Alice Cooper Group: the first single published. Listen to it here

The meeting Alice Cooper Group he published “Black Mamba“, The first song taken from his next album,”The Revenge of Alice Cooper“Which will be released on July 25 and will break a silence that lasted 51 years by the training that formed in 1968 and which included the guitarist Michael Brucethe bassist Dennis Dunawaythe drummer Neal Smith and the deceased guitarist Glen Buxton.

“Black Mamba” sees the participation of the Doors guitarist Robby Kreiger.

In a recent interview with Billboard, Alice Cooper described the song as “Definitely a song by Alice Cooper”, even without being and adding: “We didn’t know where it would go to parry. In the end we looked at each other and we said:” Oh, it’s not bad! “”.

“It wasn’t a song yet,” said bassist Dennis Dunaway of the studio session that generated the song. “We started to Jammare on the riff and to warm up together. Immediately afterwards we found this sensation of swamp and we decided that he would spoke of a Black Mamba snake, which is very lethal, and everything went to his place. It was so new that at some point Alice had to stop and wondering if I remembered what the melody was. It was very spontaneous”.

The producerco -author and support musician Bob Ezrin added: “When we started playing I knew that the spirit of the Alice Cooper group had returned and that what we were doing was an album that could have been from the 70s, the last time we were together. There is psychedelia, there is the art of drums and the bass, there are the great guitars of atmosphere – the manufacturer continued – there is a really story – fabulous, in his character “.

Cooper for his part reported that they made sure not to face the album as one of his. “If we have to make an original Alice disc, I want to sound like Alice’s original band,” he said. “The original band has a darker and heavier sound. It is a very different personality, and I also sing differently when I sing with those boys”.