Alice Talks Nightmare Sequel
The brilliantly named Welcome 2 My Nightmare due next year
Alice Cooper has revealed a little more about his forthcoming sequel to Welcome To My Nightmare.
The new album, which is called Welcome 2 My Nightmare, is due for release next year and it will be produced by legendary producer Bob Ezrin, who worked with Alice on Billion Dollar Babies.
Ezrin was originally brought in to work on the mixes for a CD version of Theater Of Death, the new live DVD from Alice which is released later this month. Alice was already working on new material with a working album title of The Nighshift.
"We thought the story was good, but we started talking about 'Welcome to My Nightmare,' which I think is our biggest triumph," Cooper tells Billboard.com. "He mentioned, 'What if Alice had another nightmare?' And we wrote three songs right there. He got really involved in it. Bob is even darker than I am."
The pair have come up with 13 songs, including the ballads "I Am Made of You" and "Something to Remember Me By." In addition, Cooper has recorded three new songs with original band mates Dennis Dunaway (bass), Neal Smith (drums) and Michael Bruce (guitar).
"When I listen to the first 'Nightmare,' I've got all kinds of things going on," Cooper says. "There's a lot of hard rock on it, but it'll go way off in a weird direction in one song and then way off in other direction for another song. So where 'Welcome To My Nightmare' left off, this one starts right up. When it comes out it'll have an entire new production around it, probably as big as the original 'Nightmare' show. It'll be a big moment in my career."