The Alice Cooper Band reunion is official, and it’s the kind of rock news that’ll knock your eyeliner off. After 50 years, the OG shock rock crew is dropping a brand-new album called The Revenge of Alice Cooper, their first since 1973’s Muscle of Love. Yeah, it’s been that long. The new record lands on July 25, and it feels like they never left.
Alice Cooper, now 77 and still raising hell, is back with his original bandmates: guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neil Smith. They’re joined by Nashville shredder Gyasi Hues, but the real emotional hit? Late guitarist Glen Buxton, who passed in 1997, appears posthumously on the track What Happened to You and a deluxe remix of Return of the Spiders. That’s some serious full-circle energy.
Back in the studio with legendary producer Bob Ezrin (yeah, the same dude who worked on Love It to Death, Killer, School’s Out, and Billion Dollar Babies), the vibe was straight-up nostalgic. According to Alice, it felt like no time had passed. “It was very much like this was our next album after Muscle of Love,” he told Billboard. “Isn’t that funny after 50 years? All of a sudden it just falls into place.”
Bob Ezrin echoed the same sentiment. “None of them has changed much as a person,” he said. “It’s like they just walked out of high school and were hanging out in the local café.” The chemistry’s still raw and real, and the new songs are proof.
The lead single, Black Mamba, is set to premiere on Alice’s SiriusXM show, Alice’s Attic, this Tuesday, April 22. If it’s anything like the teaser clips swirling around, it’s going to be all grit, venom, and classic Cooper attitude.
Now, while the group did drop a live record (Live From The Astroturf) for Record Store Day in 2018 and showed up on Alice’s solo LP Detroit Stories in 2021, this is the first full studio album from the band since Nixon was president. Think about that.
The Alice Cooper Band reunion isn’t just nostalgia, it’s legit rock history in the making.
