Alice Cooper: Samples Of New Album Available

Audio samples of all 11 tracks that are set to appear on Alice Cooper's forthcoming album, "Along Came A Spider", are available at this location.

Co-produced by Danny Saber, Greg Hampton and Alice himself, "Along Came A Spider" manages to marry both vintage and modern-day Alice. As theatrical as ever, the album is a sonic combination of familiar Alice musical elements from albums as diverse as "Billion Dollar Babies" and "Brutal Planet", with the storytelling of "Welcome To My Nightmare", capturing the historic dark side of Alice in peak form, an instantly recognizable presence that will be welcomed by his fans. Joining Alice on the album are members of his touring band — longtime Alice drummer Eric Singer, bassist Chuck Garric, and guitarists Keri Kelli and Jason Hook, with additional contributions from others, including Saber, Hampton, and renowned backing vocalist Bernard Fowler. Slash also lends some guitar style to "Vengeance Is Mine".

Saber and Hampton co-wrote several of the album's songs with Alice, while others were collaborations with Alice's band members. Danny Saber, best known for his role as member and producer of Black Grape, has also worked with many other artists, including The Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, and David Bowie, while Greg Hampton's been working on a new album project teaming up Buckethead and Bootsy Collins.

Who else but Alice Cooper, with "Along Came A Spider", would create a "love story" about a serial killer named Spider? His trademark is wrapping his victims in silk, and his victims are specifically chosen to feed his hunger to kill. But, upon meeting his (possibly) last victim, he falls in love with her and cannot kill to complete his plan. That could be his demise.

Though it is often said about artists with as rich a history as Alice that their newest albums capture the essence of their greatest work, it may honestly be proposed that "Along Came A Spider" does exactly that. It's got hard rock with hooks, an Alice trademark ("Vengeance Is Mine", "I Know Where You Live"), classic balladry, another Alice trademark ("Killed By Love", "Salvation"), and always with an overtone of evil, yet another Alice tradmark. Throughout the album, Alice becomes Spider, telling the story of a cold-blooded killer to life vocally, as if this were the soundtrack to an as-yet unmade horror film.

"Along Came A Spider" track listing:

01. Prologue/I Know Where You Live
02. Vengeance Is Mine
03. Wake The Dead
04. Catch Me If You Can
05. (In Touch With) Your Feminine Side
06. Wrapped In Silk
07. Killed By Love
08. I'm Hungry
09. The One That Got Away
10. Salvation
11. I Am The Spider/Epilogue

The track, Vengeance Is Mine, is available for streaming on Cooper's MySpace page.

"Along Came A Spider" is scheduled for release on July 29 via SPV Records.

Thanks for the report to Blabbermouth.net.

Comments

[theotherguy7145]

Damn! I'd already heard Vengence Is Mine on Youtube before i read this! But oh well
I can't wait to hear which track Slash plays on either. Alices new album should be awesome!

[theotherguy7145]

Woops, Slash did play guitar on Vengence is Mine.
I meant i wonder if he's on any more tracks!

[DaveGilmour1189]

AWESOME!

[waykewl]

Can't wait for this one

[DoteStudios]

I have the whole album already! I've had it for about a week. I have tabbed a bunch of the riffs from the songs already and will release them before the album comes out, just to prove that I have all the songs and that I am Alice's biggest fan. It's an amazing album, here is a description of each song:
"Prologue/I Know Where You Live" (starts off with a creepy intro about the killer, the prologue then the song begins, which is funny but also really good!), "Vengeance Is Mine" (Slash's great solo is on this, it is very "Brutal Planet"-like), "Wake The Dead" (a very fun song and catchy, Ozzy does an amazing harmonica intro, which is throughout the song as well. Also my favorite song if I was forced to choose), "Catch Me If You Can" (it is a very good "Brutal Planet"-like song), "In Touch With Your Feminine Side (is a rock song it's kinda "Dirty Diamonds"-like) "Wrapped In Silk" (the intro of this song is very very similar to the intro of "I Just Wanna Rock" by Joe Satriani, it is very good another high light of the album), and I do like "Killed By Love" a lot(it has a 70s Alice taste to it, a great ballad), "I'm Hungry" (this has back-up vocals throughout almost the whole song, its a very rock-like song, also the main verse "I'M HUNGRY!" is very very similar to Spinal Tap's "HELL HOLE!" really close), "The One Got Away" (has a very great/funny intro and also has a speaking part between Alice and Calico, his daughter in real life, where he tries to have her help me open his "van" for him but she says she can't cus of a broken nail, so...she gets away), "Salvation" (another ballad, it has piano throughout the whole song and it is kinda like "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" very similar), "I am the Spider/Epilogue" (great ending to the album, its very dark and evil, also the ending of epilogue is the biggest thrill, Spider's inmate is...SPOILER...Steven from "Welcome To My Nightmare!!!!"). Thats my review and you'll just have to wait for the album like everyone else, enjoy. I will release the tabs soon so when the album comes out you can play all the songs. Anything for my fellow sick things.