Psychosonic gothapunkabilly freakoid noise merchants The Brains are on their way back from beyond with what might be their wildest album yet – their ninth altogether, and their second for Cleopatra Records… unless you wanna count last year’s Friends & Zombified Antics remix collection. Which, of course, you should.
Because the only thing better than listening to primal Lemmy, Dead Boys and the mighty Mitch Ryder is listening to what happens when the Brains get behind the remix desk.
But that was then and this is now, and if Crazy Monster isn’t set to become the most scarifying soundstorm you’ve been chased round the house by this year, then you probably need new ears.
Storming the streets on July 4, Crazy Monster is Rene De La Muerte, Colin the Dead and Gui Kitty hitting what even they agree are fresh extremes, classic Brains meet modern horrors, all incendiary guitar riffs, heart attack rhythm and ghoulish punk rock attitude!
You’ve already heard “Evil,” the first single from the album… you’re already primed for “Darkness,” “Candy Apple Red,” and the rest of this 12 song horror show.
Just to get you even more in the mood, though, here’s “Feel The Pain,” the band’s new single and their latest, breathless, video as well. And if you want to know what to expect, here’s Rene’s take on it.
“An undead nation with my favorite ghouls, this song was a blast to write!!! Getting back to old school Brains songs… I feel no pain!”
After giving fans in Europe an early taste of their upcoming new album, today, Cryptopsy are announcing the band’s first U.S. tour in support of An Insatiable Violence. This fall, they will join fellow brutal technical death metal pharaohs NILE on a 25-date tour of the East Coast, Midwest and Pacific Northwest. Joining them on this run are The Last Ten Seconds of Life and Cognitive.
“We are so excited to bring An Insatiable Violence to the United States It’s a pleasure to tour amongst friends and this lineup is incredibly stacked!”, Cryptopsy says. “Our new album was written for a live setting. The songs are more brutal and grooving so that people can really latch on and bang their heads”.
Cryptopsy’s setlist for this tour will pull from the band’s latest albums while mixing in their revered classics.
Pre-sale for this tour is available now at https://bnds.us/m6ptoe. Use the password UNDERWORLD.
The Underworld Awaits Tour USA 2025 September 12 – Raleigh, NC @ Chapel of Bones [TICKETS] September 13 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts [TICKETS] September 14 – Leesburg, VA @ Tally Ho [TICKETS] September 16 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Monarch [TICKETS] September 17 – Hampton, NH @ Wally’s [TICKETS] September 18 – Hartford, CT @ Webster Hall [TICKETS] September 19 – Lititz, PA @ Mickey’s Black Box [TICKETS] September 20 – Clifton, NJ @ Dingbatz [TICKETS] September 21 – Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall [TICKETS] September 22 – Cleveland, OH @ Mercury [TICKETS] September 24 – Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary [TICKETS] September 25 – Hobart, IN @ Hobart Art Theatre [TICKETS] September 26 – Madison, WI @ The Annex [TICKETS] September 27 – Minneapolis, MN @ Studio B Skyway [TICKETS] September 28 – Belvidere, IL @ Apollo Theater [TICKETS] September 29 – Sioux Falls, SD @ Bigs Bar [TICKETS] October 1 – Billings, MT @ Pub Station [TICKETS] October 3 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon [TICKETS] October 4 – Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory [TICKETS] October 5 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory [TICKETS] October 6 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge [TICKETS] October 7 – Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater [TICKETS] October 9 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s* [TICKETS] October 10 – Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s* [TICKETS] October 11 – Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi Annex* [TICKETS] *Nile, Cryptopsy and Cognitive only
An Insatiable Violence comes out June 20 on Season of Mist.
