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Released | July 28, 2017 | |||
Genre | Hard rock | |||
Length | 34:11 | |||
Label | earMusic | |||
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Paranormal is the twentieth solo and twenty-seventh overall studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released on July 28, 2017. [1] [2] [3] It features three tracks performed by the "classic" line-up of the Alice Cooper band (Neal Smith, Dennis Dunaway, and Michael Bruce, without Glen Buxton, who died in 1997) plus Larry Mullen Jr. from U2, Roger Glover from Deep Purple, Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top, Swedish songwriter and session guitarist Tommy Denander, Alice Cooper bandmate Tommy Henriksen, Steve Hunter. [4] "Holy Water" is a cover of the Villebillies song.
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 72/100 [5] |
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No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Paranormal" | Alice Cooper, Tommy Denander, Roger Glover, Bob Ezrin | 4:11 |
2. | "Dead Flies" | Cooper, Denander, Ezrin | 2:22 |
3. | "Fireball" | Dennis Dunaway, Cooper | 4:49 |
4. | "Paranoiac Personality" | Cooper, Denander, Ezrin, Tommy Henriksen | 3:12 |
5. | "Fallen in Love" | Cooper, Denander, Ezrin, Henriksen | 3:34 |
6. | "Dynamite Road" | Cooper, Denander, Ezrin | 2:43 |
7. | "Private Public Breakdown" | Cooper, Parker Gispert, Ezrin | 3:26 |
8. | "Holy Water" | Cooper, Stanley Demaree, Duston Monyhan, Tim Bernauer, Malcolm McLaughlin, Lewis Richards, Ezrin | 3:08 |
9. | "Rats" | Cooper, Henriksen, Ezrin | 2:39 |
10. | "The Sound of A" | Cooper, Dunaway | 4:07 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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11. | "Genuine American Girl" | Cooper, Neal Smith, Ezrin | 4:27 |
12. | "You and All of Your Friends" | Cooper, Dunaway, Ezrin | 2:41 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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13. | "No More Mr. Nice Guy" | Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce | 3:10 |
14. | "Under My Wheels" | Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Bob Ezrin | 2:56 |
15. | "Billion Dollar Babies" | Cooper, Bruce, Reggie Vinson | 3:38 |
16. | "Feed My Frankenstein" | Mark Manning, Ian Richardson, Nick Coler, Cooper | 5:01 |
17. | "Only Women Bleed" | Cooper, Dick Wagner | 5:08 |
18. | "School's Out" | Cooper, Glen Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Neal Smith | 6:06 |
Chart (2017) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA) [9] | 4 |
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [10] | 8 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [11] | 15 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [12] | 5 |
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [13] | 17 |
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI) [14] | 7 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [15] | 24 |
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [16] | 9 |
French Albums (SNEP) [17] | 57 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [18] | 4 |
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [19] | 10 |
Italian Albums (FIMI) [20] | 47 |
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [21] | 186 |
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [22] | 33 |
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [23] | 15 |
Scottish Albums (OCC) [24] | 3 |
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [25] | 31 |
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [26] | 6 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [27] | 3 |
UK Albums (OCC) [28] | 6 |
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [29] | 1 |
US Billboard 200 [30] | 32 |
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [31] | 1 |
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard) [32] | 1 |
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [33] | 6 |
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