The original Alice Cooper band has returned, with the shock-rock legend announcing The Revenge of Alice Cooper, the group’s first album in 51 years.
The Bob Ezrin-produced album sees Cooper reunited with his old bandmates Michael Bruce (guitar), Dennis Dunaway (bass), and Neal Smith (drums). The tracklist includes 14 songs plus two bonus tracks, including a 2025 remix of the Easy Action cut “Return of the Spiders.” The lead single and opening track “Black Mamba,” which features The Doors’ Robby Krieger, is set to premier Tuesday (April 22nd) via Cooper’s syndicated radio show, “Alice’s Attic.”
Speaking with Billboard about the reunion album, Cooper said the project fell into place as if no time had passed, the band picking up where it left off after 1973’s Muscle of Love.
“It was very much like this was our next album after Muscle of Love, just like, ‘OK, this is the next album,’” he said. “Isn’t that funny after 50 years? All of a sudden it just falls into place.”
Ezrin helmed the board for the seminal albums released by the original Cooper band in the early 1970s — Killers, School’s Out, and Billion Dollar Babies — and he likened the sessions for the new album to those he produced back in the day.
“None of them has changed much as a person,” Ezrin told Billboard. “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.”
The album is the culmination of the old Alice Cooper bandmates gradually reconnecting in recent years. All four living members played at the band’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2011, which led to additional in-studio collaborations on Cooper’s subsequent solo albums and the occasional onstage reunion.
“All of those things got everybody reacquainted — reacquainted is a weird term ’cause we’re so much like family, so it’s more like a family reunion,” Dennis Dunaway told Billboard. “Then Alice and Bob called and were talking about, ‘Oh yeah, we want to do an album,’ because there’s so many songs kicking around.”
Meanwhile, Alice will be active with his current live band in 2025, as well, with spring/summer headlining dates and a co-headlining fall run with Judas Priest on the books. Get tickets here.
You can check out the full tracklist and album art for The Revenge of Alice Cooper below.
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The Revenge of Alice Cooper Tracklist:
01. Black Mamba
02. Wild Ones
03. Up All Night
04. Kill The Flies
05. One Night Stand
06. Blood On The Sun
07. Crap That Gets In The Way Of Your Dreams
08. Famous Face
09. Money Screams
10. What A Syd
11. Inter Galactic Vagabond Blues
12. What Happened To You
13. I Ain’t Done Wrong
14. See You On The Other Side
15. Return of the Spiders 2025 (bonus track)
16. Titanic Overunderture (bonus track)
