The Alice Cooper Group have released new single, 'Black Mamba', the first track from their upcoming album.
This album, 'The Revenge of Alice Cooper' arrives later this Summer, breaking a 51 year hiatus of the original 1968 line up, which included: bassist Dennis Dunaway, guitarist Michael Bruce, drummer Neal Smith, and late guitarist Glen Buxton.
The video for 'Black Mamba', which you can check out below, includes Doors' guitarist Robby Krieger.
Speaking about the track, Alice Cooper, claimed that it is as “definitely an Alice Cooper, from-the-ground-up song”, before adding: “We didn’t know where it was gonna go. At the end we looked at each other and went, ‘Oh, that’s pretty good!'”.
On the studio session which inspired the track, Dennis Dunaway added: “It wasn’t even a song yet. “[W]e start jamming on the riff and warming up together. The next thing you know we get this swampy feel and decide it’s gonna be about a black mamba snake, which is very deadly, and it fell into place".
“It was so new Alice had to stop us at one point and ask me if I remembered what the melody was. It was very spontaneous".
Cooper also stated that he had no intention of approaching this album like one of his own.
“If we’re gonna do an original Alice record, I want it to sound like the original Alice band,” he said. “The original band has a darker sound, and a heavier sound. It’s a very different personality, and I even sing differently when I sing with those guys".
Elsewhere, producer and backing musician, Bob Ezrin added: “When we started to play that… I knew the spirit of the Alice Cooper group was back and that what we were making was very much an album that could’ve been [from] the ‘70s, when we were last together".
“It had the psychedelia, it had the artful drumming and bass playing, the great atmospheric guitars. It has Alice telling a really fabulous story, in character".
