Legendary shock rocker ALICE COOPER is featured in a new video interview with The Lowdown's Kylie Olsson, conducted at this year's edition of the Download Festival, being held at Donington Park in Leicestershire, UK this weekend. Check it out below:

Alice Cooper's new album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare, the sequel to 1975’s classic Welcome To My Nightmare, will be released in September.

According to an update from the shock rock king, "once again produced with Bob Ezrin (PINK FLOYD, KISS), it will feature in the new shows. The original spawned a worldwide, full theatrical tour so expect Alice's comic book cruelty to be taken up a notch."

Welcome 2 My Nightmare features some other familiar faces from Cooper's past. The original Nightmare tandem of Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner played on the album, while Vince Gill plays on a track called 'Runaway Train'. And surviving Cooper band members Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway and Neal Smith reunited on the track 'When Hell Comes Home'.

Nightmare 2, meanwhile, will have plenty of similarities to its predecessor. "There are certain songs where we let some of the themes from (the original) 'Nightmare' slip in," Cooper tells Billboard.com. "All of a sudden you'll hear the little piano part from 'Steven' or from 'The Awakening.' I wanted (the albums) to be married together. I think we even make reference to a couple of characters from the original (album)."

Ezrin worked with the Alice Cooper Band during their glory years including producing records like the original Welcome To My Nightmare, Billion Dollar Babies (1973), School's Out (1972) and Love It To Death (1971).

Footage of Alice Cooper performing the new song 'I'll Bite Your Face Off' on his current tour has surfaced on YouTube and can be viewed below: