Description
Label Review.
2017 album. Alice Cooper returns with his first album in six years (26th in total) ‘Paranormal’.
Our Overview.
Vincent Damon Furriers’ alter-ego Alice Cooper, formed his first band in high school and by the late 1960s had caught the attention of Frank Zappa. In 1974 he went solo and went on to be the infamous ‘Godfather of Shock Rock’, alarming audiennces with his garish, often ghoulish stage performances. His latest album is produced by longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin and features guest musicians like ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons, U2 drummer Larry Mullen and Deep Purple’s Roger Glover. Alice Cooper’s latest is produced by longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin and features guest musicians like ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons, U2 drummer Larry Mullen and Deep Purple’s Roger Glover.
Paranormal is also accompanied by a bonus disc featuring two new recordings the “King of Shock Rock” made with the original Alice Cooper band, “Genuine American Girl” and “You and All of Your Friends.” Those two songs mark the first time Cooper and his former band mates recorded together since the Seventies.
The bonus disc also includes six of Cooper’s greatest hits recorded live with his new backing band at a May 2016 concert in Columbus, Ohio.“My definition of paranormal is something that is ‘other than normal’ or ‘alongside of normal’,”
Cooper said in a statement. “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.”