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Alice Cooper Announces First Album With Original Bandmates in 51 Years

The surviving members of Alice Cooper have come together to record their first new album in 51 years.

Cooper shared the news during a Billboard interview published Monday, revealing he had reunited with guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith to record The Revenge Of Alice Cooper, slated for release on July 25, with a feature on two songs by guitarist Glen Buxton, who died in 1997 at 49 years old. Producer Bob Ezrin — who worked with the group on 1971’s Love it to Death, School’s Out in 1972, and chart-topper Billion Dollar Babies the following year — echoed Cooper’s sentiments and said almost nothing has changed since collaborating with the band in the Seventies. When reacting to the news, Cooper told Rolling Stone the year prior, “I was elated and I called the original band guys immediately, and said, ‘Well, remember when we started in high school?’ [Laughs] ‘Here we are.

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