In news no one had on their 2025 bingo card, Alice Cooper has reunited with the original Alice Cooper band to release their first studio album together in 51 years.
Yes, you read that right. The Revenge Of Alice Cooper lands July 25, and no, this isn’t just a nostalgia cash-in. It’s the OG lineup, plus a ghost from the past.
The surviving members, namely: Cooper, guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith have teamed up for the first time since 1973’s Muscle of Love. The album even features a posthumous guest spot from late guitarist Glen Buxton, thanks to a salvaged riff from a decades-old demo that’s been resurrected into a track called “What Happened To You”. If the name sounds grim, wait for the bonus remix titled “Return Of The Spiders 2025”.
Production is handled by Bob Ezrin, the same guy who helped them shape School’s Out and Billion Dollar Babies, and who’s basically the band’s honorary member at this point. First single “Black Mamba” drops April 22 and features Robby Krieger from The Doors because clearly this whole thing wasn’t already trippy enough.
According to Cooper, recording the new album felt like they’d just picked up where they left off in the ’70s. “Isn’t that funny after 50 years?” he told Billboard. “All of a sudden it just falls into place.”
Ezrin backed that up, saying the band fell back into their teenage selves almost instantly. “They just revert to who they were as kids,” he said. “And make music together like they did 50-some years ago.”
As for whether they’ll tour? Cooper certainly isn’t ruling it out. While he can’t promise any full arena runs, there is a chance the band may play a handful of intimate sets in cities like Detroit or London. “We always leave those things open,” he said. And honestly, at this point, why not?
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