Tracklist 1. The Nimis Adoration (4:10) 2. Until There’s Nothing Left (3:59) [WATCH] 3. Dead Eyes Replete (3:57) 4. Fools Last Acclaim (3:26) 5. The Art of Emptiness (4:16) 6. Our Great Deception (4:21) 7. Embrace the Nihility (3:50) 8. Malicious Needs (5:52) [WATCH] Total runtime 32:04
A person spends all day building a machine, only for it to torture them through the night. As if that wasn’t twisted enough, they like it. In fact, they like being tortured so much that, come morning, they wake up rejuvenated, eager to tweak the machine until it runs perfectly in their mind.
This is the nocturnal vision that inspired Cryptopsy’s ninth full-length nightmare. An Insatiable Violence mirrors our toxic relationship with social media, but while eerily prescient, the album is influenced by the many mutations that have defined the band’s Hall of Fame discography. The album’s lead single bumps and grinds with gruesome bass slaps – and yet, at its core “Until There’s Nothing Left” stakes its claim as their biggest earworm.
Cryptopsy recognize that not every brutal technical death metal band sticks around long enough to win a Canadian Grammy 30 years into their career. The cover for An Insatiable Violence was created by the band’s late, great vocalist Martin Lacroix, who would growl with unholy delight over the freshly fetid depths of Matt McGachy’s false chord scream.
But despite having claimed the crown as the most vile band in death metal on only their second stab in the studio, Cryptopsy are still pushing the limits of extremity on An Insatiable Violence. Even Flo Mounier – who literally wrote the book on extreme metal drumming – has honed new techniques to keep their blasphemy fresh. For its finishing move, album closer “Malicious Needs” slithers to a crawl before ascending like a bat into a blackened cloud of smoke.
Bow to the new vileness from extreme metal royalty.
Metalheads who are chomping at the bit for An Insatiable Violence can further their appetite by revisiting Cryptopsy’s hallowed catalogue. Since signing with Season of Mist in 2024, the band have reissued their 1993 demo Ungentle Exhumation, revered debut Blasphemy Made Flesh, the widely-worshiped None So Vile, their triumphant self-titled and The Book of Suffering Tome I + II, which is now available for the first time on one combined LP.
More than 30 years into their storied career, Montreal death metal innovators Cryptopsy return with their ninth studio album, An Insatiable Violence, set for release on June 20, 2025 on Season of Mist.
Revered in extreme metal circles for such groundbreaking classics as 1994’s Blasphemy Made Flesh and the 1996 magnum opus None So Vile, Cryptopsy find yet another gear on An Insatiable Violence, which further solidifies the band’s place in the upper echelon of death metal. Coming out of the pandemic, the band dedicated themselves to staying on top of their game more than ever before, with the intention of consistently putting out a new record every two years. That started with 2023’s acclaimed As Gomorrah Burns, and continues 21 months later with An Insatiable Violence.
“We had to write the majority of An Insatiable Violence while on the Death to All tour, which was something we’d never done before”, vocalist Matt McGachy says. “Flo [Mounier, drums] and Chris [Donaldson, guitar] really put their hats on. It was a feat”.
“Ever since COVID our focus is clearer, a lot of work gets done faster, and we push each other to get it done.”, Mounier says.
In addition to featuring some of the fastest passages Cryptopsy has ever recorded – keen listeners will even hear the odd gravity blast from Mounier, a rarity from the virtuoso drummer – the controlled chaos of their signature sound is offset by well-timed passages that ease off the gas pedal enough to allow listeners to come up for some air. That dynamic rage on An Insatiable Violence in turn makes the more aggressive moments hit even harder, which is immediately noticeable on the harrowing “Until There’s Nothing Left” and the chugging closing track “Malicious Needs”. Olivier Pinard anchors “Fools Last Acclaim” with stunning authority (keeping pace with Mounier is an unenviable task) while Donaldson offsets gnarly, atonal riffs with melodic passages throughout the record. “It’s a continuation of As Gomorrah Burns,” McGachy says, “We really wanted to make a groovy record, and we think we’ve done it.”
