The Revenge of Alice Cooper

The Revenge of Alice Cooper
Studio album by Alice Cooper
Released	July 25, 2025 (2025-07-25)
Studio	Carriage House (Stamford) Soultrain (Nashville) Pentavarit (Nashville) Noble Street (Toronto) The Village (West Los Angeles) Tempest (Phoenix) Whitney (Glendale) Sunwest (Hollywood) [1]
Genre	Hard rock shock rock
Length	54:20
Label	earMusic
Producer	Bob Ezrin
Alice Cooper chronology
Road (2023) The Revenge of Alice Cooper (2025)
Singles from The Revenge of Alice Cooper
"Black Mamba" Released: April 23, 2025 "Wild Ones" Released: June 4, 2025 "Up All Night" Released: July 16, 2025

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	75/100 [2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Arts Desk	[4]
Classic Rock	[5]
Mojo	[6]
musicOMH	[7]
Record Collector	[8]
Uncut	7/10 [9]

The Revenge of Alice Cooper is the eighth studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper. It was released on July 25, 2025 by earMusic and is the group's first collaboration since 1973's Muscle of Love . ^[10]

Background

The surviving members of the original Alice Cooper band reunited for some songs on Cooper's albums, Welcome 2 My Nightmare (2011), Paranormal (2017) and Detroit Stories (2021). Producer Bob Ezrin and Alice Cooper said that a new album with the surviving members would be possible. ^[11]

On April 19, 2025, it was announced that Alice Cooper had reunited with former band members Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, and Neal Smith for the first time in 51 years to release The Revenge of Alice Cooper. The album was released on July 25 via earMusic and also features guitarists Gyasi Heus and Rick Tedesco filling in for original guitarist Glen Buxton who died in 1997, although some unreleased guitar recordings by Buxton are heard on the album on the song "What Happened to You". ^[12]

Production

The album is produced by Bob Ezrin, having worked with the original group on previous albums such as Love It to Death , Killer , School’s Out , and Billion Dollar Babies as well as 11 solo albums by lead vocalist Alice Cooper including 1975's Welcome To My Nightmare . ^[13]

Release

The album's first single "Black Mamba" debuted on April 22, 2025 on Cooper's syndicated radio show Alice's Attic. ^[14]

The project was released on various formats including CD digipack, double black vinyl LP, a double yellow vinyl LP and a special limited edition box set featuring CD, 7 inch vinyl, art print, and T-shirt. ^[15]

Track listing

The Revenge of Alice Cooper track listing ^[1]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Black Mamba"	Alice Cooper Bob Ezrin Michael Bruce	4:57
2.	"Wild Ones"	Cooper Ezrin Dennis Dunaway	4:17
3.	"Up All Night"	Cooper Ezrin Bruce	3:07
4.	"Kill the Flies"	Cooper Ezrin Neal Smith	4:13
5.	"One Night Stand"	Cooper Ezrin Dunaway	3:06
6.	"Blood on the Sun"	Dunaway	6:03
7.	"Crap That Gets in the Way of Your Dreams"	Cooper Ezrin Smith	3:00
8.	"Famous Face"	Bruce	4:19
9.	"Money Screams"	Cooper Bruce Smith	3:44
10.	"What a Syd"	Cooper Dunaway	2:42
11.	"Intergalactic Vagabond Blues"	Cooper Ezrin Bruce Smith	3:11
12.	"What Happened to You"	Cooper Ezrin Dunaway Glen Buxton Bruce Smith	4:00
13.	"I Ain't Done Wrong"	Keith Relf	3:43
14.	"See You on the Other Side"	Cooper Dunaway Smith	3:58

7-inch LP bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
15.	"Return of the Spiders 2025"	Cooper Bruce Dunaway Buxton Smith	4:17
16.	"Titanic Overunderture"	Cooper Bruce Dunaway Buxton Smith	1:27

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. ^[1]

Alice Cooper

• Alice Cooper – vocals (all tracks), backing vocals (tracks 1–4, 6–9, 11); snaps, gang vocals (10); harp (11, 13), claps (11)
• Neal Smith – drums (1–14), percussion (1, 6)
• Dennis Dunaway – bass (1–14), backing vocals (1, 4, 6, 14), guitar (6), gang vocals (10)
• Michael Bruce – guitar (1–14), backing vocals (1, 2, 5, 8, 12, 14), lead vocals (8); piano, synthesizer (8); Rhodes electric piano (10), organ (16)

Additional contributors

• Bob Ezrin – production, mixing (all tracks); backing vocals (2, 4–9, 11, 12, 14), tambourine (3, 12), organ (4, 6), synthesizer (4), percussion (7); snaps, gang vocals (10); claps (11)
• Gyasi Heus – guitar (1–14), glockenspiel (4)
• Anthony Iordanov – engineering, mixing (1–14)
• McLee Mathiaus – engineering (1–14)
• Justin Cortelyou – engineering (1–14)
• Bobby Holland – engineering (1–14)
• Nichole Schmidt – engineering (1–14)
• Clarke Rigsby – engineering (1–14), backing vocals (8)
• Dick Kunc – engineering (1–14)
• Barry Keene – engineering (1–14)
• Kyle Blunt – engineering assistance (1–14)
• Louis Remenapp – engineering assistance (1–14)
• Jasper Terpstra – engineering assistance (1–14)
• Diego Diaz – pre-production engineering (1–14)
• Julian Shank – mixing (1–14)
• Kim Markovchick – production management (1–14)
• Robert Vosgien – mastering (1–14)
• Glen Buxton – guitar (1, 12, 15)
• Robby Krieger – lead guitar (1)
• Rick Tedesco – guitar (2–4, 6–8, 11, 14)
• Steve Potts – guitar (8)
• Conrad Varela – guitar (8)
• AD Adams – percussion, backing vocals (8)
• Lynn Bruce – additional bass, backing vocals (8)
• Tom Booth – B3 organ, backing vocals (8)
• Jeff Burkett – backing vocals (8)
• Ross Harwood – piano (12)
• David Briggs – production (15)
• Len DeLessio – photography
• Graham Humphreys – art direction, cover design
• Marek Swiatek – layout design

Charts

Chart performance for The Revenge of Alice Cooper

Chart (2025)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [16]	12
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [17]	3
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [18]	12
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [19]	6
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [20]	30
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [21]	14
French Albums (SNEP) [22]	32
French Rock & Metal Albums (SNEP) [23]	2
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [24]	2
Japanese Western Albums (Oricon) [25]	22
Scottish Albums (OCC) [26]	3
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [27]	3
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [28]	2
UK Albums (OCC) [29]	9
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [30]	2
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [31]	1
US Billboard 200 [32]	72
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [33]	14
US Top Rock & Alternative Albums ( Billboard ) [34]	16

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5. Discount the fillers, which are of high, if throwaway, quality and you've a strong 12-banger cracker of a record. [Aug 2025, p.72]
6. Buxton's posthumous appearance on the raw, Eddie Cochran-esque What Happened To You also shines, but elsewhere things sometimes get formulaic, the horror cod and the guillotine a little blunt. [Aug 2025, p.77]
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