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Constrictor
(Metal Hammer, 1986-11-00)
"He's Back" he exclaims gleefully from his new single. But with it's stomping disco beat the single is far removed from Alice Cooper's comeback album. The teeny-idol, creative genius and master of the eccentric who has kept so quiet for ten years has...
Alice Cooper: The Man Behind The Mask
(Metal Hammer, 1986-12-00)
If it's Thursday, it must be Columbus, Ohio, and Vincent Furnier is preparing to change personality. In a few hours time, for the duration of approximately one hour and twenty minutes, the modest, unassuming Mr. Furnier will adopt, some say...
Live On Stage
(Metal Hammer, 1987-01-00)
A massive hoarding outside the arena boldly advertised 'The Legendary Alice Cooper', but such a description is no idle boast. No siree, the seminal figure that inspired a generation has risen from the grave to remind us just what real shock rock is all...
News Report & Video Review
(Metal Hammer, 1987-08-00)
Alice Cooper and producer Michael Wagener began mixing Alice's new album recently at Amigo Studios in the valley. No title has been confirmed as yet, however sources say that one cut called 'Freedom' will be the only one considered for radio play...
Prince Of Darkness
(Metal Hammer, 1987-09-00)
He is back, and you'd better believe it. We should have known that when he got the bit between his teeth last year that he'd regain his love for the taste of blood... and act on it. And how we loved him for it. When Alice came over to the UK at the tail...
Reading Rules
(Metal Hammer, 1987-10-00)
The nightmare returns! Alice Cooper is back and, boy, is he mad. The album kicks off with a real piledriving anthem called 'Freedom', obviously penned with those dickheads at the PMRC in mind. The intensity of this song is almost frightening, and...
Raise Up Your Legs And Tour
(Metal Hammer, 1987-11-12)
After the stupendous performance at the Reading Festival, British and European fans will have to wait until February of next year to see Alice Cooper perform again in this part of the world. A tour had been booked in for around this time of year, but was...
Bring Back The Noose
(Metal Hammer, 1987-12-10)
Crikey, they used to say that cats have nine lives but that's not a patch on Alice Cooper. Just when you think the guillotine's blade has dropped for the final time, the ghost of Alice always returns, bigger, bolder, stronger, and ultimately far more intimadating...
Playlists
(Metal Hammer, 1987-12-31)
Alice Cooper seems almost certain to undertake a full European tour during April. Dates are expected to begin on April 1st in the UK and this will involve nine British shows (including Wembley Arena), followed by three weeks on the continent. The latter...
'I WANNA BE ELECTED!' - On Tour With Alice Cooper
(Metal Hammer, 1988-03-28)
He wants to be elected, or does he? Following a radio interview in the states, it suddenly became front page news that Alice Cooper was going to stand for the post of Governor of Arizona! Of course, the whole thing was a complete misunderstanding...
Edinburgh Playhouse '88
(Metal Hammer, 1988-04-25)
As for Alice? The gig was in the bag before he left his dressing room (or should that read 'crypt'?!). He's not exactly breaking new ground these days, but when the crowd's forked out nine-and-a-half lager tokens per head, it's only fair to give them...
Alice throttled
(Metal Hammer, 1988-05-23)
Alice Cooper had a bad experience on the last night of his Wembley dates when the safety device failed on the gallows which Alice uses to perform on stage. A shaken and shocked Alice had to be cut free from the noose which had tightened...
Alice takes out the Trash
(Metal Hammer, 1989-05-29)
Alice Cooper's new record, entitled 'Trash', will be released by Epic records on July 3. Most of the album was written in the second half of last year by Cooper and Desmond Child (who also produced the record), but other co-writers included Jon Bon...
Alice On His Way To Sexyland
(Metal Hammer, 1989-07-10)
And so Alice had finally escaped the twilight world of the demons, no longer followed by the dusky shadows, he was cleansed of blood and wine, and had laid down for a deep sleep underneath the tree of wisdom that stands in country called...
Alice Cooper's White Knuckle Ride
(Metal Hammer, 1989-08-21)
"I want to take the fans on a roller coaster ride&auot;... Mr. Rock Horror show entertainer extraordinaire Alice Cooper told us some fascinating stories recently. He filled us in on some of the myths that follow him around and talked about his new LP 'Trash'...
The Killing Of D. Mustaine
(Metal Hammer, 1989-10-16)
Musicians pour into this celebrated abode, as do actors when they arrive in Hollywood to find work in the city of the lost Angels. If they're working on records or films, they tend to stay here. Joey Tempest and Europe hung out here once! It was hot...
