The original Alice Cooper group has released the first single from their upcoming reunion album, The Revenge of Alice Cooper. The song, a sinister-sounding mid-tempo rock tune called “Black Mamba,” features a guest appearance by Doors guitarist Robby Krieger.
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“Black Mamba” is available now via all major digital platforms. Alice Cooper has also debuted a lyric video for the track at the earMUSIC label’s official YouTube channel. The clip features new footage of the band’s surviving original members, as well as scenes of a slithering snake.
“Black Mamba” features Alice Cooper singing from the perspective of the deadly venomous snake.
Details about the song and the forthcoming album, The Revenge of Alice Cooper, were first revealed in an in-depth Billboard article posted on Monday, April 21. The album, which will be released on July 25, is the first full-length record Cooper has made with his other original Alice Cooper bandmates Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, and Neal Smith since Muscle of Love in 1973.
Official Details About The Revenge of Alice Cooper Have Been Announced
Full official details about The Revenge of Alice Cooper have now been announced. The album is available for pre-order now, and will be available in various formats and configurations.
Among them are a standard CD, multiple vinyl LP variants, digital formats, and a limited-edition box set.
The vinyl versions of the album, which all are two-LP sets, include a standard black-vinyl release, and limited-edition collections pressed on either neon-yellow or violet-marbled vinyl.
The box set features a CD digipak copy of the album and a 7-inh vinyl single with two bonus tracks. It also comes with a high-quality art print and an exclusive extra-large Alice Cooper T-shirt. Only 5,000 copies of the box set have been produced, each one individually numbered.
According to a new press release, The Revenge of Alice Cooper “is a high-voltage journey into vintage horror and classic ’70s shock rock, capturing the sound, energy, and mischief that made the original Alice Cooper band legendary.”
The album features a posthumous appearance by founding lead guitarist Glen Buxton, who died in 1997. An unreleased Buxton guitar part was incorporated into a new song titled “What Happened to You.”
The bonus tracks are a pair of newly remixed archival recordings. One is an alternate version of “Return of the Spiders,” a song originally featured on the Alice Cooper band’s 1970 album Easy Action. The other is a remix of the 1969 instrumental “Titanic Overunderture,” from Alice Cooper’s debut album, Pretties for You.
The Revenge of Alice Cooper was produced by longtime Alice Cooper studio collaborator Bob Ezrin.
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