened to You’ and a remix of ‘Return Of The Spiders’, on the deluxe copy.
About his involvement with the project, Ezrin (who also worked with Aerosmith, Kiss, Pink Floyd, and Deep Purple) said it was just like the old days being in the studio with the gang, adding:
“None of them has changed much as a person.” “Obviously everyone’s older and more mature and more settled, but when we all get together and I watch the interplay between them, it’s 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… and make music together like they did 50-some years ago.”
On Tuesday (4.22,) the LP’s lead single, ‘Black Mamba’, will be aired for the first time on the ‘Poison’ hitmaker’s Alice’s Attic radio show.
Although it’s the first full-length studio record from the group, The Alice Cooper Band dropped the live LP ‘Live From The Astroturf’ on Record Store Day in 2018.
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Author: Al Denté
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