Alice Auditions
(Metal Hammer, 1989-10-30)
Alice Cooper, master of gore, is touring the U.K. In December. The tour originally planned for the New Year has been brought forward in response to public demand. We spoke to Alice about his plans for the tour and why it had been brought forward...
Alice Trashes The Cathouse
(Metal Hammer, 1989-11-27)
Alice Cooper celebrated Halloween with style playing to a packed Cathouse in Los Angeles. It was something of a double celebration for the master of gore, Epic records had earlier in the day announced that his album 'Trash' had gone gold...
Alice Cooper Heavy Metal Bag Lady!
(Metal Hammer, 1989-12-27)
I'd expected to have to fight through writhing masses of Alice fans to get anywhere near the Marquee tonight. Instead, Charing Cross Road still seemed surprisingly unceremonial, if somewhat cleaner than usual — apparently some kind of trash-collecting...
Wembley '89
(Metal Hammer, 1990-01-15)
Alice is Alice is Alice is Alice. I have never seen Alice give a bad show and tonight is no exception. Complete with new band including shit hot guitarist Al Pitrelli (who worked with new Purple man Joe Lynn Turner earlier this year), the years seem not to...
Live on Stage
(Metal Hammer, 1990-01-29)
The famous 'trash collective' from Arizona arrived on stage straight from his tour bus and was welcomed with a storm of applause and the large number of American Gi's in the crowd stood up to cheer him. Alice Cooper played one of the most...
Trash, Sex, AIDS And Rock Among The Kangaroos
(Metal Hammer, 1990-05-21)
"I can't reach the guys anywhere, I've tried both the office and his home." Then came a crackle in the line followed by an atmospheric hissing. It was about 8.30 a.m. European time. In Australia it was already 4.30 p.m. late afternoon. Alice...
Alice Cooperman To The Rescue!!
(Metal Hammer, 1990-08-13)
It was a boiling hot day and the skies looked like something from a picture post card. Ahhh but these were the best conditions for an Alice Cooper open ir festival in the South German town Neunkirchen near the French border. Although there were...
Alice Cooper: Hey Stoopid!
(Metal Hammer, 1991-00-00)
"HEY STOOPID!" If you hear that aggressive shout echoing down the streets for the next few months, don't go looking for a fight. It's only Alice Cooper, hitting back with a provocative new anthem that threatens to re-enact the glories of past hits like...
Alice Cooper on Censorship and Politics
(Metal Hammer, 1991-06-00)
When my sensational and gory shows first appeared in the seventies, they featured me hanging, being decapitated, and hacking up baby dolls! But I never really ran into strong opposition or the kind of censorship that now threatens...
Hey Stoopid
(Metal Hammer, 1991-08-00)
Welcome to my nightmare. I naively hoped that Alice would have forgotten about the Child-ish choruses of 'Trash' and gone back to being the nasty Alice we all knew and revered. But of course he wasn't going to turn down the chance of emulating the massive...
Operation Rock 'n' Roll
(Metal Hammer, 1991-09-00)
The stormtroopers of the Rock world marched into Salt Lake City carrying enough equipment to make any army nervous quartermaster proud. Metal Hammer was there in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles when the first shots were fired on 'Operation...
Alice Cooper Live Loaded
(Metal Hammer, 1991-10-00)
Alice Cooper issued a warning to Death Metal bands, analysed his own power to shock and talked about jamming with Heavy Metal heroes in a revealing interview with Tom Russel just before another 'Operation Rock'n'Roll' show with Judas Priest and...
Quote
(Metal Hammer, 1991-11-00)
ALICE COOPER "I used to think that the banning years were over. I don't really get any more and I kinda miss it. I wish we would get banned! Parents still hide their children in airports, which I'm proud of. Being notorious is great. I'd much rather be a villian...
News Report
(Metal Hammer, 1991-12-00)
Alice Cooper kept himself busy on his recent visit to the UK shores we understand. Apart from attending various fashion shows on the look-out for interesting lines in leather jackets, he apparently insisted on going to visit the Cadbury's chocolate...
The Six Card Hammer
(Metal Hammer, 1992-01-00)
Alice Cooper is the godfather of rock, but is he the baby killing danger to mankind of legend? He's certainly a mean poker player, as Metal Hammer's Peter Burtz found out - on the road in Germany with Alice. 22 October. In the late afternoon the...
