“The Revenge of Alice Cooper: Original Members Back Together After Half a Century

The Alice Coop­er Band was one of the most pop­u­lar glam rock bands of the ’70s, cap­tur­ing the hearts of fans with their high­ly ener­getic per­for­mances and hard-hit­ting sound. Formed by front­man Vin­cent Furnier (who lat­er had a solo career with stage name Alice Coop­er), lead gui­tarist Glen Bux­ton, rhythm gui­tarist and key­boardist Michael Bruce, bassist Den­nis Dun­away, and drum­mer Neal Smith, the band rose to fame with their rebel­lious image and hits like “School’s Out” and “I’m Eigh­teen,” releas­ing six suc­cess­ful albums. Sad­ly, the band expe­ri­enced a breakup in 1975.

More than five decades after their split, the Alice Coop­er band stunned fans with a recent announce­ment about the reunion of the orig­i­nal mem­bers and the release of a brand-new album

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Alice Coop­er announces the release of the new album, ‘The Revenge of Alice Coop­er’

The band, in a state­ment to a news out­let, revealed that a new album, The Revenge of Alice Coop­er, fea­tur­ing Coop­er, Michael Bruce on gui­tar, Den­nis Dun­away on bass, Neal Smith on drums, and a posthu­mous appear­ance from Glen Bux­ton, who passed away in 1997, will be released on Ear­Mu­sic by July 25

The upcom­ing album marks the band’s first from the orig­i­nal Alice Coop­er line­up since their 1973 clas­sic Mus­cle of Love. Described as a high-volt­age jour­ney into vin­tage hor­ror and clas­sic ’70s shock rock, fans can expect to wit­ness the raw ener­gy and the­atri­cal flair that orig­i­nal­ly cat­a­pult­ed the group to fame.

Alice Cooper says it was pretty easy reuniting with his former bandmates

In an inter­view about the band’s reunion, Alice Coop­er revealed that work­ing togeth­er again with his for­mer band­mates dif­fered from what he had imag­ined. He explained that despite the long hia­tus, the team­work was seam­less, like rid­ing a bicy­cle effort­less­ly again.

The 77-year-old stat­ed that even though their last album was released in 1973, the band sur­pris­ing­ly took off from where it left off, blend­ing per­fect­ly as though there had nev­er been a break. He fur­ther stat­ed that the ease at which the cre­ative process and team effort flowed led to the even­tu­al craft­ing of yet anoth­er mas­ter­piece from the Alice Coop­er band.