It seems as though nothing is scarier than real life right now, and An Insatiable Violence is a commentary on today’s society as though filtered through the transgressive, countercultural perspectives of J.G. Ballard and David Cronenberg.
“It all came to me in a dream in August 2023,” elaborates McGachy. “I woke up, I took my phone, and I wrote down the title of the record. It’s about a person that wakes up every day and fixes a machine. Tinkers with it, tries to make it better all day long, sweating in the sun, and then at night, they strap themself into this machine and the machine tortures them, and they love it. Then they wake up the next day and fix it again to make it more efficient, to keep harnessing it, and then just keep doing it over and over again.
While fantastically twisted, An Insatiable Violence mirrors our toxic relationship with social media. “We’re continuously trying to feed this algorithm of the machine while it’s totally tearing us apart socially and psychologically”, McGachy continues. “’The Nimis Adoration’ is about mukbang, these Korean people that eat too much food on the Internet. Piles and piles of food. A poor girl died on a live cam”.
At the center of the album is the mind-boggling percussion skill of Mounier, arguably the most imposing Canadian drummer not named Peart, who dominates such standout tracks as “Dead Eyes Replete”, “Fools Last Acclaim”, and “Embrace the Nihility”. “I look at Flo as an Olympic athlete,” says McGachy. “I want to push this guy to go a lot faster than Cryptopsy’s previous releases. We have so much more to give, and I wanted just drain it all out of him while he’s still at the top of his game, because he is. He’s crushing.”
“I mix up a lot of a physical activity, like resistance training into the drumming,” Mounier says. “I recently developed new techniques that make it easier to go even faster, so I tried to push that on this album. My focus is now more on dynamics and the touch of the snare, a certain snap of the snare, a rim shot on the snare, the toms, a light touch or a hard touch. Live, I can really let go, you know, give the sound guy a hard time,” he adds with a laugh.
For McGachy, who has always boasted a powerful, guttural death growl, the rigors of touring have enabled him to evolve as a vocalist, and he turns in a revelatory performance on An Insatiable Violence. In addition to ear-scraping screams that rival George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher, McGachy unleashes the deepest, filthiest death growls of his career. “Gomorrah was the first album that I recorded with my full false chord scream, which is something that I’d only just touched on The Book of Suffering: Tome II in little sections,” he says. “We did at least 140 shows since Gomorrah. I exclusively did my false chords during all the songs that we performed on None So Vile and Blasphemy Made Flesh. And then, when we did go into the studio for An Insatiable Violence, Chris would be like, ‘Deeper, you must go deeper!’”
Another fearsome vocalist from Cryptopsy’s lore pops back into the booth on An Insatiable Violence. “When we were recording the vocals for ‘Embrace the Nihility’, Chris had the idea of ending the song with the same vocal pattern as the end of ‘…and Then It Passes’”, McGachy remembers. “We figured if we were going to rip ourselves off, then we may as well get the real thing. We were honored that Mike DiSalvo accepted. We are all huge fans of Cryptopsy’s DiSalvo era. His vocals on this album are an ultra Easter egg for our fans”.
In addition to the effusive praise As Gomorrah Burns received from within the metal scene, the 2023 album achieved a first for Cryptopsy: earning them their first ever JUNO Award in 2024 for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year. “We had little-to-no expectations of winning” says McGachy. ”We didn’t even go to the ceremonies because we were on tour in Europe with Atheist. On the day we found out that we won, we had a crazy 18-hour drive from Derby to Germany, plus a ferry ride. But we still partied for 48 hours. Flo bought an expensive bottle of champagne”.
Cryptopsy recognize that not every death metal band sticks around long enough to win a Canadian Grammy 30 years into their career. The cover art for An Insatiable Violence was created by the late, great vocalist Martin Lacroix. “The album artwork has got to be one of the most important things to us!”, the band says. “Martin Lacroix was one of our vocalists, one of our great friends and one of the nicest people that anyone could have the privilege to meet. We really wish he was here with us to share this moment. His perfect smile would say it all! Rest in peace brother”.
