Iconic rock legend back with original band for first album in more than 50 years

The “Alice Cooper Band” is back for its first new album in more than 50 years.

Billboard reports the band will release “The Revenge of Alice Cooper” on July 25. The album is the first since 1973’s “Muscle of Love.”

“It was very much like this was our next album after ‘Muscle of Love,’” Cooper told Billboard. “Just like, ‘OK, this is the next album.’ Isn’t that funny after 50 years? All of a sudden it just falls into place.”

The album will feature the surviving members of the Alice Cooper Group, including guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neal Smith.

“None of them has changed much as a person,” producer Bob Ezrin told Billboard. “Obviously everyone’s older and more mature and more settled, but when we all get together and I watch the interplay between them, it’s like they just walked out of high school and were hanging out in the local cafe. They just revert to type. They revert to who they were as kids when the first got together… and make music together like they did 50-some years ago.”

The album, per the report, consists of 14 tracks and is dedicated “to our brother Glen Buxton.”

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