Original Lineup of Alice Cooper Returns With New Single, 'Black Mamba'

Just a Few Days After The Surviving Members of the Original Alice Cooper Band AnnoUnedd A Reunion Album and Tour, The First Single from that record has Been Relesed.

Starting with a Spooky Spooky-Word Recitation That Confirm Cooper As the Vincent Price of His Generation, “Black Mamba” Finds the 77-Year-Old Cooper Slipping Back Into Demon-Seed Role of Old (“I'm So Beautiful to Look at, Baby/But So Dangerous To Touch”). Behind Him, Guitarist Mike Bruce, Drummer Neal Smith, and Bassist Dennis Dunaway, All Founding members of the Classic Seventies Band, Lather on the Vintage Rock Sleaze. The Song Also Features in Wild-Eyed Solo from Another Classic-rock icon, Doors Guitarist Robby Krieger.

“Black mamba” is the initial track to be rolled out from The Revenge of Alice Cooper (Out July 25), The First New Record From The Core Members of the Cooper Lineup Since 1973's Muscle of Love. (And If you Remember that Liza Minnelli Gueted on that album, Consider Yourself a Cooper Expert.) ALTHOUGH ORIGINAL GUTARIST Glen Buxton Succumbed to Pneumonia in 1997, He's Heard on “What Happened to You,” Which Integraates a Previously Unreleleased Guitar part Buxton Recorded Before His Passing. Buxton Also appears on an unreleased alternating Version of the 1970 track “Return of the Spiders,” a bonus cut on deluxe editions of the album.

Described in a statement as a “high-vault Journey into vintage horror and classic '70s shock rock,” with cover artworks that resets a horror-film poster, The Revenge of Alice Cooper will be followed by a co-headlining tour with judas priest this fall.