Music Cooper gathers original members for first album in 51 years

The original band members Alice Cooper They gathered to record the first album in 51 years. The news was shared by Cooper during an interview with Billboard published on Monday, 21.

The musician revealed that he met with the guitarist Michael Brucethe bassist Dennis Dunaway and the drummer Neal Smith to record The Revenge of Alice Cooperprogrammed to be released on July 25. The album also has excerpts recorded by Glen Buxtondied guitarist in 1997, in two songs.

It worked as follows: This is our next muscle of love album (1973). Okay, it’s the next one. But isn’t it funny that it appears 50 years later? Suddenly, everything fits, “he said Alice Cooper.

The album will have 14 tracks and is dedicated “to our brother Glen Buxton“. The band rescued a riff from an old demo tape made by Dunaway and Buxton for music “What Happened to You”while the limited edition in Box will include “Return of the Spiders 2025”a remix bonus of a track from the group’s second album, Easy Action (1970).

The producer Bob Ezrin – who worked with the group in Love It to Death (1971), School’s out (1972) and in success Billion Dollar Babies the following year – echoed the feelings of Cooper And he said that almost nothing has changed since collaboration with the band in the seventy years.

None of them changed a lot as a person. When we all gathered and I observe the interaction between them, it is as if they have just left high school and are spending time together at the local coffee. They simply come back to what they were. They are who they were when they first came together … and they do music together as they did for over 50 years, “he said Ezrin.

The first single from the new album, “Black Mamba”should be available later this Tuesday, 22, and has Robby Kriegerfrom The Doors. About that, Cooper is preparing for a legendary tour with the Judas Priest in 22 cities in North America.

Although a meeting tour of the Alice Cooper Not yet confirmed, the singer said that a robust agenda is unlikely, but that the group can make smaller performances in some cities. “We always leave these things open, and if it seems viable then we do,” he said.

All four surviving members last played together in the band’s induction Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. When reacting to the appointment, Cooper said to Rolling Stone At the time: “I was radiant and immediately called the guys of the original band and said, ‘Well, remember when we started at school?’ [Risos] ‘Here we are. Only took 45 years. ‘”

Article published on April 22, 2025 at Rolling Stone. To read the original in English, click here.

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