Alice Cooper has released ‘Paranoiac Personality’ the first preview of his upcoming ‘Paranormal’ album.
Alice says the album “is like 12 great episodes of The Twilight Zone, each song tells its own twisted little tale.”
“My definition of paranormal is something that is ‘other than normal’ or ‘alongside of normal’,” says Cooper. “You could say my whole career has been that. I would look at what was normal and step left of it. That’s what gets people’s attention. They’d listen to our music and see our show and say, ‘That’s so strange…oh yeah, that’s so Alice.”
The album was produced with Alice’s longtime producer Bob Ezrin. “Bob Ezrin and I wanted to break the mold,” says Alice. “I said, let’s get 20 different ideas from 20 different places, put our spin on them, and go with whatever turns out the best.”
‘Paranormal’ is heading your way on June 28. The album features contributions from Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Larry Mullen Jr of U2 and Roger Glover of Deep Purple as well as two songs backed by the original Alice Cooper Band guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neal Smith.
“When the original band broke up in 1975, there was no bad blood,” explains Cooper. “There were no lawsuits-we had just burned out the creative process. We had gone to high school together and had recorded something like five Platinum albums in a row. We were never out of sight of each other for 10 years. Everybody just went their own way. Neal, Dennis and I always stayed in touch. Mike disappeared for a while and Glen Buxton passed away in 1997, which was a big blow.”
“But last year Neal called me up and said, ‘I have a couple of songs.’ I said great, bring ’em over. Then he said Mike was stopping by, so I had them come to my house and we just worked on a few things for a week. Then Dennis called up and said, I got a couple songs. So, I thought, hey let’s do this! When you listen to record, it just fits right in”.
The album will also feature six live songs.
Paranormal Tracklist
01. Paranormal
02. Dead Flies
03. Fireball
04. Paranoiac Personality
05. Fallen In Love
06. Dynamite Road
07. Private Public Breakdown
08. Holy Water
09. Rats
10. The Sound of A
11. Genuine American Girl (with the original Alice Cooper Band)
12. You And All Of Your Friends (with the original Alice Cooper Band)
13. No More Mr. Nice Guy (live in Columbus with the current Alice Cooper Band)
14. Under My Wheels (live in Columbus with the current Alice Cooper Band)
15. Billion Dollar Babies (live in Columbus with the current Alice Cooper Band)
16. Feed My Frankenstein (live in Columbus with the current Alice Cooper Band)
17. Only Women Bleed (live in Columbus with the current Alice Cooper Band)
18. School’s Out (live in Columbus with the current Alice Cooper Band)
Alice Cooper is currently on tour across America with Deep Purple. He will then tour Australia with Ace Frehley starting in Perth on October 17.
