The original Alice Cooper group takes fans on a rocking sonic ride with “Wild Ones,” the just-released second advance single from its upcoming reunion album, The Revenge of Alice Cooper. The song was inspired by the 1953 classic cult film The Wild One. The movie starred Marlon Brando as the rebellious leader of an outlaw motorcycle gang.
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The tune is highlighted by Alice Cooper’s snarling lead vocals, Neal Smith’s thunderous drumming, and blistering guitar solos.
“We are the wild ones crashin’ through the night /Livin’ in the shadows, hidden from the light,” Cooper sings in the first verse. “Revving up our engines, sharpening our claws /’Cause baby when you’re hungry, the jungle is the law.”
“Wild Ones” is available now via digital formats. A companion music video has debuted at the earMUSIC label’s YouTube channel.
The video features black-and-white footage of Cooper and his bandmates—Smith, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and guitarist Michael Bruce—working on the track at Carriage House Studios in Stamford, Connecticut.
The clip also includes closeup footage of motorcycles, plus scenes of a desert highway, and vultures soaring in the sky.
More Details About The Revenge of Alice Cooper
The Revenge of Alice Cooper will be released on July 25. It’s the first full-length album Cooper has made with fellow original Alice Cooper members Bruce, Dunaway, and Smith since 1973.
According to a press release, The Revenge of Alice Cooper “is a high-voltage journey into vintage horror and classic ’70s shock rock, capturing the sound, energy, and mischief that made the original Alice Cooper band legendary.”
The album features a posthumous appearance by the group’s founding lead guitarist, Glen Buxton, who died in 1997. An unreleased Buxton guitar part was incorporated into a new song titled “What Happened to You” that appears on the record.
The Doors’ Robby Krieger played guitar on “Black Mamba,” which was released as the first advance single from the album.
The Revenge of Alice Cooper is available for pre-order now, and will be available in various formats and configurations. Among them are a standard CD, multiple two-LP vinyl variants, digital formats, and a limited-edition box set.
The vinyl versions of the album include a standard black-vinyl release and limited-edition collections pressed on either neon-yellow or violet-marbled vinyl.
The box set features a CD digipak copy of the album and a 7-inch vinyl single with two bonus tracks. It also comes with a high-quality art print and an exclusive T-shirt. Only 5,000 copies of the box set have been produced, each one individually numbered.
The bonus tracks are a pair of newly remixed archival recordings. One is an alternate version of “Return of the Spiders,” a song originally featured on the Alice Cooper band’s 1970 album Easy Action. The other is a remix of the 1969 instrumental “Titanic Overunderture,” from Alice Cooper’s debut album, Pretties for You.
Alice Cooper’s Upcoming Tour Plans
Alice Cooper and his current touring band’s next show is a June 14 performance at the Best of Blues and Rock Festival in São Paulo, Brazil. The shock rocker will then head to Europe for a summer trek. That outing is scheduled from a July 5 performance in Hannover, Germany, through a July 30 concert in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
Alice and his band will finish the summer with a series of U.S. dates. That leg is plotted out from a joint show with My Chemical Romance on August 15 in Philadelphia through an August 30 headlining concert at the Graceland Soundstage in Memphis, Tennessee.
Then, Cooper will team up with Judas Priest in the fall for a North American co-headlining tour. The trek run from a September 16 show in Biloxi, Mississippi, through a October 26 concert in The Woodlands, Texas.
Check out all of Cooper’s dates at AliceCooper.com.
(Photo by Jenny Risher)
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