The Revenge of Alice Cooper
The Revenge of Alice Cooper is the eighth studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper. It was released on July 25, 2025, by earMusic and is the group's first full collaboration since 1973's Muscle of Love.
Background
The surviving members of the original Alice Cooper band reunited for some songs on Cooper's albums, Welcome 2 My Nightmare, Paranormal and Detroit Stories. Producer Bob Ezrin and Alice Cooper said that a new album with the surviving members would be possible.On April 19, 2025, it was announced that Alice Cooper had reunited with former band members Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, and Neal Smith for the first time in 51 years to release The Revenge of Alice Cooper. The album was released on July 25 via earMusic and also features guitarists Gyasi Heus and Rick Tedesco filling in for original guitarist Glen Buxton who died in 1997, although some unreleased guitar recordings by Buxton are heard on the album on the songs "Black Mamba", "What Happened to You", and "Return of the Spiders 2025".
Production
The album is produced by Bob Ezrin, who worked with the original group on previous albums such as Love It to Death, Killer, School’s Out, and Billion Dollar Babies as well as 11 solo albums by lead vocalist Alice Cooper including 1975's Welcome To My Nightmare.Release
The album's first single "Black Mamba" debuted on April 22, 2025, on Cooper's syndicated radio show Alice's Attic.The project was released on various formats including CD digipack, double black vinyl LP, a double yellow vinyl LP, an autographed double pink & black swirl vinyl LP and a special limited edition box set featuring CD, 7 inch vinyl, art print, and T-shirt.
Personnel
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.Alice Cooper
- Alice Cooper – lead vocals, backing vocals ; snaps, gang vocals ; harp, claps
- Neal Smith – drums, percussion
- Dennis Dunaway – bass, backing vocals, guitar, gang vocals
- Michael Bruce – guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals ; piano, synthesizer ; Rhodes electric piano, organ
- Glen Buxton – guitar
Additional contributors
- Bob Ezrin – production, [Audio Audio mixing (recorded music)|mixing (recorded music)|mixing] ; backing vocals, tambourine, organ, synthesizer, percussion ; snaps, gang vocals ; claps
- Gyasi Heus – guitar, glockenspiel
- Anthony Iordanov – engineering, mixing
- McLee Mathiaus – engineering
- Justin Cortelyou – engineering
- Bobby Holland – engineering
- Nichole Schmidt – engineering
- Clarke Rigsby – engineering, backing vocals
- Dick Kunc – engineering
- Barry Keene – engineering
- Kyle Blunt – engineering assistance
- Louis Remenapp – engineering assistance
- Jasper Terpstra – engineering assistance
- Diego Diaz – pre-production engineering
- Julian Shank – mixing
- Kim Markovchick – production management
- Robert Vosgien – mastering
- Robby Krieger – lead guitar
- Rick Tedesco – guitar
- Steve Potts – guitar
- Conrad Varela – guitar
- AD Adams – percussion, backing vocals
- Lynn Bruce – additional bass, backing vocals
- Tom Booth – B3 organ, backing vocals
- Jeff Burkett – backing vocals
- Ross Harwood – piano
- David Briggs – production
- Len DeLessio – photography
- Graham Humphreys – art direction, cover design
- Marek Swiatek – layout design