Rock legend Alice Cooper was interviewed by Creative Loafing Tampa and the shock rocker talked about the “Alice Cooper” persona, performing in theatres, why guitarist Nita Strauss hasn’t appeared on his solo albums, and more. 

When Alice was asked how faith ties into his public persona, Cooper responded: “Well, for one thing, there’s the fact that there's nothing on the Alice Cooper stage that’s satanic. We're like a dark Vaudeville up there. And everything that Alice does is definitely tongue-in-cheek, and hopefully the audience gets the cleverness and gets the humor behind it. I always thought that horror movies were mostly comedies. The first time I saw Evil Dead, right? I’m sitting watching this movie, and it's just horrific to the point where I said ‘there can't be any more blood in this movie.’ And then the pipe breaks and he gets covered in blood. He’s soaking in blood! And I burst out laughing. You know, I just said ‘this is hysterical.’ But I think I always saw the humor in a horror movie. And Rob Zombie and I agree with that, totally. Horror, comedy, and rock and roll in bed together should be a lot of fun for everybody. And that's what we keep it, we keep it at that. I don't let really any politics, or any religion in there. I mean, there are some things in there.

"I mean, Alice is the villain, and when he gets killed, what does he come back out as? A white top hat and tails. He's reborn. It's almost like sins forgiven, and here he is now. He's indestructible. And the audience, I don't know if they get that. I didn't even notice that until later, that Alice had a redemption thing going on. It was like, villain, villain, villain, villain, execution—because the villain’s gotta get it. I don't care how much you love the villain in any movie. He needs to get it in the end, or it's not satisfying. And then what happens? Well, they're gone. No, this one comes back with a white top hat and tails. Glorious. School’s out. And the audience leaves with confetti all over them, fake blood, streamers… and everybody walks away going ‘that was the best party I've ever been to!’ And that's what I want it to be! I want them to walk away going “That was really fun! And the band was killer. The music was even better than the theatrics!”

Metal Department has announced the release of the Alice Cooper And The Tome Of Madness 12” vinyl single. The record is the perfect companion piece to the official Alice Cooper slot game that was released in 2021.

The back story of that game is Alice Cooper writing his memoirs in a strange journal (tome), which conjures up stories of other Alice Coopers in different dimensions - and now he must keep writing to simply stay alive.

On this +18 minute long spoken-word record you can hear Alice Cooper himself narrate one of these horror stories from The Tome Of Madness.

There are two versions of the record available, a plain black vinyl edition and a limited edition of just 500 copies pressed on solid yellow vinyl.

The 12″ record comes packed in a deluxe gatefold-sleeve with various artwork taken from the game.

Tracklisting:

Side A:

"Tome Of Madness Part 1" (08:43)

Side B:

"Tome Of Madness Part 2" (09:29)

The two vinyl editions are exclusively available here. The Alice Cooper And The Tome Of Madness online game can be sampled here.