Alice Cooper is working with members of his original band on what will be his next album.
The shock rocker says he's looking to his 1971 album Killer for inspiration on the next release, on which he's teamed up with former Alice Cooper Band men Neal Smith, Mike Bruce and Dennis Dunaway.
Drummer Smith, guitarist Bruce and bassist Dunaway have all been writing for what will be the follow-up to 2011's Welcome 2 My Nightmare. The trio were all also involved in writing that album, said to be a sort of sequel to 1975's Welcome To My Nightmare.
Cooper tells the Weekender: “I wrote three or four songs with Neal Smith and Mike Bruce. And so we worked together in Phoenix for about two weeks just writing songs and demoing songs. And you never know which ones are going to make the album, but I said let’s do that.
“Dennis Dunaway wrote two or three things. We haven’t seen those yet, but I know Dennis has always written great stuff.
"It’s fun to go back and work with guys you haven’t worked with in a while. It’s not trying to recapture your youth. It’s trying to recapture a sound. And it’s a very elusive sound.”
Meanwhile, Cooper says his supergroup Hollywood Vampires will include mostly original material on their second album. Cooper, Johnny Depp and Joe Perry released their debut album last year, featuring a string of cover versions.
Cooper says: “I think the Vampires next album will be almost 90% new stuff."
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