With Cryptopsy’s latest career renaissance showing no signs of slowing down, the recent accolades are only the beginning. An Insatiable Violence reaches a new peak in a career loaded with them.
Lineup Flo Mounier – Drums Matt McGachy – Vocals Christian Donaldson – Guitar Oli Pinard – Bass
Recording, Mixing & Mastering Studio Christian Donaldson’s Studio
Production, Sound & Mixing Engineer Christian Donaldson
Guest Musicians Mike DiSalvo performs vocals on “Embrace the Nihility”
Great artists take the pulse of their times and Walter Trout holds a mirror up to society’s anger and angst on Sign Of The Times, which will be released on 5 September via Provogue. He has also revealed his blistering new single Artificial. You can watch the lyric video below.
In his half-century as a street-level social observer and scaldingly honest songwriter, blues-rock’s resilient icon Walter Trout has never told his fans what to think, how to feel, or where to stand politically. But in an era when his home nation – and the wider world – is ripping at the seams over the battlelines of modern life, the iconic US bluesman’s hard-rocking new album, Sign Of The Times, is a primal scream and pressure valve for all of us. “I wanted to reflect upon what’s going on in the world,” explains the 74-year-old. “For me, writing these songs is therapy. They’re not just about what’s happening out there, but how it affects you in your head. Sign Of The Times just became the obvious title…”
The album explodes to life with the first single and opening song, Artificial: a scornful, satirical, harmonica-spiced rebuke of the fake world we risk creating. “We got artificial photos, artificial music, you could go on and on,” considers the bluesman. “I’m freaked out by AI. I read articles about how it’s gonna do all these wonderful things in the medical world. Then I hear Bill Gates say that eighty percent of jobs are gonna disappear. What happens then?”
It feels like the amps have barely cooled from 2024’s Broken, which debuted on Billboard at #1. But the era-chronicling songs from Sign Of The Times wouldn’t wait, these urgent riffs flying off the guitarist’s fingers, assisted once again by Marie, Walter’s wife, manager and co-writer, who penned the lyrics for some of the tracks. “This album flowed pretty easily,” he reflects of the writing process. “I had so many song ideas and pages of lyrics from Marie. We could have kept going and made a triple album.”
With ten new songs written and arranged, Trout was ready to call up his studio band – longtime drummer Michael Leasure, bassist John Avila and keys man Teddy ‘Zig Zag’ Andreadis – for the recording sessions at Strawhorse Studios in Los Angeles. Immediately, the tinderbox subject matter sparked one of the toughest-sounding records in his catalogue. Self-producing, and having the material mixed by sonic genius, J.J. Blair, added yet another bit of edge to the sound. “Let me put it this way, I really felt like rocking on this album. We had heavy things to talk about, and we went for it musically too.”
The recent death of British blues godfather John Mayall has naturally brought Trout’s mid-’80s tenure with the Bluesbreakers into sharp focus. “His influence on my life, I can’t overstate,” reflects the guitarist. As a man who has always been open about his past agonies, pain is never far away. “Hurt No More is my recovery song, with cutting yourself representing killing yourself with drugs and booze,” he says of the dust-blown rocker.
With its dancing guitar lick and undeniable chorus, I Remember is also a moment of respite from the album’s stormier subject matter. “That song is a longing for when life was simpler,” he explains. “Like, when I was 20 and starting out. Or when Marie and I had just got together, and we had no money and were pawning guitars, but we were madly in love and the future was ahead of us.”
The combustible title track is one of the most experimental cuts in Trout’s half-century studio output, “I wanted it to be dissonant. Dissonance is a sign of the times. Marie came to me with a set of lyrics, and I realized it fit the song perfectly,” he says. Whilst No Strings Attached skewers hypocrisy, bigotry, and hatred, the album is no one-note diatribe.
