Alice Cooper avait déjà invité régulièrement ses anciens acolytes sur ses dernières sorties et notamment Detroit Stories, mais là cette fois il reforme carrément le line-up du début des 70's! 50 ans plus tard, cela doit être un record.
Est-ce que ça veut dire que son groupe habituel est mis au chômage technique? Aucune idée.
Alice Cooper reunites with original band members Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, and Neal Smith for the first time in 50 years with The Revenge Of Alice Cooper, reports Buddy Iahn of The Music Universe. The upcoming album is set for release on July 25th via earMusic and also features original guitarist Glen Buxton, who passed away in 1997. It’s the group’s first collaboration since 1973’s Muscle Of Love.
The project is produced by Bob Ezrin, who has a long-standing history with Cooper, having worked on iconic albums such as Love It To Death, Killer, School’s Out, and Billion Dollar Babies with the original band, as well as numerous solo albums by Alice Cooper, including 1975’s Welcome To My Nightmare and 2021’s Detroit Stories.
The album is described as a high-voltage journey into vintage horror and classic ’70s shock rock, packed with the sound, energy, and mischief that made them legendary. It aims to recapture the spirit of his classic albums with electrifying riffs, raw energy, and Cooper’s signature storytelling.
A special edition will also include a seven-inch vinyl with two bonus tracks — “Return Of The Spiders 2025” and “Titanic Overunderture”.
I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun
Colors bleed but never fade
Peut-être de la nostalgie et le fait qu'il s'entende désormais bien avec ces anciens collègues l'ont motivé. Artistiquement je doute de l'intérêt de la chose, les morceaux récents sur lesquels ses anciens comparses sont intervenus n'avaient rien de bien extraordinaire.
In a new interview with Matt Bingham of the Z93 radio station, legendary rocker Alice Cooper spoke about his reunion with the other surviving members of the original ALICE COOPER band — guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neal Smith — for an upcoming studio album, "The Revenge Of Alice Cooper", which is due on July 25 via earMUSIC. This highly anticipated effort is heralded as the successor to their iconic records "School's Out", "Billion Dollar Babies", "Love It to Death" and "Killer".
The first single from the album, "Black Mamba", was made available in April, featuring the legendary Robby Krieger of THE DOORS.
Regarding how the reunion with the other original members of the ALICE COOPER came about, Alice told Z93 (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Well, the funny thing was when we disbanded in '74, that was not like a divorce; that was a separation. And we all stayed in touch with each other. Everybody did their own music. Dennis worked a lot with BLUE ÖYSTER CULT and things like that. And so on the last four Alice Cooper albums, they played on two or three of the songs. And finally I just said, 'Why don't we just do an album?' And [longtime Alice Cooper producer] Bob Ezrin said, 'I'll do it.' He did all the original ones with us. And the great thing was it felt like no time had gone past us. This album sounds like the album that should have come out right after 'Billion Dollar Babies'. We didn't try to make it sound like the '70s, we didn't try to make it sound like anything — it was just exactly what would've happened in 1975. So I'm really proud of the album. It's just really a clever album."
Asked by Bingham if there was a "déjà vu" feeling surrounding the recording sessions, considering that all the musicians and the producer had previously worked together more than 50 years earlier, Alice said: "Oh, yeah, absolutely. Honestly, it didn't feel like we missed a beat. And I forgot how funny the band was. I forgot how funny Dennis and Neal and Mike were. And every song we just got along on everything. There was no argument about any song. Everybody [was] just, 'Let's try this.' 'Oh, let's try that.' 'Let's try this.' In the end, we agreed to everything, and it sounded great. Now, we did have the luxury of going to different lead guitar players because Glen Buxton, our original lead guitar player, passed away. So, Robby Krieger played on 'Black Mamba' and a couple other songs. And so we had a bunch of different lead players on it."
I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun
Colors bleed but never fade