Concert Review
(Metal Hammer, 1992-02-00)
After riding the long Jubilee Line tube to Wembley Park and running the gauntlet of ticket touts and fans desperate to buy our tickets, we got to Wembley Arena in time for a good position, a couple of rows away from the stage. The Almight ripped into...
The Last Temptation Of Alice
(Metal Hammer, 1994-05-00)
Legendary goremeister Alice Cooper makes his return to the scene with the release of a new album, 'The Last Temptation', through Epic Records on June 6. It's his first album since1991's 'Hey Stoopid'. A Single, 'Lost In America', will be released...
Oh fuck... It's Alice!
(Metal Hammer, 1994-06-00)
THE title of Alice Cooper's new album, 'The Last Temptation', is an apt one on this particular occasion. Video shoots are invariably tedious events to attend, and the growing temptation is to do a runner from the soundstage where Alice is shooting...
Tape That!
(Metal Hammer, 1994-08-00)
1.The Beach Boys 'I Get Around' "When I was a kid, that was the ultimate dream - to have your own car, have your friends and just cruise the streets. There are certain songs that still stand up after all these years. You hear them on the radio and you just turn...
News Report
(Metal Hammer, 1995-07-00)
That enduring rocker and one-man sustainer of the eyeliner industry Alice Cooper has split from his record label, Epic, and is rumoured to be set to sign a new deal with Hollywood Records, whose company president is Alice's old A&R man from Epic...
Classiks
(Metal Hammer, 1995-11-00)
With someone whose been making music - ranging from great, through indifferent to downright dreadful - for 25 years, it can't have been easy to put together this Best Of collection, more because of what to leave off it than what to put on it. Sadly...
Letter From Los Angeles
(Metal Hammer, 1996-06-00)
Alice Cooper has just been confirmed as opening act for the Scorpions' US tour, marking the first time Alice has accepted an opening slot for many years. It also signifies how insecure the Scorpions are feeling, when they have to take on a support...
A Fistful Of Alice
(Metal Hammer, 1997-07-00)
Rock legend Alice Cooper has announced his first UK tour since 1991 to promote a recently released, new, live, greatest hits record called 'A Fistful Of Alice', which features appearances from Rob Zombie (singing on 'Elected' and 'Feed My...
Concert Review: Glasgow Barrowlands
(Metal Hammer, 1997-09-00)
So Alice returns... again. With this, the latest in a long line of stunning resurections, rock's greatest golfer and Vincent Price obsessive is back in business for the umpteenth time, but now with a decidedly notable twist in the tail, as the godhead...
Concert Review
(Metal Hammer, 1998-07-00)
Roll up! Roll up! Witness the circus macabre - marvel at the slick showmanship, gasp at the cod theatrics and thrill at the unmitigated spectacle of one of rock's great drama queens playing demon ringmaster in a real rock and roll extravaganza...
Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Album Review
(Metal Hammer, 1999-06-00)
Ageing rock stars used to contend themselves with staring bleary-eyed into the remains of last night's bourbon, perennially reminding the barflies that they once meant something somewhere. But times have changed. Old rock stars now make...
Humanary Stew Album Review
(Metal Hammer, 1999-08-00)
DO people actually buy tribute albums? Or are they all far too happy listening to the real thing? It's one question I've never been able to figure out, but given the abundance of the things that have appeared of late, I guess there must be something to it...
Alice Gets Brutal
(Metal Hammer, 2000-01-00)
Alice Cooper will appear in upcoming psychological horror movie The Attic Expeditions. He will star alongside Jeffrey Combs, Ted Raimi, Seth Green, Beth Bates and Shannon Hart Clearly in the movie, which will be directed by Jeremy Kasten. ...
The Brutal Truth
(Metal Hammer, 2000-07-00)
A legend on the rock scene for over 30 years, Alice Cooper ain't done yet. As he tell Daniel Oliveire, with new album 'Brutal Planet' he aims to prove he still has that essential hunger. "We're the true dinosaurs," says rock legend Alice Cooper, comparing...
The Story Behind...
(Metal Hammer, 2010-08-00)
IT WAS 1975. The year Led Zeppelin released Physical Graffiti, Thin Lizzy rocked things up with Fighting and UFO released Force It. It was the year that Motorhead and the Sex Pistols formed. And with glam rock an ever-fading force, Alice...
Got Any Make-Up Tips?
(Metal Hammer, 2021-03-00)
FOR THE BUSIEST man in rock, the past year has been a testing time. Forced to stay at home away from the touring cycles he's spent 50 years in, Alice Cooper has used COVID quarantine to craft his new album, Detroit Stories...