For Trout – who survived an eleventh-hour liver transplant in 2014 – his second chance at life still holds joy, beauty and pain. “Mona Lisa Smile came to me in a dream,” he says of the gorgeous, bucolic acoustic strum decorated by accordion, mandolin and violin from famed string arranger Stevie Blacke (Snoop Dog, Joe Cocker, Alice in Chains). “Y’know, Marie is strong and potent – but there’s another side to her which makes me love her even more. That song is about when I see her vulnerability, or her moments of self-doubt and sadness.”
Even by Trout’s standards, Sign Of The Times is a record that puts you through the emotional wringer. But as long as there’s poignant and relevant music, we have a fighting chance.
As a lifelong road warrior, Trout will be taking the Sign Of The Times material to global audiences throughout 2025. And for those glorious two hours of playing to audiences, political divides and culture wars will crumble as a crowd with little else common melts into a communion of souls. “I could be on social media, writing very explicit posts,” he considers. “But I don’t want to contribute to the division. When I’m up onstage playing a minor-key blues, and I look down at the front row and there’s a burly biker – and he’s crying – at that moment, I’m hitting him in our common humanity, and it doesn’t matter who he voted for. At that moment, we are all in this together…”
Track Listing
1. Artificial 2. Blood on my Pillow 3. Sign of the Times 4. Mona Lisa Smile 5. Hurt No More 6. No Strings Attached 7. I Remember 8. Hi Tech Woman 9. Too Bad 10. Struggle to Believe
Thu, June 12, 2025 – Fremont Theatre, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States Fri, June 13, 2025 – Golden State Theatre, Monterey, CA, United States Sat, June 14, 2025 – Uptown Theatre, Napa, CA, United States Sun, June 15, 2025 – San Jose Fountain Blues and Brews Festival, CA, United States Thu, July 17, 2025 – Honberg Sommer, Tuttlingen, Germany Fri, July 18, 2025 – München, Backstage, Germany Sat, July 19, 2025 – Hannover Bluesgarage, Germany Sun, July 20, 2025 – Leer, Zollhaus, Germany Tue, July 22, 2025 – Ekkodalshuset & Cafe Genlyd, Aakirkeby, Denmark Thu, July 25, 2025 – Narcao Blues Festival, Italy Sat, July 27, 2025 – Dal Misssisipi al Po Festival 2025, Italy Fri, August 1, 2025, Notodden Bluesfestival, Norway Fri, August 15, 2025 – Leipzig, Parkbühne, Germany Sun, August 17, Gimsinghoved Festival 2025, Denmark Wed, September 3, MIM Music Theater, Phoenix, AZ, United States Fri, September 5, Big Blues Bender, Las Vegas, NV, United States Sat, September 6, The State Room, Salt Lake City, United States Sun, September 7, 2025 – Treefort Music Hall, Boise, Idaho, United States Tue, September 9, 2025 – Jazz Alley, Seattle, Washington, United States Wed, September 10, 2025 – Jazz Alley, Seattle, Washington, United States Thu, September 11, 2025 – Aladdin Theater, Portland, Oregon, United States Fri, September 12, 2025 – Wicket Hall, Victoria, Canada, Thu, September 18, 2025 – SPACE, Evanston, Chicago, United States Sat, September 20, 2025 – Beachland Ballroom & Tavern, Cleveland, Ohio, United States Sun, September 21, 2025 – The Ludlow Garage, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Wed, September 24, 2025 – The Jazz Market, New Orleans, United States Thu, September 25, 2025 – The Jazz Market, New Orleans, United States Sat, October 25, 2025 – Dark Season Blues Festival, Svalbard, Norway Tue, October 28, 2025 – Musikhuset, Posten, Odense, Denmark Wed, October 29, 2025 – Train, Aarhus, Denmark Thu, October 30, 2025 – Eksercerhuset, Fredericia, Denmark Fri, October 31, 2025 – Vesterbrogade 10, Viborg, Denmark Sat, November 1, 2025 – Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark Tue, November 4, 2025 – Pustervik, Gothenburg, Sweden Thu, November 6, 2025 – Katalin And All That Jazz, Uppsala, Sweden Sun, November 9, 2025 – House of Culture, Helsinki, Finland Wed, November 12, 2025 – Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany Thu, November 13, 2025 – Tante Ju, Dresden, Germany Fri, November 14, 2025 – Kesselhaus, Berlin, Germany Tue, November 18, 2025 – Kaufleuten, Zurich, Switzerland Wed, November 19, 2025 – Im Wizemann (Halle), Stuttgart, Germany Thu, November 20, 2025 – Halle02 – Heidelberg, Germany Sat, November 22, 2025 – Lux, Herenthout, Belgium Tue, November 25, 2025 – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands Wed, November 26, 2025 – Die Kantine, Köln, Germany Thu, November 27, 2025 – Podium Victorie, Alkmaar, Netherlands Fri, November 28, 2025 – Poppodium De Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Netherlands Sat, November 29, 2025 – Metropool, Hengelo, Netherlands Sun, November 30, 2025 – Zeche Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Time To Kill Records is proud to announce the signing of Finnish blackened sludge alchemists TRYPANON. Hailing from Oulu and known for their genre-defying blend of sludge, death and black metal, the band has rapidly emerged as one of the most compelling underground acts of recent years.
Following the critical acclaim of their 2021 debut “Amentia”, TRYPANON are now preparing to unleash their sophomore full-length, titled “Through the Portal of Flesh to Achieve Divinity”, which will be released in the coming months.
Formed in 2017 and featuring members of respected local outfits such as Haapoja, Dart and Renate/Cordate, TRYPANON have cultivated a sound that is at once harrowing and hypnotic. Their music fuses dissonant, down-tuned heaviness with eerie melodic passages, drawing comparisons to acts like Lord Mantis, Coffinworm and Cobalt, while carving a sonic identity all their own.
With their upcoming album, the band expands its scope with more progressive and death metal elements, pushing deeper into unsettling atmospheres and crushing intensity without forsaking the bleak core that defines their sound.
More details, including album artwork, tracklist and first single, will be revealed soon. Prepare to be dragged through the portal.
Line-up:
Emil Aikio – Vocals Pekka Kivelä – Guitars Antti-Pekka Vähänen – Bass Jukka Pohjanvälke – Drums
Iconic British heavy metallers DEMON are pleased to unveil their new single and accompanying lyric video “Hole In The Sky”, taken from their latest studio album, “Invincible”, released on May 17th, 2024, via Frontiers Music Srl. The album will also be available as double blue vinyl on August 29th, 2025.
Vocalist Dave Hill described the track as following: “Hole In The Sky” was largely inspired by vivid imagery of Egypt’s iconic landmarks – from the Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings to the Nile. We then added our own musical imagery and narrative elements, leaving the interpretation open for each listener to find their own meaning in the journey”.
Offering a sound that melts their classic root Hard Rock approach with the Progressive and Epic overtones of their mid 80’s album, “Invincible” is an absolute stunner of an album which is going to make long-time aficionados very excited along with all the fans of such bands as Magnum, Uriah Heep or classic Rainbow.
Dave Hill’s raspy and soulful vocals may be the common denominator since the band’s inception, but Demon are possibly one of the few bands who have managed to maintain their signature sound during years and update it in the new century, still maintaining the taste for a ghoulish image and elegant music.
“Invincible” was written and produced by Dave Hill and drummer Neil Ogden, and Dave Cotterill and Paul Hume are on guitars, Paul Fasker Johnson is on bass, and Karl Waye is on keyboards, completing the lineup.
Formed in 1979 by vocalist David Hill, Demon released their debut album, Night of the Demon, in 1981. After their 1982 follow-up album, The Unexpected Guest, the band experimented beyond the NWOBHM sound. They moved towards a more melodic direction while retaining the traditional heavy metal black magic lyrical style. They took another change in direction in 1983 with “The Plague”. It marked a swing towards a more progressive sound, adding the keyboards of session musician Andy Richards to the album’s sound. Lyrically, the band also changed direction, switching to a more overtly political style that characterised their albums for the rest of their career.
Heart of Our Time (1985) was the start of a new songwriting partnership between Hill and the new keyboardist Steven Watts. The album paved the way for the critically acclaimed Breakout (1987) and its follow-up, Taking the World by Storm (1989). Demon released two more albums in the 1990s: 1991’s Hold On to the Dream and 1992’s Blow Out, before splitting up in 1992.
Hill reunited the band with new members in 2001 and released a new album called Spaced Out Monkey. The band has since released three more albums: Better the Devil You Know (2005), Unbroken (2012), and Cemetery Junction, released on 28 October 2016.
The band have been touring throughout 2024 bringing their timeless music on stage, with a repertoire spanning from “Night of the Demon” to new hits such as “In My Blood,” “Face the Master,” or the new epic “Hole in the Sky.” Long live the Demon!
“Invincible” Tracklist:
1. Intro 2. In My Blood 3. Face The Master 4. Ghost From The Past 5. Beyond The Darkside 6. Hole In The Sky 7. Break The Spell 8. Rise Up 9. Invincible 10. Cradle To The Grave 11. Breaking The Silence 12. Forever Seventeen
Line Up: Dave Hill – Vocals Dave Cotterill – Guitar Paul Hume – Guitar Paul Fasker Johnson – Bass Neil Ogden – Drums Karl Waye – Keyboard
Reuniting five decades after their rise to fame, the band channels the chaos, danger, and cool of their early days, a time when rock was feared, eyeliner was scandalous, and every show felt like a revolution.
‘Wild Ones’ is the sound of the Alice Cooper Group with their engines roaring, still loud, still dangerous, and still not asking for permission.
‘The Revenge of Alice Cooper’ is a high-voltage journey into vintage horror and classic ’70s shock rock, capturing the sound, energy, and mischief that made the original Alice Cooper band legendary. In a truly special moment, the album features a posthumous appearance by Glen Buxton, the band’s original guitarist who passed away in 1997, through an unreleased recording that seamlessly blends the past with the present on ‘What Happened To You,’ featuring his original guitar part.
As if that wasn’t enough – two rare bonus tracks are exclusively included in the box set and limited smart format: a long-lost 1970 version of ‘Return of The Spiders,’ recently unearthed after 50 years and newly mixed by Bob Ezrin, plus ‘Titanic Overunderture,’ a powerful blend of vintage recordings and brand-new parts.
Alice, Neal, Michael, and Dennis reunited with their producer Bob Ezrin in a old-school recording studio in Connecticut, rekindling the magic from the 70s. This album is a celebration of friendship, nostalgia, and the timeless sound that solidified Alice Cooper as a rock icon. Fans can expect a powerful and nostalgic experience that bridges the gap between the band’s storied past and their vibrant present.
From the venomous bite of ‘Black Mamba’ to the rebellious charge of ‘Wild Ones,’ and the soft, haunting melodies of ‘See You on the Other Side, ‘ every track feels like a rock ‘n’ roll classic.
‘The Revenge Of Alice Cooper’ is going to be released on July 25th, 2025 on earMUSIC in a wide variety of formats and limited vinyl colours.
Also available as a limited box set and as a limited art print (smart format), featuring exclusive access to two bonus tracks from the start, plus the full album automatically delivered as a high-definition download on release day.
ACCESS THE ALBUM ‘THE REVENGE OF ALICE COOPER’HERE.
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